From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1828 Jan 1
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 259
Image Count:
3
Description:
On pink card ; 8 x 11 cm., within embossed leaf border. Autograph poem, signed. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe with heading: An Frau Carlyle, Weimar, den 27. December 1827[!] A stickpin with medallion portrait of Goethe is affixed; both poems in a leather case with gilt lettering: Greeting to Thomas Carlyle from Goethe 1828. With: Another greeting card with poem: Wenn Phoebus Rosse sich zu schnell. On card ; 13 x 9 cm., within gold leaf border. Autograph poem, signed, with heading: Den lieben treuen Edinburger Gatten zum Neuenjahre 1828. Printed in Weimar Ausgabe with heading: An Frau Clementine von Mandelsloh, with date Weimar, am kürzesten Tage 1827.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1814 Jan 3
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 265
Image Count:
1
Description:
Autograph quotation, signed. Clearly a leaf from an autograph album, with gilt edge. On January 7 of the same year, Goethe applies the quotation to himself in a letter to Von Trebra: "Ich habe keine weitere Ambition, als dass man zu mir sagen möge: You are ..."
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.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 9
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 7
Image Count:
4
Description:
Autograph ms. [6] p. 34 x 27 cm. Vocal score with pianoforte accompaniment. At head of p. 1, in Hans Bülow's hand: Mscrpt. v. Liszt, and Bülow's endorsement, dated 1892 to Martin Krause. Original draft of the song in the later version. The words are not completely filled in, one measure is cancelled. Published, together with the first version, in Liszt's Musikalische Werke, hrsg. von der Franz Liszt-Stiftung, VII. Einstimmige Lieder und Gesänge, Bd. 2, with full notes as to editions and manuscripts.
