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22549. Argento, Dominick. (1927–2019).
"Tria Carmina Paschalia" - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed

Large AMQS by the American composer, conductor and pianist, the beginning of "Tria Carmina Paschalia"; four measures in full score (six staves) for SSA, guitar and harp.  Inscribed, "for Steve Juscik / with best wishes / Dominick Argento."  No date.  Sheet from 12-staff pad.  5.5 x 8 inches (14 x 20.5 cm).  Horizontal fold; in fine condition.  Read More...

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7936. Bach, J.S. (1685-1750).
War Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit [BWV 14] - FACSIMILE

Leipzig: Faksimile-Reihe Bachscher Werke und Schriftst. 1971. 2-color collotype of the instrumental and vocal parts in their original format. Scored for hn, 2-ob, 2-vln, va, bc, and SATB chorus. Afterword by Werner Neumann. The facsimile designed to resemble the original, the folder in linen and decorative paper. The box folder that holds the score has shelf and surface wear, bumped corners and marks. The facsimile score is in excellent condition, complete, unmarked. 9 x 14 inches.

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18294. [Ballets Russes] Diaghilev, Sergey Pavlovich. (1872–1929) [Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista. (1710–1736)] [Wassenaer, Count Unico Wilhelm van. (1692–1766)].
Six Concertinos Attributed to Pergolesi AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT PREPARED FOR AND INSCRIBED BY DIAGHILEV

Bound collection of 6 concertinos for 4 violins, viola, cello, and basso continuo in score, copied from a manuscript at the Conservatoire de Paris, as prepared for and subsequently inscribed by Sergei Diaghilev. Long attributed to Italian Baroque composer Pergolesi, these pieces are a famous case of reattribution within the canon of classical music, having been identified in recent decades as the work of the Dutch composer and statesman Count Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer. Half a century before this musicological consensus had been established, Diaghilev wrote his opinion in an inscription on the cover of the present manuscript (translated as follows from the French): Read More...

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21789. Basili, Francesco. (1767-1850).
[Ave Maria] La Salutazione Angelica ossia L'Ave Maria a quattro voci con l'Organo. Manuscript

Manuscript in an unidentified copyist's hand. Disbound upright folio, music paper with 12 staves, signature of five bifolia. Title page with composer's name spelled "Basily." Music to fol. 1v.-7v; final six pages blank. E-flat major; cut-C time signature. SAT parts in C clefs; organ part on two staves (no pedal). 14 x 10.5 inches (35 x 26.5 cm). In good condition overall. Read More...

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18615. Berio, Luciano. (1925–2003).
Autograph Musical Manuscript

Unidentified autograph musical manuscript from the important twentieth-century composer, including corrections and deletions.  4 pp. with autograph pagination (1 to 4), in fine condition, 9.25 x 13 inches (23.5 x 33 cm). Twenty-four-staff printed music paper stamped "1118 EXTRA". No date, no signature. Read More...

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21797. Berton, Henri-Montan. (1767-1844).
La Création. Paroles de M. de Boufflers Musique et Accompagnement de Piano ou Harpe [Manuscript]

Manuscript for voice and piano/harp in an unknown copyist hand. Disbound upright folio. Bifolium. Title to fol. 1r; music with first strophe as text underlay to fol. 1v and 2r., notated on 14 hand-ruled staves; strophes 2 and 3 as residual text to fol. 2v. The text is by Stanislas de Bouffler (1738-1815). Title identifies Berton as "Member du Conservatoire Imp[érial] de France"; the word "Impérial" allows to date this manuscript to the Napoleonic era (1804-1815). 12.5 x 9.5 inches (32 x 24 cm). Very clean. Leaves partially detached. Horizontal fold. Otherwise in good condition.

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14741. Blech, Leo. (1871-1958).
Autograph Musical Sketchleaf

Signed sketchleaf of manuscript music from the noted German conductor and composer. He has penned eighteen measures of music for piano over two systems, the measures numbered above with further empty measures numbered at the end of each stave, and has signed ("Blech") at the lower right. On the music direction letterhead of the Königliche Schauspiele, with staves ruled in pencil. Partially split along two large folding creases, with several other small edge tears and light toning; overall in good condition. 11.5 x 8.75 inches (29.3 x 22.3 cm). Read More...

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4020. Boito, Arrigo. (1842-1918).
Signed Manuscript Aria Text

3 integral pages. 4 stanzas, signed "Arrigo Boito" at the conclusion and identified "Ero e Leandro / Atto I. scena 4a. " On the facing page, Boito has dedicated the aria to "la gentile Signorina Elena Barbaroux," and has initialled and dated "Milano 31. Marzo. 87." Usual folds, mounting traces to verso, else fine. Read More...

