Box 4

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Inscribed on the front cover of Lieder-Kreis, op. 39, Leipzig: F. Whistling, undated. Only the front cover and first leaf are present. Name of recipient is illegible: "Fräulein [Jochmann?]." Although place and date are difficult to read, it appears to be "Düsseldorf, den 26ten Oktober 1850." Correspondence held in collections elsewhere indicate that Schumann was in Düsseldorf on October 26th and 29th.

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A partial sketch setting out the tune and lyrics but with the orchestration left blank. Inscribed by Thomas to the French organist Alexandre Guilmant.

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The musical quotation is from "Connais-Tu Le Pays Où Fleurit L'Oranger?" in Act One of Thomas's Mignon.

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Fidès Devries-Adler was a New Orleans soprano who made her career in Paris.

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Faint inscription at end: "[Erinnerung?] den liebenswürdigen grosser [illegible] Fraülein Sofia Dulken[?] von T. Szpakowski"

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Scored for boys' choir, mixed choir, physharmonica, and piano.

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The title and author's name at the top of page 1 may not be in Rubinstein's hand, however the tempo and dynamic markings in the score itself do resemble other examples of his handwriting.

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The finished autograph manuscript sent to the printer, with engraver's markings throughout, for its initial publication in 1871. Dedicated to "Madame le Baronne Jean de Wöhrman née de Budberg."

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The English translation present here is not the one done by Mrs John P. Morgan (née Virginia Woods) and published by C. F. Tretbar in 1892; the translation here was done by the collection donor's wife, Olga Robbin, and is undated.

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On page 1 Saint-Saëns wrote "L'acte de propriété est à la page 4." Inscribed very faintly on page 4: "Reconnu à Monsieur Lecoq le droit de publier ces deux morceaux. Camille Saint-Saëns"

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Inscribed "à Monsieur W. Krüger" by the composer. Pencil markings on the score indicate it was the manuscript sent to the printer for engraving.

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...

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Erasures and corrections in blue and red pencil throughout.

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Berlin: N. Simrock, 1890. Presentation inscription by Strauss, not dated, on the upper cover: "Meinem verehrten College Eduard Kremser zur freundlichen Erinnerung, Johann Strauss".

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Bound with a scribal copy of the work and an untitled signed autograph manuscript of M. Högg.

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A faint signature and date in red pencil in margin reads "Richard Wagner 1841 [or 1849]"

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A itemized bill with von Weber's signature acknowledging payment. A large portrait of Giacomo Meyerbeer is glued to the back of the document.
The folder also contains a 1991 typed letter signed from Leon Robbin to Dr. Joachim Veit of the Internationales Carl-Maria-von-Weber Kuratorium in Detmold, Germany, regarding the von Weber document in this folder.

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Inscribed by Rossini "A mon ami Derivis, G. Rossini, Paris 1826." Henri-Étienne Dérivis, who sang the part of Mahomet in the opera's Paris premiere. Bound in a partially detached period binding.

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Inscribed at top "Musique de Ambroise Thomas. à Mademoiselle Elise Williams."

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The portrait is affixed to the back of a bill of payment signed by Carl Maria von Weber and is therefore filed with the von Weber material.