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4to. 3 pp. To the music publisher Carl Haslinger, asking him to have a look at "the arrangement for 2 pianofortes on which [he] has spent 3 days annotating and editing" in order to propose a new version, with many annotations for the piano and fewer parts for instruments. He also sends his Hungarian Rhapsody "properly instrumented" and asks Haslinger "to prepare a similar edition." Liszt leaves for Zurich to stay with his friend Wagner. - Inserted in Robert Bory's book "The Life of Franz Liszt in Pictures" (Editions du journal de Genève, 1936, 1st numbered copy on Holland Van Gelder paper, bound in bordeaux leather). - Provenance: Robert Bory, musicologist. Together with several autograph letters signed by Alfred Cortot (2), Daniela Thode, Winifred Wagner, Bladine Gravina, and Daniel Ollivier.
8vo. 2½ pp. on bifolium. With autograph envelope. Unpublished letter in Russian to Aleksandr Glazunov (1865-1936) in which Tchaikovsky expresses his fatigue and anxieties three weeks before the premiere of "The Queen of Spades" and asks a favour: "I am deadly tired from the opera's rehearsals; tomorrow awaits another one, demanding again great attention and all kinds of anxieties of an author. I am afraid for my disease not to repeat, not going to the concert today. Laziness is unfortunate, but it is necessary [...]. I have a request for you: ask to visit me on Tuesday evening Lyadov [Anatoly Lyadov], both Blumenfelds [Felix and his brother Stanislav Blumenfeld] and Lavrov [Nikolay Stepanovich Lavrov], whom you will not see today, but perhaps you’ll write him a note. I do not know his address. Remind as well Nikolay Andreevich [Rimsky-Korsakov], I am most convincingly asking him to be at my place on Tuesday evening. And please, do not forget! [...]" (transl.). - This important letter adds to only twelve known letters from Tchaikovsky to his friend and protegé Glazunov, dating from 1887 to 1892. It provides insights into Tchaikovsky's St. Petersburg circle, members of which included the composers Glazunov, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Lyadov, who were part of the so called Belyayev circle, the composer and conductor Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931), his brother the piano teacher Stanislav Blumenfeld (1850-97), and the pianist Nikolay Stepanovich Lavrov (1861-1927). The letter was written during the rehearsals for "The Queen of Spades" which premiered successfully at Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on 19 Dec. 1890 (Gregorian calendar). - Folded and slightly smudged; envelope somewhat foxed.
Large 4to. 2¾ pp. on bifolium. With autogr. address. Important letter with political content, written to the German politician and stenographer Franz Jacob Wigard (1807-1885), then a member of the Frankfurt Assembly, the first freely elected parliament for all of Germany. In his peremptory letter, Wagner laid down what in his opinion were the principles that ought to guide the Frankfurt assembly. He looks to the meeting of the German National Assembly in Frankfurt to assume unified power from the old Bundestag, to introduce rearming the German people, to make a defensive treaty with France and, finally, to create a rational and coherent German nation out of the myriad of princely states, both large and small, overcoming the opposition of the Princes themselves, emphasizing that only then can the Assembly begin its work and without which all their good work so far will be undone. "I am apprehensive of much harm", he wrote, "if the German Parliament does not in the first instance resolve on the following: (1) that Parliament at once vests the sole constitutive power in itself, as well as the authority to nominate a Provisional Executive from among its members; (2) immediate introduction of Folk-arming after the model known to us; (3) an offensive and defensive alliance with France [...] Let the fourth step be the Territorial question of the German States. If the Frankfort Assembly intends to create a constitution that will unite Germany, it must first address itself to the inequality of the individual States: it must appoint a commission to formulate proposals for a rational and natural construction on the basic principle that no single State shall have less than four or more than six million inhabitants. That is the definitely decisive point, without the establishment of which all our labours would be merely patchwork [...]". - A fine letter outlining Wagner's political views and his desire to see a unified German nation, in the wake of the 1848 Revolution in France and turmoil within Germany. Barricades were put up in Dresden and the king was presented with demands for constitutional reform. Wagner joined the revolutionaries, hoping that this would lead to the reform of a National Theatre. His letter was prompted by the convening of the National Assembly at Frankfurt on 18 May, and is addressed to the Saxon Delegate at the Assembly, Jacob Franz Wigand, who had earlier been dismissed from the University at Dresden for his radical political views. - Published in the "Sämtliche Briefe", II, no.256, after a press-cutting in the Wagner Archives and without reference to the original. - Torn margins repaired, dust-marked.
