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ANDERSCH, Johann Daniel.
Musikalisches Wörterbuch. Für Freunde und Schüler der Tonkunde zusammengetragen...

Berlin, Natorff 1829. 8vo. XI pp., (1) p., 420 pp., 8 pp. (music). Contemp. half cloth (rubbed), defective spine label. First edition. Somewhat browned throughout, otherwise clean; mostly uncut copy. Hirsch IV, 1031.

Order no.: 463 / 80,00 EUR

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BEETHOVEN, Louis (Ludwig) van:
Six quatuors pour Deux Violons Alto et Violoncelle composés et dediés A Son Altesse Monseigneur le Price Regnant de Lobkowitz & & ... Oeuvre 18 - (handwritten. : I resp. II [on title violin 1]) Livraison - Pr 4 fl.[F major/ G major/D major; C minor/A major/B flat major]

A Mayence chez B. Schott Fils (c. 1815). Set of parts.

Folio. [Nos. 1-3:] Title, (1). p. (blank), pp. 3-27, (1) p. (blank); 22 pp., (1) leaf (blank);20 pp.; 19 pp. (1) p. (blank). [Nos. 4-6:] Title, (1) p. (blank), p. 1-22 ; title, p. 2-21 (p. 17 blank), (1) p. (blank); title, pp. 2-19, (1) p. (blank); title, pp. 2-18, (1) p. (blank). 5 engraved titles, engraved music (pl.-no. 49 and 66). The pagination seems to indicate that the first part (Nos. 1-3) was issued with just one title, but the second was sold with four. Sewn, no binding; in modern cassette.

New edition, from Zulehner's plates which Schott had bought in c. 1815 (see catalogue of Beethovenhaus Bonn).

In 1798 Beethoven had received a commission from his first Viennese patron, Prince Lobkowitz, to compose six string quartets (these then being dedicated to him). The first series (Nos. 1-3) were ready in the middle of 1799, numbers 4-6 followed a year later.

The initial printing by Mollo had to wait a further year; this was as a result of the agreement that Lobkowitz had reserved for himself the sole performance rights for the first six months, and also, that Beethoven wished to rework the first three quartets, and more especially the first of these.

Whereas in 1795 Beethoven had not been able to decide as to whether to accept a commission from the Grafen Apponyi to compose a string quartet - he did not feel worthy of the comparison with Mozart and Haydn at that time - he now saw himself as able to emerge from the shadow of both; as a pupil of Haydn he had become familiar with his way of working, and he had intensively studied Mozart's Quartets KV 387 and 464 (cf. Caeyers p. 208 ff.).

Fore-edges green (a few leaves green stained to margins); slightly browned throughout (the vols. of part 2 more intensively) and fingerstaining to outer corners. Violoncello part water-stained to upper margins. All vols. of the second part contain an old handwritten pagination (in continuation of the engraved pagination of resp. vols. of the first part).

Kinsky/Halm p. 44; BHB C18/68 (II. Livr. only).

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BEETHOVEN, L (udwig) van:
Trois quatuors pour deux Violons, Alto & Violoncelle ... Op. 59 - Prix 12 Frs.[F major/ E minor/C major]

Ches N. Simrock à Bonn (after 1835). Set of parts.

Folio. Title, (1) p. (blank), p. 3 - 31, (1) p. (blank); 24 pp., 22 pp., 21 pp. (1) p. (blank). Coloured lithogr. title, engraved music (pl.-no. 591). The pagination seems to indicate that only the first violin was issued with title.

Sewn, no binding; in modern cassette.

New edition. Music from the plates of Simrock's first imprint (1808), title new.

The original impulse for the composing of the so-called Rasumowsky-Quartets - named after the dedication to the Russian Ambassador in Wien, Andrei Rasumowsky - is disputed. "It used to be assumed that the Russian Graf had also been the person to commission the works. Today, one tends to presume that it was the violinist Schuppanzigh who gave the impulse for the composition of this new quartet cycle" (Caeyers p. 391).

Beethoven had begun the work in the summer of 1804 but due to writing "Leonore" there was a break of nearly two years. The premiere took place on New Year's Eve 1807; at which point Rasumowsky provided ideas and financial support in their development is unresolved. Decisive, however, was the role of Ignaz Schuppanzigh and his quartet. In its first line-up it represented the first ever professional string quartet in the history of music, and in this role it heavily influenced Beethoven's composition process: "While the string quartet op. 18 was technically tailored for the usual target group of musical 'dilettantes' made up of aristocrats and the upper classes and thus written to a demanding standard, but still attainable for non-professional musicians, the Rasumowsky-Quartets were clearly written with full-time musicians in mind. Beethoven no longer made any allowances. Many passages were technically so difficult, that they could only be played by a virtuoso ..." (Caeyers p. 395).

This brought with it greater dimensions and a wider tonal and harmonic range. At the same time Schuppanzigh performed the quartets in concert halls, using a form of subscription concerts, and no longer restricted to the salon of an aristocrat. "Beethoven had to develop a new language for the quartet, in which the orchestral tonal development becomes an important element ... This new, compact string quartet sound, which developed during this time, became in the following decades the standard for performers and composers alike" (Caeyers p. 396).

