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Box 9

 Container

Contains 39 Results:

Correspondence

 Sub-Series — Box: 9, Folder: 2-4
Scope and Contents

Signature, location unknown, 1915 September 27, on a card. With reproduction portrait photograph.
Autograph letter signed, New York, 1915 October 1, 1 page, in English.
Typed letter signed, Detroit, 1931 March 28, 1 page, in English.

Dates: 1804-1950

Typed letter signed, Detroit, 1 page, in English, 1919 October 30

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 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: 1919 October 30

Correspondence

 Sub-Series — Box: 9, Folder: 6-7
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed, Gmunden, 1890 October 1, 4 pages, in German.
Autograph letter signed, Hamburg, 1896 October 28, 2 pages, in German.

Dates: 1804-1950

Autograph letter signed, location unknown, 1 page, in French, undated

 Item — Box: 9, 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: undated

Correspondence

 Sub-Series — Box: 9, Folder: 9-38
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed, Vevey, 1858 August 13, 3 pages, in French with later typed English translation. To an unnamed girl. Autograph letter signed, location unknown, undated but circa 1858, 1 page, in French. Autograph letter signed, Paris, undated but possibly 1850s, 2 pages, in French. Autograph letter signed, Montretout, 1862 October 24, 3 pages, in French. Autograph letter signed, location unknown, 1870 February 8, 1 page, in French. Gounod mentions work on ...
Dates: 1804-1950

Signature, New York, undated but 1940 December 13

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents

Signed on a page removed from a Carnegie Hall concert program.

Dates: undated but 1940 December 13

Autograph letter signed, Barcelona, 1 page, in French. To Jules Massenet, 1895?

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 40
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: 1895?

Untitled music manuscript, 15 measures, scored for piano and voice, undated

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 41
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

Correspondence

 Sub-Series — Box: 9, Folder: 42-43
Scope and Contents

Autograph postcard signed, Leipzig, 1896 January 8, 1 page, in German.
Signature, Copenhagen, 1901 January, 1 page.

Dates: 1804-1950

Correspondence

 Sub-Series — Box: 9, Folder: 44-47
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed, location unknown, undated, 2 pages, in French.
Autograph letter signed, location unknown, undated, 1 page, in French.
Autograph letter signed, location unknown, undated, 1 page, in French.
Autograph letter signed, location unknown, undated, 1 page, in French.

Dates: 1804-1950

Autograph letter signed, location unknown, 2 pages, in French, on mourning stationery, undated

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 48
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

Correspondence

 Sub-Series — Box: 9, Folder: 49-51
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed, Vienna, 1890 February 2, 1 page, in German.
Autograph letter signed, Vienna, 1902 January 4, 1 page, in German.
Autograph letter signed, location unknown, 1902[?] January 21, 1 page, in German.

Dates: 1804-1950

Signature, New York, 1940 October 30

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 52
Scope and Contents

Signed and dated on a page removed from a Carnegie Hall concert program.

Dates: 1940 October 30

Autograph letter signed, Paris, 2 pages, in French, 1862 October 22

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 53
Scope and Contents

Conveying corrections for a forthcoming musical publication.

Dates: 1862 October 22

Autograph letter signed, location unknown, 1 page, in French, 1845 March 10

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 54
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: 1845 March 10

Autograph letter signed, Paris, 1 page, in French, 1861 August 20

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 55
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: 1861 August 20

Correspondence

 Sub-Series — Box: 9, Folder: 57-67
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed, Frankfurt a. M., 1896 January 3, 1 page, in German. With signed photograph reproduced in half-tone (not originally acquired with this letter). Autograph letter signed, location unknown, 1896 December 17, 4 pages, in German. Signature, Vienna, 1897 April, on an album leaf. Autograph letter signed, Boppard, 1897 July 2, 2 pages, in German, with envelope. Autograph postcard signed, Wandsee, 1901 March 1, 1 page, in German. Autograph postcard...
Dates: 1804-1950

Correspondence

 Sub-Series — Box: 9, Folder: 68-69
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed, Paris, 1881 January 14, 1 page, in French.
Autograph letter signed, Paris, 1904 February 12, 2 pages, in French.

Dates: 1804-1950

Autograph musical quotation, signed, on a sheet inscribed with a few bars of J.S. Bach, November 1935

 Item — Box: 9, 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: November 1935

Signature, New York, undated but 1940 December 7

 Series — Box: 9, Folder: 56
Scope and Contents

Signed on a page removed from a Carnegie Hall concert program. The signature of Gitta Gradova is also present on the page.

Dates: undated but 1940 December 7