Mesmeric music manuscripts…

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

Manuscript for Ludwig van Beethoven’s first edition of the Ninth Symphony, which was sold for £2.1m in 2003.

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Rossini

A page of musical manuscript by Gioacchino Rossini from around 1858. 

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Schumann

1845, a page of music by Robert Schumann belonging to famous violinist Joseph Joachim.

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Chopin’s Prelude in D flat

A facsimile of the manuscript of Chopin’s Prelude in D flat. Op. 28. No. 15. 

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Stravinsky’s Firebird

A manuscript score of Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird’. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale De France (Library).

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Prelude by J.S. Bach

A manuscript of music by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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