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Box 5

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

“Le roi d’Ys [Act 1, Scene 2],” 2 voices and piano, 12 pages, probably 1875 or 1886

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 7
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: probably 1875 or 1886

Opening bars of Act II from La Bohème, 1 page, possibly mid-1890s

 Item — Box: 5, 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: 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: 5, Folder: 11
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

Autograph letter signed, Leipzig, 1 page, in German. Letter to Kistner, 1839 October 10

 Item — Multiple Containers
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: 1839 October 10

Autograph musical quotation signed, New York, 1 page, 1924 January

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

On the verso are two unrelated signatures: 1) Robert Hichens, lyricist and music critic, dated New York, October 1911; 2) P. B. Du Chaillu, French anthropologist, dated 1877.

Dates: 1924 January