Large 4to. 4 pp. on bifolium. To an undisclosed recipient, i. e. August Frhr. v. Loën, director of the Court Theatre at Weimar and the court orchestra, in the matter of the foundation of the Bayreuth Festival Theatre. - The laying of the foundation stone for the theatre took place on May 22, 1872, Wagner's 50th birthday. Marie ("Mimi") Baroness (from 1879: Countess) von Schleinitz (1842-1912) - whom Wagner is mentioning - was an influential salonnière of the early German Reich in Berlin and one of the most important supporters of Richard Wagner and one of the principal advocates of the Bayreuth Festival. WBV 5898.
Oblong folio. German, French, English etc. handwriting on paper. 98 (2 of which repeated) signatures (several pasted) and 3 pasted picture postcards and photographs on 83 pp. (on a total of 94 ff.). Contemporary cloth with stamped and sparely gilt covers. Silk endpapers. - Includes 4 ff. of letters and album leaves by Pope Pius IX (with autogr. date and signature) and the Societé des gens de lettres (copy with facsimile signatures by Georges Sand, Victor Hugo, Ludovic Halévy, Champfleury, Jules Claretie, etc.), as well as by 2 unidentified writers. Impressive autograph album compiled by the biographically unrecorded composer Wilhelmina Simson. Among the most significant contributors to this unique item are Alessandro Manzoni (Brusuglio, 7. X. 1865; f. 14v), Franz Grillparzer (pasted AQS, Vienna, 13. X. 1865; f. 16r), Henrik Ibsen (Dresden, 8. VI. 1873; f. 28r), Friedrich Frh. von Flotow (pasted AQS, Vienna, 12. X. 1865; f. 31v), Henri Vieuxtemps (pasted MusQS, Vienna, 28. I. 1854; f. 33r), Giacomo Meyerbeer (pasted ALS to an unnamed recipient, 1 p., 8vo, n. p. o. d.; f. 34v), Alexander Frh. von Humboldt (pasted fragment of an ALS to an unidentified recipient; 24. VII. 1853; f. 35r), Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden (pasted QS with 5 autogr. lines; f. 38v), Joséphine, Queen of Sweden and Norway, née Duchess of Leuchtenberg (pasted QS; f. 39r), Daniel Auber (pasted AMusQS, Paris, 25. VIII. 1861, 1 p., oblong 8vo; f. 43v), Hector Berlioz (pasted AMusQS with autogr. dedication "pour l'album de Mr. Lang", Bade [?], 12. VIII. 1862, oblong 8vo; f. 45r), Ivan Turgeniev (19. VII. 1873; f. 48v), and Adolph Menzel (pasted fragment of a LS, f. 77v). - Apart from these, the album contains a twenty-line poem by the writer and translator Julie Ruhkopf (b. 1799; Dresden, 23. IX. 1864, f. 3r), a twelve-line poem by the anatomist Karl Aberle (1818-92; Salzburg, 3. X. 1864, f. 3v), a twelve-line poem by the actress Clara Jahn (1825-82; Dresden, 20. X. 1865; f. 9v), a four-line poem by the playwright Friedrich Halm (pasted AQS, Vienna, 13. X. 1865; f. 16v), 5 autogr. lines by L. A. Frankl Ritter von Hochwart (pasted AQS, Vienna, 13. X. 1865; f. 30v), 8 autogr. lines by the writer and musical scholar Arvid August Afzelius (pasted AQS, f. 46r), and an eight-line moral dictum by the writer Gustav von Moser (pasted AQS, Karlsbad, 2. VI. 1876; f. 51r). - In addition, the album contains dedications by the art critic and painter Agostino Gallo (1790-1872; Palermo, 11. IV. 1863, f. 6r), the writer Ciro Marzullo (f. 6v), the physicist and philosopher Pietro Blaserna (1836-1918; f. 7r), the anatomist and zoologist Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869; Dresden, 20. X. 1865; f. 15r), the writer Salomon Hermann Ritter von Mosenthal (1821-1877; pasted AQS, Vienna, 13. X. 1865, f. 15v), the painter Raffaello Politi (May 1865; f. 19r), the composer Pietro Romani (pasted AQS, f. 22v), the writer Friedrich Ritter von Hackländer (pasted QS, f. 24r), the painter Salvadore Politi the Elder (with full-page drawing of a Medusa bust, 2. VII. 1865; f. 54r), the classical scholar J. J. Schubring (b. 1839; ff. 62r and 63r), the archaeologist and painter Saverio Francesco Cavallari (1809-96; pasted QS with autogr. sketch on f. 61v and pasted AQS with autogr. dedication on f. 62v), the painter Egron Sellif Lundgren (pasted ALS to an unidentified recipient; f. 65r), the composer Friedrich Pacius (1809-91; pasted QS; f. 65v), the musician Joseph Hellmesberger the Elder (1828-93; pasted QS, Vienna, 12. X. 1865; f. 66r), as well as signatures by Gustav Klemm (art historian, 1802-67; Dresden, 23. IX. 1864, f. 2r), Johan Bravo (consul and painter, 1796-1876; 3. XII. 1864, f. 4r), Maria Vinzenz Süß (archaeologist and founder of the Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum, 1802-68; pasted AQS, f. 5r), Bror Emil Hildebrand (archaeologist and historian, 1806-84; f. 38r), Ludwig Ettmüller (literary historian, 1802-77; f. 53v), and Amalia Lindegren (painter, 1814-91). - Two not fully identified entries are by "His Excellency Herr von Bülow" (f. 46v) and by a member of the Manteuffel family (f. 47r). - As several of the entries within the album reveal, Wilhelmina Simson was herself active as a composer. Altogether well preserved, in spite of a loosened front cover.
