Observatoire de Nice. Souvenir de l'association Internationale Géodésique (Session 1887). Entrée du Gd. Equatorial. Photographer: Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of delegates and family members, gathered on the steps of the Great Equatorial Telescope building of Nice Observatory. A printed key on the following page identifies the participants as: Col. de Stefanis (delegate, from Florence), Capt. Defforges (dele...
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale preludes ‘Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist’ (BWV 631a) and ‘Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend’ (BWV 632), for organ, both from the ‘Orgel-Büchlein’
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Copy in the hand of Christian Gottlob Meissner. Written in brown ink on systems of two staves, using soprano and bass clefs. On a single leaf, with BWV 631a on the recto and BWV 632 on the verso; the titles are given in the upper margins, that of BWV 632 followed by ‘Canon:’ perhaps in another h...
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Flute part, in D, to an unidentified concerto in three movements
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Apparently not autograph; in an unidentified hand. Written in ink on single staves on either side of a single leaf. Headed ‘Concerto:’, and ‘Flaut Traversiere’. The first movement, in 2/4 time but with no tempo direction, is of 147 bars; movement II, ‘adagio’, 3/4, 40 bars; movement III (occupyi...
