• Year of composition: Probably Paris 1784-1786 (1783-1786 according to van Boer's earlier datings; see more below)
• Work category: Operetta / Comic opera
• Text author: Unknown (according to a note in the reference exemplar at Musik- och teaterbiblioteket on van Boers later edition [see more below] the text is written by Jean-Auguste Jul[l]ien (called Desboulmiers)
• Duration: Approx. 30-40 min
• Detailed duration: Uncertain
  

Instrumentation

2.0.0.2 / 2.0.0.0 / (cont) / str

Solo voices/choir

Lucette (soprano)
Perrine (soprano)
Le Bailli (alto)
Dumont (tenor)
Alexis (bass)

2 sopranos (Lucette, Perrine), 1 alto (Le Bailli), 1 tenor (Dumont), 1 bass (Alexis)

Location for score and part material

The copyist Fredrik Samuel Silverstolpe's transcription exists in the collections of Uppsala University Library: Kapsel [sleeve] 57:3a, 21. Si-S Le bon seigneur af [by] Kraus (according to van Boer)

• Possible call no. and autograph comment: Autograph lost (according to van Boer)

Literature

van Boer Jr, Bertil H: Die Werke von Joseph Martin Kraus. Systematisch-thematisches Werkverzeichnis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music series no. 56, Stockholm (1988); an updated edition in English with a partly revised VB-numbering was published in 1998 by Pendragon Press under the title Joseph Martin Kraus. A Systematic-Thematic Catalogue of His Musical Works and Source Study

Description of work

No. 1 (Aria): Importune richesse (Lucette)
No. 2 (Terzetto): Votre [Vôtre] Alexis arrive (Lucette, Perrine, Alexis)
No. 3 (Terzetto): Aux charmes de l'espérance (Lucette, Le Bailli, Alexis)
No. 4 (Aria): D'un refus je serois [sic] surpris
No. 5 (Kvartett [Quartet]): Ah quel bonheur (Lucette, Perrine, Le Bailli, Alexis)

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