Liszt, Franz

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Holograph in black ink, signed, with alterations and other markings, some in pencil. At end: Pour Emile, et Charlotte Loudon [Loudon crossed out], Rue de Clichy, Lundi, 19 Mai 1828. Includes unidentified manuscript composition in different hand on outer pages of signature, also bound backwards and numbered in pencil as pages 1 and 4, i.e., page 4 being beginning. Work is for 2 medium voices with piano accompaniment. French words, with additional verses printed as text at end, and entitled Nocturne à deux voix.

Holograph in black ink; incomplete, lacking ending. Working manuscript comprising a draft of the piece, incomplete at the end, notated in brown ink on twenty-stave paper, hand-drawn staves, revised in brown ink, and pencil, by Liszt himself, pagination by the composer in red crayon, some additions written in hand-drawn staves in the margins, without title, unsigned.

Manuscript by copyist serving as Stichvorlage for publication, with title page in Liszt’s hand in violet ink: “Pilger Jahre (Annees de Pelerinage) “Den Cypressen der Villa d’Este” (ax cypress del la Ville d’Este (II)”, numbered (No.III) by Liszt in orange crayon, with deletions, and revisions, including a three-bar passage on page 10 and a revised ending, with corrections (including to notes and accidentals), fingerings, expression and pedaling marks throughout, in ink and occasionally in blue and orange crayon.

Manuscript by copyist, with title page in Liszt’s hand on verso of 1st blank page. Includes extensive autograph annotations and corrections in black ink, red and blue crayon, and pencil; autograph title page in violet ink. Several bars rewritten by composer, including ending. Inscribed by composer on bottom of page 16 in red ink: Sed aqua quam ego dabo ei, fiet in eo fons aqua [sic] salientis in vitam aeternam. (Evang. sec: Joannem 4-14).

Manuscript by copyist serving as Stichvorlage for publication, with title page in Liszt’s hand in violet ink. Notated in black on four systems per page, a working manuscript in places, corrected by Liszt throughout, including revised ending of nine bars with other autograph music written on a slip of blue paper laid into the score (page 5), many tempo and pedal markings Title page: (“Pilger Jahr annees de Pelerinage/‘Sunt lacrymae rerum’”), the title and dedication written by Liszt above the music (“Sunt lacrymae Rerum’ (in ungarischer Weise…an Hans von Bulow”), and his deletions and corrections in orange crayon; the music preceded by a leaf containing a partly-erased autograph beginning for piece no. 7 [‘Sursum Corda’], with Liszt’s marking “Andante Maestoso […]” the numbering “VII” corrected by him to “V.”

Holograph in black ink. A working manuscript on up to twelve staves per page, containing an extended final Presto section (pages 15-17), not in the first edition, and with extensive revisions, including additional music written on inserted leaves of blue paper, or on slips of paper pasted into the score and extensive passages deleted with orange crayon; Liszt’s autograph title-page also contains sketches by Edvard Reményi, notated in pencil on eleven staves. Differs in detail from first printed ed. and includes ending corresponding to Zweiter Schluss in edition by Rena Charnin Mueller and Ernst-Günter Heinemann published as: Balladen / Franz Liszt. München : G. Henle, c1996. Sole surviving autograph of work.

Manuscript substantially by copyist, with extensive passages and alterations in Liszt’s hand; original title page by copyist crossed-out and rewritten by composer in pencil. Signed “F.Liszt.” Prepared by Liszt and a scribe, working in tandem, the scribe breaking off for passages to be written out by the composer himself, and with many additional passages written by Liszt on inserted leaves (including six pages entirely autograph), between the staves and on paper pasted into the score, notated in dark ink on up to four systems per page, each of two (occasionally four) staves. Includes revisions, deletions, and corrections throughout in black ink and red crayon. Also includes annotations by Liszt to the printer in pencil (“Während den Seiten 27, 28, und 29 meiner 2 kleine Zeilen leer lassen zu ossia più facile”), with casting-off marks by printer in pencil and the edition number on the title. Projected publication plate number 7416 marked in black ink at bottom of title page indicating probable use as Stichvorlage for early Schott edition.

Corrected copyist’s manuscript of Liszt’s transcription of Der Gondelfahrer by Schubert, signed (F.Liszt) at the end. The Stichvorlage, revised throughout by Liszt in red ink, red crayon, blue crayon, and pencil, with last page entirely in Liszt’s hand, the final page entirely autograph, with a revised shorter ending to the work written on a separate slip of paper, pasted onto the last page (the rest of the page deleted in crayon), and inscribed by the composer on the title (Männes Quartett von F.Schubert für Pianoforte transcribirt von F.Liszt). Projected publisher’s plate number at bottom of title page in composer’s hand: 35682.