Scena and aria for tenor ‘Sie kommt! Es klopft das stolze Herz … Komm du süsse Braut’ from Die sicilianische Vesper. [German] copy; n.d. ff. i+23 300 x 242mm. Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer: Heribert Rau, librettist: 'Sie kommt! . . . Komm du süsse Braut' scena and aria from Die sicil...
JULES MASSENET Soprano aria ‘Celui dont la parole … Il est doux, il est bon’ from Hérodiade. Printed, with manuscript; n.d. ff. 6 342 x 270mm. Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet, composer: Gustave Flaubert, novelist: Paul Milliet, librettist: Henry Gremont, librettist: 'Celui dont la parole. . . ...
OTTO NICOLAI Song [‘Ach, Herr! Wie sind meiner Feinde so viel’] (words, Psalm 3) for alto or bass and orchestra. Copy, ‘scored’ by C[harles] Lucas; 1843. ff. i+11 245 x 295mm. Charles Lucas, conductor and cellist: William Goodwin, music copyist: Otto Nicolai, composer: Joseph Staudigl, singe...
RPS MSS 214-216 Der Alchymist, romantic opera in three acts (text, Karl Pfeiffer), WoO 57. [German] copy; n.d. Copied in four different hands, Acts I and II each in a separate single hand, Act III the work of two further copyists. In three volumes, as follows:-
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Louis Spohr, composer: Carl Pfeiffer, librettist: 'Der Alchymist', opera in three acts by Louis Spohr, to a libretto by Carl Pfeiffer: n.d.: Germ: Copy.
RPS MSS 217-219 Der Berggeist, opera in three acts, WoO 54 (text Georg Döring). [German] copy; n.d. In three different hands, each copying an entire act. Detailed stage directions and metronome markings are given throughout. In three volumes, as follows:-
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Louis Spohr, composer: Georg Christian Wilhelm Asmodeus Döring, librettist: 'Der Berggeist', opera in three acts by Louis Spohr, to a libretto by Georg Christian Wilhelm Asmodeus Döring: n.d.: Germ: Copy.
RPS MSS 220, 221 Faust, opera in two acts, WoO 51 (text, Joseph Carl Bernard). [German] copy; n.d. Copied in two different hands. Some individual number headings indicate a division into four acts. In two vols., as follows:-
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Louis Spohr, composer: Joseph Carl Bernard, librettist: 'Faust', opera in two acts by Louis Spohr, to a libretto by Joseph Carl Bernard: n.d.: Germ: Copy.
‘Liebe ist die zarte Blüthe’, from Faust: ornamentation for the vocal line of the final section. Copy; n.d. Headed ‘Fermat zum Schluss der Arie aus Faust von Spohr "Liebe ist die zarte Blüthe"’. Six bars of vocal line with piano reduction of the accompaniment, written on the recto of a single le...