Alban Berg: Sketch-leaf for part of Act 3 of the opera, Lulu. f.1r: draft of bars 961–975 (961 cancelled), with no voice parts for Schigolch or Geschwitz. f.1v: rough sketch for the declamation in the exchange between Schigolch and Alva, bars 1024–36 (?).
Alban Berg: ‘Kammerkonzert’, arrangement of the slow movement for violin, clarinet and piano, 1935. The single leaf contains sketches for the piano part in bars 176–7, 112–6, 119–23 (bars 421–2, 355–9, 362–6 in the complete work). The pencil note in the bottom right-hand corner is in the hand o...
Alban Berg: Doodle, annotated by Marcel Dick, the violist in the Wiener Streichquartett which gave the first performance of the Lyric Suite on 8 January 1927 (not 1926 as stated on this manuscript). Transcription:- Äusserst langsam mit Dämpfer. Trem am Steg … nat. … am Steg flag. ...
Luciano Berio: ‘Sequenza X per tromba in do (e risonanze di pianoforte)’
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A single leaf of a draft corresponding approximately to the passage from page 8, system 3 to page 10, system 2 in the published score. Sold for charity, and signed and dated by the composer for that purpose.
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley: Copy of his Three Piano Pieces, composed in 1927, with autograph signature, dated 1929, so probably made for Jan Smeterlin, who performed them in that year.
Hector Berlioz: ‘Quel contretemps facheux le Cardinal’, recitative from Benvenuto Cellini
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Leaf containing a discarded recitative from Benvenuto Cellini, ‘Quel contretemps facheux le Cardinal’. Full score. Undated. Autograph score in ink. 28 staves. Signed by the composer.
Grand March for piano. With Bishop’s inscription on the title page: ‘Composed for & presented to the Royal Society of Musicians, London’. Dated: May 1827. Published in 1867 in an organ arrangement by W. J. Westbrook.
Georges Bizet, Jules Massenet: ‘Simplicité, valse à ne pas danser’, piano duet
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‘Simplicité, valse à ne pas danser’ for piano duet. The Primo part is by Jules Massenet, the Secondo by Georges Bizet. Massenet’s primo part contains one more bar than Bizet’s secondo. For Marguerite de Beaulieu, a cousin of Bizet’s wife Geneviève.