Act I of Richard Strauss's opera in three acts 'Die schweigsame Frau'
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Opening tempo direction ‘Allegro’ (f. 1r). Signed at upper right of f. 1r, and with ‘begonnen 16. Februar 1933’ [added] at bottom left; dated Garmisch, 11 March 1933 at end (f. 40r). Timings are given in pencil on ff. 11v, 19v, 40r. As follows: ff. 1r-4v. Scene I. ff. 4v-11v. [Scene II.] The beg...
Richard Strauss: Opera in three acts, ‘Die schweigsame Frau’ (libretto, Stefan Zweig, after Ben Jonson), op. 80
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Autograph. Vocal score, the orchestral part in short and compressed score on up to five staves. Written in blue-black ink. Includes full stage directions and spoken dialogue; the scenes within each act, which mostly follow one another without a break, are not always indicated. Staves are frequen...
Act II of Richard Strauss's opera in three acts 'Die schweigsame Frau'
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Opening tempo direction ‘Tempo di Minuetto’ (f. 1r). Signed at upper right of f. 1r; dated Garmisch 18 June 1933 at end (f. 42r). With a draft of the last scene of Act III (ff. 42v, 43r). As follows: ff. 1r-3r. [Scene I.]. ff. 3r-5r. [Scene II.]. ff. 5r-12r. [Scene III.]. ff. 12r-15v. [Scene IV....
Act III of Richard Strauss's opera in three acts 'Die schweigsame Frau'
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Opening tempo direction ‘Allegro molto’ (f. 2r). Signed at upper right of f. 2r; dated Kissingen, 13 May 1934 (f. 33v). Additions in brown ink occupy two single inserted folios (ff. 1, 34) bound at the front and rear of the volume as well as part of the final page of the last gathering, as noted...
Signed at upper right of f. 1r; dated Garmisch, 10 Jan. 1935 (f. 4v). In a passage heavily annotated in pencil on f. 3v the score system is extended for 2 bars to 6 staves.
Igor Stravinsky: [Z har-ptitsa] - ‘L’Oiseau de feu’, ballet in two scenes (scenario M. Fokine after a Russian national fairy tale), 1910: album-leaf quotation from the ‘Berceuse’
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on 14 staves, on one side of a single leaf. Six bars, beginning at cue no. 184 in the published full score; a stave is marked for the second harp, which plays during this passage, but no notes are entered, and in the last two bars of the extract the second vi...
Igor Stravinsky: ‘Pulcinella’, ballet with song in one act (music after Pergolesi and others, scenario Serge Diaghilev, Leonide Massine and the composer), for small orchestra and soprano, tenor and bass soloists: notebook containing drafts and sketches
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Autograph. In short, condensed and full score. Written in black ink and pencil, with additions and annotations in red ink and blue crayon, on systems of two to twelve staves; staves are ruled individually as required on each page. Where pages contain more than one system the music is often writt...
Giuseppe Verdi: ‘Luisa Miller’, opera in three acts (libretto Salvatore Cammarano, after Schiller): album leaf with an extract from Act III
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Autograph. Passage of 9 bars for Luisa (soprano), from the final section of her duet with her father, comprising the lines beginning ‘Andrem, raminghi e poveri’. Written, on the recto of the leaf only, in ink on sytems of two staves giving the vocal line and accompaniment. Marked ‘and[ant]e’ aga...
Giuseppe Verdi: ‘Falstaff’, opera in three acts (libretto Arrigo Boito), 1893: draft in short score of 16 bars from Act III, part ii
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In the hand of Arrigo Boito. Written, on the recto of the leaf only, in ink on systems of two staves giving vocal line and accompaniment (in the treble clef). Text in Italian. The passage begins 4 bars after fig. 50, and represents the revisions to the text and vocal line sung over the wedding m...
Giuseppe Verdi: Letter to the publisher Tito Ricordi; Rome, 4 Feb. 1859
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Autograph. Italian. The text, with a postscript, occupies ff. 1r-2r, the address, to Ricordi in Milan, impression of Verdi’s oval ‘G.V.’ seal, and Rome and Milan franking stamps, f. 2v. Part of the upper margin of f. 1 is torn away, leaving part of a number added in ink in another hand at the to...
