3179: 1 vol. Gluck (Christoph W.). Iphigenie en Start Price USD 6,000.00 Current Price USD 5,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 2 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 Location Philadelphia, PA See more about '3179: 1 vol. Gluck (Christoph W.). Iphigenie en' Description Current Lot 1 vol. Gluck, (Christoph W.). Iphigenie en Aulide, Tragedie, Opera en Trois Actes, Dedies au Roy. Paris: Marchand, no date, [1774]. First edition, full score. Folio, old green bds., edges stained red, morocco spine label; occasionally scuffed. Internally generally clean - scattered light foxing. Title, verso blank; Dedication by Gluck, verso blank; Music pp. 1-298; leaf size 12 x 9 3/4 inches (330 x 247 mm). In custom brown cloth clamshell box, morocco spine label. Signed by Gluck at the foot of the title page. Chateau de la Roche Guyon Bibliotheque ink stamp on title-page. Presumed earliest issue, with four spelling mistakes, corrected in the copy described by Hopkinson 40A, but consistent with the copy illustrated in New Grove, 7: 465. "Gluck's historical importance rests on his establishment of a new equilibrium between music & drama, his greatness on the power and clarity with which he projected this vision. He dissolved the drama in music instead of merely illustrating it.... The strenghth of his music derives from a driving energy on the one hand, and a capacity to suggest a serenity reaching to the subliminal on the other" (New Grove, 7: 469). Iphigenie en Aulide, first performed in the Paris Opera, April 19, 1774, was the first of the seven operas that Gluck composed for Paris. See Hopkinson 40A; New Grove, 7: 472 Place a Bid!