Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of thirteen staves. Tempo directions: ‘Introduction Andante’ (f. 1r), ‘All[egr]o’ (f. 1v), ‘Trio’ (f. 2r) and ‘Finale’ (f. 3r). Scored for 3 violins, bass, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, horn, post-horn, trombone, tympani and cymbals (‘Schellen’)....
Gustav Mahler: ‘Urlicht’, song for voice and orchestra (words from Des Knaben Wunderhorn by L.A. von Arnim and Clemens Brentano)
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 16 to 18 staves. Music begins f. 2r; tempo directions ‘Sehr feierlich aber [corrected in pencil from ‘und’] schlicht!’ (f. 2r) - ‘Rit.’ (f. 4v), then, added in pencil ‘Drängend!’ (f. 5r) - ‘Molto rit! Wieder langsam wie am Anfang!’ (f. 5v). Bar ...
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Duet ‘Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergösse sich’ (words, Heinrich Heine), op. 63, no. 1, for two soprano voices and piano
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Tempo direction: ‘And[an]te con moto’. The first two verses are indicated by repeat signs with the words, marked ‘Strophe I’ and ‘II’, written separately one under each of the two vocal lines. Music occupies ff. 1v and 2r. Attestation of...
Leopold Mozart: Divertimento ‘Die musikalische Schlittenfahrt’: part for [one of five] sleigh-bells, headed ‘Schlittengeleüth Ex.A’.
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Contemporary copy, probably in the hand of Joseph Richard Estlinger. Written in ink on single staves on the recto of a single leaf. Below the heading are instructions for the player: ‘Intrada Tacet / wird 2 mahl gemacht’, ‘Presto Tacet’, ‘nach diesem Presto machen die Trompetten und Paucken ein ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Thematic Catalogue, ‘Verzeichnüss / aller meiner Werke / vom Monath febrario 1784 bis Monath [November] 1[791]’
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Autograph. Mozart's catalogue of his own works, which he kept from 1784 to just before his death in 1791. Cover label (f. i) and contents entirely in Mozart’s hand. Written in ink. Signed ‘Wolfgang Amadé Mozart [paraph]’ on the cover label (f. i). Contents arranged with dates and description of ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, 23 December 1778
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Dated Kaisheim, 23 Dec. 1778. Written principally on the recto, with the postscript (Mozart. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen, lines 30-32) on the verso. The bottom right corner, with most of the word ‘C[ousin]’ and Mozart’s signature after the letters ‘W: A’, torn away.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart
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Dated Salzburg, 10 May [1779]. The year, at the head of f. 1r, written as’1709’. A drawing of Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, his cousin, head and shoulders in three-quarter profile, occupies part of f. 2r. On f. 2v is the address (only partly in Mozart’s hand), the words ‘Engel’ and ‘Adieu - Adieu -’...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letter to Anton Klein; Vienna, 21 May 1785
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Autograph. Dated at the end, on the verso. Annotated in later hands on both recto and verso. In this well-known letter Mozart puts forward his ideas for German opera. Anderson, The Letters of Mozart [3rd edn.], strangely records the original as ‘formerly in the possession of the heirs of Stefan ...
