Richard Macnutt collection of musical autographs, 1820-1916 and undated [microform].

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Richard Macnutt collection of musical autographs, 1820-1916 and undated [microform].

Includes autograph letters from Vincenzo Bellini to Alessandro Lamperi, Giacomo Puccini to Valentino Soldani, and Giuseppe Verdi to Edoardo Mascheroni. Also includes autograph manuscripts by Luigi Cherubini, Gaetano Donizetti, Alberto Franchetti, Romualdo Marenco, Pietro Mascagni, Saverio Mercadante, Amilcare Ponchielli, and Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, Gasparo Spontini, Nicola Vaccaj, and Niccolò Zingarelli, among other compositions.

19 v. (2.4 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6829625

Harvard University, Wadsworth House

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Vaccai, Nicola, 1790-1848

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Italian composer. From the description of "Originale Niccola Vaccaj." : autograph manuscript. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270570050 Italian composer and teacher. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Pesaro, 4 May 1846, to Maestro Vecchiotti at the Basilica in Loreto, 1846 May 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270677874 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : London, 8 August 1833, to G[aetano] Rossi, 1833 Aug. 8. (...

Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848

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Italian composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Paris], to "il principe di Colobrano" in Naples, 1841 July 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565897 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Vienna, 13 June 1843], to [Gaetano] Cobianchi in Paris, 1843 June 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565892 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Naples, 13 October 1831, to his father, Andrea Doniz...

Mercadante, Saverio, 1795-1870

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000141 Composed for first performance at Naples, 3, 6 and 8 April 1843.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Overture on motifs of G. Rossini's Stabat Mater / Saverio Mercadante. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52973362 Italian composer and teacher. From the description of Autog...

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x000089 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. From the description of Luisa Miller : melodramma tragico in tre atti / sinfonia musica del Sigr. Mo. Giuseppe Verdi. [ca. 1850] (Yale University). WorldCat record id...

Soldani, Valentino

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Franchetti, Alberto

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Italian composer. From the description of "Cristoforo Colombo. Atto 2o." : autograph manuscript, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270563255 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p., n.d.], to an unidentified recipient, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270577494 ...

Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868

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Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after Charles Perrault's Cendrillon and librettos by Charles-Guillaume Etienne for Nicolas Isouard's Cendrillon and Francesco Fiorini for Stefano Pavesi's Agatina, o La virtù premiata; first performed in Rome at the Teatro Valle, 25 January 1817; the Holtei translation first performed in Berlin 20 October 1825. Cf. A. Loewenberg. Annals of opera. From the description of Aschenbrödel : komische Oper in zwei Acten, für die Darstellung auf der Königstädt...

Ponchielli, Amilcare

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Italian composer. From the description of [Draft of Suor Teresa]. [ca. 1880s?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270989968 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Cremona, 26 August 1869, to [Emanuele] Rovelli, 1869 Aug. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270675101 From the description of [Sketches for Act 3 of La Gioconda]. [1876?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270568708 From the description of [Draft of vocal score of I Lituani]. [1874?] (U...

Macnutt, Richard

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Macnutt was an English collector. From the description of Richard Macnutt collection of musical autographs, 1820-1916 and undated [microform]. (Harvard University, Wadsworth House). WorldCat record id: 145026838 English music dealer. From the description of Autograph and typewritten letters signed, dated : London, 18 July 1966, and Withyham, 8 May 1986, to J[ames]. J. Fuld, 1966 July 18 and 1986 May 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873525 ...

Zingarelli, Niccolò Antonio, 1752-1837

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000257 Italian composer. From the description of [Works, vocal. Selections.] : autograph manuscript. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571409 Italian composer and teacher. From the description of Autograph document signed, dated : Naples, 26 November 1832, 1832 Nov. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270679487 F...

Mascheroni, Edoardo

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Italian conductor and composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Fiume , 29 March 1923, to [Vittorio?] Scotti, 1923 Mar. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270581928 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Ghirla, 15 January 1909, to an unidentified friend, 1909 Jan. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873557 ...

Mascagni, Pietro, 1863-1945

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x00020d I Rantzau, with a libretto by Guido Menasci and Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, based on a play by Émile Erckmann, was first performed in Florence in 1893. A vocal score was published by Sonzogno (Milan, 1892). From the description of Sol che il sole risplenda. 1894 Nov 1-2. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 62092344 Italia...

Spontini, Gaspare, 1774-1851

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Italian opera composer and conductor. From the description of [O salutaris hostia]. [n.d.] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270569602 From the description of [Nurmahal. Draft.] : autograph manuscript, [1822?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270975700 From the description of [Incipit oratio Jeremiae Prophetae] : autograph manuscript, 1843 June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270569600 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Paris], 11 January...

Marenco, Romualdo, 1841-1907

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Italian composer, conductor, and violinist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Milan, 31 January 1881, to Giulio [Ricordi?], 1881 Jan. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270581811 Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x0001e9 ...

Puccini, Giacomo

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An Italian opera composer, Giacomo Puccini at the time of this letter was overseeing the production of La Fanciulla del West at the Teatro Grande, Brescia. The recipient, Antonio Bettolacci, was Puccini's personal business agent. From the guide to the ALS, from Giacomo [Puccini], Brescia, to Antonio Bettolacci, Torre del Lago, 1911 Aug. 19, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) From the description of ALS, 1911 Aug. 19, from Giacomo [Puccini], Brescia, to Antonio Be...

Lamperi, Alessandro,

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Bellini, Vincenzo

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Music by V. Bellini, Italian libretto by F. Romani after Carlo Tedaldi-Fores's play Beatrice di Tenda; opera first performed in Venice at the Teatro La Fenice, 16 March 1833. Cf. New Grove online. From the description of Cavatine für eine Bassstimme aus der Oper Beatrice di Tenda : mit Piano Forte Begleitung : manuscript, [185-?] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 671538604 Italian composer. From the description of Autograph letter (incomplete), dated : [...

Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842

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Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) was an Italian composer and music instructor. He was a child music prodigy who went on to write many popular operas as an adult. He moved to France in 1785, where he continued to live and work, successfully surviving the tumultuous regime changes of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. After the end of the eighteenth century, Cherubini's operatic work was less successful and so he began composing church music. In 1822, he became director of the prestigious Conser...