From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 25
Image Count:
2
Description:
Autograph ms., signed. [2] p. 27 x 33 cm. Caption titles. An Mignon: Ueber Thal und Fluss getragen, song for one voice with piano accompaniment. Words of the first stanza with music; second-fourth stanzas at bottom of page. At end: Göthe. Mus. v. Zelter. Wonne der Wehmuth: Trocknet nicht, song for one voice with piano accompaniment. At end: Göthe. Mus. v. Zelter. An Mignon, with the melody as in the ms., but with different accompaniment, was pub. in Melodien zum Schillerschen Musenalmanach, 1798, and again in Zelter's Zwölf Lieder am Klavier zu singen, Berlin, 1801, bei G.F. Starke. Wonne der Wehmuth is apparently unpublished. A second ms., in the Preussische Staats-Bibliothek Berlin, differs slightly. - cf. Letter from A. Kippenberg, Sept. 3, 1931 [in folder with ms.]
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 25
Image Count:
2
Description:
Autograph ms., signed. [2] p. 27 x 33 cm. Caption titles. An Mignon: Ueber Thal und Fluss getragen, song for one voice with piano accompaniment. Words of the first stanza with music; second-fourth stanzas at bottom of page. At end: Göthe. Mus. v. Zelter. Wonne der Wehmuth: Trocknet nicht, song for one voice with piano accompaniment. At end: Göthe. Mus. v. Zelter. An Mignon, with the melody as in the ms., but with different accompaniment, was pub. in Melodien zum Schillerschen Musenalmanach, 1798, and again in Zelter's Zwölf Lieder am Klavier zu singen, Berlin, 1801, bei G.F. Starke. Wonne der Wehmuth is apparently unpublished. A second ms., in the Preussische Staats-Bibliothek Berlin, differs slightly. - cf. Letter from A. Kippenberg, Sept. 3, 1931 [in folder with ms.]
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1785 September
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 30
Image Count:
2
Description:
Autograph ms., signed and dated at Copenhagen. [2] p. 15 x 21 cm. Song for voice and piano, on a poem first published by Bernhard Suphan in Goethe-Jahrbuch, 1890. Title from first line.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 26
Image Count:
23
Description:
Manuscript copy of a collection of songs wrongly attributed to Joh. Fried. Reichardt. [23] p. 19 x 34 cm. At bottom of t.-p., in another hand, Joh. Fried. Reichardt; in pencil, Reichardt. A comparison of the handwriting with that of Reichardt's manuscripts shows it not to be his. Reichardt composed music for no. 1 and no. 8, but his settings differ from those given here. None of the remaining songs listed in any of his published collections. The music for "Der König in Thule" is composed by Johann George Wilhelm Schneider. and Contents: 1. Treulieb: Treulieb ist nimmer weit [at end] Tiek Strenbald [i.e. from Tieck's romance, Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen] 2. Lied: Süsse Ahndungsschauer gleiten [at end] Tiek. Phantasie. 3. Geistliches Lied: Wenn ich nur habe [at end] Novalis. 4. Sehnsuchtrufen: Holdes holdes Sehnsuchtrufen [at end] Tiek Sternbald. 5. An den Erlöser: Löser Sünden erlöse mich. 6. Ballad: Nacht wie so schaurig 7. An den Erlöser: Du der in Schmach und Hohne [at end] Giesebracht [?] 8. Der König in Tule: Es war ein König in Tule [at end] Göthe. 9. Lied: O alte Heimath süss [at end] Tiek 10. Komm herbei Tod [at end] Schakspear 11. Lied des Aladdin am Grabe seiner Mutter: Schlafe Kind im Blumenbeet
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 24
Image Count:
6
Description:
Autograph ms. [7] p. 9 x 11 cm. Caption-title: Mignon v. Göthe. For one voice with piano accompaniment. Begins: So lasst mich scheinen. From Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. Apparently unpublished.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 27
Image Count:
28
Description:
Autograph ms. [55] p. 35 cm. For double chorus with piano accompaniment, which was originally for orchestra. The Requiem für Mignon from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre; begins: Wen bringt ihr uns zur stillen Gesellschaft?
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 28
Image Count:
2
Description:
Autograph ms. [3] p. 14 x 18 cm. Song for one voice with piano accompaniment Signed, N. Huber. Within blind embossed border. "Fanny Miller" and "von Göthe" written above title, but the text apparently is not by Göthe
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 29
Image Count:
46
Description:
Autograph ms. 78 p. of music. 17 x 20 cm. Transcriber unknown. Text by Goethe, Schiller, and others; music by Zelter, Zumsteeg, Harder, and others. Partial contents: Goethe: 1. An die Erwahlte! (Hand in Hand und Lipp auf Lippe). 5. Stirbt der Fuchs (Nach Mittage sassen wir junges Volk) 6. Frühlings Orachel! (Du prophetscher Vogel). 15. An die Entfernte (So hab ich wirklich dich verloren?). 27. Gedicht [Mignon] (Kennst du das Land?) [music by Hausler]. Schiller: 30. Monolog der Maria Stuart (O Dank! Dank diesen freundlich grünen Bäumen) [music by Zumsteeg] 31. Abschieds Lied Johannes aus Schillers Jungfrau von Orleans (Lebt wohl irh Berge, ihr geliebten Triften) [music by Zumsteeg] One sheet of music for piano [?] laid in.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 2
Image Count:
2
Description:
Autograph ms., fragment. [2] p. 23 x 32 cm. Page [1] contains the last 6 measures [32-37] of the music at the death of Clärchen, scored for orchestra; on p. [2] a notation for instrumentation of measures 12-14, and 16 of the overture, apparently preparatory for a clean copy. With typed ms. of a description by George Kinsky. [3] l. 28 cm.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 14
Image Count:
96
Description:
Autograph ms. of the songs only. [188] p. 34 cm. On p. 1: Ouverture zu Bätely und Jeri. For solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. Full score. On wrapper, Henriette Kühne-Harkort. Madame Kühne-Harkort was a singer who appeared in concert and oratorio about 1836 and 1838. She is referred to as "Dilettante und echte Künstlerin" Cf. Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, Bd. 38, no. 23, col. 765, 1836.
