Conradin Kreutzer: Extract from an orchestral work featuring a theme from Rossini’s opera Tancredi
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Incomplete, comprises 22 bars on 2 pages, on either side of a single leaf, numbered ‘2’ at top right of recto. Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 12 staves. Not from the beginning of the work, so lacking title, tempo direction and key- and time-signatures, but headed, in another ...
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of thirteen staves. Tempo directions: ‘Introduction Andante’ (f. 1r), ‘All[egr]o’ (f. 1v), ‘Trio’ (f. 2r) and ‘Finale’ (f. 3r). Scored for 3 violins, bass, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, horn, post-horn, trombone, tympani and cymbals (‘Schellen’)....
Ruggero Leoncavallo: ‘Cortège de Pulcinella’, ‘marche humoristique’ for orchestra
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Autograph full score. Written in violet ink on systems of 24 staves. Scored for piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, percussion (tambourine, castanets), 3 trombones, tuba, harp and strings. Calligraphic title-page (f.1) in French, perhaps in another han...
Gustav Mahler: ‘Urlicht’, song for voice and orchestra (words from Des Knaben Wunderhorn by L.A. von Arnim and Clemens Brentano)
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 16 to 18 staves. Music begins f. 2r; tempo directions ‘Sehr feierlich aber [corrected in pencil from ‘und’] schlicht!’ (f. 2r) - ‘Rit.’ (f. 4v), then, added in pencil ‘Drängend!’ (f. 5r) - ‘Molto rit! Wieder langsam wie am Anfang!’ (f. 5v). Bar ...
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Duet ‘Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergösse sich’ (words, Heinrich Heine), op. 63, no. 1, for two soprano voices and piano
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction: ‘And[an]te con moto’. The first two verses are indicated by repeat signs with the words, marked ‘Strophe I’ and ‘II’, written separately one under each of the two vocal lines. Music occupies ff. 1v and 2r. Attestation of...
Leopold Mozart: Divertimento ‘Die musikalische Schlittenfahrt’: part for [one of five] sleigh-bells, headed ‘Schlittengeleüth Ex.A’.
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Contemporary copy, probably in the hand of Joseph Richard Estlinger. Written in ink on single staves on the recto of a single leaf. Below the heading are instructions for the player: ‘Intrada Tacet / wird 2 mahl gemacht’, ‘Presto Tacet’, ‘nach diesem Presto machen die Trompetten und Paucken ein ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String quartet in D minor (K173), movement IV only
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. No tempo direction. Version comprising 84 bars, shorter than that finally published. Names of the instruments are indicated in ink against the first system (f. 1r) [by J.A. André]. Other later annotations in ink to f. 1r are: heading [in...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for violin and piano in F (K377/374e)
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of three staves. Mozart’s title ‘Sonata III’ is at the head of the music (f. 1r). The instruments marked ‘Violino’ and ‘Cembalo’ against the first system of each movement. Three movements, as follows: ff. 1r-3r. ‘All.[egr]o’. The upper system on f. 2v c...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: March for orchestra in C (K408, no. 1/383e)
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of seven staves. Headed ‘Marcia’, and signed ‘di Wolfgango Amadeo Mozart m[anu] p[ropria]’ at top right, on f. 1r. Tempo direction ‘Maestoso’. ‘No. 1’ beneath the title is presumably a later addition; other additions are the date 1782 (altered from...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for horn and orchestra in E flat (K447)
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of six staves. Three movements, as follows: ff. 1r-5v. ‘All[egr]o’; this and the heading ‘Concerto per il Corno Solo’ on f. 1r are apparently not in Mozart’s hand. ff. 6r-7v. ‘Larghetto’. Headed ‘Romance’, and signed at top right ‘di Wolfgango ...
