Main entry:

Sbarra, Francesco, active 17th century.

Title & Author:

La contesa dell'aria, e dell'acqva : festa à cavallo rappresentata nell'avgvstissime nozze delle sacre, cesaree, reali M.M. dell'imperatore Leopoldo e dell'infanta Margherita delle Spagne / inventata, e descritta, da Francesco Sbarra.

Publication:

Vienna d'Austria : Appresso Matteo Cosmerovio, stampatore della corte, 1667.

Description:

[107] pages (some folded) : illustrations, music ; 32 cm (f°.)

Notes:
Vinet: Bibliographie ... des beaux-arts, 670. Cicognara: Catalogo, 1466. Nettl, P. Equestrian ballets of the baroque period, p. 77-78 and 2 ills. (In: Musical quarterly. New York. v. 19 (1933) p. 74-83).
Festival, including horse ballet planned and directed by Alessandro Carducci, by Antonio Bertali. The music by Schmelzer (q.v.) for the horse ballet was issued separately.
Issued also in German under title: Sieg-Streit dess Lufft vnd Wassers.
Ill.: 30 etchings, (21 full-page and 9 larger) by van den Steen, Ossenbeeck and others after Nicolaus van Hoey, depicting the carrousel with its floats and horse ballet.
Without the 4 plates and description of the fireworks mentioned by Cicognara.
With this is bound, and possibly was issued: Schmelzer, J.H. Arie per il balletto à cavallo. Vienna, 1667.

Subject:

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640-1705.
Festivals Austria Vienna.
Tournaments, Medieval Austria Vienna.
Horse ballet.
Ballets, Horse.
Tournois (Chevalerie) Autriche Vienne.
Carrousels.
Festivals.
Tournaments, Medieval.
Austria Vienna.

Form/genre:

Librettos.
Etchings (prints)
Festival books.

Added entries:

Ossenbeeck, Jan van, 1624?-1674.
Steen, Franciscus van der, 1625-1672.
Hoey, Nicolas de.
Bertali, Antonio, 1605-1669. Contesa dell'aria, e dell'acqua.
Carducci, Alessandro. Contesa dell'aria, e dell'acqua.
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich, 1623-1680. Arie per il balletto à cavallo.
Edward Craig Theatre Collection

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 186859
Call No.: ID:88-B2372
Status: Available