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University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections TABLE OF CONTENTS Biographical Sketches Scope and Content …………………………………………………………………... 2 …………………………………………………………………………... 13 Series Notes …………………………………………………………………………………... 13 Container List …………………………………………………………………………………... 15 Robert Ambrose …………………………………………………………………... 15 Florence Aylward …………………………………………………………………... 15 J.W.B. …………………………………………………………………………………... 15 Jean-Guillain Cardon …………………………………………………………………... 15 Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco …………………………………………………………... 15 Alphons Darr …………………………………………………………………………... 15 P.F. Fierlein …………………………………………………………………………... 15 Franz Jakob Freystadtler …………………………………………………………... 16 Georg Golterman …………………………………………………………………... 16 Gottlieb Graupner …………………………………………………………………... 16 W. Moralt …………………………………………………………………………... 16 Pietro Nardini …………………………………………………………………………... 17 Camillo de Nardis …………………………………………………………………... 17 Alessandro Rolla …………………………………………………………………... 17 Paul Alfred Rubens …………………………………………………………………... 17 Camillo Ruspoli di Candriano …………………………………………………... 17 Domenico Scarlatti …………………………………………………………………... 17 Friederich Schneider …………………………………………………………………... 17 Ignaz Umlauf …………………………………………………………………………... 17 Miscellaneous Collections …………………………………………………………... 17 Unknown …………………………………………………………………………... 18 MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 1 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Robert Ambrose Robert (Steele) [Ambrose]. Organist, choirmaster, composer, teacher, b Chelmsford, Essex, 7 Mar 1824, d Hamilton, Ont 30 Mar 1908. When the family moved to Hamilton from Guelph in 1845 he remained behind to work the farm, but in 1847 he joined his brother, Charles Jr, who was a music teacher in Kingston, and Robert became organist-choirmaster at St George's Church there. He was organist-choirmaster 1863-83 at the Church of the Ascension in Hamilton and also taught 1864-89 at the Wesleyan Female College (later Wesleyan Ladies College, still later Hamilton Ladies College). He was president in 1891 of the *Canadian Society of Musicians. During this period he composed extensively. Among his approximately 80 songs, 14 part-songs, and 25 instrumental pieces were Claridine (T.W. White 1872) for piano; 'Abide with Me' (Suckling 1882) for voice and piano; 'May God Preserve Thee, Canada' (Suckling 1886), written for chorus though recorded many years later (Columbia R4034) by the tenor Charles *Harrison; and 'The Contrite Heart' (Suckling 1881), an anthem. *Nordheimer issued a series of songs and part-songs, including at least seven for accompanied solo voice and three for quartet. Ambrose's most famous composition, the sacred song 'One Sweetly Solemn Thought' with words by Phoebe Carey, was published by Nordheimer in 1876, and has been included in numerous song collections, including CMH vol 3. This volume also contains his song 'Under the Snow.' 'One Sweetly Solemn Thought' was also adapted as a hymn tune (see CMH vol 5). It was recorded many times by a variety of performers: as a vocal solo by Ernestine Schumann-Heink, as a duet by Alma Gluck and Louise Homer, as a harp solo, an organ solo, and a trombone solo, and on at least five piano rolls. (See Roll Back the Years.) Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20040305122249/http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/4/17/m17-118e.php?uid=67&uidc=ID Florence Aylward Florence Aylward (b. 1862, d. 14 October 1950) was an English composer known for ballads. She was born at Brede Rectory in Brede, East Sussex, England in 1862, the daughter of the Rector of Brede, Augustus Aylward and his wife Mary. Aylward studied at the Guildhall School. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Aylward J.W.B. [No Biographical Information Available] Jean-Guillain Cardon (b Mons, southern Netherlands, 18 Jan 1732; d Versailles, 18 Oct 1788). French violinist and composer. He apparently lived in Champagne or Lorraine before going to Paris in 1761; it is likely that he also spent some time in Brussels, as a certain Cardon was a violinist with the Durancy troupe of actors there in 1753. He married Marie-Anne Petit before 1760, and after settling in the Paris area began using the name Jean-Baptiste; it is therefore important not to MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 2 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections confuse him either with his best-known son, Jean-Baptiste, often referred to as ‘Cardon fils’, or with his near-contemporary, Jean-Baptiste Cardonne, often called Philibert Cardonne. Cardon was appointed violon ordinaire in the royal chapel at Versailles in 1764, and about 1772 received the additional appointment of maître de violon to the teenage future Louis XVIII, from which he was pensioned in 1774. His compositions include chamber works, mainly for the violin, and song collections. A brother of Cardon was a cellist with the Concert Spirituel and Théâtre Italien, and taught the cello to Jean-Guillain’s son Pierre. Source: Kenneth Langevin. "Cardon, Jean-Guillain." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.mnl.umkc.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/04917 (accessed February 21, 2011). Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco (b Verona, 12 July 1675; d Munich, 12 July 1742). Italian composer. He was born into a family of high social standing, his father being a jurist. As a boy he learnt the violin and the cello, possibly under Torelli until the latter's removal to Bologna in 1685. In 1696 Dall'Abaco went to Modena, where his services as a musician were much in demand despite his not being attached to the court orchestra. His noted penchant for the French style may date from his Modena days, since the director of the orchestra, Ambreville, was French. After 19 September 1701 no further trace of Dall'Abaco exists in Modena, and the next mention of him is early in 1704 as a cellist in the Bavarian court, where one of his colleagues was J.C. Pez. The defeat of the reigning elector, Maximilian II Emmanuel, in the War of the Spanish Succession forced him to flee to the Netherlands, where he brought a large retinue including many of his own musicians. Setting up court in Brussels, Maximilian continued to patronize the arts extravagantly, but further French reverses caused him to withdraw to Mons in 1706. The capitulation of Mons following the battle of Malplaquet in 1709 sent the elector back to France, and a relatively impoverished court was established in Compiègne by grace of Louis XIV. Throughout these unsettled times Dall'Abaco remained at the elector's side. He had married Marie Clémence Bultinck in the Netherlands, and their son Joseph-Marie-Clément was born in 1709 or 1710. Dall'Abaco must have deepened his acquaintance with the French style after prolonged residence in the Low Countries and France, though it was only after Maximilian's eventual triumphant return to Munich in April 1715 that specifically French traits began to creep into his published music. Dall'Abaco's loyalty and competence were rewarded by his appointment as Konzertmeister in the reconstituted court orchestra and his elevation to the rank of electoral councillor in 1717, a fact proudly advertised on the title-page of his fifth publication, a set of concertos for various combinations. He also participated as a soloist in ‘academies’, the precursors of the musical soirées of the 19th century, some of which were held at his own house. Dall'Abaco remained in the service of the Bavarian court after Maximilian's death in 1726 and the accession of the new elector, his son Karl Albrecht. Though a music lover like his father, the new elector favoured a more up-to-date style of music than his Konzertmeister would, or could, supply, with the result that Dall'Abaco's musical activities became increasingly relegated to the background. A second set of concertos, published by Le Cène in 1735 as Dall'Abaco's op.6, is MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 3 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections the sole proof of his continued creative work during this final phase. He seems to have retired on a pension in 1740. Dall'Abaco's surviving output is restricted to the 66 works published in his lifetime as opp.1–6. Like Corelli, he seems to have taken unusual care in preparing his works for publication. The result is a consistently high standard of craftsmanship allied to an original and inventive turn of mind, which shows itself in individual details no less than in the broad design. Although the musical materials Dall'Abaco worked with are accurately described as post-Corellian, he did not hesitate to adapt or embroider them for special effect. His movements, whether binary or unitary, are mostly long and restate material systematically, using large units. The French influence in his music does not often extend to harmony, melodic style or ornamentation, but is seen in the occasional adoption of the rondeau form and in French dance movements, such as the passepied, with no traditional cultivation in Italy, and in a marked fondness for the parallel key (also, more unusually, its satellite keys). Thus an excursion to G major in the course of a movement in E major, such as occurs in the opening movement (Ciaccona) of the 12th sonata in his op.1, is no novelty for him. Source: Michael Talbot. "Dall'Abaco, Evaristo Felice." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.mnl.umkc.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/07074 (accessed February 16, 2011). Alphons Darr [No Biographical Data Available] P.F. Fierlein [No Biographical Information Available] Franz Jakob Freystadtler (b Salzburg, 13 Sept 1761; d Vienna, 1 Dec 1841). Austrian composer. He was the son of Johann Jacob Freystädtler (1723–87, composer, choirmaster and ‘Totensänger’ of St Sebastians-Kirche). After serving as a choirboy in the fürstliches Kapellhaus, Freystädtler studied the organ with Franz Ignaz Lipp, and in 1777 entered the Kapelle of St Peter, where he was organist until September 1782. He then went to Munich as a piano teacher; he ran up debts, as he had done in Salzburg, and was imprisoned. On 13 May 1786 he arrived in Vienna, where he studied counterpoint with Mozart. Until 1961 it was thought that his book of studies (A-Sm) was Mozart’s own material from his studies with his father Leopold. Mozart employed his pupil as a copyist, and Freystädtler copied the Piano Concerto in B K456 and replaced six pages of the autograph score of the String Quintet in G minor K516. During a lawsuit in 1786/7, in which Freystädtler was accused of having stolen a piano, Mozart came to his help