Box 2

Scope and Contents 1) "Priere pour l'Empereur Nicolas," with annotation: "Lady S. Ingestrie [sic] heard this sung at Odessa by 40,000 soldiers, Portsmouth, 1842." Ref.: Lady Sarah Elizabeth (Beresford) Ingestre, Countess of Shrewsbury, 1807-1886 2) "Preghiera," with annotation: "From the Austrian Frigate "Bellono" 3) "Russian National Hymn" 4)"Chaunt," with attribution "Miss S. Cumming" Paper bears watermark of J....

Scope and Contents Approximately 225 compositions across three volumes (volumes 1(?), 3, and 4) of repertoire books compiled by Lewis F. Machold, likely a professional musician, possibly of German background and training, in Columbia, South Carolina, in the early 1800s. The music, both American and European in origin and generally secular in nature, spans the range of genres and complexity, indicating the variety of contexts in which Machold likely performed. They include some original compositions by Machold...

Scope and Contents The first 9 works include 2 transcriptions by Derwort of works by Moscheles, 2 works by De Call, and five French or English folk songs. The latter (and much larger) grouping of works, clearly in a different hand and possibly written down by Stehling or a copyist or student under his supervision, contains works by Mertz, Carcassi, Carulli, & Giuliani. In pencil on first front free endpaper verso: "property of Mr(?) Stehling (friend of Sor)". Konrad Adam Stehling was a...

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Apparently disbound from a larger volume. Paper cover bears title "Marches, pas redoublés, et valces. Arrangés pour le piano." Each work usually numbered and dated.
N.B.: "Amonier" is the French term for a military chaplain.