Index includes: ff. i-iii Richard Synyer Hill, musicologist: Paul Adolf Hirsch, musicologist: Letter to Richard Synyer Hill from Paul Adolf Hirsch: 1941: Typewritten; carbon copy.
Index includes: ff. i-v Paul Adolf Hirsch, musicologist: Arthur Henry Fox-Strangways, music critic: Dr G. Ophüls, musicologist: Letters to and from Paul Adolf Hirsch and Arthur Henry Fox-Strangways, rel. to Brahms-Texte by Dr. G. Ophüls: 1942: Partly autogr., partly typrewritten; carbon copy.
GAETANO DONIZETTI (b.1797, d.1848): ‘Don Pasquale’, opera in 3 acts to a libretto by Giovanni Ruffini and the composer, after a play by Angelo Anelli; circa 1880. Full score, in ink. Copy. French text. First performed Paris, Théâtre-Italien, 1843. With the bookplate of Paul Hirsch (f. i). Purchased ...
ANTIPHONALE; late 17th cent. ‘Dedié à l’Usage de Dame Philippe Lambrecht Campt. Religieuse à Beaupré’ (f. 1). Notated throughout. Not yet fully described and indexed. Purchased as part of the Paul Hirsch Music Library, 1946. Paper. ff. iii+78. 165 x 127mm. Full leather binding. Liturgies LATIN: Fren...
Anastasimatarion (Anthologia) of Panagiotos Chrysaphos; 1746. Neumed throughout. Colophons on ff. 159v and viii give the provenance of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity on Mount Olympus and the date 1746. A note in the hand of V. Gardthausen is inserted. For a full description, identifying the scrib...
ERNST TOCH (b.1887, d.1964): ‘Burlesken’ for piano, op.31; 1923. Autograph score, in ink, with pencil annotations. Published Mainz: B. Schott’s Söhne, 1924. With sketches of a piece for two violins on f. 9v and with a letter from the composer to Paul Hirsch, dated 30 Nov. 1925 (ff. 1-2). Purchased a...
GIUSEPPE NICOLINI (b.1762, d.1842): ‘Giulio Cesare nelle Gallie’, opera in 2 acts to a libretto by Michele Angelo Prunetti; circa 1820. Full score, in ink. Copy, in several hands, on pages ruled with between 10 and 16 staves. Italian. Scored for voices, horns, trombones, oboes, trumpets, flutes, str...
VINCENZO BELLINI (b.1801, d.1835): ‘La Sonnambula’, opera in 2 acts to a libretto by Felice Romani, after A. E. Scribe and J. Aumer; circa 1850: Act I. ff. 202.
VINCENZO BELLINI (b.1801, d.1835): ‘La Sonnambula’, opera in 2 acts to a libretto by Felice Romani, after A. E. Scribe and J. Aumer; circa 1850: Act II. ff. 126.
GAETANO DONIZETTI (b.1797, d.1848): ‘Belisar: Lÿrisches Tragödie in 3 Abteilungen’, to a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, after E. von Schenk, in a German translation by Dr Franck; circa 1850: Act I. ff. i + 175.