by posting bond for him and presenting a written surety. In summer 1787 he was the eponymous hero of Mozart’s project for a burlesque Der Salzburgerlump in Wien (K509b), which includes the canon Lieber Freistädtler, lieber Gaulimauli (K509a). Freystädtler was still active as a piano teacher in 1834. He moved into a pensioners’ home in April 1837 and died there, destitute, in 1841. Nowak’s theory that Freystädtler was involved in completing the orchestration of the ‘Kyrie’ in Mozart’s Requiem is ruled out by recent studies of his manuscripts. MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 4 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections Freystädtler’s compositions include sonatas and sets of variations (and also a variation for Diabelli’s Vaterländischer Künstlerverein, 1824), programmatic piano fantasies, two piano concertos (a quattro), songs in the popular, simple style, and two cantatas. In 1793 he arranged Mozart’s last three string quartets for piano trio (with viola). An arrangement for piano quartet of the Piano and Wind Quintet K452 dating from 1786 and ascribed to him by Deutsch and Oldman in 1931, must be regarded as spurious. Source: Michael Lorenz. "Freystädtler, Franz Jakob." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.mnl.umkc.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/48829 (accessed February 16, 2011). Georg Goltermann (b Hanover, 19 Aug 1824; d Frankfurt, 29 Dec 1898). German cellist, conductor and composer. The son of an organist, he first studied the cello with A.C. Prell, one of Romberg’s last pupils. At the age of 23 Goltermann moved to Munich to study the cello with Joseph Menter and composition with Ignaz Lachner. In 1850 he began touring as a virtuoso cellist, at the same time gaining recognition as a composer; his Symphony in A and First Cello Concerto date from this period. His appointment in 1852 as music director in Würzburg effectively ended his short career as a touring cellist. The following year he accepted the post of assistant music director in Frankfurt, and in 1874 he became principal music director there. Goltermann’s own playing was marked by an energetic and highly emotional delivery, and stood him in high regard among cellists. His other compositions include orchestral overtures, songs, three sets of organ preludes and many chamber pieces, among them the Romance and Serenade op.119 for four cellos. Despite the success in his day of many of his works, it is Goltermann’s compositions for cello that are chiefly remembered; his eight concertos so effectively demonstrate the lyrical and virtuoso potential of the instrument that they continue to be in use as study pieces. Source: Marc Moskovitz. "Goltermann, Georg." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.mnl.umkc.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/11415 (accessed February 16, 2011). Gottlieb Graupner (b Verden, nr Hanover, 6 Oct 1767; d Boston, 16 April 1836). American musician, teacher and publisher of German origin. He was a son of the oboist Johann Georg Graupner, but no evidence has been found to link him with the earlier Christoph Graupner of Darmstadt. He was a skilled performer on many instruments, but followed his father’s profession and joined a military regiment in Hanover as oboist. He was honourably discharged in 1788 and shortly afterwards travelled to London, where he was first oboist in the orchestra assembled for Haydn’s concerts during 1791–2. He later immigrated to America where his first documented musical activity was as a member of the City Theatre Orchestra in Charleston, South Carolina, performing an oboe concerto on 9 November 1795. He married there Catherine Comerford Hillier, an English actress and opera singer, and the couple soon moved to Boston and were engaged at the Federal Street Theatre by January 1797. MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 5 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections Both Graupners were active as performers, and Gottlieb also opened a music store in which he taught, published and sold music. During the early decades of the 19th century he became Boston’s leading music publisher and dealer, selling music and instruments on consignment from other dealers, and engraving and printing much music and instructional material himself. He was leader of the Philharmonic Society throughout its existence (1809–24), and was a charter member of the Handel and Haydn Society in 1815. Graupner’s influence on the musical life of Boston was considerable because of the variety and scope of his activities through a long career. Graupner wrote a few songs, in which the text appears between the two staves of one keyboard system, Governor Brooks’ Grand March for flute and piano, and several instruction books: Rudiments of the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte (Boston, 1806), New Instructor for the Clarinet (Boston, 1811) and G. Graupner’s Complete Preceptor for the Clarinet (Boston, 1826). Source: Douglas A. Lee. "Graupner, Gottlieb." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.mnl.umkc.