From the collection of Carl Van Vechten., Individual parts for orchestra with piano., and Inscribed for Carl Van Vechten by William Christopher Handy, 7-8-1941.
Publisher:
Handy bros. music co., inc.,
Subject (Name):
Handy, W. C.--(William Christopher),--1873-1958--Presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten. and Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964--Presentation inscription from W.C. Handy
Caption title. Without imprint., Place of publication supplied by curator., First line: Three rosy fac'd Topers as ever was known, On a Frolick one night ..., Additional two lines of music "For the German flute.", This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Staff notation., and In ink upper right: 31.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Drinking songs, Sheet music, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Wine, Law, Clergy, and Songs
Score, holograph. Dated at end, 1851 June 8, Mont-Chartrain.
Description:
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., Bound by a former owner., Jacques Offenbach, French composer., Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Sotheby's music sale, 2001 May 25, lot 146), on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2001., Set of waltzes for orchestra. Composed 1851., and Title from caption, written in an unidentified hand.
"Popular polkas in the Musical bouquet" precedes series list on t.p., "Respectfully dedicated to Charles Dickens, Esqre.", For piano., and Illustration and passage from Little Dorrit on t.p.
Publisher:
J. Allen and Musical Bouquet Office
Subject (Name):
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Little Dorrit and Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Characters--Little Dorrit
Subject (Topic):
Little Dorrit (Fictitious character), Piano music, and Polkas
BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +H785 2: Later impression: without series list on t.p.
Description:
"Popular polkas in the Musical bouquet" precedes series list on t.p., "Respectfully dedicated to Charles Dickens, Esqre.", For piano., and Illustration and passage from Little Dorrit on t.p.
Publisher:
J. Allen and Musical Bouquet Office
Subject (Name):
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Little Dorrit and Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Characters--Little Dorrit
Subject (Topic):
Little Dorrit (Fictitious character), Piano music, and Polkas
Score in two volumes, written in manuscript in the hands of several copyists, with text in Italian and German translation. Annotations on the title page of each act list performances in Italian cities, including Alba, 1882; Alessandria, 1851; Bari, 1877-1878; Bergamo, 1851 and 1885-1886; Brescia, 1887; Verdi's Busseto estate, 1890; Casale Monferrato, 1878; Fabriano, n.d.; Faenza, n.d.; Fano, 1877-1878; Fiume, n.d.; Genoa, 1850 and 1889; Gorizia, 1889; Mantua, 1878 and 1887; Milan, 1881; Padua, 1879-1880; Parma, n.d.; Pistoia, 1890; Reggio, 1851 and 1883; Riva, 1878; Rome, 1885 and n.d.; Rovigo, 1850; San Remo, 1880-1881; Turin, n.d.; Vercelli, 1851-1852; Vicenza, 1888; and Zara, 1852 and n.d. and Stamps on title pages and throughout each act indicate that the score was rented through the Leipzig office of Verdi's publisher Ricordi, apparently during a German revival of the opera in the 1920s. Blank pages following each act are stamped 1929. Part of act two and missing fragments of a few other pages have been replaced by later copyists. Metronome markings, cuts, and other performance markings appear throughout the score. The title page of act one is signed by conductor Leopoldo Mugnone
Alternative Title:
Luisa Miller. German & Italian
Description:
Opera with a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on Friedrich von Schiller's play Kabale und Liebe, premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, on December 8, 1849. and Bound by a former owner. "D. Walter" stamped on each spine.