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Reichardt, Johann Friedrich Collection of first and early editions of his songs 1) Cäcilia...Zweytes [...Drittes...Viertes] Stück [RISM R 831, 832 and 833], Berlin: Neue Berlinische Musikhandlung, [1791-1795], FIRST EDITIONS, 3 volumes, 36, 34 and 32 pages, 4to (parts 2 and 4: c. 32.5 x 28.5cm; part 3: 31.5 x 27cm), type-set music, parts two and four unbound, part three in contemporary blue papered boards, some staining and browning, a few small tears (with another copy of the fourth part and the loose pp. 9-16 of a third copy, and pp. 1-4 of a second copy of the second part) 2) Göthe's lyrische Gedichte...(Musik zu Göthe's Werken...Zweiter Band) [RISM R 837], Berlin: Neue Berlinische Musikhandlung, [1794], FIRST EDITION, 39 pages, 4to (c. 32 x 28.5cm), type-set music, unbound, browning and spotting, some damp-staining (2 copies and pp. 1-4, 9-16 and 25-36 of a third) 3) Le Troubadour italien, français et allemand...Cahier I-XII [...XIII-XXIV...XXV-XXXVI] [RISM R 879], Berlin: H. Frölich, [1805-1806], FIRST EDITION, 3 parts in one volume, 1-4[8], 49-96, 97-144 pages, oblong 8vo (21.7 x 27.8cm), type-set music, each part with publisher's printed wrappers and bound together in nineteenth-century patterned papered boards, binding worn 4) Göthe's Lieder, Oden, Balladen und Romanzen...Erste [...Vierte] Abtheilung [RISM R 856-859], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1809-1811, FIRST EDITIONS, four parts in 3 volumes (parts three and four in one volume), 50, 62, 29 and 44 pages, various oblong 4to sizes, type-set music, part four priced at "1 1/2 Rthr", parts one and two with original printed wrappers, part one rebacked, parts three and four without wrappers, trimmed and bound in ninetenth-century patterned papered boards, some spotting and browning 5) Schillers lyrische Gedichte...[Is]ter [...Zweiter] Heft [RISM R 839 and 840], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [c.1810], second volume in FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 66 and 46 pages, oblong 4to (24.5 x 33.3cm), plate numbers 2207 and 1483, publisher's printed wrappers 6) Sonnetti e Canzoni di Petrarca...Libro I [RISM R 877], Berlin: L. W. Wittich, no date, FIRST EDITION, 24 pages, 4to (c. 31 x 22.7cm), engraved throughout, contemporary blue papered boards, the gatherings loose and detached 7) Romances d'Estelle par M. Florian [RISM R 876], Berlin: au nouveau Magazin de Musique, no date, FIRST EDITION, 33 pages, large 8vo (c. 28 x 22cm), type-set music, unbound, dust-staining to title Setting over 1500 songs to texts by over 100 poets, Reichardt exerted considerable influence over later lieder composers, including Schubert. Contained here is also Reichardt's setting of 'Erlkönig' from Göthe's lyrische Gedichte of 1794. PROVENANCEFormerly in the collection of Ernst Rudorff.