FRIEDRICH WILHELM MICHAEL KALKBRENNER RONDO PASTORAL POUR LE FORTE PIANO

Rare, true first edition signed by the publisher.

Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (1785-1849) - Rondo Pastoral pour le Forte Piano -1808(?), Paris, Sieber Plate 2030 - small folio 33 x 25.5cm

Complete and in very good condition. Some foxing and staining, with a moderate time mark to the right hand margins. Engraved music pages numbered 2 through 9, engraved title page and engraved list of Kulkbrenner's works. Signed by Sieber on the title page. Ex Libris Alice Wohlwerth. Bound in marbled paper boards.

Hand written paper label. After 1810 Sieber reworked the plates—their number was 2062. As per OCLC, library holdings (which are far and few between) are of the second edition.

Considered the finest pianist in Europe in his time.