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Théâtre Feydeau. Contract : with Jean-François Le Sueur, [1796 Feb. 19] 30 Pluvoise 4.

Title: Contract : with Jean-François Le Sueur, [1796 Feb. 19] 30 Pluvoise 4.

Contract outlining the performance fee for 1 performance of Le Sueur's opera La caravane.

ArchivalResource: [1] p. on 1 leaf ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184963832 View

Académie des beaux-arts (France). Etat des indemnités de MM. les membres de l'Académie royale des Beaux Arts, pendant le mois de decembre 1834 : manuscript, 1834 15 novembre.

Title: Etat des indemnités de MM. les membres de l'Académie royale des Beaux Arts, pendant le mois de decembre 1834 : manuscript, 1834 15 novembre.

List of the members of the Académie for the month of December, with their signatures and their yearly and monthly salaries.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. ; 48 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/259948377 View

Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816. Autograph letter signed, dated : Naples, 17 October 1809, to M. Gregoire, secretary to the directorship [of the Académie Impériale de Musique] in Paris, 1809 Oct. 17.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Naples, 17 October 1809, to M. Gregoire, secretary to the directorship [of the Académie Impériale de Musique] in Paris, 1809 Oct. 17.

Saying it has been a long time since he replied to the letters of Gregoire and Lesueur [i.e., Jean-François Le Sueur], asking if Gregoire will propose the tenor Fornato[?] Aprile (nephew of the famous [Giuseppe] Aprile) to Barili [i.e., Luigi Barilli?] for the [Opéra], recommending Aprile highly, sending greetings [i.e., congratulations?] to his colleague Sigr. Peer [i.e., Paer] for being named a corresponding member of the Società Reale dell'Accademia in Naples, asking Paer to let him know if Paisiello's opera [I] pittagorici has been submitted to His Majesty, mentioning his opera Gli gioche d'Agrigento, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p., with integral address leaf) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270674203 View

France. Maison de l'empereur et roi. Service de la Chapelle : directeurs et compositeurs de la musique de S.M., et artistes : manuscript, 1814 Apr. 30.

Title: Service de la Chapelle : directeurs et compositeurs de la musique de S.M., et artistes : manuscript, 1814 Apr. 30.

Salary list by year and month, of employees of the emperor's music department.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ([8] p.) ; 37 cm.

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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Autograph letters signed (5), dated : Paris, 28 July 1827, 5 April 1848 and 26 November [1848], and 29 December 1849, and London, 4 March 1849, to his sister Nanci Berlioz [later Pal], 1827 July 28 and 1849 Mar. 4.

Title: Autograph letters signed (5), dated : Paris, 28 July 1827, 5 April 1848 and 26 November [1848], and 29 December 1849, and London, 4 March 1849, to his sister Nanci Berlioz [later Pal], 1827 July 28 and 1849 Mar. 4.

Of a personal and familial nature, discussing work on a fugue for the prix de Rome, mentioning his [Damnation de] Faust, Berton, Cherubini, Lesueur, [Sir James] Brooke, Cavaignac, Henriette [i.e. Harriet Smithson], his son, Louis, Charles Blanc, Camille [Pal], Mme Sand's [François] Le Champi, Lamartine, etc.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (16 p., with one integral address leaf) ; various sizes.

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Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816. Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Naples, 25 September 1807 and 13 February 1811, to M. Gregoire, secretary to the directorship [of the Académie Impériale de Musique] in Paris, 1807 Sept. 25 and 1811 Feb. 13.

Title: Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Naples, 25 September 1807 and 13 February 1811, to M. Gregoire, secretary to the directorship [of the Académie Impériale de Musique] in Paris, 1807 Sept. 25 and 1811 Feb. 13.

Asking [in 1807] about the communication he sent to MM. Remusat and Lesueur concerning his pension, and thanking him [in 1811] for the encouraging news regarding his opera Pirro and Crivelli's success, saying he will wait to see whether his opera Pittagorici will be presented to the emperor, enclosing [not present] verses for Lesueur, saying he sent to M. Méneval a sacred composition to be performed at the baptism of the imperial offspring ("dell'Imperial Prole"), mentioning Grasset, etc.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (5 p., with integral address leaves.) ; (8vo and 12mo)

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Schlösser, Adolf, 1830-1913. Autograph letter signed, dated : Great Bookham (Surrey) May 5 1904, to Joseph Bennett, 1904 May 5.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Great Bookham (Surrey) May 5 1904, to Joseph Bennett, 1904 May 5.

Commenting on Bennett's recent article on Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, saying his father, Louis Schlösser, studied in Vienna under Seyfried, Salieri, and Mayseder, then under R. Kreutzer and Le Sueur in Paris, explaining how his father got to meet Beethoven, who wrote the canon "Edel sei der Mensch" [WoO 185] for him, mentioning Cherubini, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (12mo)

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Le Sueur, 1760-1837. [La mort d'Adam. Exauce ô dieu puissant sa timide prière!] : autograph manuscript, 1838 Mar. 5.