Violin 1, p.9 with handwritten music pasted in. This covers bars 407 - 415 of the second movement. The Viola part of bars 407 - 411 have been transposed in the treble clef whereby in bar 411 the sequence of notes has apparently been modified; and for Violin 1 the bars 411 - 415 are written as printed - perhaps the former owners didn't like Beethoven's original version in bar 411?

Green fore-edges. Slightly browned throughout and in places finger-stained. Old handwritten pagination relating to an old "sammelband".

BHB: Schorn 98a; cf. Kinsky/Halm p. 142.

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BEETHOVEN, L (udwig) v.:
Quatuor pour deux Violons, Viola et Violoncelle composé et dédié à Son Altesse la Prince regnant de Lobkowitz Duc de Raudnitz...Oeuv. 74 - Propriété des Editeurs - Pr. 1 Thlr.8Gr. ("Harp-Quartet" / E flat major)

Leipsic, Chez Breitkopf & Härtel (c. 1830?). Set of parts.

Folio. Title, (1) p. (blank), pp. 3-11, (1) p. (blank); 7 pp. (1) p. (blank); 7 pp. (1) p. (blank); 7 pp. (1) p. (blank). Engraved title and music (pl.-no. 1609). Kinsi/Halm record only 1 title too.

Sewn, no binding; in modern cassette. Later issue of the first German edition (new price, corrections on the plates); the first edition of the full score appeared in 1833.

The "Harp Quartet" - this term was not derived by any composer and refers to the Pizzicati in the initial phase -, was written in 1809 and is often seen as the result of Beethoven's intensive preoccupation with Albrechtsberger's theory on counter point. His former teacher had died in 1809, as had Haydn, and now Beethoven remained as the most important representative of the German-Austrian music tradition. Subsequently he devoted his time intensively with the works of his predecessors, and the "heroic" gestures were replaced by a more tranquil-lyrical tenor.

This phase in Beethoven's work begins with op. 74. "The string quartet in Es-Dur op. 74 is seen as a simple and conservative piece of music. However, it does mark a turning point in Beethoven's work and carries the seeds of something new within. Therefore, one could also go so far as to call it prophetic " (Caeyers p. 445).

Parts for viola and violoncello with slim margins. Publisher's stamp on title. Green fore-edges. Slightly browned throughout and in places finger-stained. Old handwritten pagination relating to an old "sammelband".

Dorfmüller/Gertsch/Ronge I, 467, III 2 (1); BHB C 240/11,4; cf. Kinsky/Halm p. 198.

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BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van:
Eilftes (!) Quartett für zwey Violinen, Bratsche und Violoncelle. Seinem Freunde, dem Herrn Hofsekretär Nik: Zmeskall von Domanowetz gewidmet ... 95 tes Werk - No. 2580 - Eigenthum der Verleger - Preis

Vienna, S.A. Steiner und Comp. (1816). Set of parts.

Folio. Title, (1) p. (blank), (1) p. ("Musik-Anzeige"), pp. 2-9, (1) p. (blank); (1) p. (blank), pp. 2 - 9, (1) p. (blank); (1) p. (blank), pp. 2 - 9, (1) p. (blank); (1) p. (blank), pp. 2 - 9, (1) p. (blank). Engraved throughout (pl.-no. S .et C. 2580). Kinsky/Halm record 1 title only too.Title with engraver's name (A. Müller sc.).

Sewn, no binding; in modern cassette.

First edition; the full score was published for the first time in 1835.

Kinski/Halm have identified the edition with the "Pränumerations-Anzeige" as the first; Tyson in "The Music Review" (No. 23 [1962], p. 119 ff.) makes the case for dating earlier the issue with the "Musik-Anzeige" as it presents a number of mistakes which have not yet been marked on the plate, but which on other copies have been corrected by the publisher by hand in either pencil or ink.

Compare this, too, to Del Mar in: Nineteenth-Century Music Review Vol.3, No.2 (2006), p. 95 ff. who, taking the first edition issues into account, comes to the same conclusion as Tyson. He was able to identify a third group of published copies, namely those where most, but not all, mistakes had been corrected (P1 1/2).

Beethoven complained bitterly in a letter to the publisher, Steiner, that uncorrected copies had been offered for sale against his implicit instructions: "It was agreed that in all the finished copies of the quartet the mistakes were to be corrected. Nevertheless the Adjutant has been shameless enough to sell them without these corrections" (Brandenburg no. 1024 / translated by A. Tyson (see p. 122). The copy we offer has the errors listed by Tyson in all four parts, but has no additional manuscript corrections. Apparently it was sold before these were added. It unquestionably belongs amongst the earliest printed editions (Tyson A/B and del Mar P1).

Although Beethoven wrote this quartet in 1810, the official opening performance by the Schppanzigh Quartet did not take place until 1814; in the meantime there had probably been private performances in Zmeskall's home. When the composer, in a letter to an English concert organiser, wrote that this quartet was more for a smaller circle of connoisseurs than for the wider public he was reacting to the disconcerting audience reaction it had received in Vienna; despite the fact that this quartet indicates the path taken by Beethoven's later works.

