MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. X (ff. 17). Autograph music by Ludwig van Beethoven:- (1) Fragment (ff. 2-2b), 50 mm. × 295 mm., cut from the top of one leaf, containing miscellaneous sketches. On the recto are three bars in G marked 'Andante molto mote' and four bars in E flat (?) marked 'overtur vi...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. Xl (ff. ii+38). 'Grand Concert pour le Piano-forte composé par Charles Marie de Weber, Mannheim und Darmstadt im Jahr 1810'. Autograph. Full score. The three movements, Allegro, Adagio, and Presto, are separately dated by the composer:- 'comp. in September 1810 in Darmst...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XII (ff. ii+4). Keyboard music:- (1) Unfinished piano cadenza in E flat; early 19th cent. In the same hand as item (3) below. At the foot of the page faint remains of music written in pencil. f. 1. (2) Piano cadenza in F by Muzio Clementi, similar in style to the pre...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol.. XIII (ff. v+96). Printed editions of piano concertos nos. 1-5 and the quintet for piano and strings by John Field; 1815- 1817 (cf. C. Hopkinson, A Bibliographical Thematic Catalogue of ... John Field, 1961). Piano parts only. Concertos nos. 1-4 and the quintet are the e...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XIV (ff. i+38). Miscellaneous music by Johann Nepomuk Hummel:- (1) 'Lass uns in Trauer scheiden', duet from the opera 'Jeannot und Colin', op. 72, with piano accompaniment; [circ. 1816]. Autograph. Two bifolia (ff. 2-5), 305 mm.×230 mm., and original blue paper cover (...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XV (ff. i+37). 'Seize Nouvelles Etudes pour le Piano Forte', op. 81, dedicated to August Alexander Klengel, by Johann Baptist Cramer; 1835. Autograph. Evidently the manuscript used for the first edition by Cramer, Addison and Beale, London, 1835 (cf. title-page, f. 5). P...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XVI (ff. v+22). Two piano quartets in C minor and F minor, opp. 1 and 2, in score, by Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; circ. 1823-1824 (see below). Copies, evidently used for the first editions by A. M. Schlesinger, Berlin, 1823, 1824 (cf. the plate nos. 'S. 122...
Vol. XVII (ff. 50). Letters and translations:-(1) Eleven autograph letters, in English, some with musical quotations, from Mendelssohn to Bartholomew; 9 Aug. 1846-10 Mar. 1847. The first two letters (ff. 1, 2) relate to the Birmingham performance of 'Elijah', 26 Aug. 1846, the remainder to the e...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XX (ff. 44). Miscellaneous music, partly autograph:- (1) 'Macbeth': late 18th cent. copies of the instrumental parts (first and second violins, viola, and bass) in The Original Songs, Airs and Chorusses ... in ... Macbeth, revised and corrected by William Boyce, Longma...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XXII (ff. i+4). 'Der Erste Ton': keyboard score of the final, choral section, beg. 'Drum Preis dir Ton', of the poem by Johann Friedrich Rochlitz set for speaker and chorus by Carl Maria von Weber; revised version, 1810. Autograph. Two bifolia. The voice parts are entere...