Sonata
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Type of record: Book
Title: Sonata
Other titles: Sonatas
Classmark: Manuscripts BC MS Mendelssohn/Scores 1
Creator(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)
Date(s): 1823
Size and medium: 1 manuscript score ([3] p. on 2 leaves, bound)
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Description
Caption title.
Attached manuscript note on flyleaf: "An Unpublished Sonata for Piano. Dated 27th Nov. 1823. by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy."
"Sonatina" corrected on p.[1] to read "Sonata".
"L. e. g. G." written at top right corner of p.[1]
Interleaved with protective paper.
Autograph manuscript of his sonata for piano in B flat minor, dated 27 Nov. 1823 at end of score.
From the library of Lord Brotherton.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke (MWV). Studien-Ausgabe von Ralf Wehner (Wiesbaden, 2009), U 42.
First publication: A sonata by Mendelssohn, by R. Larry Todd (from The Piano Quarterly, 29, 1980, pp. 30-31).
Indexed in: Ralf Wehner: '"There is probably no better living authority on Mendelssohn's autograph": W.T. Freemantle und seine Mendelssohn-Sammlung', Mendelssohn Studien, 16 (2009), pp. 333-69,
Features
Bindings
Bound in quarter morocco with linen sides.
Provenance
Former owner: W.T. Freemantle. Sold at auction in 1879 by Etienne Charavay in Paris, from the collection of Benjamin Fillon, and probably then acquired by Freemantle.
Access and usage
Access
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