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.
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...
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...
CARL MARIA VON WEBER: ‘Hymne, "In seiner Ordnung schafft der Herr"’, op.36, for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, four-part chorus and orchestra (words, Friedrich Rochlitz); 1825. Score. Copy, in ink, with annotations in pencil. The words are not written into the score. A copy made for Sir...
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...
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...
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.
C. IGOR STRAVINSKY: ‘Etude pour orchestre’ (‘Madrid’, the fourth of the ‘Quatre études pour orchestre’); circa 1928. Copyist’s score in pencil, probably in the hand of Catherine Stravinsky, annotated partly in autograph. Signed by the composer, ff. 31, 32, and dated ‘1917-1928’. The annotations mainly consist of corrections of the copyist’s errors. Some of these corrections were not incorporated into either of the published scores. Orchestrated from the ‘Etude for Pianola’ (1917). Published ...
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includes: ff. 31-42 Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, composer: Catherine Stravinsky, wife of I F Stravinsky: 'Madrid', étude for orchestra by Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, probably in the hand of Catherine Stravinsky: 1928: Copy, with autogr. annotations.