Heinrich Schütz: [‘Schwanengesang’], setting in German of Psalm 119, with Psalm 100 and the German Magnificat (SWV 482-494), for two four-part choirs with organ continuo: organ continuo part
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Copy, with autograph annotations. Figured bass line, written in dark brown ink on single staves, with key words and phrases of the text written in beneath, and indicating the sections allocated to each of the two choirs. In a volume labelled ‘ORGANUM’ (f. i) on the upper cover. The music is in a...
Robert Schumann: ‘Beim Abschied zu singen’ (text E. von Feuchtersleben), for chorus and wind ensemble, op. 84
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Autograph draft in short score. Written in ink on systems of two staves. Tempo direction ‘Langsam’. Text begins ‘Es ist bestimmt in Gothes Rath’. Headed ‘Lied zum Abschied’ at top left and dated ‘7 Mai 47.’ at top right of f. 1r. With indication of instrumentation above the first system on f. 1r...
Gaspare Spontini: ‘Olympie’, opera in three acts, second version (libretto by Dieulafoy and Briffaut after Voltaire, revised by E.T.A. Hoffman), 1821: chorus ‘Ciel! Il expire’ with following recitative for the Hièrophante and Cassandra, from Act III, scene viii
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of up to 16 staves. Tempo direction ‘Andante un poco sostenuto’ (f. 1r). Staves extended into the right margin by the composer on f. 2r. The recitative is given in a shorter version than that found in the published score, and the parts for the two ...
Gaspare Spontini: Credo in G for two voices and obbligato solo organ
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Title on f. 1r: ‘Credo a / Due Voci con / L’organo solo obbligato / Di / Gaspare Spontini’, with, also in the composer’s hand at top right, ‘Originale’. Scored for organ (written on the single uppermost stave), Canto (in soprano clef), A...
Johann Strauss, the elder: ‘Redoute-Quadrille’, op.158
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Possibly not autograph. Full score. Written in ink on systems of 16 staves. Music begins f. 1v. Scored for piccolo, flute, 2 clarinets, oboe, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, bass drum, side drum, 2 trombones, and strings. An extra stave is added in ink and pencil beneath the system on f. ...
Act I of Richard Strauss's opera in three acts 'Die schweigsame Frau'
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Opening tempo direction ‘Allegro’ (f. 1r). Signed at upper right of f. 1r, and with ‘begonnen 16. Februar 1933’ [added] at bottom left; dated Garmisch, 11 March 1933 at end (f. 40r). Timings are given in pencil on ff. 11v, 19v, 40r. As follows: ff. 1r-4v. Scene I. ff. 4v-11v. [Scene II.] The beg...
Act II of Richard Strauss's opera in three acts 'Die schweigsame Frau'
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Opening tempo direction ‘Tempo di Minuetto’ (f. 1r). Signed at upper right of f. 1r; dated Garmisch 18 June 1933 at end (f. 42r). With a draft of the last scene of Act III (ff. 42v, 43r). As follows: ff. 1r-3r. [Scene I.]. ff. 3r-5r. [Scene II.]. ff. 5r-12r. [Scene III.]. ff. 12r-15v. [Scene IV....
Act III of Richard Strauss's opera in three acts 'Die schweigsame Frau'
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Opening tempo direction ‘Allegro molto’ (f. 2r). Signed at upper right of f. 2r; dated Kissingen, 13 May 1934 (f. 33v). Additions in brown ink occupy two single inserted folios (ff. 1, 34) bound at the front and rear of the volume as well as part of the final page of the last gathering, as noted...
Signed at upper right of f. 1r; dated Garmisch, 10 Jan. 1935 (f. 4v). In a passage heavily annotated in pencil on f. 3v the score system is extended for 2 bars to 6 staves.
Igor Stravinsky: [Z har-ptitsa] - ‘L’Oiseau de feu’, ballet in two scenes (scenario M. Fokine after a Russian national fairy tale), 1910: album-leaf quotation from the ‘Berceuse’
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on 14 staves, on one side of a single leaf. Six bars, beginning at cue no. 184 in the published full score; a stave is marked for the second harp, which plays during this passage, but no notes are entered, and in the last two bars of the extract the second vi...
