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Box 1

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Contains 32 Results:

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

"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

“Notes pour le ballet de Polyeucte,” autograph music manuscript, 6 pages, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

At top of page 2: "No. 3. La Déesse Vénus. (Pas des Nymphes.)"

Dates: undated

In Principio, for four-part chorus and organ, possibly sketches, 8 pages, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 26
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

Stabat Mater, scored for solo voices, chorus, orchestra, and organ, autograph music manuscript signed, 6 pages, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28
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

D'un coeur qui t'aime, autograph music manuscript signed, 12 pages, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents

The work is subtitled "Duo pour Soprano et Contralto avec accompt de Piano, Violons, Altos, Violoncelle et ContraBasses et deux Cors." Credits given in Gounod's hand: "Poésie de Racine (Choeurs d'Athalie). Musique de Ch. Gounod". At the top of the title page is the inscription: "A mes amies Marie Thérèse de Ségur et Marie de Goulaine." Toward the foot of the page Gounod wrote: "Ce manuscrit appartient à Marie de Goulaine. Ch. Gounod"

Dates: undated

D'un coeur qui t'aime, sheet music, for Soprano, Contralto and piano, 10 pages, undated but circa 1900

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents

Published by Henry Lemoine & Cie, 17, Rue Pigalle, Paris. -- Bruxelles, 13, Rue de la Madeleine.

Dates: undated but circa 1900

"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