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Lithograph portrait of Maria Malibran and Laure Cinti-Damoreau; Maria Malibran, "Au bord de la mer"

French soprano Laure Cinti-Damoreau (1801-1863) and Spanish mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran (1808-1836),two of opera’s most admired bel canto singers of…

Copy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro

An early manuscript copy in several hands of Mozart's 1786 opera Le Nozze di Figaro (the unusual misspelling “nozzi” on the cover is repeated on the…

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Six Easy Keyboard Sonatas (Wq. 53)

This collection of six “easy” pieces, composed between 1762 and 1766, was the last of C.P.E. Bach’s seven Berlin sonata collections, and one of…

Lili Boulanger, Cortège, arranged by Nadia Boulanger

This manuscript of Lili Boulanger's 1914 violin-piano duet Cortège is an arrangement by her sister Nadia for solo violin and chamber orchestra. The…

Lou Harrison, Gending Alexander

American composer Lou Harrison's Gending Alexander, a work for Javanese gamelan ensemble, was first performed April 22-24, 1981 at the University of…

M. le comte de la Cépède, La poétique de la musique

La poétique de la musique, a 700-plus page treatise on aesthetics by French naturalist and amateur composer Bernard Germain de la Cépède, was first…

Guido Adler, annotated copy of Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Chronological Catalog of the Works of Ludwig von Beethoven

Jewish scholar, writer, critic, pedagogue, and editor Guido Adler’s library was a working collection: like this interleaved copy of Thayer’s Beethoven…

Georg Solti, annotated score for Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

This annotated copy of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was owned by Sir Georg Solti, and chronicles 19 groups of performances dating from 1959-1992.…