Musicmss (Catalog) - Xerxes Books, Booksellers to the World Since 1980

Musicmss:

Music auction. FINE MUSIC AND CONTINENTAL MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION OF LATE DR. FELIX SALZER AND MRS. SALZER
NY 1990. Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, May 1990. 4to., 63pp., illustrated, wraps. Fine. (a32206)
$23.00 (music) . MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS
Toledo 1953. Exhibition catalogue, Toledo Museum of Art. 8vo., 4opp., plus 12 photo illustrated plates, wraps. Good, light wear. (a32421)
$30.00 (music) . MUSIKER HAND SCHRIFTEN VON SCHUBERT BIS STRAWINSKY
Zurich 1961 Atlantis Verlag. Text (14pp.) in German. Hardcover, 4to., 184pp., fullpage reproductions of original handwritten scores, cloth. Fine in VG DJ. (a34025)
$34.00Rihm, Alexander . COLLECTION OF 9 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT COMPOSITIONS AND MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS OF ALEXANDER RIHM (1870-1952) plus TWO ADDITIONAL SCORES BY WEBER AND WAGNER SIGNED BY RIHM
Nine original manuscript music scores plus 2 additional volumes of folio printed music scores by other composers which are signed on cover by AR. All scores folio. Two Original music compositions by Rihm: (1) No 2 Duet for Soprano and Tenor 27pp.( Piano and voice scores and lyrics) (2) Menuett in A dur fur Streichquartett. Berlin 1890 30p. Seven original manuscript arrangements by Rihm: (3) Sullivan - On Shore and Seas arranged for 4 hands, 49pp. (4) A Festival Cantata by Cornelius Ryner Opus 32 Music for 2 pianos, 38pp. (5) The Dance, an Original German Poem by Paul Fleming for mixed chorus, solo-quartet and orchestra by Joachim Raff, Orchestra part arranged for 2 pianos 4 hands 11p. (6) Iolanthe by Arthur Sullivan, arranged for piano and 4 hands, 25pp. (7) Wallenstein by Vincent D'Indy -Transcription for 2 pianos 8 hands, 29pp.; (8) Engelbert Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel fur 2 pianofortes zu 8 handen, 37pp., (9) Wagner, Gesang der Rheintochter aus Gotterdammerung , nach der Einrichtung zum Concertvortrag von F. Volbach, ( signed by Rihm in Yaphank, Lond Island, Juli 1913) , 33p. words and music . Included with this is the original printed Schott score of this Wagner work . Two additional printed scores both signed by Rihm on covers: (10) Carl Maria von Weber - Partitur Pr. M 5, 46pp. (lacks rear cover) and (11) Wagner- Partitur Pr. M 6. by Schott, 33pp. "For a pure lyric gift, expressed always with simplicity but never-failing grace, we have no composer to surpass Alexander Rihm" writes William Upton in Art-Song in America. Rihm spent some time in Germany, lived for a while in Yaphank, New York and is buried in Rhode Island. All material Good to VG plus. Collection of 11 items: (a60540)
$1600.00 Lecocq, Charles (1832-1918) . ORIGINAL MUSIC MANUSCRIPT OF SOUVENIR DE TIRANON GAVOTTE (SIGNED)
Full score. Undated. Oblong folio (10 x 14 inches) 9pp. A total of 159 bars in length. Notated in black ink on 22 hand-ruled staves per page. Scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 cornets, timbales, triangle and string quartet. With fine full signature to first page of music. Minor corrections throughout. Some light wear and soiling. Overall though an attractive closely-written manuscript of a work not included in the New Grove works list. Possibly unpublished. Lecocq was a successful composer of operetta and gained international recognition with works such as La Fille de Madame Angot, Girofle-Girofla and La Petite Mariee. La Fille de Madame Angot has remained a classic among operettas and demonstrates Lecocq's abundant flow of pleasing melodies, his deft exploitation of rhythm for a lively theatrical effect, impressive building up of extended numbers, and typically French shaping of phrases. (New Grove Volume 10 at p.593) VG in protective paper folder. (a60543)