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5451. [Chansons].
1820 French Songs Manuscript

An interesting manuscript collection of French songs, ca. 1820. Each song titled in a different color ink, with the indication "à prendre," or “à faire” or "air le bien aimer," or "air du vaudeville" etc. and with many of the song authors cited. An attractive manuscript of 44 pages, beautifully calligraphied and enhanced by the use of colored inks and occasional ornaments, bound at the spine with three silk ribbons. The first and last pages somewhat soiled, overall in fine condition.

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12699. Chemin-Petit, Hans. (1902-1981).
Manuscript sketchleaf from the opera "Die Rivalinnen"

Densely written manuscript sketchleaf from the 1969 opera "Die Rivalinnen," by the celebrated Berlin choir conductor and composer of choral and instrumental music. Four measures written in pencil over nine staves on recto and verso, identified in ink possibly in the composer's later hand as "Skizze fur Oper 'Die Rivalinnen' (1970)". The first measure of the recto is numbered 26, and the verso 28. The music is scored for five voices above two stave groups of unidentified instrumentation. The music is in 12/8 time and includes complete dynamic markings, slurs and rests. Left edge has been cut out of an album; otherwise fine condition. 16.2 x 13 cm. Read More...

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10901. Coots, J. Fred. (1897-1985).
"That's What Little Girls are Made For" - Autograph Song Manuscript

An apparently unpublished and very dated original song manuscript from the composer of one of the biggest best sellers in American music history (Santa Claus is Coming to Town) , 700+ other songs, also scores for Broadway plays, etc. Read More...

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21952. Cui, César. (1835–1918).
Autograph Souvenir Musical Manuscript

Musical autograph from the Russian composer and critic of French-Lithuanian descent, last surviving member of "The Five" or "The Mighty Handful." Dated "1912." Written as a souvenir for an unknown person in the form of an original composition for voice and piano. Four measures, E-flat major, Allegro non troppo. Text underlay in Russian: "Ochen' okhotno shlyu Vam svoy malen'kiy avtograf. Ts. Kyui" (With great pleasure I send you my little autograph. C. Cui.). Cut from a sheet of music paper, oblong format, 4 x 5.5 inches (10.2 x 14 cm). In fine condition. Most unusual! Read More...

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17328. Damrosch, Walter. (1862–1950).
"When Jazz Came to Eden" - Autograph Musical Sketch Signed

An amusing autograph musical sketch of an original song in jazz style, written and signed by the important conductor and dated "At the Mannes's / Xmas 1925." The brief song has the lyrics: "When jazz came to Eden / Charleston steps to Eve came slow / Till Mister Snake came wriggling by / A match of jazz on sax he'd blow / and Eve's feet hit the sky." Damrosch adds below: "A skeleton jazz which won the gold medal because the others were even worse!" Written in pencil on manuscript paper. Some toning and light soiling; attached to a same-size cardboard backing, with rather heavy wear to the mat and edges, but overall very good. Sight size 11.5 x 8 inches, matted to 14 x 11 inches.  Read More...

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14514. Donizetti, Gaetano. (1797–1848).
Autograph Musical Sketchleaf

Autograph musical sketchleaf in the hand of the important bel canto composer known for L'Elisir d'Amore, Lucia di Lammermoor, and more than 70 other operas. The present leaf with 30 measures of unidentified music penned over 6 staves, with 4 measures in the second line struck through and corrected below. The music appears to be a fragment of an instrumental line or vocal line without text, with a repeating rhythm of a half note tied to the first of four eighth notes. Four words of text have been written above the third stave. On manuscript paper with 10 staves. Overall foxing, some edge wear, central folding crease; otherwise very good. 11 x 8.75 inches (28 x 22 cm). Read More...

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14152. [Donizetti, Gaetano. (1797–1848)] Donzelli, Domenico. (1790–1873).
Two Arias for "Fausta" - Autograph Musical Manuscripts

Autograph musical manuscripts in a copyist's hand for two additional arias by Donizetti for his opera Fausta, as sung by the tenor Domenico Donzelli and signed by Donzelli on the first page of each. Titled: Adagio Nuovo scritto [per il ...] Sig. Donzelli da scegliersi a suo desio and Cabaletta per Crispo Atto II nuova scritta espressamente per il Sig. Donzelli. Undated [ca. 1833.] Scored for orchestra and solo voice (Crispo), with an empty choir part in the second aria. 11 pp. and 8 pp., on hand-ruled manuscript paper. On the first page of each, an autograph note in the hand of Domenico Donzelli reads: "Autografo di Donizetti." In fact, the manuscripts are in a copyist's hand: apparently, Donzelli intended "autografo" in the sense of an original composition by Donizetti. The numbers on the first page, 32 and 33, are likely catalog numbers from a theatre or the singer's collection.  Read More...


