This copy, number 227 of the limited first edition of the piano vocal score, was signed by the composer, the librettist (DuBose Heyward), the lyricist (Ira Gershwin), and the producer (Rouben Mamoulian) of the first production (1934). Serge Koussevitzky commissioned the work for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1930 the New York Philharmonic premiere was conducted by Arturo Toscanini, whose markings appear on the score.īegun April, 1928 – Completed July 6, 1930 The holograph manuscript score of Hanson’s most famous composition. La Mer: Trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre The composer’s painstakingly fine penmanship, and the multiplicity of colored pencils, never fail to draw admiring comment. This is a particelle, or short score - a detailed sketch or draft, in condensed form. This magnificent manuscript is the Sibley Music Library’s single most celebrated holding, and one of only three extant manuscript sources of this celebrated composition (1905). The last page of the manuscript features an exquisite Guidonian hand, devised by theorist Guido d’Arezzo to propagate a method of sight-singing with the six syllables ut, re, mi, fa, sol, and la. It was previously owned by the Benedictine Admont Abbey, near Salzburg, and was purchased by the Sibley Music Library in 1936. The largest music library affiliated with any college or university in North AmericaĪ 12th century collection of early medieval theoretical music treatises, written in Germany or Austria.
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