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Box 12

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Contains 42 Results:

Autograph musical quotation signed, Stuttgart, 1 page, 1883 January 23

 Item — Box: 12, 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: 1883 January 23

Autograph musical quotation signed, Dresden, 1 page, 1859 September 9

 Item — Box: 12, Folder: 2
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: 1859 September 9

Autograph musical quotation signed, Meiningen, 1 page, 1879 July 13

 Item — Box: 12, Folder: 2
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: 1879 July 13

Autograph musical quotation signed, location unknown, 1 page, 1835 December 9

 Item — Box: 12, Folder: 3
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: 1835 December 9

Autograph musical quotation signed, location unknown, 1 page, 1938

 Item — Box: 12, 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: 1938

Autograph musical quotation signed, Plâs Gwyn, 1 page, 1906 August 4

 Item — Box: 12, Folder: 6
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: 1906 August 4

Two autograph musical quotations signed, mounted together on matboard, Covent Garden and location unknown, 1891 May 19, undated but after 1880

 Item — Box: 12, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents

Quotation 1: 3 measures from Manon, act 2, with the singer's name, Miss Sibyl Sanderson, added parenthetically by Massenet. Signed and dated by the composer "1ere rep: Covent Garden, London, mardi 19 Mai 1891".
Quotation 2: 3+ measures from Massenet's rendition of "Le sais-tu?" in G Major, lyrics from a poem by Stéphan Bordèse. No location noted and undated, though the song is recorded as having been composed and published in 1880.

Dates: 1891 May 19; undated but after 1880

Autograph musical quotation signed, Aix-les-Bains, 1 page with envelope, 1897 May 17

 Item — Box: 12, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Four measures from the 2nd violin part of "Oui! je fus cruelle et coupable!" (the "Ah! rends moi ton amour si tu veux que je vive" section) in Act III of Massenet's opera Manon. Inscribed by the composer "à Mlle Hélène Cohn, respectueusement, Massenet 1897." Sent to Vienna on May 17, 1897, from Aix-Les-Bains.

Dates: 1897 May 17

Autograph musical quotation signed, New York, 1 page, 1925 August 5

 Item — Box: 12, 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: 1925 August 5

Autograph musical quotation signed, location unknown, 1 page, in English, 1930 October

 Item — Box: 12, 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: 1930 October

Autograph musical quotation signed, likely St. Petersburg, with a photographic portrait on cardstock, 1 page, in Russian, undated

 Item — Box: 12, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

The musical quotation appears to be the first four bars of the theme from Glazunov's Theme and Variations in F-sharp Minor, op. 72. (N.B.: the fourth measure differs slightly from the version published in 1901.)

Dates: undated

Music Quotations, 1920 and undated

 Sub-Series — Box: 12, Folder: 10-11
Scope and Contents

Autograph musical quotation signed, Buffalo, 1920 March 9, 1 page.
Autograph musical quotation signed, location unknown, undated, 1 page.

Dates: 1920 and undated

Autograph musical quotation signed, New York[?], in English, undated

 Item — Box: 12, 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

Autograph musical quotation signed, and signed lithographic portrait of Herz, Paris, 1 page, 1854 January

 Item — Box: 12, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Both the autograph music quotation and the portrait are inscribed to S. [probably Sophie] Dulken.

Dates: 1854 January

Autograph musical quotation signed, Breslau, 1 page, 1852 January 21

 Item — Box: 12, Folder: 14
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: 1852 January 21

Autograph musical quotation signed, Berlin, 1 page, 1899 April 15

 Item — Box: 12, 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 April 15

Autograph musical quotation signed, Hannover, 1 page, in German, 1858 March 3

 Item — Box: 12, Folder: 16
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: 1858 March 3

Autograph musical quotation signed, Munich, 1 page, 1850 November 6

 Item — Box: 12, Folder: 19
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: 1850 November 6

Autograph musical quotation signed, location unknown, 1 page, 1852 September 25

 Item — Box: 12, Folder: 20
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: 1852 September 25