Written during a phase of profound life crisis (second marriage of the possibly "immortally beloved" Josephine von Brunsvik; rejection of a proposal of marriage to Therese Malfatti) the quartet is marked by"brusque lack of instrumentality in the bringing about of contrast points" (Danuser in Riethmüller et.al.: Interpretationen, Vol. II, p. 80), but which are bound together by numerous inner-musical references.

Title with advertisement "Mainz, in der Grosherzogl: Hessischen Hofmusikhandlung von B. Schott." A few markings with pencil. Green fore-edges. Slightly browned throughout and in places finger-stained. Old handwritten pagination relating to an old"sammelband".

Kinsky/Halm p. 268; coll. Hoboken 2, 409; BHB: J. Van der Spek C op. 95; Dorfmüller p. 334; Weinmann 2580; cf. Hirsch IV, 355.

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BEETHOVEN, Louis (Ludwig) v.:
Quatuor pour deux Violons, Alto et Violoncelle composé et dedié a Son Altesse Monseigneur le Prince Nicolas Galitzin Lieutenant Colonel de la Garde de Sa Majesté Impériale de tout les Russies ... Oeuvre 127. No. 2351 - Propriété des Editeurs - Pr. 3 Fl. 36 kr.[E flat major]

Mayence chez les fils de B. Schott (c. 1826). Set of parts.

Folio. Title, pp. 2-13, (1) p. (blank); title, pp. 2-12, (1) leaf (blank); title, pp. 2-11, (1) p. (blank); title, pp. 2-11, (1) p. (blank). Lithographic title, engraved music (pl.-no. 2351).

Sewn, no binding; in modern cassette.

Later issue (see Weinhold in: Dorfmüller p. 258) of the first edition (Mainz imprint, with puiblisher's address in Paris, without 2 blank leaves after title of violin 1 / thus Hirsch). The full score appeared later but still in 1826.

In 1822 the Russian prince, Nikolai Galitzin, wrote to "Monsieur Louis van Beethoven a Viennes" and requested "un, deux ou trois Nouveaux Quatuors". With the first of the three Galitzin-Quartets Beethoven began immediately on completion of the 9th Symphony in 1824 (he could count on the preliminary work carried out during the previous two years), and in March 1825 he dispatched the full score to St. Petersburg.

Already, on 6th March, the Schuppanzigh Quartet had performed the premiere, although of moderate quality. The composer himself saw the problem not so much in a technique that was too demanding, as lying in the work's structure which had made playing together more difficult given the short amount of time for rehearsal. The "blurring the difference between the primary and the secondary parts, and the playing with alternate attraction and repulsion have become important elements of the concept" (Caeyers p. 727).

The composer had even set out the sketches in four parts (although he used to outline his symphonies in only one part), and he insisted that the first edition of the parts and that the full score of later quartets were published simultaneously (for op. 127, for example, they were separated by 3 months, before this it might have been years), in order that the comprehension of the complex structure would be made easier.

A few markings with pencil. Green fore-edges. Slightly browned throughout and in places finger-stained. Old handwritten pagination relating to an old "sammelband".

Dorfmüller/Gertsch/Ronge I, 843 III 1.2 („spätere Auflage“); Kinsky/Halm p. 385; Dorfmüller pp. 18, 232, 258, 350; Hirsch IV, 399; coll. Hoboken 2, 511; BHB J Van der Spek op. 95; cf. cat. Munich 265.

Order no.: 1004 / 1300,00 EUR

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BEETHOVEN, Louis (Ludwig) van:
Troisème quatuor pour 2 Violons, Alte & Violoncelle des Quatuors. Composés et dediès à Son Altesse Monseigneur de Prince Nicolas de Galitzin, Lieutnant Colonel de la Garde de Sa Majésté Imperle de toutes les Russies ... Oeuvre 130. Proprieté de l'Editeur. - No. 870 en Partition, 871 Part. sep. - Pr. F 4,,15x Arg. de Conv. 3,,30 [B flat major]

Vienne, chez Math.s Artaria. Kohlmarkt No. 258 (1827). Set of parts.

Folio. Title, (2) pp. (blank), pp. 2-15, (1) p. (blank) ; 13 pp., (1) p. (blank); 11 pp., (1) p. (blank) ; 11 pp., (1) p. (blank). Engraved throughout (pl.-no. M.A. 871). Kinski/Halm mention only 1 title too. Engraver's name on title: "Ecrit et piquûre par A. Kurka".

Sewn, no binding; in modern cassette.

First edition.

Beethoven finished this Quartet - the third one composed for Galitzin - towards the end of 1825. The 6 movements met with a mixed response at the premiere in March 1826: the middle movements were received enthusiastically, the first movement was felt to be very cumbersome, and the final piece, the Fugue, reaped wide-spread incomprehension.

The publisher, Artaria, suggested to the second violinist of the Schuppanzigh Quartet, Karl Holz, that Beethoven should compose a different final movement. Holz, who had become a trusted colleague to the composer, convinced Beethoven to write a new conclusion and to publish this fugue separately with its own opus numeration (op. 133).

