The following manuscripts are now on view in the Juilliard Manuscript Collection exhibit case (across from the Library's entrance):
Johannes Brahms. Piano Quartet no. 3, op. 60, C minor. 3rd and 4th movements. Stichvorlage with extensive annotations by the composer.
Frédéric Chopin. Waltz in F minor for piano, op. 70, no. 2. Autograph manuscript, 1841. Originally owned by the Collection Musicale François Lang, Abbaye de Royaumont.
Aaron Copland. El Salon Mexico; arranged for piano by Leonard Bernstein. Autograph manuscript, including caricatures at the bottom of page.
Gustav Mahler. Symphony no. 9. Autograph manuscript draft of the last fifty bars of the first movement of the Ninth Symphony, with thirteen bars deleted. An extremely worked manuscript, with many corrections, alterations, deletions, and revisions. Written in black ink, in short score, on eighteen-stave paper, comprising four system, each of four staves, marked “Nicht schnell (sempre Andante mosso)." Musical substance differs from finished work.
Igor Stravinsky. Canticum Sacrum ad Honoreum Sancti Marci Nominus. 1955. Autograph manuscript.
Also on view: Erik Satie, Sports et divertissements. Musique d’Erik Satie; Dessins de Ch. [i.e. Charles] Martin. Paris: Lucien Vogel, [1914]. Reproduced from holograph, the staves in red. “Il a été tiré ... 675 exemplaires ordinaires contenant la musique et une seule planche...numérotés de 226 à 900.” Library copy 277 of 900 printed.
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