GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: ‘Cavatina, Tu che accendi questo core, Composed by Gioacchino Rossini, Arrangée pour Piano par Gpe Anelli’ (from ‘Tancredi’); circa 1820. Score, for soprano and piano. Copy, written in ink on paper ruled with twelve staves to the page. Whatman watermarks dated 1811 and 1813. Signed ‘M. E. M. Clary’ (f. 47). ff. 47-51. 301 x 233mm.
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includes: ff. 47-51 Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, composer: Giuseppe Anelli, pianist and composer: 'Tu che accendi' from 'Tancredi' by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, arranged for voice and piano by Giuseppe Anelli: circa 1820: Ital: Copy.
CIPRIANI POTTER: ‘Impromptu, Tempo di Menuetto’, for piano; 1840. Autograph, written in ink on paper ruled with twelve staves. With the inscription ‘Presented to his much esteemed and highly talented pupil G. A. Macfarren by Cipriani Potter, July 16th 1840’. Whatman watermark dated 1831. f. 52. 313 x 240mm.
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includes: f. 52 Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer: Sir George Alexander Macfarren, composer: Impromptu for piano by Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, dedicated to Sir George Alexander Macfarren: 1840: Autogr.
MUZIO CLEMENTI: Piano sonata in A flat major; circa 1970. Copy in pencil and ink, in the hand of Alan Tyson, with annotations in pencil in German, probably in the hand of Sonja Gerlach. Numbered ‘WO 13’ in A. Tyson, Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Muzio Clementi (Tutzing, 1967). This transcription was apparently made from the autograph in the Bibliothèque nationale de France for inclusion in Tyson and Gerlach’s edition of Clementi, Klaviersonaten (vol. I, Munich: Henle, 1978), but was not...
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includes: ff. 53-63 Alan Walker Tyson, musicologist: Muzio Clementi, composer: Sonja Gerlach, musicologist: Piano sonata in A flat major, WO 13, by Muzio Clementi, in the hand of Alan Walker Tyson, with annotations by Sonja Gerlach: circa 1970: Copy.
A. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: ‘Il Convitato di Pietra. Per questa tua manina, Duetto’ for soprano (Zerlina), bass (Leporello) and orchestra, K540b; late 18th cent. Score. Copy, written in ink on paper ruled with twelve staves to the page. The title page has an ornate printed border bearing the imprint of ‘Croce, Marchand de Musique et Copiste du Théatre de Monsieur, rue Feydeau No. 22’. This duet was composed as an addition to the production of ‘Don Giovanni’ in Vienna in 1788. The number ‘580...
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includes: ff. 1-18 Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: Croce; Paris; music seller: 'Il convitato di Pietra. Per questa tua manina, Duetto', K540b by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, copied for sale by Croce: late 18th cent.: Ital: Copy.
B. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: ‘Sonate pour le Forte Piano avec un Cor, ou Violoncelle, Composée et dediée A Madame la Baronne de Braun, op: 17’; early 19th cent. Piano part, with arrangements of the horn part for violin and for ’cello. Copies, written in ink on paper ruled with ten stave to the page, with fingering and other markings in pencil. Apparently copied from the first printed edition (Vienna: T. Mollo, [1801]), perhaps in the issue of 1808, which included a separate violin part. Inscribe...
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includes: ff. 19-37 Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: Braun, wife of Peter von Braun, theatre director: Parts for horn sonata, op. 17 by L. van Beethoven, dedicated to J. von Braun: early 19th cent.: Copies.
C. BEETHOVEN: ‘Sonate von Ludwig van Beethoven, Wien am 2t[en] Juny 1812, mit Violin und Violoncello’, in B flat major; early 19th cent. Numbered WoO 39 in G. Kinsky, Das Werk Beethovens (Munich, 1955). Parts. Copies, in ink, with a few annotations in pencil. The piano part is written on paper printed with ten staves to the page, and the violin and ’cello parts in another hand on paper ruled with ten staves. Each part is bound in marbled paper covers with a title label affixed to the front c...
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includes: ff. 38-48 Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: Maximiliane Euphrosyne Kunigunde Brentano, pianist; friend of Beethoven: Parts for piano trio in B flat, WoO 39 by L. van Beethoven, dedicated to Maximiliane Euphrosyne Kunigunde Brentano: early 19th cent.: Copies.
D. FRANZ SCHUBERT: ‘Schwanengesang’, D957; 1829. Title page only, reading ‘Franz Schubert’s Schawanen-Gesang mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. Letztes Werk. Eigenthum des Verlegers. Wien, bei Tobias Haslinger. Uiberreicht den 13. Jenner 1829’, and with the annotation ‘Excudatur Vom kk. C[ensur] B[ücher] R[evisions] Amte, Wien den 20 Jäner [1]829. Freyberger’. Written in ink on paper ruled with sixteen staves, in the hand of Tobias Haslinger, who published the work later in the year. It would ap...
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includes: f. 49 Franz Peter Schubert, composer: Tobias Haslinger, music publisher: Johannes Freyberger, censor, of Vienna: Title page of 'Schwanengesang', D957 by Franz Peter Schubert, in the hand of Tobias Haslinger, signed by Johannes Freyberger: 1829: Germ: Copy.
E. SCHUBERT: ‘Im Walde und auf der Brücke, Zwey Gedichte von Ernst Schulze In Musik gesetzt Für eine Singstimme und Pianoforte begleitung von Franz Schubert, wahrend [sic] seiner Anwesenheit in Gratz. op 90.’, D834 and 853; second quarter of 19th cent. Score. Copy, written in ink on paper ruled with nine staves to the page. Signed by the copyist, ‘Karg’, f. 64. Watermark of ‘A. Heller’, similar to no. 1203 in G. Eineder, The Ancient Paper-Mills of the Former Austro-Hungarian Empire and their...
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includes: ff. 50-64 Franz Peter Schubert, composer: Ernst Schulze, poet: 'Im Walde', D834, and 'Auf der Bruck', D853 by Franz Peter Schubert, to words by Ernst Schulze: second quarter of 19th cent.: Germ: Copies.
A. EDWARD ELGAR: ‘Proof sheets of Pomp & Circumstance March No 4, with composer’s corrections’; 1907. Full score. Signed by the composer (ff. 1, 2), and initialled in pencil at the bottom right corner of most sheets. Some corrections to the harp part in green ink may be in another hand. With some notes in pencil in another hand in German on f. 26v, dated 5 July 1907. Published Boosey & Co., 1907. ff. 1-26. 322 x 270mm.
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includes: ff. 1-26 Sir Edward William Elgar, Baronet; OM; composer: Proof sheets of Pomp and Circumstance March no.4, corrected by the composer: 1907: Printed.
B. REYNALDO HAHN: ‘I know you love me not’, song for voice and piano (words, Mary Robinson, afterwards Darmesteter); 1903. Autograph. Score in ink, with engraver’s markings in pencil, signed by the composer (f. 30) and inscribed ‘Mlle Suzette Lemaire 1903’ (f. 27). Published Paris: Heugel [1903?], and subsequently London: Joseph Williams, [before 1911] as the last of a set of three songs, Love Without Wings. This set was subsequently published in a bilingual edition as Amour sans ailes, Pari...
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includes: ff. 27-30 Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, afterwards Darmesteter afterw. Duclaux; poet: Reynaldo Hahn, composer: Song, 'I know you love me not' by Reynaldo Hahn, to words by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson: 1903: Autogr.