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Gaetano Donizetti: early version of the overture to Il diluvio universale, in D major/minor, in a version for piano duet
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Incomplete, 270 bars; the last page (f. 4v), though completely full, does not contain the conclusion of the work. Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction ‘Larghetto - Allegro’. The name Donizetti added in lighter ink in the upper margin of f. 1r. ‘N 3’ add...
Christoph Willibald Gluck: [‘I lamenti d’amore’], cantata beginning ‘Misero! e che farò! e come, e con qual cor i figli abbraccerò’ for soprano and strings (words, Raniero de Calzabigi), arranged by the composer from the aria for Admeto (tenor) ‘Misero! e che farò’ from act III of his opera ‘Alceste’
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. In C minor. Tempo directions ‘Andante un poco - Recit. - lento - presto - lento - presto - moderato - andante - Presto - Lento - Presto - Lento - Presto’. The music and text begin as in the first printed edition of the opera, though...
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of up to 18 staves. Contains the four numbers first performed by Grieg at Kristiania, 14 Nov. 1891, but with the revised ending to no. 3. As follows: ff. 3v-8r. ‘Der Brautraub (Ingrids Klage)’, tempo directions ‘Allegro furioso - Andante - Allegro ...
George Frideric Handel: Aria ‘E troppo bella troppo amorosa la Pastorella’, part of the cantata ‘Ho fuggito Amore anch’io’ (HWV 118), for voice and basso continuo
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. In D; tempo direction ‘allegro’ (f. 1r). Annotations by Vincent Novello in the upper margin of f. 1r record that the manuscript formerly belonged to Domenico Dragonetti and attest to its authe...
George Frideric Handel: ‘Floridante’, opera in three acts (libretto Paolo Antonio Rolli): final chorus ‘Quando pena la costanza’ from Act III
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of nine staves. No tempo direction. Headed ‘Coro’ (f. 1r) and with ‘Fine dell’ Opera à Londres ce 28 de Novembre 1721’ at the end (f. 4r). Part of Handel’s composition score of the opera. The discovery of this hitherto missing conclusion to the c...
George Frideric Handel: Oratorio ‘Joseph and his Brethren’ (words James Miller, after the book of Genesis), 1743: recitative ‘With Songs of ardent gratitude, and Praise’
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. Headed ‘Joseph’ in the upper margin, the music followed by ‘Segue il Coro Alleluja we will rejoice’, and with ‘Fine dell oratio. [sic] Joseph’ in the lower margin. Joseph and his Brethren wa...
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 12 staves. Signed and dated on the title-page (f. 1r): ‘Sinfonia in C / di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria London. 792 [line above]’. In four movements, as follows: ff. 1v-13r. ‘Adagio (f. 1v) - Vivace’ (f. 2r). The first page of music (f. ...
Joseph Haydn: Piano trio in E flat minor (Hob. XV:31)
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. In two movements, as follows: ff. 1v-5r. ‘Andante’; instrumental lines marked ‘Violino’, ‘Cembalo o p:f:’ and ‘Violoncello’ (f. 1v). Headed ‘In Nomine Domini’ and ‘di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria / 795 [line over]’ on f. 1v. ff...
Joseph Haydn: Variations in G on the anthem ‘Gott erhalte den Kaiser’, for keyboard; theme and Variation I
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Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves, on the recto of a single leaf. The theme occupies the bottom four staves, and Variation I the upper eight staves. No key signature is given, and tempo directions and expression marks are also absent. On the verso is a note of authenticity, in I...
Michael Haydn: String quartet in B flat, ‘Divertimento Notturno’ (Perger 125)
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Incomplete, lacking the last 100 bars of the final ‘Rondeau’. Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Headed in upper margin of f. 1r ‘Divertimento notturno. à 4. 2 Violini, Viola e Basso.’, with the signature ‘di G. Michele Haydn m[anu] p[ropr]ia’. Comprising the followi...
