Composers | Collection of printed first and early editions, mostly nineteenth and twentieth century

Composers

Collection of printed first and early editions of works including by:

Ludwig van Beethoven. Grand Quatuor En Ut dièze mineur pour deux Violons Alto et Violoncelle…Oeuvre 131 [parts], Mainz and Paris: chez les fils de B. Schott; Anvers: chez A. Schott, no date, 13, 13, 13, 13 pages, folio, priced at “4 f. 30 kr.”, disbound, modern folder and slipcase, browning;

George Frideric Handel. Israel in Egypt [Arnold edition], 282, [2] pages, folio, modern blue morocco-backed folding box, contemporary binding, rebacked);

Joseph Haydn. Die Jahreszeiten nach Thomson…Originalausgabe [full score], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1802], FIRST EDITION, 496 pages, folio, typeset music, ownership and publisher stamps, red morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe;---Die Schöpfung Oratorium [vocal score], Berlin: Challier, [c. 1840], 120 pages, oblong 4to, original wrappers, some spotting and staining;

Gioacchino Rossini. Guillaume Tell Opéra en quatre actes [full score], Paris: Troupenas; London: Goulding & D’Almaine; Mainz and Anvers: les fils de B. Schott, 2 volumes, 837 pages, folio, engraved music, plate number 347, priced at 400 francs, nineteenth-century quarter calf, some spotting;

Jean Sibelius. Sånger Lieder [3 songs including ‘Svarta rosor’], Leipzig etc.: Breitkopf & Härtel, no date, 11 pages, folio, with annotations by Granville Bantock?, publisher’s printed wrappers, old repair to pp.3/4, wrappers worn, small excision to upper wrapper;

Igor Stravinsky. Pastorale pour chant et piano, Moscow-Leipzig: Jurgenson, [1910], FIRST EDITION, 5 pages, folio, plate number 34546, publisher’s printed wrappers, browning to wrappers, splitting at spine;---Cinq pièces faciles pour piano à quatre mains, Geneva: Henn, 1917, FIRST EDITION, 19 pages, small oblong 4to, publisher’s printed wrappers, browning and a few small tears to wrappers;---Pétrouchka…Réduction pour piano à quatre mains par l’auteur, Berlin-Moscow-St. Petersburg: Édition Russe, [no date], 84 pages, folio, later manuscript annotations, publisher’s printed wrappers, modern cloth folding box;

Olivier Messiaen. Saint François d’Assise…1^er […8^e] Tableau, Paris: Alphonse Leduc, [1991], 8 volumes, 125, 83, 176, 199, 165, 364, 136, 202 pages, large folio (440 x 310 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers, slipcases; and three manuscript volumes of arias, songs and other works, including by Winter, Mozart, Vogler, Gluck, arranged for guitar and lute, over 300 pages in all, 4to, ownership inscription to one volume (“Charlotte Sophie Ihre”), original half calf, [c. late eighteenth-early nineteenth century] (c. 30 items in all)

[together with:]

John Playford. An introduction to the skill of musick: in three books…The Seventeenth Edition, London: William Pearson for John Sprint & Ben. Sprint, 1718 [RISM Écrits, p.659], 8vo, [8 leaves], 170, [1] pages, type-set music, some woodcut diagrams, dealer’s label (“Alfred Whittingham, dealer in Ancient and Modern Music…”) and ownership inscription ("J.H. Ramsbotham”) to front pastedown, eighteenth-century calf, rebacked, corners worn, browning and spotting