Add MS 47861 A

Autograph music:-

(1) Sketch for the mazurka in C, op. 56, no. 2, by Fryderyk Chopin; circ. 1843. Two leaves (ff. 1-2), 215 mm × 280 mm, formerly one bifolium, the music being written on the first recto. The sketch contains most of the thematic material, written in sections each ending with a double bar. Two versions of the descending chromatic passage after the A minor section are given, the second more elaborate one, written on the right-hand side of the page, being that used in the published version. The suggested ending with trills was not used. Fryderyk Chopin: Complete Works, Warsaw, x, 1953, no. 34, pp. 117-119, 221. Belonged to Princess Marcelline Czartoryska, friend and pupil of Chopin, and her pupil Mlle Natalia Janotha. Sotheby's sale-cat., 20-22 July 1936, lot 633 (f. 3v); Quaritch cat., no. 525 (1936), item 8 (ff. 4v-5). Pencil number 'D. 391'on f. 2v. ff. 1-6.

(2) 'Zuruf, beg. 'Jahre schwinden', song for soprano with piano accompaniment by Heinrich August Marschner, to words by E. F. G. O. von der Malsburg; Escheberg, 8 July 1853. Written on the recto of one leaf (f. 9), 260 mm.×335 mm. The name and address of Elsa Stein von Brozowski, of Chemnitz, is written in pencil on f. 9v. Catalogue number 'R. 8.' (f. 7). ff. 7-9.

(3) Piano music, etc., by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:-

(a) Lower half of one leaf (ff. 10-10v), 90 mm x 280 mm, containing on the recto a cadenza to the second movement (Andante) of a piano concerto by Ignaz von Beecke, K. 626a, Anh. K., with the composer's note, 'Zum ersten stuck vom Concert aus dem D pastigio'. (See Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, Serie X/28/Abteilung 2: Bearbeitungen von Werken verschiedener Komponisten: Klavierkonzerte und Kadenzen, ed. Walter Gerstenberg and Eduard Reeser (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1964), p. 227.) On the verso are sixteen bars, in score, of the viola and 'cello parts of a minuet in F, K. 168a, possibly an earlier version of the minuet for the string quartet, K. 168; [ 1773?]. (See Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, Serie VIII/20/Abteilung 1/1: Streichquartette, Band 1, ed. Karl Heinz Füssl, Wolfgang Plath and Wolfgang Rehm (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1966), p. 202; Kritischer Bericht, ed. Wolf-Dieter Seiffert (1989), p. a/109.) The leaf was divided by Mozart's widow, Constanze, who sent the lower portion to the Landgerichtsassessor Sattler of Altdorf, with a letter of 30 April 1835 (now Add. MS. 47843, ff. 35-36, with which it was formerly framed). Sattler noted at the top of f. 10 'pr. 3. Mai 1835' and at the foot, 'Eigenhaendig von Mozart geschrieben und von dessen Witwe mit einem Brief dd. 30. April 1835 am Salzburg übersandt'. C. G. Boerner sale-cat., no. 92, 8-9 May 1908, lot 119; K. E. Henrici sale-cat., 6-7 May 1910, lot 294; letter, etc. (ff. 11-12) relating to the lower portion from A. Rosenthal, Jan. 1940, from whom Meyerstein acquired it. The upper portion of the leaf was acquired by the British Library in 2002 and is now MS Mus. 1040. See also Stargardt sale-cat., 20 Feb. 1973, lot 740. ff. 10-12;

(b) Leaf (ff. 13-13v), 230 mm × 315 mm, containing bar 65 to the end of the first movement of the piano sonata in B flat, K.570; 1789. Authentication, 1822, at the foot of f. 13v in the hand of Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, second husband of Mozart's widow, signed 'Constanze izige Nissen'. Belonged to Dr Eric Millar, aft. Oct. 1944. M. Breslauer cat., no. 71, item 59. ff. 13-14.