By the autumn of 1826 the quartet in its new form was ready, and the new final piece was performed in December of the same year, and the complete work was then performed by the Schuppanzigh Quartet in April 1827.

A few markings with pencil. Green fore-edges. Slightly browned throughout and in places finger-stained. Old handwritten pagination relating to an old "sammelband".

Kinsky/Halm p. 395; Dorfmüller pp. 18, 233, 350; Hirsch IV, 403; coll. Hoboken 2, 516; cat. Munich 268; BHB C 130/7.

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BEETHOVEN, Louis (Ludwig) van:
Grand Quatuor En Ut dièze mineur pour deux Violons Alto et Violoncelle composé et dédié à Son Excellence Monsieur Le Baron de Stutterheim ... Oeuvre 131. No. 2628 - Propriété des Editeurs - Pr. 4 fl 30 kr. [D sharp minor]

Mayence, chez les fils de B. Schott à Paris, rue de Bourbon No. 17, à Anvers, chez A. Schott (1827). Set of parts.

Folio. Title, (1) p. (blank), 13 pp., (1) p. (blank); (1) p. (blank), pp. 2-13, (1) p. (blank); (1) p. (blank), pp. 2-13, (1) p. (blank); (1) p. (blank), pp. 2-13, (1) p. (blank). Lithographic title, engraved music (pl.-no. 2628).

Sewn, no binding; in modern cassette.

First edition (Mainz imprint). Variant with 1 title (see Hirsch). Kinski/Halm don't mention a price on title, Hoboken refers to the price and does not speak about a later issue as the catalogue of the Beethovenhaus Bonn. Following Dorfmüller (p. 351) the full score appeared later than the parts in the same year (see Schott's addresses in Paris).

During his work on op. 130 Beethoven was already harbouring plans for one or two further string quartets. "Quartett cis-Moll differentiates itself from its predecessors by a completely different relationship between continuity and discontinuity. At first glance it appears to be split into seven movements, but everything points to this separation being more of a practical nature than based on the actual content; Beethoven did not actually number the movements individually in the autograph.

This quartet is actually a series of longer and shorter pieces, which flow into one another such that one is not aware of them being separate movements of a whole work. The levels of the complete composition and of the individual movements fall more or less together; contrasts or equivalents within the movements can hardly be distinguished apart from the contrasts or equivalents between the parts.

In this way an elaborate interplay of musical segments emerges, which roll over each other in longer and shorter waves, a game, that at the same time seems to be purposeful and aimless. For this reason this quartet sounds more like a forty minute improvisation, but which nevertheless never creates the impression of randomness" (Caeyers p. 740).

The first performance was not until after Beethoven's death: in 1828 it was presented to the public for the first time by the Müller Quartet.

P. 11 / Violin I with additional paper strip with handwritten music along the bottom edge. It has a notation of bars 167-194 of the last movement; then there is a rest of almost 3 bars. This rest gives more time to turn the page than the place where the page ends in the original printing (from bar 166 to 167). The manuscript strip apparently was helpfull when performing the quartet.

Green fore-edges. Slightly browned throughout and in places finger-stained. Old handwritten pagination relating to an old "sammelband". A few markings with pencil.

Kinsky/Halm p. 399; Dorfmüller pp. 18, 233, 351; Hirsch IV, 405; cf. coll. Hoboken 2, 518 (4 titles); cf. BHB Schorn 80b (4 titles); not in cat. Munich.

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BEETHOVEN, Louis (Ludwig) van:
Quatuor pour 2 Violons Alto & Violoncelle. Composé & Dédié à Son Altesse Monseigneur le Prince Nicolas de Galitzin, Lieutenant Colonel de la Garde de Sa Majesté Impériale de toutes les Russies ... Oeuvre posthume. Oeuv 132. No. 12 des Quatuors. - Propriété des éditeurs. - Prix 2 ½ Rth. [A minor]

Berlin, chez Ad. Mt. Schlesinger, Libraire et éditeur de musique. Unter den Linden No. 34. PARIS, chez Maurice Schlesinger Md de musique du Roi. 1443. (1827).

Folio. Title, (2) p. (blank), pp. 4 - 19, (1) p. (blank); (1) p. (blank), pp. 2 - 15, (1) p. (blank); (1) p. (blank), pp. 2 - 15, (1) p. (blank); (1) p. (blank), pp. 2 - 15, (1) p. (blank). Engraved throughout (pl.-no. 1443).

Sewn, no binding; in modern cassette.

First edition, variant with 1 title (thus not in K/H) and note ander the music of each first leaf with music (an identical copy in the catalogue of the Beethovenhaus Bonn); Hoboken's remark "later issue" (2, no. 522) seems to be without reason.

Beethoven completed the second string quartet for N. Galitzin shortly after finishing op. 127, namely in July 1825. He himself saw the work as consisting of six movements; however, today it is usually divided up into five movements. "Beethoven himself spoke of 'pieces'; they are no longer designed with a formal or content balance of the entire composition, but are left to freely develop to serve a highly dramatic musical 'Narrative'. That is already noticeable in the first movement, in which the composer seems to be exploring aesthetically new territory by employing extreme discontinuity, strong contrasts, numerous fractions and a variety of tempi " (Caeyers p. 729).