Oblong folio (340 x 202 mm). 272 written pages with a total of 252 numbered chorales (and 4 pages of empty pen-staves). Contemporary half calf over mottled boards with manuscript title label to upper cover. All edges sprinkled in red. Highly interesting collection of Bach chorales, very likely assembled from 1765 onwards at St. Thomas School, Leipzig under the direction of Johann Friedrich Doles, the student of and successor to Johann Sebastian Bach, who sought to make his master's works more widely known. According to an expert opinion included with the volume (ca. 1940), the late head of the Peters Music Library, Kurt Taut (1888-1939), had surmised that the book was "written in Doles's own hand". This assumption is sustained by the apparently autograph entry "di Doles" at the beginning of the Doles chorales which entirely resembles the writing of the remainder of the manuscript. - The volume comprises a total of 252 chorales in a clean, contemporary copy by a single hand, numbered in red ink and (by a later editor) in pencil. Numbers 1 through 200 broadly agree with the two-part printed edition of Bach's chorales issued by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Berlin/Leipzig 1765 & 1769), while numbers 231-251 represent the melodies for Gellert's "Geistliche Oden und Lieder" which Doles published in 1758, but in a revised order. As far as they could be identified, the final piece as well as the thirty pieces between the (real or ascribed) Bach music and Doles's settings consist of works by various composers of the 16th through 18th centuries, including Doles. - Provenance: In 1882 the book was in the library of the Leipzig-based cultural anthropologist and Bach collector Albrecht Kurzwelly (1868-1917), as shown by his label on the pastedown and his ownership on the flyleaf. After his death, it passed into the possession of the Zwenkau music publisher and collector Walter Höckner (cf. his stamp and the end). - Extremeties slightly bumped; a few spine defects have been professionally repaired. Signed expertise (1878) by the Leipzig choirmaster and Bach scholar Wilhelm Rust (1822-92); another opinion (1918) by Rust's successor Bernhard Friedrich Richter (1850-1931) is pasted between the upper cover and the flyleaf.
Folio (206 x 327 mm). 8 parts (all published; in various editions, dated I: 1652; II-V; 1651; VI: 1652; VII: 1654; VIII: 1650) in one volume. Engraved half-title; (28); (28); (28); (28); (28); (28); (28); (28) pp. Letterpress with numerous woodcuts in the text. Contemporary black morocco (spine rebacked), covers blindstamped with giltstamped initials "S. B." and year "1666". Extremely rare: "unquestionably the most representative of all German song collections published in the 17th century" (Osthoff); also an important source for the study of German Baroque literature due to the poems of Simon Dach. Heinrich Albert (1604-51) was the cousin and student of Heinrich Schütz. "With Simon Dach, Albert formed the nucleus of the Königsberg poetic circle, which was of especial importance for the Baroque song" (Riemann). The poems of Dach, the "Prussian Opitz", were never published in a complete collection during his lifetime. - The legendary rarity of these "Arias" has been remarked upon even by E. L. Gerber in 1812: "In spite of the number of editions which Albert's works enjoyed, they have now become so rare that I have never seen a single note of his, although I have dedicated more than three decades of my life to the pursuit of musical products" (Neues historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler II, 48). - The richly illustrated engraved half-title, which actually belongs to part 8, has been bound first of all (lower edge trimmed and rebacked with old paper; final two letters of the word "Achter" erased, so as to form a common title to the entire collection: "Acht Theil der Arien theils geistlicher zu christlichem Leben und Sterben anreitzender, theils weltlicher zu geziemender Lust dienender Lieder"). Modern spine and endpapers. Occasional annotations in an old hand; one interleaved sheet of handwritten music; a few slight flaws repaired. Save for two slightly stained pages a very clean copy. RISM A, 620, 623, 626, 629, 633, 635, 638, 639. Faber du Faur 357. Goedeke III, 129. Wolffheim II, 2091. Hirsch III, 599. BSB I, 45 ff.
