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Subject Sketch-books Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [40] File

1. Add MS 31766

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Add MS 31766
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Pastoral Symphony Sketchbook A musical sketchbook chiefly made up of notes for the 6th (Pastoral) Symphony (Op. 68), here called 'Sinfonia caracteristica oder Erinnerungen an das Landleben'. On f. 2 is the note 'Man überlässt es dem Zuhörer sich selbst die Situationen auszufinden'. Of other works, notes appear at intervals, namely: of the 3rd Sonata for Piano and Violoncello (Op. 69) beginning with the second subject of the first movement (at the 37th bar) (f. 31v)...
Scope & Content:
ff. 60. Sketch-book [by Beethoven], containing chiefly sketches for the Pastoral symphony. It is dated at the beginning 1808, and evidently belongs to the first half of that year. According to Gustav Nottebohm, who has given an account of the MS. in his Zweite Beethoveniana (pp. 252, 369, etc.),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1808
Extent:

Paper; ff. 60. Oblong folio

2. Add MS 32237

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Add MS 32237
Title:
A collection of compositions, vocal and instrumental, most of them unfinished and some only sketched in pencil, in the hand of Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Scope & Content:
passim. Fragments or sketches of airs, etc., most of them without accompaniment, from dramatic works, almost entirely in the hand, and presumably the composition, of J. N. Hummel; about 1797-1828. I. From an Opera in which the principal characters are Lisette, Johann (as the Marquis Ventil), Wer...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (114 folios)