THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. The Music by Charles Zeuner. The Words by Henry Ware, Jr. Performed at the Odeon by the Choir and Orchestra of the Boston Academy of Music. [Wrapper title].
[Boston? np, 1837]. 12mo. 18 cm. 12 pp. Stitched self wraps. A printed note on the verso of the wrapper title, dated May 1837, gives a brief summary of The Feast of Tabernacles: "one of the three great festivals of the Jewish people," concluding, "It is proper to state that much has necessarily been omitted, as the work would otherwise have been too long for performance at the present season. A separate edition of the words has been published."
Charles Zeuner emigrated from Germany to Boston sometime between 1824 and 1830. He was associated with the Handel and Haydn Society for the next 10 to 15 years as an organist and composer. ""The Feast of Tabernacles, performed eight times in its entirety by the Boston Academy of Music in 1837, is the first large-scale work of its kind composed in the United States; the libretto is by the Reverend Henry Ware, Jr., of Harvard. Zeuner was not the first professional German composer to emigrate to the United States, but he was the first of such high quality. His first decade in the United States was his most prolific." - Dictionary of American Biography. SINGERMAN 0642. Item #64272
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