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1. Add MS 31422

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Title:
A collection of quartets, a pieces for organ
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f. 1. 'Toccata Quarta per l' Elevazione,' by Frescobaldi [from II Secondo Libro di Toccate . . . di Cimbalo et Organo, 1616]; 17th-18th cent. f. 2b. A figured bass, apparently for Organ, by Lotti; 17th-18th cent. Probably the accompaniment to some responses. ff. 3-18b passim. Quartets 'a Viol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (18 folios)

2. Add MS 31549

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Two cantatas, and end-chorus of the Opera "Sanzio", by Antonio Caldara.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-3b. 'Senti, deh, senti, oh Clori': Cantata for a soprano voice, with a bass for harpsichord, in score, by Antonio Caldara. Autograph. At the end is written '20 Maggio, 1715, in Roma; et è una grande ragazzata.' [1715.] ff. 4-10. 'Amor del gran Sancio': concluding chorus (à 4), with accom...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (10 folios)

3. Add MS 31697

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Sonatas, for the viola-da-gamba, with a bass, in score, by Carl Friedrich Abel.
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passim. Compositions for Viola da Gamba, with a bass for harpsichord, in score, by C. F. Abel. ff 83. Solos for 'Viola da Gamba,' by C[arl] F[riedrich] Abel. Unless the contrary is stated, they are Sonatas and are accompanied by a bass (for harpsichord), in score. Some, if not all, were writte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
2nd half 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (83 folios)

4. Add MS 31707

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'Symphony in E flat', in score, by Franz Joseph Haydn.
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ff. 40. 'Sinfonie in E flat' ['Mit dem Paukenwirbel'], for 2 trumpets (clarini), drums, 2 horns, 2 clarinets, 2 oboes, flutes, bassoons, 2 violins, viola, violoncellos, and basses, in score, by Haydn, 1795. Autograph. Folios 23, 23b, and 26, are said to have been supplied — evidently late in life...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1795
Extent:
1 volume (40 folios)

5. Add MS 31748

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Title:
Collection of compositions attributed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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ff. 10-12. Pianoforte duets wrongly attributed to Mozart. Autograph. Apparently unpublished (K. Anh. 41a). 1. Gavotte in F. f. 10. 2. Allegro in B flat. f. 10b. 3. 'Marzia lugubre' In C minor. Beginning only. f. 12. (Arrangements of three numbers from L. Kozeluch's ballet La ritrovata figlia d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1770-1787
Extent:

1 volume (27 folios)

6. Add MS 31749

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Title:
Quartet, in B flat for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Autograph manuscript of the string quartet in B flat, K. 172, by Mozart. * ff. 14. Quartet in B flat for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score, by Mozart, 1773 [op. 94, no. 5]. Autograph. According to Kochel's thematic catalogue (no. 172), the MS. was in 1860 in the possession of Richard...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1773
Extent:

1 volume (13 folios)

7. Add MS 31766

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Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Pastoral Symphony Sketchbook A musical sketchbook chiefly made up of notes for the 6th (Pastoral) Symphony (Op. 68), here called 'Sinfonia caracteristica oder Erinnerungen an das Landleben'. On f. 2 is the note 'Man überlässt es dem Zuhörer sich selbst die Situationen auszufinden'. Of other works, notes appear at intervals, namely: of the 3rd Sonata for Piano and Violoncello (Op. 69) beginning with the second subject of the first movement (at the 37th bar) (f. 31v)...
Scope & Content:
ff. 60. Sketch-book [by Beethoven], containing chiefly sketches for the Pastoral symphony. It is dated at the beginning 1808, and evidently belongs to the first half of that year. According to Gustav Nottebohm, who has given an account of the MS. in his Zweite Beethoveniana (pp. 252, 369, etc.),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1808
Extent:

Paper; ff. 60. Oblong folio