Oblong folio. 2 pp. From Act II, Scene 2; one page with the text. - After the enormous success of "Bianca e Fernando" in Naples (May 1826), Bellini was introduced to the librettist Felice Romani, who proposed the subject of the composer’s first project, "Il pirata". Its premiere, given on 17 October 1827, was "an immediate and then an increasing, success. By Sunday, December 2, when the season ended, it had been sung to fifteen full houses" (Weinstock, Bellini: His life and His Operas. New York, Knopf, 1971, pp. 40f.). - Margins somewhat spotty and browned. With an early certification of authenticity in the left margin, written by the lawyer (to the heirs of Vincenzo, his brothers Carmelo and Mario), Francesco Chiarenza, and dated Catania, June 21, 1902.
Large 4to. 3 pp. on bifolium. To his friend Rodolf Weinwurm, the conductor of the Wiener Singakademie, about the premiere of his Mass No. 1 in D-minor in the Linz cathedral and the Redoutensaal, expressing his surprise that the latter was packed with listeners despite the seriousness of his composition, and mentioning that his concert was attended by Josef, Archduke of Austria - He intends to have a clean copy of the full score made, which he would like to send to the Weinwurm to deliver to the critic Eduard Hanslick and the composer and conductor Johann Herbeck, hoping the latter would agree to have it performed in the Vienna Musikverein, as a performance in the church would require too much rehearsal. - The mass, which was highly successful both among the critics and the audience, was a breakthrough for Bruckner as a composer. It was performed in Vienna on 10 February 1867, conducted by Johann Herbeck and with Bruckner playing the organ.
Various formats. Altogether 12¾ pp. on 11 ff. With 5 autogr. envelopes, 2 letters on airmail paper with integral address panel. In Hungarian language, to the violinist André Gertler (1907-1998). - The letter from October 28, 1938, comprises an autogr. musical quotation (3 bars).
4to. Altogether 44 pp. on 31 ff. 4to. Partly with autograph address. Extensive, interesting correspondence with his friend and publisher Tobias Haslinger concerning matters of contracts and publication, in particular about his piano instruction book ("Ausführliche theoretisch-praktische Anweisung zum Pianoforte Spiel"), for which he sends the corrections to part one (June 14), about his travel plans ("I will be travelling to Carlsbad with my family on the 24th to take the waters and rid myself of all the old waste"; ibid.), negotiations with his French publisher Aristide Farrenc (who had requested Hummel "to send him a manuscript of mine, which he has announced as a facsimile for the instruction book and wishes to include", June 20), preparations for the funeral of the Grand Duke (Weimar, July 16), corrections for part three of the instruction book (October 23), book requests ("Would you be so kind as to obtain for me from Wallishauser the printed textbooks of the following operas and send them to me by stagecoach at your earliest convenience", November 17), and about his disdain for Paganini: "Paganini's dirtiness is little surprise to me; he is, after all, an Italian; but for all that and because he is not German, he has been created a knight and a chamber virtuoso by the Emperor - indeed, soon I shall be ashamed of my fatherland. Were he a German, such a distinction would never have been conferred on him, even if he were possessed of Paganini's virtuosity three times over" (18 August 1828). - Unpublished.
Oblong folio. 2 pp. In pencil. A draft for the opera "Die ägyptische Helena" (op. 75), which premiered in 1928 in Dresden, as confirmed by the Richard-Strauss-Institute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. - Hardly visible centrefold, slightly creased, two small ink blots in the left margin. From the estate of Wolfgang Sawallisch.
Large 8vo. 5 pp. on 3 ff. Includes autogr. envelope with embossed sender's monogram and initials on verso. Long, important letter to Josephine Maier, mother of Wagner's close friend Mathilde Maier. As a matter of form, Wagner's oft-quoted request that Mathilde move in with him as his companion is directed to her mother: "My dear and esteemed friend! Only to someone to whom I already owe so much love and true dedication as I do to you may I dare submit a question and indeed a request as I must today. I must now decide how to go about keeping my home tolerable in such a fashion that the fine external security now achieved also serves my inner prosperity. As you know, I live in separation from my wife: my desire to transfer my household to a female being has recently become so strong in me once more that I seriously considered whether it might not be better to call back my wife rather than live alone. Only the conviction, gained from long experience and confirmed by the observations of all my friends and relations, that a reunion must needs bring about for the both of us a condition much less bearable than separation, has utterly disabused me of this plan [...]" (transl.). - While this remarkable letter is addressed to Josephine Maier, Wagner sent it directly to Mathilde Maier, who read it without passing it on to her mother. She rejected Wagner's offer, but remained his friend for the rest of his life. Published in M. Dürrer (ed.), Richard Wagner. Sämtliche Briefe, vol. 16. Briefe des Jahres 1864, Wiesbaden/Leipzig/Paris 2006, no. 204, p. 245ff., commentary p. 599 with references to earlier editions.
