Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat, op. 83, 1881: reduction of tutti passages from movements II, III and IV, for the published solo piano score (issued July 1882)
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Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves on both sides of a single leaf. The passages concerned are, on the recto: movement II, bars 200-203, apparently the conclusion of a passage begun on another leaf; movement III, bars 1-22; movement IV, bars 39-47; and on the verso:- movement IV, ...
Franz Schubert: ‘Mirjams Siegesgesang’ (words Franz Grillparzer), for soprano solo, choir and piano (D 942)
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Autograph full score. Written in dark brown ink; mostly on systems of 6 staves: soloist and chorus sopranos parts on the same stave and marked ‘solo’ or ‘tutti’, systems of 3 staves for passages for soprano solo and piano only. Tempo directions ‘All[egr]o giusto (f. 2r) - Allegretto (f. 4r) - Al...
Nicolò Jommelli: Aria ‘Per voi Donzellette sospiro’, for bass voice and orchestra
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 10 staves. In D; accompaniment scored for 2 violins, 2 oboes, 2 flutes, 2 horns, viola [?] (marked to play with the bass throughout), and unfigured bass. In 3/4 time; the end is followed by a single bar of the vocal line in 2/4, with the text ‘B...
George Frideric Handel: Oratorio ‘Joseph and his Brethren’ (words James Miller, after the book of Genesis), 1743: recitative ‘With Songs of ardent gratitude, and Praise’
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. Headed ‘Joseph’ in the upper margin, the music followed by ‘Segue il Coro Alleluja we will rejoice’, and with ‘Fine dell oratio. [sic] Joseph’ in the lower margin. Joseph and his Brethren wa...
Christoph Georg Wagenseil: Aria ‘Se del fiume altera l’onda’ (text, Pietro Metastasio), for medium voice and orchestra of 2 horns, 2 flutes and strings
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of eight staves. Tempo direction ‘Andante’ (f. 1r); ‘Da Capo’ at end (f. 8v). ‘Wagenseil 761 [line over]’ is written in ink of a darker colour in the upper right margin of f. 1r, and the name ‘Arcid:[ucessa] Joanna’, in a different ink and hand, at...
Richard Wagner: Overture in C, ‘Polonia’ (WWV 39), 1836: piano reduction, with sketch for song ‘Les adieux de Marie Stuart’ (words J.P. de Béranger) for voice and piano (WWV 61); [early 1840]
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Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves. As follows: ff. 1r-4r. Overture, headed ‘Polonia. Ouverture.’ (f. 1r); tempo directions ‘Sostenuto - Tempo 1mo (f. 1r) - Allegretto - Allo: molto vivace (f. 1v) - Allegretto (f. 3v) - Presto’ (f. 4r). Copying instructions for bars or sections t...
Richard Wagner: ‘Oui, dès ce moment’, duet from Fromental Halévy’s opera Le Guitarrero, arranged by Wagner for quartet of flute or first violin, second violin, viola and ‘cello (WWV 62D)
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Autograph score. Written in black ink on systems of four and five staves. Where the flute part is not written out separately the top line of the system is designated ‘Fl: ou 1er V.’ On a single leaf, paginated 43, 44. Against the beginning of the music (f. 1r) is written ‘No: 13. / Duo et Final....
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXV. Honoré de Balzac: fragment of an early version of his article 'Monographie de la Presse Parisienne'; before 1842. Printed proof sheet with autograph annotations. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Honoré de Balzac, ed. M. Bouteron and H. Longnon, vol. 40 (Paris,...
Ludwig van Beethoven: Three-part canon ‘Kurz ist der Schmerz’ (words Friedrich von Schiller, from Die Jungfrau von Orleans), WoO 166
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Autograph. Written in ink on the recto of a single leaf; staves drawn freehand by Beethoven. The music on five single staves with the text beneath. Dated ‘Wien am / 3ten März / 1815’ at the foot, with the signed dedication ‘Mögten sie doch lieber Spohr / überall, wo sie wahre Kunst und / wahre K...