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/11655 (accessed February 16, 2011). W. Moralt [No Biographical Data Available] Pietro Nardini (b Livorno, 12 April 1722; d Florence, 7 May 1793). Italian violinist and composer. He displayed an early musical talent and received his first lessons in the town of his birth. In 1734 he was accepted as a pupil of Tartini in Padua and soon became his favourite student (according to Leoni and Burney). He then undertook an intensive programme of teaching and giving public and private concerts, for which he often went abroad for long periods. In 1760 he was in Vienna at the wedding festivities of the crown prince; from October 1762 until March 1765 he served at the court in Stuttgart under the direction of Jommelli, returning to his own country only for short visits; in 1765 he went to Brunswick, and in May 1766 he returned to Livorno. Two years later he was appointed solo violinist, and later music director, at the chapel of the court of the Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany in Florence, where he remained until his death. The Florentine orchestra was made up of eminent musicians, including Campioni and Dôthel, who helped raise the musical and cultural level of the town: Nardini, for example, was a close friend of the poet Corilla Olimpica-Maddalena Morelli, and was himself a member of the Arcadia under the name of Terpandro Lacedemone. His one absence from Florence was during Tartini's final illness, when, according to Burney, he cared for the dying maestro with true filial affection and tenderness. Nardini was famed not only for his orchestral playing but also for his solo performances, which he gave until the 1790s. He performed at the court of Ferdinand III of Bourbons in Naples, in Rome at the Gonzaga residence and in Pisa in the presence of Emperor Joseph II in 1784. His compositions reflect his abilities as a performer. He was noted for his perfect technique, excellent bow control and a superb sound. Leopold Mozart heard him play in 1763 and remarked: ‘The beauty, purity and evenness of his tone and his cantabile cannot be surpassed’. MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 6 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections He was particularly famed for his performance of adagio movements, which were more suited to his lyrical rather than dramatic nature. According to Schubert, he managed to move even the most insensitive listeners by the deep emotions expressed so effortlessly and naturally. His compositions, accordingly, combine two traits typical of the Italian style in the 18th century: cantabile and passionate writing in slow movements and fluency in fast ones. Source: Maria Teresa Dellaborra. "Nardini, Pietro." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.mnl.umkc.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/19572 (accessed February 16, 2011). Camillo de Nardis Camillo de Nardis (Orsogna, May 26, 1857 – Naples, August 5, 1951) was an Italian composer. He was also a conductor and teacher. He taught at the Conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Naples between 1882 and 1884, Nunziatella Military Academy from 1885, and at the Conservatory of Palermo between 1892 and 1897. From 1907 to 1922 he resumed teaching at the Conservatory of Naples, where he held the position of deputy director, succeeding Paul Serrao, until 1929. He was the author of a treatise on Harmony published by Ricordi in 1921. He also wrote sacred music, chamber, and revisions of music for harpsichord. Often introduced in his music elements from the folk tradition of Abruzzo: Abruzzo Scene, his orchestral work, two suites for symphony orchestra, is also published by Ricordi. His catalog also includes several operas, including Stella (1898), commissioned by the publisher Sonzogno to be represented in the Teatro Lirico in Milan, although he was given a preview at the Teatro Marrucino of Chieti. Source: Translated from http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo_De_Nardis Alessandro Rolla (b Pavia, 23 April 1757; d Milan, 14 Sept 1841). Italian composer, violinist and viola player. He studied counterpoint in Milan with G.A. Fioroni, a pupil of Leonardo Leo. Having decided to devote himself to the viola, he performed a viola concerto of his own in the church of S Ambrogio at some time between 1772 and 1774, probably under the direction of G.B. Sammartini, and in 1778 he played the viola in the orchestra for the inauguration of the Regio Ducal Teatro alla Scala. In 1782, possibly thanks to Sarti, he was appointed first viola player in the Parma orchestra, becoming its leader and conductor in 1792. In 1802, on the death of the Duke of Parma, he was summoned by the impresario Ricci to conduct the La Scala orchestra, where he remained until 1833, directing operas by Mozart, Mayr, Paer, Rossini, Bellini, the young Donizetti and Mercadante. He also served as first violinist and conductor of the court orchestra of Viceroy Eugenio di Beauharnais from 1805, and from 1808 to 1835 he was first professor of violin and viola at the newly opened Milan Conservatory. MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 7 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections Continuing the northern Italian tradition of Sammartini and others, Rolla was very active in the field of instrumental music. In 1813 he performed excerpts from Beethoven's Prometheus music at La Scala and gave private performances of Beethoven's fourth, fifth and sixth symphonies in Milan, and in 1823 he gave the first public performance of a Beethoven symphony at La Scala. After retiring from the conservatory he began