3 SS. auf Doppelblatt. Gr.-4to. Mit eh. Adresse (Faltbrief). "Auf das Dampfboot wartend, das meine Frau und mich nach England bringen soll", um dort seine Schottische Sinfonie zu dirigieren, schrieb Mendelssohn den vorliegenden Brief an den Musikkritiker Alfred Julius Becher, der angeboten hatte, Mendelssohn gegen eine Kritik Heines zu verteidigen: "Aber warum fangen Sie auch einen ersten Brief seit langer Zeit von einem faulen ovo an, nicht lieber von irgend einem frischen, wohlschmeckenden? Ich weiß nicht, was das für ein Artikel von Heine ist, von dem Sie sprechen, und habe mich also erst darüber geärgert, weil Sie mir schrieben, daß Sie es gethan hätten. Sie wollen so freundlich sein, mich wieder dagegen zu vertheidigen; aber bitte thun Sie das doch nur im Falle er so gut oder so böse ist, daß Sie dergleichen geradezu nothwendig finden - auch nach reiflicher Überlegung nothwendig finden. Eigentlich ist es doch immer am besten, gar nicht zu antworten und immer neue und bessere Musik zu bringen [...]". - Bechers Bitte, einen Artikel über das Niederrheinische Musikfest zu schreiben und an der "Wiener Allgemeinen Musik-Zeitung" mitzuarbeiten, muss Mendelssohn ablehnen, "weil ich gar zu lebhaft fühle, daß es mir unmöglich ist; eben auch weil ich in ähnlichen Fällen (namentlich bei Breitkopf & Härtels) mich so hartnäckig dagegen gewehrt habe auch nur meine Meinung zu sagen oder einen Rath zu geben". - Einige Irrtümer und Gerüchte gelte es zu berichtigen, etwa "daß ich für Paris eine Oper schreibe und daß Scribe mir einen Text dazu gemacht hat [...] Kommt denn diese Nachricht auch aus der allgemeinen Zeitung? Dann scheint sie sichs ja recht angelegen sein zu lassen, mir Unwahrheiten nachzusagen, denn eben daher kam eine Nachricht mit der mich vor kurzer Zeit alle Menschen quälten und verdrossen: daß ich mich um die ThomasCantorstelle [!] in Leipzig bewärbe, und die und die Mitbewerber hätte, und die und die Schritte gethan hätte. Da war auch keine wahre Sylbe daran, und das verdroß mich eben [...]". - Was jedoch stimme, sei, dass er fortwolle aus Berlin (wohin er 1841 als Kapellmeister von Friedrich Wilhelm IV. berufen worden war), "denn ich liebe das Leben dort nicht und bin verfremdet mit den Menschen und dem Wesen. Aber ich sehe nicht ein, wie ich wieder fortkommen solle, da auf mehrere Versuche und Anfragen der Art mir der König die Antwort gegeben hat, ich möge thun was ich wolle und auch nicht thun, was ich wolle, nur in Berlin wohnen bleiben solle ich, darauf bestände er. Daß ich mit der Oper nichts zu thun bekomme, ist jedenfalls bestimmt, das Wahrscheinlichste ist mir aber, daß ich überhaupt nichts da zu thun bekomme, und auf das ganze dortige Musiktreiben ohne den geringsten Einfluß bleibe [...] es ist doch nur der Egoismus, der da zum Bleiben räth, und gerade an dem leidet alles in Berlin, und gerade durch den ist alle Musik dort so entsetzlich undeutsch und entartet geworden [...]". - Ein Jahr später hatte Mendelssohn dann schließlich doch Berlin hinter sich gelassen und gründete in Leipzig das Conservatorium, die erste Musikhochschule Deutschlands, die er am 3. April 1843 in den Gebäuden des Gewandhauses eröffnete. - J. A. Becher sollte einige Jahre später einer der Hauptführer des Wiener Oktoberaufstands von 1848 sein und nach dessen Niederwerfung von einem Standgericht zum Tod verurteilt werden. - Bl. 2 mit wenigen winzigen Einrissen in den Faltungen. - Provenienz: J. A. Stargardt, Kat. 508 (5. Mai 1953), Nr. 67; Dr. Otto Liebmann; Antiquariat Hinterberger, Wien. Mit geringfügigen Abweichungen gedruckt in: Renate Federhofer-Königs, "Der unveröffentlichte Briefwechsel Alfred Julius Becher (1803-1848) - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)", in: Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 41 (1992), SS. 7-94 (Nr. 20a). - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Sämtliche Briefe. Hrsg. und kommentiert von Susanne Tomkovic u. a. Bd. 8, Nr. 3533.
