Horn, C E

Cherry Ripe. A Cavatina

London: I Willis & Co, [ca.1825].
Pamphlet

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HORN, C E [Charles Edward (1786 - 1849)] Composer

Cherry Ripe, A Cavatina sung by Madame Vestris, Dedicated to C Lyon Esq. 

London : I Willis & Co., Royal Musical Repository, 55 St James Street. Circa 1825¹. Entered at Stationer's Hall.  Price 2/-.

Folio (335x240mm) four sewn leaves, heavy cream rag paper, copperplate and engraved title page, sheet music for voice and piano-forte in Eb-major,  [2], 5, [1]pp. Title-page lightly offset toned; apparently disbound from a larger volume of songs; stamp to the foot of each page "Royal Musical Repository 114"; edges faintly soiled. 

¶   Madame Vestris [Elizabetta Lucia née Bartolozzi (1797 - 1856)] was an actress and contralto opera singer in Georgian London. Her first success came at the Drury Lane Theater in the 1820 revival of Montcrief's Giovanni in London, a satire on Mozart's opera Don Giovanni first staged in 1817. Such satires, known as 'burlettas' or burlesques, were common in the London theater of the day and Mme Vestris not only appeared in many such productions in her career but eventually became noted for having advanced this particular theatrical form. 

A Cavatina is a short romantic operatic aria.  The lyrics are:  "CHERRY-RIPE, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer: There Where my Julia's lips do smile; There 's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow"




A near fine printing of a popular tune celebrating the cherry season.

§  Not recorded as individual sheet music; OCLC records one holding of an alternate edition published by Willis, the Royal Academy of Music¹  

Item #11446

Price: $150.00 AUD