MOZART: ‘Cosi fan tutte osia La Scuola degli amanti: Drama giocoso in due Atti Rappresentato nel Teatro di Corte a Vienna L’Anno 1790’ (libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte), K588; circa 1790-5. Copy, in Italian. Score, written in ink on paper ruled with ten or twelve staves to the page, with some pencil annotations in Tyson’s hand. The title page of Act 1 is inscribed ‘Si vende in Vienna presso Wencislao Sukowaty Editore di Musica, e Copista dell’ Imperial Teatro nella Piazza di St. Pietro Nro 554. i...
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Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist and poet: Jakob Klein, music copyist: 'Cosi fan tutte' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, to words by Lorenzo Da Ponte, partly in the hand of Jakob Klein: circa 1790-5: Ital: Copy.
MOZART: ‘Cosi fan tutte osia La Scuola degli amanti: Atto II. With collation diagrams and other notes in Tyson’s hand (ff. 231-40). late 18th or early 19th cent ff. ii + 240.
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.
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...