BARTOK, Bela. Autograph letter signed to Schott Music Publishers, indicating corrections to the Hungarian and Romanian folk song booklets. Creation dates: 26 June 1929.
1. LISZT, Franz. Autograph letter signed ('FL') to Robert Franz (1859), on the death of Liszt's son, Daniel. 2. MENDELSSOHN, Felix. Autograph letter signed to Julius Stern (1844), about his incidental music to Antigone. Creation dates: 1859-1844.
WAGNER, Richard. 1. Autograph letter signed to unidentified correspondent about Der fliegende Hollander. 31 January 1853. In German. 2. Autograph letter signed to unidentified correspondent about Tristan und Isolde. 29 December 1859. In French. Creation dates: 1853-1859.
RICHARD STRAUSS & ZOLTÁN KODÁLY: music manuscripts; 1880-1933
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The Strauss manuscripts are autograph, the Kodály mostly copies. Dates below are taken from The New Grove Dictionary of Music ed. S. Sadie (London, 1980). Lent by Universal Edition (London) Ltd., 1961.
Letter from Beethoven to Hofrat Karl Peters containing the canon 'Sankt Petrus war ein Fels', WoO 175, together with a letter of Alexander Thayer, 1861. Alexander Wheelock Thayer, writer on music: Letter: 1861: Autogr. Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: Hofrat Karl Peters, music publisher: Letter...
Lieder Album: three songs in the German manner to texts by Heine; 1913-19. Autograph. Words in German and English. ‘Du bist wie eine Blume’; ‘König Wismawitra’; ‘Weihnachtslied’. With a typescript biography of Heine, in English and French, and a typescript copy of the French text with autograph ...
Music Loan 106. LORD BERNERS LOAN. Music manuscripts of Sir Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners; 1913-1946. Chiefly autograph. Placed on loan by Chester Music Ltd and Lady Dorothy Heber Percy on behalf of the Berners Trust, 1992.