FERDINAND RIES: ‘Grand Sextour pour 2 Violons, 2 Altos et 2 Violoncellos (ou Contra Basso)’; 1854. Parts, in ink, with performers’ markings in pencil. Copies. Numbered WoO 63 in C. Hill, Ferdinand Ries: a thematic catalogue (Armidale, 1977). f. 1 is dated ‘London den 28sten November 1854’ and in...
BEETHOVEN: Additional string parts for symphony no. 7 in A major; early 19th cent. Copies in ink, on paper ruled with thirteen or fourteen staves to the page, in the same hand throughout, with some pencil annotations. Apparently copied from the first printed parts (Vienna: Bei S. A. Steiner, [18...
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: ‘D’un bell’uso di Turchia, Duetto’, from ‘Il Turco in Italia’ (words, Felice Romani), for two basses (Selim and Geronio) and orchestra; first half of 19th cent. Score. Copy, in ink, written on paper ruled with ten staves to the page, in the same hand throughout, with correcti...
DOMENICO SCARLATTI AND SAMUEL WESLEY: keyboard sonatas; 2nd half of 18th cent. Copies, written in ink, in various different hands, on paper ruled with ten staves to the page. None of the works is attributed in the volume, beyond a title label reading ‘Scarlatti, S: Wesley’. With a list of conten...
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: ‘Sinfonia in D’ (symphony no. 31, ‘mit dem Hornsignal’), for violin and ’cello obbligati, flute, 2 oboes, 4 horns, bassoon and strings; late 18th – early 19th cent. Parts. Copies, written in ink in the same hand throughout on paper ruled with ten staves to the page, with some...
DOMENICO CIMAROSA: ‘Aria Seria, Non sò donde viene, con Recitativo, nell’ Olimpiade’, for soprano, horns, oboes and strings (words, Pietro Metastasio); late 18th cent. Recitative, beginning ‘Giovane sventurato’, and aria, beginning ‘Non sò donde viene’. Score. Copy. Cimarosa’s dramma per musica ...
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: ‘Tantum Ergo’, for two tenors and bass soloists and orchestra; second half of 19th cent. Parts. Copies in ink, in the same hand throughout, with a bombardone part added in another hand (ff. 85-6). Most parts are bound in blue paper covers numbered ‘589’. Second tenor part sig...