Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskai︠a︡ collection of music manuscripts, ca. 1807-1847 and undated.

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Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskai︠a︡ collection of music manuscripts, ca. 1807-1847 and undated.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612680703

Collection contains mostly opera scores, single arias and duets, and songs, and represents the singer's performance repertoire. Words are predominatly in Italian, and include works by Domenico Cimarosa, Giovanni Simone Mayr, Wolfgang Mozart, and Gioacchino Rossini.

4 boxes, 15 volumes (3.2 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7796020

Houghton Library

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Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus

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The Serenade from which this movement is taken originally composed for 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons, 1781; second version, with the addition of 2 oboes, in 1782 (see callno.: 2329). This transcription 1941.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Adagio, K. V. 375 / Mozart ; transcribed by Zoltán Fekete. [c1941]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 42631243 Composed originally for solo piano, 1788. This transcription 1986.--Cf. Fleisher C...

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...

Cimarosa, Domenico, 1749-1801

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From L'olimpiade, libretto by Metastasio; first performed in Vicenza for the inauguration of the Eretenio Theatre, 10 July 1784. Cf. New Grove. From the description of Aria nel Sig'r Cimarosa : Se cerca se dice : manuscript, [between 1784 and 1815] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 259948545 Italian composer. From the description of Questo soave affetto che voi chiamate amore. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270562313 From the description of Messa...

Volkonskai︠a︡, Zinaida Aleksandrovna, kni︠a︡gini︠a︡, 1792-1862

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Volkonskaia was a Russian princess and author, as well as an amateur singer who collected contemporary vocal compositions. Her birth date is most likey 1789 and not 1792. From the guide to the Papers, 1809-1879., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) The Russian princess, Zinaida Volkonskaia, moved in political, literary, and musical circles during the first half of the 19th century, and counted among her close friends Alexander I, emperor of Russia...

Mayr, Simon, 1763-1845

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German composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Bergamo, 18 February 1819, to Pietro [i.e. Peter] Lichtenthal in Milan, 1819 Feb. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582083 From the description of Autograph letter in the third person, dated : [n.p., Bergamo?], 29 May 1804, to unidentified administrators, 1804 May 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582087 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Bergamo, 31 March 1828, t...