$1200.00 Schimmerling, Hanns H A . MANUSCRIPT MUSIC: DIE KIRSCHENBLUTHE (OPUS 11)
Original manuscript: Dichtung fur Orchester und eine Baryton (oder Alt.) Stimme mit Benutzung von Texten aus. O. E. Harlebens, Meine Verse. Klavierauszug. Handwritten note in pencil on top of title page seems to indicate that the music was performed in Germany in 1925 and in New York with Michael Bohnen in 1926. Folio, 31 pages of ink manuscript music, hardcover. Music VG, clear neat and legible. Cover Good plus, lightly worn. (a61792)
$420.00Schimmerling, Hanns H A . SILVIO PELLICO (ALDO ZAMBONI) MANUSCRIPT
Manuscript (in pencil) music score. Music for piano and alto voice with lyrics. Lg.4to., 150pp., (manuscript in pencil, 14 staves per page), leaves loose in folding hardcover binder. Good. (a62644)
$300.00 Schimmerling, Hanns H A . LUSTIGE OUVERTURE OP. 16 (PARTITUR) (signed)
Original manuscript music. Lg.4to., 60pp. (23 staves per page), hardcover. ***Signed by Schimmerling. Some manuscript notation inside front cover and on free end paper. Good. (a63299)
$425.00 Schimmerling, Hanns H A . DIE KIRSCHENBLUTE (ORCHESTERPARTITUR) OP. 11 DICTUNG FUR ORCHESTER U. EINE BARITONSTIMME (ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT)
Original manuscript music, with lyrics for Baritone voice. Lg.4to., 63pp. (26 staves per page), hardcover with new paper spine. Signed by Schimmerling. Laid in: 2 copies of 2-page printed music concert programe of Brunner Philharmoniker for April 17 (1925?) in which this piece was played. Good plus. (a63300)
$420.00 Haeser, G.W.A., Fils . SOUVENIR DE WEIMAR GRANDVALS - GRANDVALS POUR LE PIANO FORTE (original manuscript music score)
1835. Original ink manuscript, musical score. Fancy ink calligraphic titlepage. Music notation strong and easy to read. Oblong 4to. 9 x 12 inches. 9pp., string bound. Good, binding broken, split at spine, some stains in margin. (a6500)
$390.00 Martino, N. . CAMPO SANTO - TANGO (MANUSCRIPT SCORE)
Dated at end: S.S. Reliance, June 11, 1925. Original ink manuscript music score. 4to., 2 pages, later wraps. Good, worn and tearing on edges (on margins only, not into text). (a77377)
$50.00Freistadt, Meyer L.. SONATA NO. 7 OPUS 23 (signed)
Freistadt, born in New York City, lived from 1909-1986. Music score with original pencil notations added by Freistadt and signed and dated by Freistadt. Original composer's work sheets laid in. This piece was performed at Barnard College, February 4, 1958. Program of this concert is laid in. Lg.4to., stiff black wraps with handwritten title label by Freistadt. VG plus. Piano score. (a78748)
$180.00 Weimar, Graf of Munchen . 23 MUSIC AND LYRICS FOR GERMAN FOLK SONGS
n.d. (c. late 18th or early 19th century) Collected and set down by Graf Weimar. Fully manuscript in brown ink. Oblong 4to., first song lacks first page but 23 complete pieces follow, bound in boards. Notebook once owned by Otto Karl Radt of Washington DC; his name and address are written in ink 4 times on boards. Good, boards very worn. (a8503)
$350.00(Original Antiphony Manuscript 18th century). ANTIPHONALE MONASTICUM PRO FESTIS ABBBATIALIBUS - ORIGINAL HARDCOVER MANUSCRIPT ANTIPHONY HOUSED IN CUSTOM-MADE FULL LEATHER HAT-BOX COVER LIKELY 18TH CENTURY