Private rehearsal performances took place on 9th and 11th September 1825 in Vienna with the Berlin publisher Schlesinger in attendance, the official premiere being held on 6th November, also under the Schuppanzigh-Quartet.

Part for Violoncello with markings in pencil. A long restored tear to title (not affecting text), paper defects on title leaf and last leaf restored as well. Green fore-edges. Slightly browned throughout and in places finger-stained. Old handwritten pagination relating to an old "sammelband". A few markings with pencil.

Kinsky/Halm p. 402; Dorfmüller pp. 18, 233, 247, 352; Hirsch IV, 407; coll. Hoboken 2, 522; BHB C 132/12; not in cat. Munich.

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BEETHOVEN, Louis (Ludwig) van:
Quatuor pour 2 Violons Alto & Violoncelle. Composé & Dédié à son ami Johann Wolfmeier ... Oeuvre posthume. Oeuv. 135. No. 17 des Quatuors. - Propriété des éditeurs. - Prix 2 Rthlr. [F major]

Berlin, chez Ad. Mt. Schlesinger, Libraire et éditeur de musique. Unter den Linden No. 34. PARIS, chez Maurice Schlesinger Md de musique du Roi. 1444. (1827).

Folio. Title, pp. 2 - 11, (1) p. (blank); 9 pp., (1) p. (blank); 9 pp., (1) p. (blank); (1) p. (blank), pp. 2 - 8. Engraved throughout (pl.-no. 1444).

Sewn, no binding; in modern cassette.

First edition (variant with 1 title, the original no. "17" [number of quartets] on title and all the other characteristcs of the first edition mentioned by Hoboken).

The wealthy cloth merchant Johann Wolfmeier was a long-standing friend and admirer of Beethoven. His name in the dedication is representative of a social change which was taking place in Vienna during Beethoven's time: Whereas the composer at the beginning of his career as full-time musician had had to rely on the sponsorship of the aristocracy, so it was in Vienna following the Congress of Vienna that the rise in the upper classes could be seen; often they represented a more stable financial base for providing artistic patronage than the frequently indebted aristocracy.

The F-Dur Quartet presents the last complete composition of Beethoven, and the title ("Difficult Decision") as well as the motto ("Must it be? - It must be!") above the 4th movement have given rise to a multitude of interpretations and speculation.

All parts with brown stains to last page. Small brown-stain to first page of viola-part. Green fore-edges. Slightly browned throughout and in places finger-stained.

Kinsky/Halm p. 410; Dorfmüller p. 18, 234, 257, 352; Hirsch IV, 412; BHB C 135/1; coll. Hoboken 2, 528 (variant with 4 titles); cat. Munich 270.

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BEETHOVEN; L (udwig van).
[WoO 70] VI. Variations sur l'air Nel cor piu non mi sento pour le Pianoforte... Nr. 3. Oeuvres Complets de Piano 1re Partie N°. 9.

Frankfurt, Dunst (c. 1830). Folio. 5 pp. (1) p. (blank). Lithogr. both title and music., pl.-no. 95. Reimpression of the second edition. (BOUND WITH:) MOZART, W(olfgang) A(madeus): Sonaten für Pianoforte allein ... Nr. 12 F [=KV 280]. Offenbach, André [c. 1841] Folio. 11 p. (1) p. (blank). Lithogr. both title and music, pl.-no. 6432. (BOUND WITH:) MOZART, W(olfgang) A(madeus): Sonaten für Pianoforte allein ... Nr. 20 B (=KV 570]. Offenbach, André [c. 1841].

Folio. 13 p. (2nd blank), (1) p. (blank). Lithogr. both title and music, pl.-no. 1036. "Titelauflage" of an edition André 1797. No binding. Hand-written registration-no. "27" and marginal paper defect to title. Browned and intensively restored (most of the leaves reinforced at joint and with paper defects, tears [but minimal loss of music only]). I: Kinski / Halm S. 520. II: KV 7 215. III: KV 7 643.

Order no.: 466 / 80,00 EUR

Beethoven, Ludwig van.
... Konzerte für Pianoforte mit Fingersatz und der vollständigen, für Pianoforte übertragenen Orchesterbegleitung versehen von Franz Kullak. Neue Auflage...Edit. Nr. 129: Op. 37, Klavierkonzert Nr. 3, Cmoll...Sämtliche Konzerte mit unterlegtem II. Klavier. Nr. 3.

Leipzig, Steingräber (after 1881). Folio.44 pp. Lithogr. music and title (Pl.-Nr. 87). On p. 41 starts the impression of Beethoven's cadence for the first movement. No binding, reinforcements at joint. Name and stamp on title, slightly browned throughout (outer margins more intensively); a clean copy. Kinski/Halm p. 93/94.

Order no.: 462 / 50,00 EUR

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BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van
... Konzerte für Pianoforte mit Fingersatz und der vollständigen, für Pianoforte übertragenen Orchesterbegleitung versehen von Franz Kullak. Neue Auflage...Edit. Nr. 128: Op. 19, Klavierkonzert Nr. 2, Bdur...Sämtliche Konzerte mit unterlegtem II. Klavier. Nr. 2.

