MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. IX (ff. ii+120). Concerto, op. 61, for violin or piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, in score; bef. Aug. 1808. Copy, with autograph annotations by the composer relating to expression marks, accidentals, etc., in pencil and red crayon. No title-page. One leaf, at least, contai...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. X (ff. 17). Autograph music by Ludwig van Beethoven:- (1) Fragment (ff. 2-2b), 50 mm. × 295 mm., cut from the top of one leaf, containing miscellaneous sketches. On the recto are three bars in G marked 'Andante molto mote' and four bars in E flat (?) marked 'overtur vi...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. Xl (ff. ii+38). 'Grand Concert pour le Piano-forte composé par Charles Marie de Weber, Mannheim und Darmstadt im Jahr 1810'. Autograph. Full score. The three movements, Allegro, Adagio, and Presto, are separately dated by the composer:- 'comp. in September 1810 in Darmst...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XII (ff. ii+4). Keyboard music:- (1) Unfinished piano cadenza in E flat; early 19th cent. In the same hand as item (3) below. At the foot of the page faint remains of music written in pencil. f. 1. (2) Piano cadenza in F by Muzio Clementi, similar in style to the pre...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol.. XIII (ff. v+96). Printed editions of piano concertos nos. 1-5 and the quintet for piano and strings by John Field; 1815- 1817 (cf. C. Hopkinson, A Bibliographical Thematic Catalogue of ... John Field, 1961). Piano parts only. Concertos nos. 1-4 and the quintet are the e...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XIV (ff. i+38). Miscellaneous music by Johann Nepomuk Hummel:- (1) 'Lass uns in Trauer scheiden', duet from the opera 'Jeannot und Colin', op. 72, with piano accompaniment; [circ. 1816]. Autograph. Two bifolia (ff. 2-5), 305 mm.×230 mm., and original blue paper cover (...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XV (ff. i+37). 'Seize Nouvelles Etudes pour le Piano Forte', op. 81, dedicated to August Alexander Klengel, by Johann Baptist Cramer; 1835. Autograph. Evidently the manuscript used for the first edition by Cramer, Addison and Beale, London, 1835 (cf. title-page, f. 5). P...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XVI (ff. v+22). Two piano quartets in C minor and F minor, opp. 1 and 2, in score, by Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; circ. 1823-1824 (see below). Copies, evidently used for the first editions by A. M. Schlesinger, Berlin, 1823, 1824 (cf. the plate nos. 'S. 122...
Vol. XVII (ff. 50). Letters and translations:-(1) Eleven autograph letters, in English, some with musical quotations, from Mendelssohn to Bartholomew; 9 Aug. 1846-10 Mar. 1847. The first two letters (ff. 1, 2) relate to the Birmingham performance of 'Elijah', 26 Aug. 1846, the remainder to the e...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XVII-XIX. Letters, translations and music relating to the first performance of the oratorio 'Elijah' by Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy at the Birmingham Festival, 26 Aug. 1846, and its subsequent revision and publication. Mostly in the hand of William Bartholomew, the English translator of the words, but including eleven autograph letters of Mendelssohn (Add. MS. 47859 A, ff. 1- 17b). The collection belonged to Frederick George Edwards, who acquired it (cf....
Scope & Content:
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer: Collections rel. to 'Elijah': 1846-1847.: With autogr. annotations.