Ecrits sur la musique, 1827-1846 (French Edition) [first edition]

(FR) Presumed first edition. No markings, fine spine crease, Near Fine. Wraps with flaps, 726pp, index, no illus. This is Tome XVII in the Deuxieme serie. The text is entirely in FRENCH. Joseph Louis d'Ortigue ( 1802 - 1866) was a French musicologist and critic. A specialist in liturgical music and a conservative Catholic of ultramontane and royalist leanings, he was a close friend of both Berlioz and Liszt. His most influential work was Dictionnaire liturgique, historique, et theorique de plain-chant et le musique d'église, but he was also wrote for many of the most prominent periodicals of the day, including Journal des débats and Le Ménestrel where he was the editor-in-chief from 1863 until his sudden death. A heavy book. (5.2 JM HOJ 303/1 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"