(4) Leaf (ff. 15-15v), 140 mm.×225 mm., from an album of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, junior, containing on the recto a short piano piece, 'Vivace', by Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode and on the verso a four-part canon, 'Schwer ist die Kunst' by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, with the composers' signatures and greetings; Berlin, 15, 20 Jan. 1820. Presumably one of the leaves missing from the album now in the Library of Congress (cf. The Musical Quarterly, xxvii, 1941, p. 461).

(5) Vocal music by Franz Peter Schubert:-(a) Leaf (ff. 17-17v), 230 mm.×315 mm., containing two songs to words by Friedrich Stolberg, 'Morgenlied', beg. 'Willkommen, rothes Morgenlicht', and 'Abendlied', beg. 'Gross und rothentflammet'; 24, 28 Aug. 1815. O. E. Deutsch, Schubert: Thematic Catalogue, 1951, nos. 266, 276. Marginal annotations in German on both sides of the leaf relating to other songs by Schubert with similar titles and their publication numbers, with the note '16753 noch nicht gestochen', possibly written by a member of the publishing firm of Diabelli and Co. which purchased a number of Schubert manuscripts from his brother Ferdinand about 1830 (see Kreissle von Hellborn, The Life of Franz Schubert, ii, 1869, p. 245). Signature and note of Carl Anton Spina, Diabelli's successor, on the verso. Subsequently owned by Dr Alwin Cranz of Vienna. ff. 16-17v;-(b) Leaf (ff. 18-18v), 270 mm. x 290 mm., containing sketches for sections 5-7 of the setting of Klopstock's Stabat Mater; circ. 1816. O. E. Deutsch, op. cit., no. 383. Note of authentication (f. 18v) by Ferdinand Schubert. Sotheby's sale-cat., 1-3 Apr. 1935, lot 572; Quaritch cat. no. 510 (1935), item 992 (f. 20). ff. 18-20;-(c) 'Vater! schenk mir diese Stunde', composed for the singer Pepi (Josefine) von Koller and the pianist Albert Stadler to perform at Steyr on the birthday of the former's father, Josef von Koller, 19 Mar. 1820. Three oblong leaves (ff. 23-25), 230 mm × 305 mm, in Schubert's hand, and one single leaf (f. 26), 295 mm × 235 mm, containing a copy of the voice part, probably in the hand of Albert Stadler (cf. f. 25). O. E. Deutsch, op. cit., no. 695. Belonged to Ludwig Köchel (ff. 21, 23) who received it as a gift from Frau Professor Simony, daughter of Pepi von Koller (afterw. Krakowitzer). Pencil note on f. 21, 'Von den Erbern Köchels (Mozart Catalog) gekauft'. ff. 21-26.

(6) Part of the Finale (bars 21-83) of the second piano trio, op. 123, by Louis Spohr differing slightly, particularly in bars 79-81, from the edition by Schuberth and Co., Deuxième Trio Concertant, Hamburg, 1842. Two leaves (ff. 29-30v), 245 mm.×350 mm. Catalogue number 'R.27' on f. 27. ff. 27-30.

(7) Four-part fugue in C, by Abbé Maximilian Stadler; early 19th cent(?). One leaf (ff. 33-33v), 215 mm × 265 mm, together with an engraved portrait of Stadler (f. 32v), by J. B. Pfitzer, 1818, in a paper folder bearing a note of authentication (f. 31) by Aloys Fuchs to whom it belonged. Catalogue numbers '59' and '941' on f. 31. ff. 31-34.