Title: [La mort d'Adam. Exauce ô dieu puissant sa timide prière!] : autograph manuscript, 1838 Mar. 5.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (2 p.) ; 30 x 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270566642 View

Cortot, Alfred, 1877-1962. Autograph letter signed, dated : Lausanne, 9 June 1950, to [M. Sainson], 1950 Jan. 9.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Lausanne, 9 June 1950, to [M. Sainson], 1950 Jan. 9.

Thanking him for his letter about a copy of Berlioz's Traité d'instrumentation, saying that he already owns a copy of the first edition inscribed by Berlioz to his teacher Le Sueur, and adding that the price asked by the dealer for the book is far beyond his means and "sans doute également la valeur marchande du livre!"

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270873250 View

Le Sueur, 1760-1837. Autograph document signed : [n.p., Paris, [n.d.,1816-1828].

Title: Autograph document signed : [n.p., Paris, [n.d.,1816-1828].

Headed "Maison de l'empereur. / Service du grand chambellan. / Musique de la chapelle," saying that the stipend formerly enjoyed by Guignes should henceforth be divided between [Gustave] Vogt, first oboist, and Frederic [i.e, Charles-Frédéric] Kreubé, first violinist at the Opéra-Comique; the document is a copy, in Le Sueur's hand and signed by him as "directeur de la musique de l'empereur;" the original was signed by "Le grand chambellan / comte de Montesquiou."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270667323 View

Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842. Pension request for Sieur Théodore, musician : manuscript, 1824, Jan. 20.

Title: Pension request for Sieur Théodore, musician : manuscript, 1824, Jan. 20.

An appeal to Baron de La Ferté as Intendant des Théâtres Royaux, and Directeur des fêtes et spectacles de la Cour, enumerating the years of service for Théodore, to secure a pension for him.

ArchivalResource: [3] p. on a folded sheet ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612847077 View

Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress, circa 1000-circa 1990

Title: Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress circa 1000-circa 1990

The archives consist primarily of music (both manuscript and printed), correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, books, newspaper clippings, printed programs, drawings, and engravings. They span years from the Middle Ages to the present, and include documents of composers, musicians, and literary figures, among others. The music in the collection includes holograph scores or sketches, both published and unpublished, as well as a number of copyists' and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements by composers and musicians such as Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Chopin, Franck, Mendelssohn, Puccini, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schoenberg, Webern, and many others. Also included is historically important correspondence, such as letters of Metastasio and Handel. Some composers (Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, for example) are represented by numerous manuscripts. A sample of other composers, musicians, and literary figures that are represented by both music and nonmusical materials includes George Auric, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Pierre Boulez, Anton Bruckner, Charles Burney, Feruccio Busoni, Claude Debussy, Frederick Delius, Hermann Hesse, György Ligeti, Federico Garca Lorca, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Marice Ravel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank Wedekind, Kurt Weill, and Gioseffo Zarlino.

ArchivalResource: 3,600 items; 131 boxes; 206 linear feet

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Ecole royale de musique et de déclamation (France). Souscription pour l'erection du monument á la mémoire de S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc de Berry : Intendance des menu-plaisirs du roi : manuscript, [1820?]

Title: Souscription pour l'erection du monument á la mémoire de S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc de Berry : Intendance des menu-plaisirs du roi : manuscript, [1820?]

Signed roster of the Conservatory employees who donated one day of wages to finance the monument.

ArchivalResource: [4] p. ; 41 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612859974 View

Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, to Ferdinand Laforest, 1827 Oct. 12.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, to Ferdinand Laforest, 1827 Oct. 12.

Saying that he hopes Laforest will never experience the unendurable sufferings he has been through since Laforest left, that for now he is not capable of describing the circumstances "de mon triste Roman," that he is preparing for the performance of his Mass, harshly criticizing Adolphe Nourrit's performance in [Spontini's] Vestale three days before, saying that the bottom register of Nourtit's voice is weak and that he presumed to alter the recitatives from one end of the score to the other (Berlioz writes out a musical example showing what Spontini wrote and what Nourrit sang), mentioning [Jean-Franc̦ois] Le Sueur, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p., with integral address leaf) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270672518 View

Le Sueur, 1760-1837. Autograph letter signed from Le Sueur to M. de la Ferté, 1814 Jan. 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Le Sueur to M. de la Ferté, 1814 Jan. 23.

Long and interesting letter from Le Sueur to M. de la ferté, the "intendant des menus." Le Sueur calculates his salaries from his various appointments as a way of emphasizing his protest against the proposed reduction. He points to the various reasons why his country owes him a (monetary) debt of gratitude, including that his former pupils occupy many of the most important positions in France.

ArchivalResource: 4 p. (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122448678 View

Le Sueur, 1760-1837. Programme de la cérémonie des cordons bleus [Ordre du Saint-Esprit], [182-?] le jour de la pentecôte.

Title: Programme de la cérémonie des cordons bleus [Ordre du Saint-Esprit], [182-?] le jour de la pentecôte.

Provides the complete music and stage directions for the ceremony, which took place in the Chapelle Royale.

ArchivalResource: [4] p. on 1 bifolium ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184963848 View