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Contains 33 Results:

Correspondence

 Sub-Series — Box: 1
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

Music Scores

 Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 2-23
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

Hommage à Beethoven, scored for 3 pianos, circa 1838-1840

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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: circa 1838-1840

Fantasia / Strains of the Scottish Bards, op.80, scored for orchestra, 4 pages, circa 1828

 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: Other: circa 1828

"Pour Cherubini,", scored for piano, 1 page, 1836 July 1

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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: Other: 1836 July 1

Organ Part to Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 7 pages, 1838 May

 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: Other: 1838 May

"Untitled", principal violin part [of an unidentified larger work?], 4 1/2 pages, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Attestation of authenticity at bottom of page 1: "Original Handschrift von Ignatz Moscheles / Die Aechtheit verbürgt Adolf Müller."

Dates: undated

“Magyaren Klänge,” op. 123, scored for orchestra, 2 pages, 1852 March

 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: 1852 March

No. 1, "Gieb uns täglich brod," music manuscript, scored for voice and piano, 4 pages and title, 1859 November 10

 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: 1859 November 10

Sonate Symphonique, scored for 2 pianos, 48 pages, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
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

"Concert-Etude" [in F Major], scored for piano, 4 pages, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Comparison with scores in IMSLP indicates this piece is a version, possibly an advanced draft, of 4 Etudes de Concert, op. 111, no. 2 ("Le Carrillon"). The manuscript lacks any dynamic markings, and the final 20+ measures appear to contain only rhythmic and tonal sketches of their final form.

Dates: undated

No. 3, "Schmetterling und Liebchen (von W. Gerhard)," music manuscript, scored for voice and piano, 2 pages, 1859

 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: 1859

Meditazzione, Parole del Sigr Salvatore Marchesi, scored for voice and piano, 6 pages, 1851 December 28

 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: 1851 December 28

Abendlied von F. Rüchert mit Klavier und obligato Violoncell begleitung, 8 pages, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
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

Recollections of Denmark, op. 83, scored for piano and orchestra, 58 pages, 1830 May

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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: 1830 May

“Adagio patetico und Allegretto grazioso,” scored for piano 4 hands, 24 pages , 1867 August

 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: 1867 August

March and Scherzo as Rhythmic Exercises, op. 141, scored for piano,10 pages and 2 title pages, 1868

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22
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: 1868