Verlag: No place or date.
Anbieter: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Österreich
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8vo. 1 p. In French. To an unidentified recipient whom Liszt asks to visit him the following day so that he can importune and, in doing so, thank him: "Je ne sais vous remercier autrement, cher excellent ami, qu'en vous importuner de nouveau - Venez donc demain ici et pardonnez moi de n'être pas encore venu vous serrer la main [.]". - Numbered in pencil on recto and with an old collector's note in ink on verso. Minor brownstaining; four pin holes and traces of former mounting.
Verlag: Weimar, 17 August 1880, 1880
Anbieter: Kotte Autographs GmbH, Roßhaupten, Deutschland
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2 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on a single folded sheet; silked on first and terminal pages, Nearly complete separations at folds, moderate scattered soiling and foxing, blue pencil identification in unknown hand at lower edge of signature page, ink cataloguing number on terminal page. To the General German Music Association, in German, promising to send the score of Berlioz's Harold in Italy and piano music for four hands, giving travel plans, and requesting that [Hermann?] Reidel be prevented from performing Liszt's oratorio Christus in Leipzig or at next year's Musician's Assembly. [] I made a present of the score of the 'Harold' symphony by Berlioz to the library of the General German Music Association [] [T]he same copy was lent me [] for the purpose of revising of the piano abridgement. It is being returned to you with today's post. [] "I beg you once more to dissuade Riedel from the performance of the 'Christus Oratorium' in Leipzig, because [] [it] would be unsuitable. Consequently, also at the Musician's Assembly in '81 []".
Verlag: No place, [1846]., 1846
Anbieter: Kotte Autographs GmbH, Roßhaupten, Deutschland
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8 pp. on 4ff. Brown ink on paper. Four-part harmony based on a poem by Jean Racine: the notation of the 3rd piece of "Cinq Chrs" (S18, R506, LWJ4), composed by Liszt in early 1846 for the musical competition "Nos patriæ fines" (from Virgil's First Eclogue) instigated by the French Ministry of Public Education on 3 Nov. 1845. When the competition for a "collection of common, moral, religious and historical songs" was concluded on 1 April 1846, no fewer than 370 composers had submitted a total of 1731 pieces. In March 1846, Liszt, then in Vienna, entrusted the manuscript to a Dr. Weber to deliver it to the composer's mother in Paris, with written instructions to submit the pieces for the competition, emphasizing the importance of the task. The prizes were awarded on 21 March 1847; Liszt's "Cinq Chrs" had not been considered either because Liszt was thought too much of a celebrity already or, more likely, because his entry arrived too late.The manuscript was prepared by a scribe who wrote the entire musical notation using 12 of 15 staves (3 sets of 4 bracketed staves) to a page for the four voices: Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Tenor, and Bass. In the upper left-hand corner of the first page the name of the contest ("Nos patriæ fines") is written, and "No A" has been added in red ink. At the head of the page Liszt added the number "III (Texte de Racine n° 3)" in red crayon. He added the words to the five verses of the song under every first stave, marking the tempo as "Moderato" in brown ink and providing several performance instructions in red crayon: "dolce con sentimento", "dolce", "marqué", accents, crescendos, etc. The harmony is in 4/4 time, in A major (as stipulated for the competition). The text is from Jean Racine's translation of the "Wednesday Vespers" from the hymns of the Roman Breviary: "Grand Dieu qui fais briller sur la voûte étoilée / Ton trône glorieux, / Et d'une blancheur vive à la pourpre mêlée / Peins le cintre des cieux ; / Par toi roule à nos yeux, sur un char de lumière, / Le clair flambeau des jours, / De tant d'astres par toi la lune en sa carrière / Voit le différent cours".This is the only known manuscript of the third harmony in private hands and the only manuscript bearing the complete autograph text. The autograph manuscript of "Cinq Chrs" in the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar includes only five written words, whereas the French National Library holds very similar manuscripts of the first and fourth choirs, copied by the same hand, with autograph texts and performance directions by Franz Liszt. Cf. Michael Short, "Liszt's Cinq Churs. Background to unpublished works", in: M. Saffle/R. Dalmonte (eds.), Liszt and the Birth of Modern Europe (New York 2003), pp. 281286; Franz Liszt, Cinq Churs (ed. Leslie Howard, Sarastro Music 2003). - Bibliographie: Michael Short, Liszt's Cinq Churs. Background to unpublished works", in Liszt and the Birth of Europe (2003, p.281-286). Franz Liszt, Cinq Churs, ed. Michael Short (Sarstro Music, 2003).
