Score, holograph, consisting of an early version of the second movement of Symphony no. 2, here titled "4. Satz," dated at the end, 1893 Jul 30, Steinbach (Steinbach am Attersee, Austria). Accompanied by a holograph note written by Alma Mahler, ident...
Alternative Title:
Symphonies, no. 2, Andante moderato C minor
Description:
Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor.
Subject (Geographic):
Austria
Subject (Name):
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. and Mahler, Alma, 1879-1964.
Autograph manuscript song texts and other writings by Charles Dibdin, some with watermarks dated 1794-1814; an autograph letter, signed, from Dibdin's wife Anne Dibdin to William Kitchiner, 1824 February 28, referring to her husband's death and to a b...
Description:
Charles Dibdin, English composer, author, and actor; husband of Anne Dibdin (1757-1835); father of engraver Anne Dibdin (born circa 1776).
Subject (Geographic):
England., Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Anne, 1757-1835., Dibdin, Anne, approximately 1776-, Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814., Dibdin, E. Rimbault 1853-1941. (Edward Rimbault),, Freemantle, W. T. (William Thomas), Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827., and Sievier, Robert William, 1794-1865.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English, Composers, English drama, Engravers, Illustration of books, Manuscripts, Collectors and collecting, Music, Instructions and study, Songs, English, Theater, and Vocal music
Vocal score, holograph, with corrections by Messager and printer's annotations for publication by Editions Salabert. Sections are numbered and paged separately; number twelve is not present. Accompanied by two documents identifying the score as Mess...
Alternative Title:
Coups de roulis. Vocal score
Description:
Operetta with a libretto by Albert Willemetz, based on a novel by Maurice Larrouy. A vocal score was published by Editions Salabert (Paris, 1928).
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Larrouy, Maurice, 1882-1939, Messager, André, 1853-1929., and Editions Salabert.
"Portrait of Joseph Haydn, half-length, facing front, seated on a chair, writing a music score on a table, holding a quill pen in his right hand; after A. M. Ott; fourth state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. as the act directs April 4, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Song, copyist's manuscript, corrected in holograph and signed by Puccini. Appended is an ALS from Puccini to Carlo Abeniacar, [1897 Dec 13], presenting the score and discussing Puccini's interest in hunting
Description:
Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Name):
Abeniacar, Carlo. and Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.
Subject (Topic):
Composers, Hunting songs, and Songs (High voice) with piano
Engraved proof (Paris: Durand, 1912), signed and annotated in Russian by Waslaw Nijinsky. With signed inscription by Serge Lifar on cover: "Partition de Waslaw Nijinsky avec les notations de Diaghilev, de Nijinsky de Debussy de Bakst."
Vocal score, holograph, corrected, of Meyerbeer's first version of the opera, "terminé le 6 Novembre 1843".
Alternative Title:
Africaine. Vocal score
Description:
Meyerbeer began work on the opera, on a libretto by Eugène Scribe, in 1837. He completed a first version in 1843, and continued to revise the work until 1863. After Meyerbeer's death in 1864, François-Joseph Fétis made further revisions, and the ope...
Score, holograph, dated 1862 Aug 25 (Le fleur) and Aug 26 (Le crucifix). A fragment of Guitare, song, with text by Auguste, comte de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, dated [1862] Aug 23, is on the recto of the first page
Organ part, holograph, with blank staves for voices, signed by Gounod on cover and initialed by him on several pages. The cover is annotated in an unidentified hand: "Propriété de la paroisse de St. François-Xavier, maître de chapelle Joseph Franck"....
Alternative Title:
Masses, A♭ major
Description:
The composer Charles Gounod was appointed maître de chapelle at the Séminaire des Missions Etrangères, Paris, in 1843.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Franck, Jean-Hubert-Joseph, 1825-1891. and Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.
