ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria. Te Deum; Jan.15, 1845. Setting in the key of C major, with English and German words; for soli, choir, and full orchestra, in score. Scored and arranged by Ernst Lampert. ff. 16. Ernst Lampert, composer: Te Deum , arranged by Ern...
Illustrated prayer book, in various languages, dated 1578 and presented to Queen Elizabeth I for New Year. Written in inks of various colours, with illuminated titles and initials. Possibly presented by William Absolon (Lawson, ‘This Remembrance of the New Year’, p. 143). Previously also associ...
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata ‘Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir’ (BWV 130): viola part
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In the hand of Christian Gottlob Meissner, with corrections and reference to a supplementary leaf (see ‘Related manuscripts’) added by the composer. Written in brown ink on single staves, on both sides of a single leaf. With cantata title and ‘Viola’ in upper margin of recto. Contains three of t...
Felix Mendelssohn: note relating to Zweig MS 6 [sketches for Beethoven's op. 69 cello sonata]
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Written in ink on recto of a single leaf. Gives identification of Zweig MS 6, then ‘von mir in Wien aus der Autographensammlung des Herrn Aloys Fuchs erhalten. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.’ Formerly kept with Zweig MS 6.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Egmont’ (text Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), op. 84: sketch for op. 84, no. 1, Clärchen’s song ‘Die Trommel gerühret’
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Autograph. Written in ink on the recto and in pencil on the verso of a single leaf. Sketched mostly on single staves, with the text written above or beneath. The leaf has a vertical fold, and the sketches in pencil occur on the right half only of the verso. Later marginal annotations comprise: i...
Ludwig van Beethoven: Music to ‘Die Ruinen von Athen’ (text A. von Kotzebue), op. 113: [no. 5], Off-stage Music for wind band
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Autograph condensed score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction ‘assai Allegro ma non troppo’ (f. 1r). Headed ‘No 6’ and ‘Harmonie auf dem Theater’ in upper margin of f. 1r. Passage of 2 bars struck through on f. 1r; 1 bar struck through on f. 2v, but with note underneath to...
Letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to Dr. Johann Bihler
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[Baden, Summer, 1813]. Written in ink, addressed ‘Hr. von Bihler’ on the verso. An irregularly trimmed leaf, with bottom right hand corner, which presumably carried Beethoven’s signature, cut away.
Autograph. Written in ink and pencil. The entries on ff. 1r-2r comprise accounts of expenses on the journey from Bonn to Vienna, [1792]; the remainder is taken up with memoranda and accounts entered in Vienna. The first entries on f. 1r and another on f. 2r are not in Beethoven’s hand. A number ...
Ludwig van Beethoven: Copies by Beethoven of the text of five poems from ‘Morgenländische Blumenlese’ by Johann Gottfried Herder, with brief observations on nature by Beethoven
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Autograph. Written in ink and pencil. The leaves have been folded twice, marking out two or four compartments to which Beethoven has restricted his notes on the last page. Contents as follows: f. 1r, Herder: ‘Die laute Klage’. With indications of metre added in pencil above the text. Published...