Verlag: Pest, 14. XII. 1873., 1873
Anbieter: Kotte Autographs GmbH, Roßhaupten, Deutschland
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8vo. 2 1/4 pp. Liszt recommande Mme BALAZS, une cantatrice de talent, fort applaudie au théâtre d'ici. Les lauriers weimarois de Mme Mombelli troublent son sommeil ; elle excelle dans les opéras italiens et les fioritures. () J'ajoute qu'elle a de 30 à 34 ans, jouit d'un certain embonpoint, non désavantageux, et qu'avant son mariage elle chantait avec succès sous le nom de Mlle Boguar, sur plusieurs scènes allemandes (Hanovre entre autres) ; ses appointements au théâtre de Pest montent à 8 000 florins ; mais elle voudrait y ajouter (pour ses feux intimes) les lauriers weimarois (). Il demande donc à son correspondant d'intervenir auprès du baron Loën [intendant du théâtre de Weimar] en faveur de Madame Balazs ; Peut-être lui accorderait-on aussi l'honneur de chanter à un concert de la cour.
Verlag: Weimar, 9. III. 1850., 1850
Anbieter: Kotte Autographs GmbH, Roßhaupten, Deutschland
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8vo. 2 pp. Liszt lui confie ses futurs projets à Paris en recommandant son secrétaire Belloni pour lequel il se sent tout chagrin de ne pouvoir lui faire un pas de conduite jusqu'à Paris. Je le charge de vous bien assurer du cordial et reconnaissant souvenir que je vous garde () de vous mettre au courant de mes projets et de mes espérances dont la réalisation ne saurait tarder beaucoup plus longtemps. Il adresse ses hommages à Madame Janin ; il vient d'apprendre que la partition du Petit souvenir Weymarois qu'il lui avait dédiée, lui a été retournée par les prohibitions de la douane française ().
Verlag: [Vienna, c. 1870s]., 1870
Anbieter: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Österreich
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92:58 mm. Vintage albumen print from the studio of Fritz Luckhardt, Vienna.
Verlag: Weimar, 17. VI. 1856., 1856
Anbieter: Kotte Autographs GmbH, Roßhaupten, Deutschland
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8vo. 2 pages. With orgininal envelope. To the music publisher Karl Haslinger of Vienna. Liszt responds to a request for feedback on his composition, which Liszt is unable to give because he never received a copy of the score: On returning yesterday from the Magdeburg Music Festival, I found your friendly letter of June 12, for which I express my most obliging thanks right away: however, I must regret not to be able to give you any information on the spatial fate of your so excellent and laudable score, as I have not received it and in consequence I also did not receive the letter which was enclosed in the package. I am expecting corrections from Herr Spina soon, and probably he intends to send the score along but in case there is further delay with the corrections, you would be me a big favor if you would ask Herr Spina to send me the oratorio by mail first. Permit, highly esteemed Sir, the expression of my utmost esteem." - Carl Anton Spina was another Austrian music publisher; he took over the firm of Diabelli when he retired in 1851. Spina printed works by Johann and Josef Strauss.
Anbieter: Herbst-Auktionen, Detmold, Deutschland
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E.Postkarte in Tinte mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift signiert Tetetlen, 26.IV.1889 - an den Kapellmeister EDUARD KREMSER (1838-1914, österreichischer Komponist , Arrangeur und Dirigent sowie Sammler traditioneller Wienerlieder ), den er um baldigste Antwort bittet. (es geht um Nachricht über die Partitur seiner DOLORES ( Kantate, 1889) , wie aus 2 weiteren Karten an denselben, Bad Schneekochen 1889, hervorgeht - diese sind zum gleichen Preis vorhanden !).