[Sketch for a song]
Description
| First full line of text: | Tu mi traffigi il cor |
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| Uniform title | Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Ne' giorni tuoi felici (Sketches) |
| Type of resource | notated music |
| Form | print; unmediated; volume |
| Extent | 1 score (6 unnumbered pages) : paper, ink, manuscript ; 22 x 30 cm |
| Date created | 1802 |
| Other date | [1802?] (production) |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | Italian |
Creators/Contributors
| Composer | Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 | |
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| Lyricist | Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782 |
Subjects
| Subject | Vocal duets with orchestra > Scores |
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| Subject | Musical sketches |
| Genre | Notated music |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Beethoven. |
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| Note | Fragment (12 measures) of a sketch for Ne' giorni tuoi felici, beginning with the line "Tu mi traffigi il cor". Each page is prepared for 11 lines, suggesting a large accompanying ensemble. |
| Note | Title from Catalogue of the Memorial Library of Music, 1950. |
| Note | Holograph. |
| Note | First measure is crossed out. |
| Note | Last 2 pages blank. |
| Note | "Heinrich Schenker, the great theoretician and Beethoven specialist, has expressed the opinion that this manuscript belongs to the studies which Beethoven wrote while studying with Antonio Salieri"--Catalogue of the Memorial Library of Music, 1950, page 16. |
| Note | "The sketches Tu mi traffigi il cor" etc., come from the duet "Ne giorni tuoi felice, Kinsky/Halm pp. 549-550, WoO 93. One of the pages corresponds to the vocal line in bars 74-76 (or 121-123) of the published version ("veggio languir chi adoro"), but the other pages do not correspond exactly to that score, though they resemble it--letter from Alan Tyson, April 12, 1968, inserted in the Catalogue of the Memorial Library of Music, 1950. |
| Note | Lyrics from Metastasio's Olimpiade. |
| Language | Staff notation. |
| Referenced by |
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| Location | electronic resource |
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Collection
Memorial Library of Music
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