Large 8vo. 3 pp. on bifolium. To the director of the Stuttgart Court Theatre about his tireless efforts to stage Wagner's "Tannhäuser". As the court theatres at Stuttgart and Braunschweig were hesitant to perform the opera, Wagner is pleased that the recipient is interested in the project and provides him detailed information concerning his professional fee ("at least 50 Louisd'or"): "So werden einem alle Vorsätze durchkreuzt! Das Stuttgarter, wie das Braunschweiger Hoftheater (die einzigen, die meinen Tannhäuser so schandhaft ignorirten) sollten mir das einmal büssen. Mit Stuttgart machen Sie es mir nun zu nicht. Seien Sie versichert, dass ich mit einer angenehmen Genugthu[u]ng, die, späteren Erfahrungen gegenüber, durch die längere Erinnerung nur wachsen kann, Ihres ältesten, freundlichen, ächt wohlwollenden Entgegenkommens gegen den gänzlich Unbekannten, gedenke [...] Dass Sie nun meinen Tannhäuser, den so obstinaten Hindernissen in Stuttgart zum Trotz, herausbringen wollen, freut mich sehr, und weil es Ihnen Genugthu[u]ng geben wird, kann ich unmöglich bei meinem früheren, etwas rachsüchtigem Vorsatze, betreffs Ihres Theaters, bleiben. Aber ein ordentliches Honorar müssen Sie mir auswirken, zum mindesten dasselbe, was mir die andren Königlichen Hoftheater, München und Hannover, zahlten, nämlich fünfzig Louisd'or. Die Partitur ist nur durch mich zu beziehen, und falls Sie von Ihrer Intendanz die sofortige Zuwendung eines Honorars von fünfzig Louisd'or - mindestens! - an meine Adresse nach Venedig auswirken, so ersuche ich Sie, von dem beiliegenden Bestellzettel Gebrauch zu machen, wonach Sie von Dresden sogleich Partitur und Buch erhalten werden. Besondre Bemerkungen wegen der Aufführung habe ich Ihnen nun nicht mehr zu machen. Am sinnigsten, glaube ich, ist Ed. Devrient in der Scene damit umgegangen; auch hat er für den Schluss einen guten Einfall gehabt, den ich Sie bitte, sich von ihm mittheilen zu lassen [...]". - Somewhat soiled and spotty; slight damage to edges.
2 SS. 4to. Schöner Brief an den nicht namentlich genannten Schriftsteller und Musiker Johann Wilhelm Christern über eine geplante Oper nach Novalis' "Heinrich von Ofterdingen" und das vor Kurzem zu Ende gegangene dritte Norddeutsche Musikfest: "Hat mich Schuberth bei Ihnen entschuldigt? Hat er Ihnen auch vorläufig gedankt? Das erste, weil ich verreist war und wirklich viel beschäftigt überhaupt - das letztere für Ihre warme Theilnahme an meinem Streben, wie Sie sie in Ihrem Aufsatz gezeigt. Möchte die Zukunft manche Ihrer Worte nur zur Hälfte wahr machen! An Fleiß und Eifer meiner Seits soll es nicht fehlen. Am meisten verlangt's mich nach einer Oper. An Ofterdingen dachte ich schon seit Jahren. Aber schriftlich läßt sich das nicht besprechen, und dann müßte ich auch erst meine Redaction der Zeitschrift abgeworfen haben, ehe ich die Arbeit vornehmen könnte. Also erst in Jahresfrist. Einstweilen vergessen Sie den Ofterdingen nicht. Auch der Eulenspiegel scheint mir ein glücklicher (komischer) Stoff. Ihren Aufsatz über Liszt sende ich Ihnen zurück, da man uns übel danken würde, wenn wir vom ganzen Musikfeste, das ja äußerst glänzend gefeiert worden sein soll, nur Liszt'en hervorhöben. Dagegen bitte ich Sie mir sobald wie möglich eine treue Skizze des ganzen Festes für meine Zeitschrift zu schicken, wo Sie dann Liszt'en die ihm gebührende Stelle anweisen möchten [...]". - Der Musikverleger und Buchhändler Julius Schuberth hatte im Jahr zuvor den Norddeutschen Musikverein gegründet. Das dritte Norddeutsche Musikfest hatte vom 4. bis 8. Juli in Hamburg stattgefunden. "Der erste Tag brachte Händels Messias, der dritte: 'Messe von Mozart', 'Chor' von J. S. Bach. Der zweite war der weltlichen Musik eingeräumt. Liszt spielte Beethovens Chor-Phantasie, 'die man in solcher Vollendung wohl nie gehört', und die 'Robert-Phantasie'. Am 9. Juli gab er noch ein eigenes Konzert, in dem er mit dem Quintett op. 16 von Beethoven entzückte. In den Zeitungen entbrannte ein Streit über seine Beethoven-Auffassung, die eben mehr vom Beethovenschen Geist als von gedruckten Tempo-Angaben beeinflußt wurde, der lange nicht zur Ruhe kam" (Kapp, S. 80). Julius Kapp: Liszt. Eine Biographie. 4. Und 5. Auflage. Berlin, Schuster & Löffler, 1916.