private performances of chamber music in his own home; here too he was a pioneer in his emphasis on Beethoven. One of those involved, from 1840 onwards, was the young Antonio Bazzini, later the leading Beethoven interpreter in Italy. Rolla's compositions, which number some 500 or more, relate to both the Italian instrumental tradition (particularly that of Boccherini) and the Viennese Classical style. His solo concertos reveal the influence of Mozart in the short development sections of their sonata form movements and the clear structural separation of soloist and orchestra; the solo writing is technically demanding, although it requires nothing like the supreme virtuosity of Paganini. The viola concertos, inexplicably neglected by 20th-century performers, are idiomatically written for the instrument. The symphonies are each in a single movement in the form of an Italian opera overture; in some the treatment of the orchestra and the thematic style contain superficial echoes of Mozart, while in others Rolla prefers a freer form with much concertante work between strings and woodwind. In his chamber music Rolla displays his increasing familiarity with Beethoven's music: for example, the opening of the F minor Quartet of op.2 openly recalls that of Beethoven's op.18 no.1. The formal and tonal schemes of Rolla's quartets make them the closest of his works to Viennese classicism. Source: Antonio Rostagno. "Rolla, Alessandro." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.mnl.umkc.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/23709 (accessed February 16, 2011) Paul Alfred Rubens b. Paul Alfred Rubens, 29 April 1875, London, England, d. 25 February 1917, Falmouth, Cornwall, England. Scion of a rich family, Rubens wrote songs while studying at Oxford University. Although musically untrained, when still in his teens Rubens had a song, ‘The Little Chinchilla’, interpolated into The Shop Girl (1894), a hugely successful show at George Edwardes’ Gaiety Theatre. Rubens continued to write songs and his ‘Me Gettee Outee Velly Quick’ was interpolated into another Edwardes show, San Toy (1899). His additional songs for Floradora (1899) made his name and Edwardes continued to add Rubens’ songs to other shows. Among these were The Messenger Boy (1900), The Toreador (1901), A Country Girl and The Girl From Kays (both 1902), The School Girl (1903), The Blue Moon and The Cingalee (both 1904). Mostly, Rubens’ songs were written in collaboration with others, including his brother Walter Rubens, Landon Ronald and, later, Harry Graham, Percy Greenback, Howard Talbot and Arthur Wimperis. Encouraged by the success of individual songs, Rubens wrote book, music and lyrics for three shows, Three Little Maids (1902), Lady Madcap (1904), and Mr Popple Of Ippleton (1905). He collaborated on music and lyrics for The Dairymaids (1906), and on the book for Miss Hook of Holland (1907), also writing music and lyrics. He wrote music for My Mimosa Maid (1908), MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 8 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections book, music and lyrics for Dear Little Denmark (1909), and the following year collaborated on music and lyrics for The Balkan Princess. He collaborated extensively on The Sunshine Girl (1912) and The Girl From Utah (1913) before completing another largely solo effort, 1914’s After The Girl, with some assistance from Greenbank. He wrote the book for Tina (1915) with Graham who also worked with him on lyrics, as did Greenbank. The music was completed in collaboration with Haydn Wood. Throughout his life Rubens was sickly and although in seriously failing health he worked on The Happy Day (1916). He had formed a close attachment with Phyllis Dare who had starred in The Sunshine Girl, a 1914 revival of Miss Hook Of Holland and Tina. They hoped to marry, but aware of his probable early demise abandoned their plans. Although Rubens’ songs admirably suited the light-hearted shows in which they were featured, most were ephemeral. One though, from The Messenger Boy, lived on: ‘Tell Me Pretty Maiden (Are There Any More At Home Like You?)’. Source: "Rubens, Paul." In Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th ed., edited by Colin Larkin. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.mnl.umkc.edu/subscriber/article/epm/89995 (accessed February 16, 2011). Camillo dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome, January 10, 1882 – Havana, September 5, 1949), was the 2nd and last Principe di Candriano, son of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa, and second wife Laura Caracciolo dei Principi di Torella, Duchi di Lavello, Marchesi di Bella. His great-great-uncle was Cardinal Bartolomeo Ruspoli. He was also a half-great-uncle of actor Bart Ruspoli. His maternal uncle, Giuseppe Caracciolo (1849 – 1920), Patrizio Napolitano, married twice and without issue, was the 1st Prince of Candriano (formerly Marquis of Candriano) (12 May 1893 – 1 October 1920). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo_Ruspoli,_1st_Prince_of_Candriano Domenico Scarlatti Italian composer and harpsichordist, son of Alessandro Scarlatti. Thought to have been pupil of his father and after 1708 of Pasquini and Gasparini in Venice, where he met Handel. In 1709, according to one biographer, Handel's patron, Cardinal Ottoboni, arranged a friendly keyboard contest between Handel and Scarlatti which was a tie, Handel being adjudged the better organist and Scarlatti the better harpsichordist. Worked in Rome 1708 – 19. Choirmaster to Queen of Poland, composing operas for her private theatre in Rome. Choirmaster, Cappella Giulia at St Peter's 1714 – 19. Court harpsichordist to King of Portugal and teacher of Princess Maria Barbara in Lisbon 1719 – 28; returned to Italy on leave 1725 – 9; accompanied Maria Barbara to Spain on her marriage to the Spanish Crown Prince in 1729. Stayed in Madrid for rest of his life, becoming Maria Barbara's maestro de cámera when she became queen. Domenico did for keyboard‐playing what his father did for opera, by imparting to it a hitherto unsuspected freedom of style. Introduced many new technical devices (rapid repetitions, crossed hands, double‐note passages, etc.) and the 550 single‐movement sonatas he wrote in Spain are exercises (esercizi) as MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 9 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections well as innovatory compositions foreshadowing sonata form. Also composed 14 operas, masses, Stabat Mater for 10 vv., Salve Regina, cantatas, at least 12 concerti grossi, 17 sinfonias, and org. fugues. His works have been catalogued by R. Kirkpatrick, superseding the Longo catalogue begun in 1906. Source: "Scarlatti, Domenico." In The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. rev., edited by Michael Kennedy. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.mnl.umkc.edu/subscriber/article/opr/t237/e9005 (accessed February 16, 2011). Friderich Schneider Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider (born Alt-Waltersdorf, January 3, 1786 - Dessau, November 23, 1853) was a German composer and conductor. Schneider studied piano first with his father Johann Gottlob Schneider, and then at the Zittau Gymnasium with Schönfelder and Unger. His first published works were a set of three piano sonatas in 1804. In 1805, he commenced studies at the University of Leipzig. He became an organist at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig in 1812, and was named conductor in Dessau in 1821. It is thought that Schneider premiered Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in Leipzig in 1811. In 1824, he was festival director of the Lower Rhenish Music Festival and his oratorio "Die Sündflut" was premiered during this event. Schneider composed copiously. Among his works are seven operas, four masses, six oratorios, 25 cantatas, 23 symphonies, seven piano concertos, sonatas for violin, flute, and cello, and a number of shorter works for voice and for piano, as well as both solo and part songs. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schneider Ignaz Umlauf (b Vienna, 1746; d Meidling, nr Vienna, 8 June 1796). Austrian composer, conductor and viola player, father of Michael Umlauf. His name first appears as fourth viola player in the Vienna court orchestra in 1772, from which year his Singspiel Die Insul der Liebe probably dates. By 1775 he had advanced to the post of principal viola player in the German Theatre orchestra, and by 1778 he was highly enough regarded to be given the commission to write the first work for Joseph II’s new ‘German National Singspiel’, Die Bergknappen, to a libretto by Joseph Weidmann. Umlauf was appointed Kapellmeister to the new venture at a modest 600 florins a year, less than some of the singers received. Four further works by him were given before the first closure of the Singspiel company in 1783, including Die schöne Schusterin oder Die pücefarbenen Schuhe (1779), which, partly because of the much-loved Marianna Weiss in the title role, had over 60 performances in 23 years and was also staged in at least four other Vienna theatres, and Das Irrlicht (1782), which also exceeded the 30 repetitions of Die Bergknappen. By 1783 Umlauf had advanced to the position of Salieri’s deputy Kapellmeister at a salary of 850 florins a year, and he also had the responsibility (and additional remuneration) for MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 10 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections instructing seven boy choristers. After the closure of the National-Singspiel in 1788 he was appointed second Kapellmeister to the Hofkapelle. He played the keyboard continuo at the performance Mozart conducted on 26 February 1788 of C.P.E. Bach’s oratorio Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu; and on 6 March 1789 he directed the singers in the Messiah performance in Mozart’s orchestration and under his direction. On the occasion of Leopold’s coronation at Frankfurt in 1790 Umlauf made his only lengthy journey from Vienna, being part of the official entourage of the emperor. He died shortly after his appointment as music teacher to the imperial children. Umlauf was the most successful Viennese Singspiel composer before Dittersdorf began to establish himself in this popular genre in the mid-1780s; he was studious and careful and had a marked melodic gift (his air ‘Zu Steffen sprach im Traume’ from Das Irrlicht was a particular favourite, as witness Eberl’s set of variations long attributed to Mozart). His tendency to juxtapose such stylistic features as Italian coloratura arias and homely Austrian songs and dances is characteristic but by no means original; the best of his scores would still prove