Beschreibung:
This famous collection is strong in Austrian annd German classics: for Mozart there are 11 music manuscripts, as well as letters, his marriage contract and the thematic catalogue of his works whicch he kept from 1784 until the end of his life. Bach is represented by a complete sacred cantata; the Haydn items include on of the London symphonies, among the Schubert manuscripts is perhaps is best known song: An Die Musick, there is a notebook Beethoven kept in his first years in Vienna, Brahms' Zigeunerlieder, and an astonishing array of early sketches by Wagner. There are also manuscripts of works by Alessandro Scarlatti and Handel, Offenbach, Musorgsky, Grieg and Debussy. The present century is represented by Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Bartok, Ravel, and Stravinsky. This catalogue illustrates and contains entries on over 130 manuscripts b y 52 composers. This is the first detailed catalogue of any part of the collection, renowned since the 1930s; some individual items have long been well-known, but it is only in recent years that the entire collection has become available to scholars.