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1. Hirsch 199.-M.1356a

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Hirsch 199.-M.1356a
Title:
The Hirsch Collecton
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts from the music library of the industrialist and collector Paul Hirsch (1881-1951). Administrative context: Hirsch's music library in Frankfurt am Main, Germany was one of the finest private libraries of its kind. Hirsch began to assemble his collection in 1896, focussing in particu...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1160-1925
Extent:
76 items

2. Hirsch II.46.

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Hirsch II.46.
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Scope & Content:
VINCENZO BELLINI (b.1801, d.1835): ‘La Sonnambula’, opera in 2 acts to a libretto by Felice Romani, after A. E. Scribe and J. Aumer; circa 1850. Full score, in ink. Italian.Copy, in several hands, with performance markings in pencil and red and blue crayon, on pages ruled with 16 staves. Cuts in...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
2 items

3. Hirsch II.213.

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Hirsch II.213.
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GAETANO DONIZETTI (b.1797, d.1848): ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, opera in 3 acts to a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, after Sir Walter Scott; circa 1850. Full score, in ink. Copy in several hands on pages ruled with between 10 and 20 staves (a 21st stave has been added by hand at the bottom of ff. 23...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
2 items

4. Hirsch II.565.

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Hirsch II.565.
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Scope & Content:
JOHANN SIMON MAYR (b.1763, d.1845): ‘Elisa, ossia Il Monte di S. Bernardo’, opera in 1 act to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi; 1815 (dated, vol. 2, f. ii). Full score, in ink. Copy, on pages ruled with between 10 and 16 staves. Italian. The front of each volume bears the stamp ‘Gran magazzino di mus...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1815
Extent:
2 items

5. Hirsch II.566.

Reference (shelfmark):
Hirsch II.566.
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Scope & Content:
JOHANN SIMON MAYR (b.1763, d.1845): ‘I Misteri Eleusini’, ‘Dramma Serio’ in 2 acts to a libretto by Giuseppe Bernadoni; circa 1805. Full score, in ink. Copy, on pages ruled with between 10 and 14 staves. Italian. The title pages are inscribed ‘In Roma presso Gaetano Rosati. In Via Babuino No. 11...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1805
Extent:
2 items

6. Hirsch II.698.

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Hirsch II.698.
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Scope & Content:
VOCAL MUSIC; early 19th cent. Copy in ink, in a single hand, on pages ruled with 10 or 12 staves. Italian. Purchased as part of the Paul Hirsch Music Library, 1946. ff. ii + 184. 240 x 298mm. Contemporary red leather binding with gold tooling featuring a trumpet motif. Marbled endpapers. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Hirsch II.920.

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Hirsch II.920.
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Scope & Content:
GIUSEPPE VERDI (b.1813, d.1901): ‘Rigoletto’, opera to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Victor Hugo; 2nd half of the 19th century. Full score, in ink. Copy in several hands on pages ruled with between 10 and 24 staves. Comprises the complete three-act version in Italian together with t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
2nd half of the 19th century
Extent:
4 items

8. Hirsch III.627.

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Hirsch III.627.
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Scope & Content:
ADÈLE DALMANI-NALDI: ‘Recitatif et air’, ‘Amor pietà’ (words by the composer), for soprano and orchestra; early 19th cent. Full score. Dedication copy, possibly autograph. Italian. Dedication, with verses in French, to Caroline Wilhelmine Friderike, Queen of Bavaria (b.1776, d.1841). The ar...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Hirsch III.742.

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Hirsch III.742.
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FRANCESCO FEDERICI: two duets from Zaira (words, M. Bocciardini), for soprano, tenor and orchestra; circa 1810. Full score. Copy. Italian. First performed in Milan, 1803, though A. Loewenberg (Annals of Opera (1978), p. 576) mentions both an earlier performance in Palermo in 1799, and an op...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 item

10. Hirsch III.896.

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Hirsch III.896.
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Scope & Content:
ARIAS FOR SOPRANO AND FIGURED BASS: 5 by Bernardo Pasquini (b.1637, d.1710), the rest anonymous; 18th century. Copy. Italian. On f. 1, ‘Lista Dell’Arie Che si contengono Nel Presente Libro’, listing only the first 11 arias, as well as another, ‘Stral d’amore’, now lacking between nos. 2 and 3...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item