Leipzig, Steingräber (after 1881). Two almost identical copies (differences: different advertisements, the sentence "Bearbeitung ist Eigentum des Verlegers" and page numbering "46" in one copy only). Folio. 45, (3) pp. and 46, (2) pp. Lithogr. music and title (Pl.-Nr. 86). On p. 42 starts the impression of Beethoven's cadence for the first movement. Uniformly bound in contemporary brown clotht with gilt-stamped title on front board. Both copies slightly browned throughout, one with name on front fly leaf, the other with stamp on title. Kinski/Halm p. 47/48.

Order no.: 467 70,00 EUR

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B(ovy-) Lysberg, Charles (Samuel).
Le reveil des oiseaux. Idylle pour piano... Op. 39. Pr. 20 Ngr.

Leipzig, Hofmeister, no date. Folio. 13 pp., (1) p. (blank). Title and music in lithogr. (pl.-no. 4813). Unbound. Probably first edition. Red stroke on title, margins of 1 leaf more trimmed, slightly browned throughout but clean. See MGG 15, 1024. Not in BSB and CPM.

Order no.: 418 / 50,00 EUR

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BRAHMS, Johannes.
Clavierstücke... Op 118...op. 119.

Berlin, Simrock 1893. Two parts in 1 vol. Folio. 19 pp., (1) p. (blank); 19 pp. (1) p. (blank). Repeated lith. title, lithogr. music (pl.-nr. 10054/10055). Original grey wrappers (darkened, defects to margins, front part with handwritten contents [mostly covered by a pasted title of a later edition], some underlining, handwritten "Clavier stücke" with large letters). Original edition. Both titles with ownership stamp. Slightly browned throughout, corners finger-stained. Hofmann S. 248 ff.; McCorkle S. 472 and 475.

Order no.: 413 / 400,00 EUR

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(Catholic Church - Marcello, Cristoforo [?])

Sacra Baptizandi Institutio Iusta ritum Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae. In hoc libro etiam, quae apud Infirmos in extremos laborantes, & quae post eorum obitum officia fiunt, continentur. Accessere alia multa cum Exorcismis contra Daemoniacos, & Visitatione Infirmorum. Ut in sequenti Tabula patet.

Venice, Melchior Sessa heirs 1581.

8vo. 180 lvs. With two woodcut devices and one full-page woodcut. Printed throughout black and red, parts of numerous pages with music.

18th century vellum (browned, rear boards water-stained), gilt spine and gilt-stamped label to spine.

Early edition of this collection of rites in the Catholic Church. The "Bayerische Staatsbibliothek" in Munich owns a later edition (Turin 1589) containing the same text but no music parts. The catalogue attributes the edition to Cristoforo Marcello (1480-ca.1527), archbishop of Corfu; we did not find this attribution anywhere else.

Slightly browned throughout (some lvs. more intensively), marginal paper defects to title and first leaves (not touching text). First and last leaf with remains of sealing-wax, handwritten ownership entry on title verso. A small hole to 1 leaf (burn damage / loss of text). Front endpaper with ex-libris.

Censim. 16: CNCE 11989; not in Adams and BMSTC.

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Coferati, Matteo
Il cantore addottrinato, ovvero regole del canto corale, Ove con breve, e facil metodo s'insegna la pratica de'precetti più necessari del Canto fermo; Il modo di mantenere il Coro sempre alla medesima altezza di voce; di ripigliare dove resta l'Organo; d'intonare molto cose, che fra l'Anno si cantano; e in particolare tutti gl'Inni...

Florence, Il Vangelisti (1682). Sm.-8vo. (20) lvs., 306 pp., (7) lvs. With printer's device and woodcuts (all full-page) and many type-set music examples. 19th century quarter calf (slightly rubbed). First edition. Coferati - priest and cantore at the Main Church in Florence - was very successful with this compendium on canto; it has been reprinted very often up to the 18th century. 1st leaf with ownership stamp on verso. First leaves with worm-tracks (affecting device and text). Slightly browned throughout (some lvs. more intensively), in places with brown-stains. All over all a good copy. RISM VI, 1, 228; Eitner 3, 4; Hirsch I, 128; Gaspari I, 175.

Order no.: 454 / 550,00 EUR

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DITTERSDORF, Carl Ditters von:
Der Apotheker und der Doctor. Komische Oper in zwei Acten in Musik gesetzt ... ClavierAuszug nach der OriginalPartitur von Eduard Marxsen. Arrangement Eigenthum der Verleger.

Hamburg/Leipzig/New York, Schuberth (after 1847). Vocal score.

4to. (2) lvs., 248 pp. Engraved contents and music (pl.-no. 1089), lithographic title.

Contemp. half cloth (slightly rubbed), spine gilt and gilt-stamped spine label. Very rare.

For dating cf. advertisement in: Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung 5 / 187. Slightly browned throughout, a few lvs. with brown-stains. A well preserved copy.

BSB/Mus.: 4 Mus.pr. 1925; Pazdírek III, 701; cf. Unverricht 9 (earlier issue); Krebs p. 106, no. 5 (earlier issue as well).

