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Box 1

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Contains 32 Results:

"Fragment de l'ouverture du 'Roi Lear,'" [St.] Petersbourg, 1908 January 18/31

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
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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

"Wenn die Schwalben heimwärts ziehn (Agathe)," in C Major, 1880 September 17

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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Autograph copy of the first song from Abt's 7 Lieder aus dem Buch der Liebe, op. 39. Sent from Braunschweig to Julius Bantlin in Cincinnati, accompanied by a one page letter dated 1880 September 18 and a steel engraving of the composer.

Dates: 1880 September 17

"An die neue Tricolore," op. 398, no. 9, 1872 April 27

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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Autograph manuscript signed, first performed on the ship "Rhein," 4 pages. Song for two tenors and bass. Separate leaf for each part, one combining all three. Presentation inscription to a Captain Meyer, first performer of the first tenor part. With a second set of parts (three pages) transcribed by B Böttgen. This work is a ninth song added to the original eight of opus 398 and published by Andre in 1878 as Neun patriotische Lieder für vierstimmige Männerchor.

Dates: 1872 April 27

"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

"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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