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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 autographed manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors. 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 "Appassionata," a full set of handwritten parts for Robert Schumann’s String Quartet in A minor op. 41 no. 1 (Heavily...
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 autographed manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors. 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 "Appassionata," a full set of handwritten parts for Robert Schumann’s String Quartet in A minor op. 41 no. 1 (Heavily...
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 song for voice and piano on a signed manuscript score with lyrics in French and German, and the original poem by Silvestre in German translation on a separate leaf. The German lyrics and the poem differ slightly (e.g., in word order). The handwriting of the poem and the German lyrics on the score appear to be identical and may be that of Bernhard Wolff, who arranged the song (and 9 others) for piano for the publisher Fürstner circa 1893-1894. The...
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 autographed manuscripts and letters by composers, musicians, and conductors. 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 "Appassionata," a full set of handwritten parts for Robert Schumann’s String Quartet in A minor op. 41 no. 1 (Heavily...
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