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[18th century music, operas, vocal sores]

DÖHLER, Th.
Tarantelle pour le Piano... Oeuvre 39. Prix fl. 1. A. de C...

Wien, Machetti (1841?). Folio. 11 pp., (1) p. (blank). Engraved music, lithrogr. Illustr. title (pl.- no. P.M.3598). Unbound. Probably first edition. Browned and stained margins. CPM 17/134; BSB/Mu. 1593.

Order no.: 447 / 40,00 EUR

DVORÁK, Ant (onín).

Suite für Pianoforte... Op. 98. Preis Mk 4.

Berlin, Simrock 1894. Folio. 19 pp., (1) p. (blank). Lithogr. music (pl.-no.10237). Unbound. Probably first edition. Title and 2 lvs. with ownership stamp; margins slightly stained (title more). Burghauser 184 ; CPM 18, 263 ; BSB/Mu. 1716.

Order no.: 414 / 60,00 EUR

GOLDSTEIN, Michael.
20 kleine Präludien für Bratsche solo.

Wolfenbüttel / Zürich, Möseler 1982 (= Hausmusik 213). Folio. 24 pp. Composer's hand-written dedication on title. Original wrappers, somewhat pale. First edition. Michael Emmanuilowitsch Goldstein (born 1917 in Odessa, died 1989 in Hamburg), became a famous violinist in the Soviet-Union; in 1963 he emigrated and lived in Hamburg. Clean copy.

Order no.: 470 / 20,00 EUR

HANDEL, G. F. - MOZART, W. A.
Alexanders Fest oder die Gewalt der Musik. Eine Cantate aus dem Englischen des Dryden übersetzt von C.W. Ramler.... Partitur und Klavierauszug. I. (- II.) Theil.

Leipzig, Kühnel (1812/13). Folio. 105 pp., (1) p. (blank); 70 pp., (1) leaf. (blank). Engraved throughout; pl. No. 1049 (part I) and 1089 (part II). Contemporary half calf (rubbed, head and foot of spine defective, tears to joints), spine gilt and spine label. First edition of Mozart's arrangement (KV 591) to Handel's opera. Full score and vocal score. Title 1 with stamp and ownership entry. Both titles with hand-written prices. Some browning throughout and the margins in places stained. KV 6 677 (uncorr.); BSB 7, 2479/80; Hoboken/Coll. 5, 133. Not with CPM and Wolffheim.

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HAYDN, Joseph
Die Worte des Erlösers am Kreuze in Musik gesezt ...

Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel (1801). Oblong-folio. (2) lvs. (title, preface), 112 pp. Title with vignette engraved, music type-set; without wrappers. New half cloth. First edition of the full score in the oratorio version. Title with stamp and water-stained; first 2 lvs. Reinforced at joint, the following 2 lvs. with restored paper defects to margins (not affecting music). Edges and margins in places water-marked, last leaf verso stained. Annotations in pencil. Hob. 2, p. 4/5; Coll. Hob. 1375; RISM H 2519; Hirsch IV, 810; CPM 60/318; BSB/Mu. 2675.

Order no.: 435 / 350,00 EUR

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Kirchner, Theodor

Albumblätter. Neun kleine Clavierstücke... Op. 7...

Leipzig / Winterthur, Rieter-Bidermann, no date. Folio. 18 pp., (1) leaf (blank). Lithogaphic music (Nr. 1). Unbound. Early edition. Last leaf damp-stained, otherwise clean. BSB/Mu. 3305; MGG 7, 944. Nicht in CPM.

Order no.: 415 / 40,00 EUR

KÖHLER, Hans.
Sechs Sonatinen für zwei Flöten. Op. 96. Flauto I (- Flauto II).

No printer, no date, no place. Folio. 8;8 pp. VN: Z11070. Two vols. Wrappers with typographic title. Browned but clean. Front fly-leaves with mostly erased ownership entry, erased stamps on first two leaves. Not in Prill.

Order no.: 471 / 20,00 EUR

(LEBLOND, Gaspar Michel [ed.])
Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la révolution operée dans la musique Par M. le Chevalier Gluck. ...

Neapel / Paris, Bailly 1781. 8vo. (3) lvs., 491 pp., (1) p. (blank). With Gluck's engraved portrait by St. Aubin. Contemporary half leather (worn, heavily rubbed), spine gilt. First edition. Rare. This collection of correspondence from and to Gluck, of forthcoming opera announcements, reviews of performances, newspaper articles and essays on the quarrels between "Piccinists" and "Gluckists" in Paris counts as one of the most important documents of this time. Among the many authors named are Gluck, Le Bailly, Rollet, l'Abbé Arnaud, La Harpe, Marmontel, Leblond and Condorcet. The lines between the supporters of Piccini, representative of the "old" neapolitan school of opera who presented the melodious element in the foreground, and Gluck, the creator of the Parisian Reform Opera, in which the music became a means of expressing of the state of the souls of the protagonists, were often drawn harder than was the case between the two composers themselves (Piccini writing an obituary in 1787 for Gluck, in which he praised his achievements). Front free endpaper with handwritten authors' list, a small library label and the repeated registration number. In places marginal annotations with pencil containing solvation of abbreviations of names, explications etc. First lvs. slightly damp-stained, the last ones water-marked, somewhat brown-stained. Otherwise clean. RISM BVI/1, 489; Hirsch I, 310; Wolffheim II, 963 ("selten und gesucht"); Eitner VI, 93. Not in BSB und CPM.