192:140 mm. In Passepartout und hinter Glas gerahmt (270:210 mm). Drei Takte für Gesang aus Abendland II (aus den "Liedern nach Gedichten von Georg Trakl") mit unterlegtem Text "So leise sind die grünen Wälder unsrer Heimat". Laut einer kleinen Notiz verso war der Adressat der Widmung ("Ihres Anton Webern") der Wiener Photograph Ludwig Schwab (1899 od. 1900-1939). - Stellenweise leicht verblasst. Aus dem Nachlass des Dirigenten Hans Swarowsky mit dessen Nachlassetikett auf der Rückseite des Rahmens.
in-4 (mm 236x170), ff. (8 con titolo con impresa editoriale, dediche e Sonetti a Bianca Cappello, dedica ai Lettori "..Hora io havendo già consumato anni ventisette in questa professione...", Sonetti in lode all'autore e ritratto del Caroso ad anni XXXXVI), ff. 16 con il Trattato Primo diviso in 54 Regole), 184 Trattato Secondo, ff. (4 con Indice), legatura coeva in pergamena semifloscia, titolo calligrafato lungo il dorso e lacci in pelle allumata, in elegante astuccio in mezza pelle. Illustrato da un ritratto dell'a. e 22 figure a piena pagina incise in rame da Giacomo Franco raffiguranti coppie di balelrini, musica notata n.t., iniziali istoriate. Prima edizione, dedicata a Bianca Cappello "de Medici, Granduchessa di Toscana" dopo il matrimonio segreto con Francesco. Il primo libro termina al verso del f. 16 con un "Avertimento alle donne" che precede un secondo frontespizio; il libro secondo comprende 78 balli, di cui i primi 2 dedicati a Bianca Cappello. Provenienza: Al contropiatto ex-libris inciso di Eugenio di Savoia-Carignano (1816-1888) e nell'astuccio ex-libris artistico di Mario Serandrei. Esemplare estremamente genuino, fresco e marginoso, antica firma abrasa al titolo, chiose sottolineature al solo Libro Primo delle Regole ad indicare l'uso pratico che probabilmente l'antico possessore fece del volume: una volta appresi i passi dei vari balli spiegati nella prima parte del volume non ebbe più necessità di prendere appunti nella parte in cui venivano messi in pratica. . Colas 532. Nagriel 43. Mortimer Italia, vol. I n.106. Beaumont, p. 24. Derra de Moroda, 527. Mostra del libro e documento di danza, p.58..
1 S. Gr.-8vo (194:145 mm). In Passepartout (285:230 mm). Vier Takte für Klavier in F-Dur im 4/4-Takt auf zwei von Hand gezogenen Musiksystemen. Mit einem montierten Blütenzweig neben der Unterschrift. - Liszt unternahm zwischen 1839 und 1847 ausgedehnte Virtuosenreisen durch ganz Europa, wobei er allein in Deutschland mit großem Erfolg 298 Konzerte gab. Liszt war der erste Künstler, der den Typus des reinen Klavierabends, des sogenannten "Recitals", einführte. Bis dahin traten Pianisten normalerweise nur im Rahmen einer instrumental-vokal besetzten Veranstaltung auf (vgl. MGG² XI, 210).
1 S. Qu.-8vo. Neun Takte mit unterlegtem Text des Anfangs von Henris Romanze "La brise souffle au loin" aus dem fünften Akt der "Sizilianischen Vesper", geschrieben nur wenige Tage nach deren Uraufführung am 13. Juni am Théatre Impérial de L’Opéra im Rahmen der Pariser Weltausstellung. - Auf der Versoseite des aus einem Stammbuch stammenden Blattes findet sich der launige Eintrag des Komponisten und Dirigenten Angelo Mariani, der inmitten eines zweizeiligen Systems mit vier Takten seinen Namen niederschreibt und in den Noten festhält, wie dieser zu singen sei. Die Widmung des mit Verdi bis ins Jahr darauf eng befreundeten Musikers datiert mit Bologna, 23. Oktober 1867 und gilt einer Signora. Knapp ein Jahr darauf kam es zum Bruch der beiden, da nach Verdis Auffassung Marianis mangelndes Engagement den Ausschlag dafür gegeben hatte, dass die Uraufführung der auf Verdis Initiative hin von 13 Komponisten geschriebenen "Messa per Rossini" - die an Rossinis erstem Todestag am 13. November in Bologna hätte uraufgeführt werden sollen - nicht zustandegekommen war. Die Gemeinschaftsproduktion der 13 Tonsetzer geriet in der Folge in Vergessenheit, wurde erst 1970 wiederentdeckt und nach insgesamt knapp 120 Jahren dann schließlich auch uraufgeführt. - Stellenweise gering fleckig, sonst tadellos erhalten.