viable, not only because of their effective orchestration but also because, despite the occasionally jerky effect of rapid key change, they reveal sufficiently marked gifts of dramatic timing and musical characterization to make Mozart’s comments (e.g. the letters of 21 December 1782 and 5 February 1783, admittedly discussing Welche[s] ist die beste Nation?, one of his least successful scores) seem rather intolerant. It was no doubt mainly due to a lack of resilience and power of development, however, that his last success dates from his 36th year, a few months before the première of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail: none of Umlauf’s last three Singspiele achieved double figures in the repertory lists, and by the time of his death only Die schöne Schusterin and Das Irrlicht were still being performed. Source: Peter Branscombe. "Umlauf, Ignaz." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.mnl.umkc.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/28746 (accessed February 16, 2011). Elias Howe [Compiler of Quintuple Musician’s Omnibus; see section: Miscellaneous Collections] (b Framingham, MA, 1820; d Watertown, MA, 6 July 1895). American music publisher and music and instrument dealer. According to several accounts he was a farmhand and fiddler. He compiled a large collection of fiddle tunes popular at local dances and persuaded the Boston publishers Wright & Kidder to publish it as The Musician’s Companion. As a result of his success in selling this collection from door to door, he opened a music shop in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1842, and set up a similar business in Boston in 1843. His books of arrangements and instrument instruction were popular: the Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon (1843) sold over 100,000 copies, and his violin self-mastery volumes sold over 500,000 copies. In 1850 he sold his catalogue to the Boston publisher Oliver Ditson and agreed not to publish music for ten years. During that period he lived on his newly acquired estate in South Framingham, managed the South Reading Ice Company and compiled editions of dance music and dance instruction books. MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 11 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections In 1860 Howe re-entered the publishing business in Boston at 33 Court Street, where he also sold drums, fifes and other instruments needed for Civil War bands. His expanded catalogue included numerous arrangements for band, orchestra, solo instruments and voice. By 1871 he was collecting rare string instruments, and by the late 1880s was one of the largest dealers in rare violins, violas, cellos, viols, violas d’amore, guitars and banjos in the USA. After his death his sons William Hills Howe and Edward Frank Howe carried on the business, specializing in the sale and repair of violins, plucked string instruments and their fittings. When the company was sold in 1931, the music catalogue plates were destroyed and the rare instrument collection was dispersed. Source: Cynthia Adams Hoover. "Howe, Elias." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.mnl.umkc.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/13432 (accessed February 16, 2011). MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 12 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections SCOPE AND CONTENT The Classical Music Manuscript contains a wide array of score and parts, in both manuscript and printed form, from composers and music educators dating back to the Eighteenth Century. Along with recognizable names such as Domenico Scarlatti, there are many far lesser known composers from the time of Mozart and Beethoven that are represented here in this collection, with rare scores and pedagogical manuals. Not only are the items an interesting glimpse into virtually unknown works, they are a valuable resource for those seeking insight into notational practices of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. SERIES NOTES Robert Ambrose Contained in Box 1, Folder 1; Includes one manuscript part. Florence Aylward Contained in Box 1, Folder 1; Includes one manuscript score. J.W.B. Contained in Box 1, Folder 1; Includes two manuscript scores. Camillo Ruspoli di Candriano Contained in Box 4, Folders 1-2; Includes two manuscript scores. Jean-Guillain Cardon Contained in Box 1, Folder 1; Includes one manuscript score. Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco Contained in Box 1, Folder 1; Includes manuscript parts. Alphons Darr Contained in Box 1, Folder 2; Includes instructional book for how to play the Zither. P.F. Fierlein Contained in Box 1, Folders 3-5; Includes ten manuscript scores and parts. Franz Jakob Freystadtler Contained in Box 1, Folders 6-7; Includes nine sets of manuscript parts. Georg Golterman Contained in Box 2, Folder 1; Includes one manuscript part. Gottlieb Graupner Contained in Box 2, Folder 1; Includes two editions of an instructional book on how to play the Piano Forte. MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 13 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections W. Moralt Contained in Box 2, Folder 2; Includes instructional book for how to play the Zither. Pietro Nardini Contained in Box 2, Folder 2; Includes a collection of printed scores. Camillo de Nardis Contained in Box 2, Folder 2; Includes one