Order no.: 445 / 1200,00 EUR

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LISZT, F (ranz)
Grand Galop chromatique pour le Pianoforte dédié à Mr. Le Comte Rodolphe d' Apponi... Deuxieme Edition. Oeuv. 12. Prix 12 Gr...

Leipzig, Hofmeister (c. 1838). Folio. 11 pp., (1) p. (blank). Engraved music, colour-printed title title (pl.-no. 2276). Blue wrappers from the "Musikalien-Leihanstalt Eugen Pfeiffer, Heidelberg, Ludwigsplatz" with hand-written title and printed instructions (Do not roll! Do not break!) Second edition of the original version. Hand-written entry "1838" on wrapper and title, title with additional notice "Hofmeister Lg.", all in pencil. First and last leaf reinforced at joint, trimmed lower margins (some loss of music and plate-number, title entire). Slightly browned and damp-stained throughout. R 41; not in coll. Hoboken and Hirsch. About the different versions see: NLA I,13 p. 6ff.

Order no.: 477 / 50,00 EUR

MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix.
Sechs Lieder ohne Worte für das Pianoforte componirt und Fräulein Elise von Woringen zugeeignet...op. 30 - 2tes Heft - Pr. 3 Fr.s [ = MWV Sammeldruck 9: U 103, U77, U 104, U 98, U 97, U 110]

Bonn, Simrock (after 1835) Folio. 17 pp. (3 blanks). Lithographic title and music (pl.-no. 3204). (BOUND WITH): MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix: Sechs Lieder ohne Worte für das Pianoforte componirt, ... op. 38 - 3tes Heft - Pr. 3 Fr.s[ = MWV Sammeldruck 16: U 121, U 115, U 107, U 120, U 137, U 119] Bonn, Simrock (after 1837). Folio. 20 pp. (2 blanks). Lithographic title and music (pl.-no. 3383). Reimpression of of the first edition: new title, new text over the 1st music line (see coll. Hoboken 10, 190). (BOUND WITH): MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix: Sechs Lieder ohne Worte für das Pianoforte componirt ... Frau Clara Schumann geb. Wieck zugeeignet...op. 62 - 5tes Heft - Pr. 3 Fr.s 50 c [ = MWV Sammeldruck 29: U 185, U 181, U 177, U 175, U 151, U 161]. Bonn, Simrock (after 1844). Folio. 20 pp. (3 blanks). Lithographic title and music (pl.-no. 4313). Reimpression of the first edition: new title (see coll. Hoboken 10, 237). (BOUND WITH): MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix: Sechs Lieder ohne Worte für das Pianoforte componirt ... Fräulein Sophie Rosen zugeeignet ... op. 67 - 6tes Heft - Pr. 3 Fr.s 50 c [ = MWV Sammeldruck 32: U 180, U 145, U 102, U 182, U 184, U 188] Bonn, Simrock (after 1845). Folio. 22 pp. (3 blanks). Lithographic title and music (pl.-no. 4478). Reimpression of the first edition: new title (see coll. Hoboken 10, 245). (BOUND WITH): MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix: Sechs Lieder ohne Worte für das Pianoforte componirt ... op. 85 - No. 14 der nachgelassenen Werke - 7tes Heft - Pr. 3 Fr.s 50 c [ = MWV Sammeldruck 46: U 189, U 101, U 111, U 190, U 191, U 155]. Bonn, Simrock (after 1851). Folio. 20 pp. (4 blanks). Lithographic title and music (pl.-no. 4967). Reimpression of the first edition: new title (see coll. Hoboken 10, 276). (BOUND WITH): MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix: Sechs Lieder ohne Worte für das Pianoforte componirt ... op. 102 - No. 31 der nachgelassenen Werke. NEUE FOLGE. - 8tes Heft - Pr. 3 Fr.s 50 c [ = MWV Sammeldruck 54: U 162, U 192, U 195, U 152, U 194, U 172]. Bonn, Simrock (after 1867). Folio. 18 pp. (3 blanks). Lithographic title and music (pl.-no. 6526). Reimpression probably of the first edition: new title (see coll. Hoboken 10, 303). = 6 of 8 parts. (BOUND WITH): LISZT, F[ranz], Soirées de Vienne. Valses-Caprices d'après F. Schubert dedié à son ami S. Löwy.... En neuf livraisons... [ = R 252]. Vienna, C.A. Spina 1852/53. 7. Heft (of nine). Folio. 10 pp. (2 blanks). Lithogr. title(on a red background), engraved music (pl.-no. C.S.9306). First edition. Coll. Hoboken 10, 17. Unbound; first title going loose. Ownership stamps on all title-leaves. Slightly browned and stained throughout; tears to several leaves (not affecting music / pictures).

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