(8) Songs by Carl Maria von Weber:-(a) 'Zur Freude ward gebohren', unaccompanied four-part song written for the birthday of Mlle Friedrike Koch, a member of the Berlin Singakademie; Berlin, 17 June 1812. One leaf (ff. 35-35v), 230 mm.×315 mm. F. W. Jähns, Carl Maria von Weber ... Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichniss, 1871, no. 133. First published with piano accompaniment as no. 6 of Sechs Gesänge, op. 23, Schlesinger, Berlin, 1812. ff. 35-35v;-(b) 'From Chindara's warbling fount I come', a setting of words from Thomas Moore's 'Lalla Rookh'; bef. 26 May 1826, when it was sung by Miss Stephens at Weber's concert. Two leaves (ff. 39-40), 240 mm.×295 mm., containing the melody and words, and indications of the accompaniment. This manuscript was Weber's last composition and was found among other papers at the house of Sir George Smart, 91 Great Portland Street, after Weber's death there on 5 June 1826 (cf. the note by Smart, f. 40v, and F. W. Jähns, op. cit., no. 308). The song was subsequently completed by Ignaz Moscheles and a copy of his version, with annotations by Smart including a reference to a copy of the Moscheles version made by Arthur Seymour Sullivan in 1863, is at ff. 41-45v. Belonged to Sir George Smart. Acquired at Sotheby's (sale-cat., 11-13 Dec. 1902, lot 667) by Edward Speyer and by E. H. W. Meyerstein from J. and E. Bumpus Ltd., 1939 (ff. 46-48, 52). ff. 36-52.

includes:

• f. 1 Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, composer: Sketch for the mazurka, op. 56, no. 2: circ. 1843.: Autogr.
• f. 9 Heinrich August Marschner, composer: Song: 1853.: Autogr.
• ff. 10-10v Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Cadenza, K. 626a, Anh. K and part of minuet, K.168a: [1773?].: Autogr.
• f. 11 Albi Rosenthal, bookseller and collector: Letter, etc., to E. H. W. Meyerstein: 1940, 1948.
• f. 13v Constanze von Nissen, wife of (1), W A Mozart and (2) G N von Nissen: Signature: 1822.
• f. 13v Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, diplomatist: Note of authentication: 1822.
• ff. 13-13v Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: Piano sonata, K.570: 1789.: Imperf. Autogr.
• f. 15 Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode, composer: Piano piece: 1820.: Autogr.
• f. 15v Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, composer and author: Canon: 1820.: Autogr.
• ff. 15-15v Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the younger: Leaf from his album: 1820.
• f. 17v Carl Anton Spina, music publisher: Annotation: 19th cent.
• ff. 17-17v Franz Peter Schubert, composer: Two songs, 'Morgenlied' and 'Abendlied': 1815.: Autogr.
• f. 18v Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, brother of Franz Schubert: Note of authentication: aft. 1828.
• ff. 18-18v Franz Peter Schubert, composer: Sketch for 'Stabat Mater': circ. 1816.: Autogr.
• ff. 23-26 Franz Peter Schubert, composer: Song, 'Vater! schenk mir diese Stunde': 1820.: Autogr.
• f. 26 Albert Stadler, composer: Transcribed (?): 1820.
• ff. 29-30v Louis Spohr, composer: Finale of piano trio, op. 123: circ. 1842.: Autogr. Imperf.
• f. 31 Aloys Fuchs, musicologist: Notes by: 1824, n.d.
• f. 32v Johann Baptist Pfitzer: Portrait of Abbé M. Stadler engr. by: 1818.
• f. 32v Abbot Maximilian Stadler, composer: Portrait: 1818.: Engr. by J. B. Pfitzer.
• f. 32v Art. Portraits: Abbé M. Stadler; engr. by J. B. Pfitzer: 1818.
• ff. 33-33v Abbot Maximilian Stadler, composer: Fugue: early 19th cent.(?).: Autogr.(?).
• ff. 35-35v Baron Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber,; composer: Song, op. 23, no. 6: 1812.: Autogr.
• ff. 39-40 Baron Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber,; composer: Sketch of song, 'From Chindara's warbling fount': 1826.: Autogr.
• ff. 40v, 41 Sir George Thomas Smart, musician: Annotations: aft. 1826.
• ff. 46-48, 52 John and Edward Bumpus Ltd; booksellers: Letters, etc., to E. H. W. Meyerstein: 1939.