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HAYDN: ‘V Divertimenti per il Clavicembalo’ (keyboard sonatas Hob.XVI/10-14); late 18th cent. Copy, written in ink on paper ruled with fourteen staves to the page. The sonatas are listed as a group in the 1767 supplement to Breitkopf’s catalogue (p. 27), and this copy was probably made by the company. Purchased on behalf of Tyson by Otto Haas at Sotheby’s. ff. 11-28. 305 x 230mm.
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includes: ff. 1-35 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer: Keyboard music: late 18th - early 19th cent.: Copies.
HAYDN: Minuet with twelve variations in E flat major, Hob.XVII/3; circa 1820. Copy, written in ink on paper ruled with fourteen staves to the page. Whatman watermark dated 1819. ff. 29-33. 332 x 240mm.
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includes: ff. 1-35 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer: Keyboard music: late 18th - early 19th cent.: Copies.
HAYDN: [5] ‘Variations of a favorite Sonata by Haydn’ in C major, Hob.XVII/5; early 19th cent. Copy, written in ink on paper ruled with sixteen staves to the page. With a note reading ‘These Variations are copied from Haydn’s Manuscript & were never published’ (in fact published Vienna: Artaria, 1791). ff. 34-5. 323 x 251mm.
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includes: ff. 1-35 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer: Keyboard music: late 18th - early 19th cent.: Copies.
THREE SETS OF VARIATIONS FOR PIANO; early 19th cent. Copies, written in ink on paper ruled with fourteen staves to the page. The cover is inscribed ‘Ex Rebus Georgii Randhartinger’. ff. 36-46. 337 x 221mm. 1. ff. 36-40. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘XII. Variationen pour le Forte-Piano’ in C major, on ‘Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman’, K265/300e. 2. ff. 40v-4. Johann Baptist Vanhal: [11] ‘Variationen’ in C major. No. XV/C2 in A. Weinmann, Themen-Verzeichnis der Kompositionen von Johann Baptiste Wan...
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includes: ff. 36-40 Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: Variations for piano, K265/300e: early 19th cent.: Copy.ff. 40v-4 Johann Baptist Vanhal, composer: Variations in C major for piano: early 19th cent.: Copy.ff. 44v-6 Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, composer an...
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: ‘Cavatina, Tu che accendi questo core, Composed by Gioacchino Rossini, Arrangée pour Piano par Gpe Anelli’ (from ‘Tancredi’); circa 1820. Score, for soprano and piano. Copy, written in ink on paper ruled with twelve staves to the page. Whatman watermarks dated 1811 and 1813. Signed ‘M. E. M. Clary’ (f. 47). ff. 47-51. 301 x 233mm.
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includes: ff. 47-51 Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, composer: Giuseppe Anelli, pianist and composer: 'Tu che accendi' from 'Tancredi' by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, arranged for voice and piano by Giuseppe Anelli: circa 1820: Ital: Copy.
CIPRIANI POTTER: ‘Impromptu, Tempo di Menuetto’, for piano; 1840. Autograph, written in ink on paper ruled with twelve staves. With the inscription ‘Presented to his much esteemed and highly talented pupil G. A. Macfarren by Cipriani Potter, July 16th 1840’. Whatman watermark dated 1831. f. 52. 313 x 240mm.
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includes: f. 52 Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer: Sir George Alexander Macfarren, composer: Impromptu for piano by Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, dedicated to Sir George Alexander Macfarren: 1840: Autogr.
MUZIO CLEMENTI: Piano sonata in A flat major; circa 1970. Copy in pencil and ink, in the hand of Alan Tyson, with annotations in pencil in German, probably in the hand of Sonja Gerlach. Numbered ‘WO 13’ in A. Tyson, Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Muzio Clementi (Tutzing, 1967). This transcription was apparently made from the autograph in the Bibliothèque nationale de France for inclusion in Tyson and Gerlach’s edition of Clementi, Klaviersonaten (vol. I, Munich: Henle, 1978), but was not...
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includes: ff. 53-63 Alan Walker Tyson, musicologist: Muzio Clementi, composer: Sonja Gerlach, musicologist: Piano sonata in A flat major, WO 13, by Muzio Clementi, in the hand of Alan Walker Tyson, with annotations by Sonja Gerlach: circa 1970: Copy.
GIOVANNI PAISIELLO: ‘La Pazza per Amore’, opera in two acts (to a libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi after Guiseppe Carpani’s translation of Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières’ ‘Nina’); after 1790: Atto I. ff. ii + 205.
GIOVANNI PAISIELLO: ‘La Pazza per Amore’, opera in two acts (to a libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi after Guiseppe Carpani’s translation of Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières’ ‘Nina’); after 1790. Copy of the score, in ink, written on paper ruled with ten or twelve staves, in the same hand throughout, with a few annotations in pencil. For soloists, chorus, clarinets, bassoons, horns and strings. The opera was first performed in a one-act version with spoken dialogue at the Royal Palace a...
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Giambattista Lorenzi, librettist: Giuseppe Carpani, writer of plays: Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, writer of plays: Giovanni Paisiello, composer: 'Nina', ossia 'La Pazza per Amore' by Giovanni Paisiello, to words by Giambattista Lorenzi after the translation by Giuseppe Carpani of 'Ni...
GIOVANNI PAISIELLO: ‘La Pazza per Amore’, opera in two acts (to a libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi after Guiseppe Carpani’s translation of Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières’ ‘Nina’); after 1790: Atto II. ff. i + 214.