manuscript score. Alessandro Rolla Contained in Box 2, Folder 3; Includes one manuscript score and parts. Paul Alfred Rubens Contained in Box 2, Folder 3; Includes two manuscript scores. Domenico Scarlatti Contained in Box 2, Folder 4; Includes one printed collection of scores. Friederich Schneider Contained in Box 3, Folder 1; Includes one printed score. Ignaz Umlauf Contained in Box 3, Folder 2; Includes one bound manuscript score. Miscellaneous Collections Contained in Box 3, Folders 3-4; Includes two manuscript books and one printed collection of tunes. Unknown Contained in Box 3, Folders 5; Includes one set of manuscript parts. MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 14 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Box Folder Description Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections CONTAINER LIST Box Folder Description 1 1 Robert Ambrose One Sweetly Solemn Thought - Manuscript Violin Part, 1 p. Florence Aylward An Anthem of Love for Contralto, Baritone, and Piano. - Manuscript Score, 4 pp. J.W.B. Assorted Traditional Songs - Manuscript Score (Melodies and Lyrics only), 11 pp. Ich lieben sie for Piano. - Manuscript Score (St. Louis, MO, May 23, 1872), 2 pp. Jean-Guillain Cardon Sonata No. 1 in Bb Major for Piano or Harp. - Manuscript Score, 6 pp. Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco Concerti a quattro da chiesa Op. 2 No. 4 and 5 - Manuscript Parts, 12 pp. 2 3 4 5 Alphons Darr Nueste vollstandige Zitherschule (Instructional text for Zither). - Hardcover Book in German, 114 pp. P.F. Fierlein Bagatellen for Two Guitars. - Manuscript Parts, 13 pp. Divertimenti Melodiosi for Two Guitars - Manuscript Parts, 14 pp. Divertissement for Two Guitars. - Manuscript Parts w/ Photocopies, 14 pp. Drei Waltzer for Two Guitars - Manuscript Parts, 20 pp. Five Sonatines (arr. for Two Guitars). - Manuscript Parts, 12 pp. Popular Melodies for Two Guitars. - Manuscript Parts, 22 pp. Pot-pourri uber Tyroler National-Melodien for Guitar. - Manuscript Parts, 16 pp. Sonata (arr. for Guitar). MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 15 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Box Folder Description (1 5) 1 6 2 Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections - Manuscript Score, 6 pp. Variations avec… for Guitar. - Manuscript Score, 14 pp. Syrian Waltzes for Two Guitars. - Manuscript Parts, 7 pp. 7 Franz Jakob Freystadtler Alma - Manuscript Parts: Alto, Tenor, Violin I, Violin II, Organ (w/ figured bass), 8 pp. Alma - Manuscript Parts: Soprano, Violin, Organ (w/ figured bass), 3 pp. Ave Regina - Manuscript Parts: Soprano, Violin, Clarino, Organ (w/ figured bass), 4 pp. Ave Regina - Manuscript Parts: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, Violin I, Violin II, Organ (w/ figured bass), 11 pp. Salve Regina - Manuscript Parts: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, Violin I, Violin II, Clarino I, Clarino II, Organ (w/ figured bass), 9 pp. Salve Regina - Manuscript Parts: Soprano, Organ (w/ figured bass), 4 pp. Salve Regina - Manuscript Parts: Soprano, Alto, Violin I, Violin II, Organ (w/ figured bass, 2 different versions), 6 pp. Salve Regina - Manuscript Parts: Soprano, Violin, Organ (w/ figured bass), 3 pp. Salve Regina a 5 Vocibus - Manuscript Parts: Soprano, Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Organ (w/ figured bass), 10 pp. 1 Georg Golterman Untitled MS - Manuscript Part (Cello?), 2 pp. Gottlieb Graupner Rudiments on the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte - First Edition, 40 pp. - Second Edition (1819), 51 pp. 2 W. Moralt Nueste grundliche und leicht-fassliche theoretisch-praktische ZitherSchule - Printed Edition, 37 pp. MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 16 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Box Folder Description (2 2) Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections Pietro Nardini Sei Sonate per Violono Solo e Basso - Printed Collection, 30 pp. Camillo de Nardis Serenata Barcarola for Piano - Manuscript Score, 4 pp. 2 3 Alessandro Rolla Concerto for Viola and Orchestra - Manuscript Score, ed. Sydney Beck, 35 pp. - Manuscript Viola Part, ed. Sydney Beck, 9 pp. Paul Alfred Rubens Burmah Girl for Voice and Piano - Manuscript Score, 5 pp. I Love You Ma Cherie - Manuscript Score, 6 pp. Camillo Ruspoli di Candriano [located in oversized box 4] Capriccio Napoletano for Orchestra - No. 1: Manuscript Conductor’s Score, 42 pp. [box 4, folder 1] - No. 2: Manuscript Conductor’s Score, 38 pp. [box 4, folder 2] 4 3 Domenico Scarlatti Sonatas, Book XII (Books 1 and 2) - Printed Collection, Published June 13 1771, Edited by John Worgan, 89 pp. 1 Friederich Schneider Missa solis vocibus humanis - Printed Score, 51 pp. 2 Ignaz Umlauf Messa - Bound Manuscript Score, 128 pp. 3 4 Miscellaneous Collections Manuscript Books (2) - Filled with Manuscript Hymns, Musical Exercises, etc., 22 pp. and 44 pp. Quintuple Musician’s Omnibus - Collection of Hundreds of Tunes, Compiled by Elias Howe, 2 Volumes, 200 pp. MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 17 University of Missouri-Kansas City NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION Box Folder Description 3 5 Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections Unknown Mass in A Major - Manuscript Parts: Tenor, Bass, Violin, 12 pp. MS226-Classical Music Manuscripts Collection 18