Box 1
Container
Contains 32 Results:
"Fragment de l'ouverture du 'Roi Lear,'" [St.] Petersbourg, 1908 January 18/31
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Balakirev inscribed the date at the foot of the manuscript in both "Old Style" (i.e., Julian) and "New Style" (Gregorian) forms as: "18/31 Janvier 1908".
Dates:
1908 January 18/31
"Valse," piano , undated
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...
Dates:
undated
Scherzo in C-sharp minor, op. 2, no. 1
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...
Dates:
1896 - 1897
Capriccio in B minor, op. 2, no. 4
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...
Dates:
1896 - 1897
Villanelle pour Cor et Orchestre
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...
Dates:
1804-1950
“Roundel / A. C. Swinburne”, 1887 May
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...
Dates:
1887 May
"Il nome indovinato," signed autograph manuscript of a canzonetta scored for voice and piano, 2 pages plus title page plus sketch (4 pages total), Bologna, 1816 August 7
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
On the fourth page of this bifolium is a sketch of an unidentified vocal work, possibly a duet.
Dates:
1816 August 7
"Troppo e vezzosa la ninfa bella," autograph manuscript of a song scored for voice and piano, 2 pages, undated
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...
Dates:
undated
Violin Sonata in A Major, FWV 8, 1886
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...
Dates:
1886
"Litanies de la Sainte Vierge" for Notre-Dame de Foi, 1887 October 29
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
Written for the collection of l’Abbé Grivet.
Dates:
1887 October 29
"Fantasien für Pianoforte," op. 116. First edition publication, 1892
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...
Dates:
1892
Autograph musical quotation signed, Amsterdam, 1 page, in French, 1865 March 18
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
The quotation is from Bull's "Et Sæterbesøg" (A Mountain Vision), and inscribed to "Monsieur Rothaan" (or possibly Rothaar). The quotation is taken from the Adagio section of the work, although here with a tempo of Andante and with some rythymic differences to the published version.
Dates:
1865 March 18
"Moon Flower" from Songs from a Tropic Land, op. 81, manuscript and sheet music, 3 pages, 1924
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...
Dates:
1924
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, op. 57 ("Appassionata"), manuscript sketches, 2 pages, 1804 - 1805
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...
Dates:
1804 - 1805
Untitled studio/etude for solo violin, 2 pages, undated but likely 19th century
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
A 19th century copy of a work written in the early 17th century. Inscribed at end: "[illegible] Studio per il Violino Solo." in one hand and "für Johann Degen." in a German hand. The latter may refer to the Viennese printer/publisher J. V. Degen.
Dates:
undated but likely 19th century
Musical sketch, 2 pages, undated
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
The sketch was left undated by Albrechtsberger, but the attestation of authenticity written by music collector and appraiser Aloys Fuchs in the margin of the manuscript is dated 1842 December 3.
Dates:
undated
Sonate Appassionata (opus 57), a bound facsimile of the score, published in Paris by Piazza, undated but 1927
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Number 1040 of 1250 copies. A high-resolution facsimile of the original manuscript score. A facsimile of the note by Baillot's son testifying to his father's ownership of the original is tipped onto the inside front cover, as in the original. The upper panel of the dust jacket is laid in.
Dates:
undated but 1927
The Autograph of Three Masters (Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms). Bound facsimile, 5 pages. London: Chiswick Press, 1942
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
This is a facsimile of a famous manuscript that on its inner two pages has the only known autograph copy of Beethoven's song "Ich liebe dich", and on its outer two pages an unfinished sketch by Franz Schubert of the 2nd movement of his Sonata in D Flat. The manuscript was later owned and signed by Johannes Brahms.
Dates:
1942
“Breit' ich mein Linnen auf Rasen und Rain,” no. 7, from 8 Lieder, op. 37, signed autograph music manuscript for voice and piano, set to poem by Rudolph Baumbach, 4 pages, 1888 September
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
Signed and dated at end: "September 1888 Gmunden C Goldmark"
Dates:
1888 September
"Polyeucte : Modification du duo du 4eme acte: Polyeucte et Pauline," autograph music manuscript, 5 pages, undated
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Donated in 1994, the Leon Robbin Collection of Music Manuscripts and Letters of Composers consists of over 800 autograph music manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors, several dozen signed musical quotations, and a small amount of ephemera including portraits and cartes de visite. Collection highlights include autograph manuscripts by many of the most important Romantic era composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s sketches for his Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor...
Dates:
undated