Appears to be 1725 as Author has given date in 'secret' code by writing at bottom of the title page a sentence mostly in black ink which has certain letters in red ink as capitalized Roman numerals which up to 1725. Full title: Antiphonale Monasticum pro Festis Abbatialibus cum Suis Commencorationibus Ferial : Dominical: et Festivis Concurr: Mann Nota in Sequetem Ordinem Dispositum . Anno quo Fata LI se C +Is Ioseph I f Vnere a VenIs, Nostrae EngleLberto sVnt Data IVra Mitrae. (The capitalized letters written in red ink in final two lines add up to the date 1725.) Hardcover, full rich red leather book with full gilt decoration on leather. Book measures 9 x 12 inches; 31 x 22.5 cm. Text is 1-1/4 inches thick ( 3 cm. ) All edges gilt. 292 pages (of which about 40 are blank). All manuscript entries in Red and Black ink throughout. Many pages have black block notes on music scores with lyrics. Indexed. Book is clearly incomplete and a work in progress as there are pencil-drawn guidelines and partially completed pages in addition to completed pages. VG, spine worn. Binding secure. Book is housed in a custom-made matching hardcover box measuring 13 x 9-1/2 inches, which is fully covered in leather in the shape of a book . The book has hand -painted floral endpapers and the box is lined with a similar (but not exactly the same) hand-painted floral and geometric design. Both end papers and box lining is done in matching maroon, tan and purple colors. Box is a pull-apart hatbox type of box. All writing is done neatly, carefully and artistically. Book is Good plus with light wear, rubbing and staining but still intact with no major faults at all, no cracks, no chips. Text pages are near Fine with no foxing and almost no spots, a faint bit of rippling only. Box is VG but does have some spots of wear, a bit of light fraying along some edges but not broken and quite secure. Unique and Wonderful item. (a85941)
$4500.00Daggett (?). YE GODS - ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SCORE
no date. appears to be c. 1930. 4to notebook, wraps, staple binding. Handwritten score, music and lyrics for what appears to be a short comic opera in two acts. Written in pencil and pen on preprinted staff lines . 47p. "Daggett" written in pencil on top left corner - possible composer? Good, some light wear. Opening chorus begins: "We're wild, we're wild, we're wild, we're wild , we're wild, we're wild , wild wild spirits....". Possibly left unfinished at the end -music ends abruptly and no lyrics on final pages. (a89822)
$45.00 Schimmerling, H A Hanns . PARTITUR OPUS 11 FUR ORCHESTER (signed)
Stiff cardboard boards. Folio. 51p. Original pencilled manuscript music written on pre-printed staff paper. **Title written in pencil by Schimmerling and signed by him inside front cover. Good, boards worn but binding secure. Rare. (a89826)
$400.00 Phillips, Sarah . ALBUM OF MUSIC FOR PIANO AND LYRICS FOR VOICE HAND-COPIED , AMERICAN, C. 1850
Calligraphic signature of Sarah Phillips on end paper. 92 p. of carefully printed music score and lyrics for about 40 songs including Bath Waltx, Overture to the Deserter, Love and Time, Home Sweet Home, Cold was the Climate, Mountaineers by J T Craven, Fall of Paris. Album pages have preprinted staff lines. final page is blank. Good, some what worn but music is readable; binding is secure. (a89972)
$80.00 Eisenstein, Alfred . A DREAM SONG (printed) ; TANGO (manuscript)
Two separate music scores. 4to. Each 2 pages. Dream Song is printed; Tango is in ***original pencil manuscript. No date. near Good, worn but quite legible. Pair: (a90765)
$49.00 Messager, Andre . ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER WRITTEN/SIGNED BY ANDRE MESSAGER DATED 28 AOUT 1912 with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER WRITTEN/SIGNED BY C. ERTYLE ON VERSO
Single sheet of paper, 8-1/2 x 5 inches. Printed letterhead of "Theatre National de l'Opera, Paris, Cabinet des Directeurs." Manuscript ink letter from Andre Messager to "Mon Cher Ertyle". On verso is handwritten letter by Mr. Ertyle which mentions Mr. Debussy in passing . Both letters are brief and in French. Andre Messager was French composer and conductor, 1853-1929. VG. Ephemera. (a92136)
