Box 2
Container
Contains 27 Results:
Autograph musical quotation signed (four measures from the last act of La Solitude de Sapho), Genova [Genoa], 1 page, 1899 January 20
Item — Box: 2, 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:
1899 January 20
“Waldschloss”, autograph music manuscript, 1 page, undated
Item — Box: 2, 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:
undated
Sechs Zweistimmige Lieder, op. 63, copyist's manuscript, 24 pages, circa 1844
Item — Box: 2, 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:
circa 1844
“Choral / Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten," choir and orchestra, 19 pages, 1829 July
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Inscribed in English by the composer to C. Neate, July 1829 (likely Charles Neate, English composer and pianist).
Dates:
1829 July
Theme et Variations, op. 73, for flute and piano, 18 pages, undated
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Autograph manuscript entitled "Andante Cantabile / and seven variants" at top of page 1. Signed and designated "op 73" by composer on page 1.
Dates:
undated
“Le roi d’Ys [Act 1, Scene 2],” 2 voices and piano, 12 pages, circa 1875
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
The main character’s name is spelled “Margarid” throughout this manuscript, as was the case in the early, unstaged version of the work composed in the mid-1870s. This manuscript thus likely dates from that period, before the spelling was changed to “Margared” seen in the definitive edition of the score published by Hartmann in Paris in 1888.
Dates:
circa 1875
"O Mädchen, mein Mädchen" from Friederike, sheet music, inscribed and dated by composer, 3 pages (music), 1933 August 27
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Dates:
1933 August 27
Opening bars of Act II from La Bohème, 1 page, possibly mid-1890s
Item — Box: 2, 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:
possibly mid-1890s
"Je n'ai rien su," song for voice and piano on signed manuscript, poem in German translation on separate leaf, 4 pages total, circa 1893
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
This item includes two documents: a) a signed manuscript score of a song for voice and piano with lyrics in French and German, based on a French poem by Silvestre, and b) a German translation of Silvestre's original poem on a separate leaf. The German lyrics on the score and the translated poem differ slightly (e.g., in word order), but the handwriting of each appears to be identical and may be that of Bernhard Wolff, who arranged the song (and 9 others) for piano for the publisher Fürstner...
Dates:
circa 1893
"Canzone Napolitana: Notturno," S.248, piano, 1842
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Signed and titled by Liszt, and inscribed by him to Mademoiselle Claire de Gröditzberg.
Dates:
1842
“Der ‘Asra’ / Lied von Anton Rubinstein,” S. 554/2, 1883
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
The first five pages in a scribal hand, heavily corrected by Liszt; the final two pages entirely in Liszt’s hand. Accompanied by a printed copy of Rubinstein’s song.
Dates:
1883
“Ungarischer Sturmmarsch,” S.232, 1843
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by Liszt to Count Teleky, but not dated.
Dates:
1843
"Divertimento", 2 pages, undated
Item — Box: 2, 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:
undated
Four untitled autograph music manuscripts, 8 total pages, undated
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
1) Sketches for a song for treble voice and piano, 2 pages.
2) Sketches for two parts of an opera, scored for voice and full orchestra, 2 pages.
3) Sketch for a song for treble voice and piano, 1 page.
4) Piano reduction of a piece intended for orchestration, comprising bars 290 – 353. 3 pages, numbered 15-17.
Dates:
undated
“Marine / Duo pour voix égales, poeme de Camille Distel,” signed autograph music manuscript, 2 pages, undated
Item — Box: 2, 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
“Joie," signed autograph music manuscript, in F major, 2 pages, 1868
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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
“Scenes alsaciennes,” signed autograph music manuscript, 1 page., 1886 November 15
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Title leaf only, with the composer’s vigorous comments about necessary corrections to be made, signed with initials (three times).
Dates:
1886 November 15
Fantasia / Strains of the Scottish Bards, op.80, scored for orchestra, 4 pages, circa 1828
Item — Box: 2, 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:
Other: circa 1828
Recollections of Denmark, op. 83, scored for piano and orchestra, 58 pages, 1830 May
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 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:
1830 May
Sonate Symphonique, scored for 2 pianos, 48 pages, undated
Item — Box: 2, 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:
undated