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21749. Duparc, Henri. (1848-1933).
Aux étoiles (Entr'acte pour un Drame inédit) – Inscribed reduction for piano, with autograph revisions

Paris, Chez les Editeurs: Rouart, Lerolle & Cie.. 1911. Two different arrangements for piano four-hands of Duparc's orchestral composition (1874): one by Gustave Samazeuilh, with autograph revisions by Duparc; and one by Duparc himself. Both arrangements printed with identical titles and almost identical gray wrappers with title in dark blue print. Folio, 13.75 x 11.75 inches (35 x 27 cm). Unbound signatures. Both contained together in a wrapper made of thick paper, with title in orange print (otherwise identical with the title page of the Duparc arrangement, see below), inscribed by the composer to head of this extra wrapper in French: "To my very dear little sister Immaculata. A memory to her friend H. Duparc," followed by a biblical quotation in Latin, "advesperascit, et iam inclinata est dies" ("It is almost evening and the day is now nearly over"; Luke 24, 29).  Inscribed wrapper toned and foxed, spine and edges with outer or inner paper reinforcements, else fine.  Read More...

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21516. Dylan, Bob. (b. 1941).
"Long-distance Operator" - Original Drawings and Autograph Lyrics from the recording of the Basement Tapes

Important and extremely rare early original drawings by the legendary singer-songwriter, who has penned a series of three captioned drawings on the blank side of a Columbia Records Handelok record bag during the historic "Basement Tapes" recording sessions at Big Pink, and including a variation of the opening of the song "Long Distance Operator."  Obtained by Bonnie Diamond, then girlfriend of Levon Helm (drummer and vocalist of The Band), West Saugerties, NY, Summer 1967, and with her autograph shopping list to the verso of the bag. 8 x 10.5 inches. Rear Columbia logo panel with some rears, a few small stains, overall in very fine condition. We have not located any examples of original Dylan drawings having appeared on the market in over 30 years of records.  Read More...

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8261. [Einstein, Albert. (1879 - 1955) ] Avidom, Menachem. (1908 - 1995).
Symphony No. 2 "David" Dedicated to Albert Einstein, with Presentation Broadside to Einstein and Original Photograph

Tel-Aviv, Israel [New York]: Israeli Music Publications [Independent Music Publishers]. [1951]. First edition. Large format published facsimile manuscript orchestral score. 85 pages. Folio (14 x 19 inch; 35 x 49 cm), spiral bound, plain boards; covers detached, generally sound internally. Together with an elaborate painted calligraphic presentation broadside (14 x 21 inch; 36 x 54 cm) of the Symphony to Albert Einstein by Sol Nodel (1951), "Symphony No. 2 'David' dedicated to Albert Einstein For his inspiration to the Jewish people and to all humanity by the composer Menahem Avidom and presented by the American Fund for Israel Institutions on the occasion of the American tour of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, January, February, March 1951," additionally inscribed by the composer in black ink upper left, "To the greatest man in our generation / Prof. A. Einstein / humbly / From the Composer / M. Avidom / Princeton 10/1/51." Together with an original 8 x 8 inch original photograph of the presentation to Einstein and a photocopy of a 1986 letter from Louise F. Sayen later presenting the score and broadside to a Mr. Benamy, noting that "Miss Margot Einstein made this gift to you in gratitude for your thoughtful help in arranging for the distribution of her father's library.  It gave her great comfort that you were the designated representative for the Friends of Hebrew University in Jerusalem." In fine condition.  Read More...

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18207. [English Anthems and Services] Gibbons, Orlando. (1583–1625) & Lawes, Henry. (1596–1662) & Child, William. (1606/7–1697) & Blow, John. (1648/9–1708) & Aldrich, Henry. (1648–1710) etc. .
Seventeenth-Century English Anthems and Services—Manuscript Partbook

Original manuscript partbook, containing bass parts to 38 verse anthems and pieces of church music by some of the most important English composers of the seventeenth century -  including Thomas Wilkinson, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Lawes, Pelham Humfrey, Michael Wise, William Child, John Blow, and Henry Aldrich - as well as by a remarkable assortment of rarely attested composers including John Hutchinson (son of organist Richard Hutchinson, and organist of York Minster); Thomas Mudd (organist of Peterborough and Exeter cathedrals and of York Minster); William Tucker (Gentleman of the Chapel Royal); George Loosemore (organist of Jesus College and of Trinity College, Cambridge); Benjamin Rogers (organist at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford); Thomas Tudway (Professor of Music at Cambridge); John Badger; and William Ottis (alias Otty or Ottey). Stamped or inscribed on the covers with "BASSUS CANTORIS" (the bass of the cantor's side, rather than the dean's side, of the choir in the English cathedral tradition), this book was in active use at an English cathedral.  Read More...

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1361. Finney, Ross Lee. (1906-1997).
Autograph Musical Sketch from his unfinished opera, "Computer Marriage."

A fine signed pencil musical sketch from the American composer and music teacher, recipient of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for his "First String Quartet." 1 page, both sides. Read More...

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