ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL. Autograph fragment (6 lines) of a sonnet, in Italian. Fragment from the sonnet written to accompany his painting La Bella Mano (1875). Creation date: [c 1876].
MANUSCRIPT MUSIC FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY RPS MSS 1-271. The select portion of the manuscipts of the RPS was placed on loan in June 1914: see Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts deposited on loan in the British Museum by the Royal Philharmonic Society, 1914; the remaining manuscripts were added to the loan in 1984. The whole collection was acquired by the British Library in 2002. It is listed here in a single sequence arranged first in alphabetical order by compos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Scope: Music manuscripts and papers of the Royal Philharmonic Society. Date range: c 1792-1990 Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by the British Library in 2002. Related material: Printed music from the library of the Royal Philharmonic Society is on loan to the British Library and is ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Symphony no. 9, op 125. [Viennese] copy, with autograph corrections, annotations and dedication to the Society; n.d. [1824]. The copy sent by Beethoven to the Society in 1824. ff. i+169, with 16* 335x300mm. Royal Philharmonic Society: Sir George Thomas Smart, musician: Ignaz Moscheles, pianist...
Quartet ‘Il cor e la mia fe’ [‘Mir ist so wunderbar’] from ‘Fidelio’, op. 72, no.3. Copy; 1834. ff. 10 300 x 250mm. Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: Stephan von Breuning, poet: Georg Friedrich Treitschke, librettist and translator: Jean-Nicholas Bouilly, librettist: Joseph von Sonnleithner, lib...
Trio ‘Tremate, empi, tremate’ (words Bettoni), op. 116. Copy by J[oseph] J[ohn] H[arris]; 1827. ff. i+26 242 x 300mm. Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: Joseph John Harris, music copyist: Bettoni, poet: 'Tremate, empi, tremate', trio op.116 by L. v. Beethoven, to words by — Bettoni, in the hand o...
Quartet ‘Cara da voi dipendi’. Copy; n.d. ff. ii+39 222 x 295mm. Luigi Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria Cherubini, composer: 'Cara da voi dipende', quartet by Luigi Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria Cherubini: n.d.: Ital: Copy.
Trio ‘Che ascoltai’, from Ifigenia in Aulide, for soprano, tenor and bass. Copy; n.d. ff. 11 240 x 300mm. Luigi Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria Cherubini, composer: Ferdinando Moretti, librettist: 'Che ascoltai', trio from Ifigenia in Aulide by Luigi Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria Cherubini, to a l...