1 p. 8vo. With ms. address. Brahms's letter to composer and conductor Julius Bernuth begins with three bars from Mozart's "Magic Flute" (Act 1, Scene 3), with Tamino's words "So ist denn alles Heuchelei", followed by some personal words by Brahms.
137 x 84 mm. Seven bars from "Dort in den Weiden" (op. 97, no. 4: "Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte", 1886), the words departing slightly from the printed version: "An Rheines Strand da steht ein Haus -!". - Perfectly preserved.
Folio. 1¼ pages. 12 staves with text in German. Tenor trombone part for Mendelssohn's 1933 revision of the oratorio "Israel in Egypt" by Georg Friedrich Handel. The trombone in heard in the fanfare in E flat, as well as after the two choruses "Singet unserm Gott denn er hat geholfen wunderbar" and "Heil dreimal Heil dem heißgeliebten König, Heil, ewig Heil dem theuren Vaterland". - "As a conductor, Mendelssohn advocated the works of the baroque composers Bach and Handel with particular zeal. He used his stays in London to study Handel's original scores. In the Queen's Library he made important discoveries with regard to the oratorio 'Israel in Egypt', and the results were incorporated into his performances of 'Israel', which he conducted a total of five times, or the first time in Düsseldorf in 1833 for the Niederrheinisches Musikfest, in a version tailored to the practical necessities of the venue. The unavailable organ was replaced by additional wind parts, and the score, then a two-part structure, was supplemented by insertions from other works by Handel or recitatives assigned to this oratorio. The 'trumpet overture' composed by Mendelssohn was prefixed to the work - a workaround solution, since the performance would, unusually, have started with a recitative" (cf. Thomas Hennig, "Die Aufführungen des "Israel in Aegypten" unter Leitung Mendelssohns"). - Somewhat spotted and browned; minor damage to edges.
Small folio (249 x 325 mm). 2 pp. on a single leaf. Brown ink on 12-stave paper with words and music. The alto parts for "Ruhethal" and for the beginning of "Jagdlied", the final two of the six songs that make up Mendelssohn's "Sechs Lieder im Freien zu singen", op. 59 (MWF F 21-22). The songs were composed for mixed a capella chorus, without accompaniment, between 1837 and 1843; the present songs were written on March 3 and 5, 1843. Dedicated to Henriette Benecke, his wife's aunt with whom the Mendelssohns lodged during their 1842 visit to London, the work was first published in 1844. The music in the hand of Amadeus Eduard Anton Henschke (1804-54), with the words of the text added by Mendelssohn himself, and his note and signature at the end of "Ruhethal": "Noten von Henschke, Text von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy". - "Ruhethal" ("Adagio") sets a poem by the Swabian poet Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862), "Wenn im letzten Abendstrahl goldne Wolkenberge steigen", 35 measures in D major and 2/4 time. "Jagdlied" (" Allegro molto quasi Presto") is based on the poem by Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857), "Durch schwankende Wipfel schießt goldener Strahl", in B minor, the relative minor of the preceding song's scale, in 4/4 time, comprising the first 17 measures, including a stricken-out passage. - A horizontal tear in the central fold and another near the bottom have been professionally repaired. "Ruhethal" and the edges of "Jagdlied" a little browned from former mounting and presentation.
Folio (264 x 325 mm). Engraved title page, 1 p. of engraved dramatis personae, pp. 3-363 engraved notes. Plate number 1092. Contemporary red half morocco with giltstamped spine and cover title. First edition of the full orchestral score, with the libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. In the "Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung" of 13 September 1815, the publisher Simrock claimed that it was "in accordance with Mozart's own wishes". First shown on 30 September 1791 at Schikaneder's Freihaus-Theater, the opera today counts among the most popular and most frequently performed ever. - Slight browning; occasional pencil annotations; a contemporary stitch-hole throughout the upper left corner. The highly appealing binding is insignificantly rubbed in places. Provenance: first in the library of the Berlin composer and musical educator Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen (1778-1851), a close friend of Zelter's, with his autograph ownership on the title page: "Von Fr. H-d am 13. 9br 1822 an C. F. Rungenhagen". Later in the collection of the classicist and musical scholar Friedrich Spiro (1863-1940) with his autograph ownership on the reverse of the title page (dated Berlin 1886) and stamps. Latterly in the collection of Pierre Bergé (1930-2017) with his bookplate inside the front cover. KV 620. RISM M 4772. Clément 1172. Riemann 616. Sonneck 119. Towers 680. Hirsch II, 681.