$100.00 Auber, Daniel . ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER WRITTEN AND SIGNED BY AUBER DATED 16 JANVIER 1858
Single sheet of paper, 8 x 5 inches. Eighteen neat ink handwritten lines addressed to Monsieur Sain d'arod (?), a Lyon. In French. Signed : "Auber". Letter concerns Auber's comic opera "Le Cheval de Bronze." VG plus, folded in quarter. Ephemera. (a92137)
$220.00 Bibb, Frank . A RONDEL OF SPRING (manuscript music score)
Original music composition titled "A Rondel of Spring - Bibb" is written in pencil on 3 sides of 2 folio sheets of prelined music score. VG. paper is lightly toned. This piece by Frank Bibb is not dated but it was performed by the Columbia University Glee Club in 1926 so had to have been written in 1926 or a bit earlier. Original music score for piano. (a92802)
$150.00 Freistadt, Meyer . SYMPHONY #6
no date. c. 1960. Music score for full orchestra. 132 pages - with scores for each of the instruments. Folio. Appears to be the original ink manuscript score. Freistadt, a New Yorker, lived 1909- 1986. (a94148)
$200.00Cowie, J. W.. THE RESURRECTION - original MANUSCRIPT COPY
1935, 1936 first edition. Hardcover 4to, title printed in gilt on front. 170p. of music score in ink with additions in red and black pencil (about 30 unused unnumbered pages at end.) Lyrics handwritten in as well. The is the Full Score for Strings and Tympanie. Cowie's name and address on end paper (likely his own handwriting.) Note states: "Begun 19-3-35; finished 3-1-36." Original manuscript. (a94757)
$275.00Church, Frank M (composer); Charles Mackay (lyrics). A DEED AND A WORD - ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MUSIC SCORE
One sheet, 10 x 13 with music hand scored and handwritten on both sides of sheet. Music score for voice and piano with lyrics in English. Hand written in ink on top "For Paul Weaver with the compliments of the composer Feb 21, '34". Two tiny tape repairs . 27 lines of music. Good. (a95187)
$65.00Haussman, C F. MANUSCRIPT HYMNAL
Jerusalem 1860 first edition. Manuscript music. Signed C. F. Haussman. Handwritten text in legible ink writing. All lyrics in German. A few of the hymns have the composer identified (Palmer, C. M. v. Weber and Rolle). 8vo., approximately 60 leaves of ink manuscript music and verse, numbered 2-78 (with some numerical gaps), manuscript index at end. Music is strongly and clearly written - easy to follow except there is some minor bleeding of notes onto verso of pages. Good, cover moderately worn. (mu301)
$180.00 Michel, Joseph A. . COLUMBUS (MANUSCRIPT MUSIC) (signed)
n.d. Author gives his address as Denver, Colorado. Original Ink Manuscript orchestral score of operetta about Christopher Columbus bound in hardcover.Small folio., 160pp., buckram binding with gilt lettering on front cover. Signed by Michel. VG. (mu322)
$295.00Wald, Max. PROVINCIAL EPISODE. AN OPERA IN ONE ACT
Libretto only. Autograph manuscript written in pencil at the Hotel Chelsea in NY c. 1950 in a student exercise book (7 x 9 inches) with corrections throughout. (ii), 34, (i)pp. The mss is accompanied by 2 letters concerning plans for possible performances at the Metropolitan Opera Association of New York and Ohio University. Wald (1889-1954), went to study with Vincent d'Indy in 1922, returning to become chairman of the Theory Department of the Chicago Musical College in 1936. Wald is credited by Reiss in Composers of America with only 2 works for the stage, the operas Mirandolina and Gay Little World so Provincinal Episode would appear to be a a hitherto unknown work. (mu600)
$150.00