SOLD. Music Archive from Valdemar's Castle: A large music collection comprising more than 1000 manuscript and printed sheet music. 18th-20th century.

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Music Archive from Valdemar's Castle

Purchased by Det Kongelige Bibliotek in June 2023. A comprehensive and unique collection of music comprising more than 800 parts of both handwritten and printed scores. 18th-19th century. All housed in 37 DKTv-marked archive boxes. + More than 300 handwritten and printed scores. All housed in 26 VS-marked archive boxes. Mostly 19th century. + Furthermore over 100 other parts of various material related to music, mostly 19th century.

The collection comprises both singspiel, opera, aria, lied, church music, dance music, sonets, vaudevilles, pieces for piano, violin, wind instruments, a.o., plays, eductional material, and more. Ink on paper, copper engraved and lithographed sheets. Variable sizes (small 8vo-folio).

The collection includes a.o.: Søren Wedel's mourning cantata at the death of Crown Princess Sophie Frederikes. Text by P.H. Haste: Dødens Herre Livets Fader. [29. dec. 1794]. Danish. Loose folio leaves. Manuscript. DKTv-R165 + Pasquale Anfossi: Eifersucht auf der Probe/Il gelosi in cimento. Opera. Act 1–3. [1795]. German. 15 folio half calf bindings, 2 wrappers and 2 oblong folio half calf bindings. Manuscript. DKTv-R100. + Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orphée et Euricide. Act 1–3. Opera. Circa 1780–1810. French. 3 oblong folio wrappers. Manuscript. DKTv-R124. + Søren Wedel: Lise og Peter. Text by Frederik Høegh-Guldberg. Singing piece in 2 acts. Opera. Circa 1795–1820. Danish. 3 folio wrappers and 1 oblong folio half morocco bindings. Manuscript. DKTv-R107. + Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Juan. Aria. No. 8. Circa 1790–1820. German (fragment), Italian. 8 oblong 8vo leaves. Manuscript. DKTv-R168. + Joseph Haydn: Stabat Mater: Choro à Soprano, Alto, Tenore, Basso, 2 Violini, Alto-Viola, II Oboi e Basso. Circa 1800–1820. Latin. Manuscript. Folio wrapper. DKTv-R111. + Tepper von Ferguson: Friedrich Schillers ”Ode an die Fraude”. Hamburg: Günther & Böhme 1796. No. 38. Oblong folio wrapper. 1 bl.; 2–36 pp. Engraved. DKTv R235 (RISM-no. not specified at RISM.info). + Grieg: Peer Gynt-Suite 1. Op. 46. Klavier zu 2 Händen. Edition Peters No. 2420. [...] solo bearbeitet vom Komponisten. Aufführungsrecht vorbehalten Eigentum des Verlegers (9563). Leipzig: C. F. Peters [No year]. Lithographed print. Folio wrapper. 1–20 pp. VS 323. + H.C. Lumbyes Dandse for Pianoforte: No 11 Champagneskum Galop. Cph: C. Plenges Musikhandel [No year]. Lithographed print. 2 folio leaves. VS 330. + Jørgen Martin Nielsen: Hr. Professor Dr. Alberth Schweitzer i Ærbødighed tilegnet Fire Orgelkoraler for grand orgel: 1. Udrust dig, Helt fra Golgatha. Melody: N. W. Gade 1836. (1947); 2. Dejlig er den Himmel Blaa. Danish folk tune. (1941); 3. Lover den Herre. Melody 1700. (1947); 4. Kirkeklokke! ej til Hovedstæder. Melody: H. Rung. (1947). Inscribed to Baroness Kitsa Juel-Brockdorff by Jørgen M. Nielsen. Aarhus: Kaabers Musikforlag 1947. Print. 4 folio leaves. VS 334. + Samling af nye og yndede Dandse for Pianoforte. No. 18 efter Strauss. Cph: C.C. Lose & Olsen; Philomelen-Walzer für das Piano-Forte. Ihrer königlichen Hoheit der durchlauchtigsten Frau Louise Prinzessen von Wasa geboren Prinzessinn von Baden […] von Johann Strauss; Dandse componerede for Ballet i Studenterforeningen. Cph: C.C. Lose & Olsen 1841. All bound in half calf entitled “C.A.F. Dandse” on front board. Oblong folio. Lithographed print and engraving. VS 408. + H. J. P. Lyngbye: Tvende Sange. Text by J. L. Heiberg, J. Chr. Riise. Danish. 2 large oblong 8vo leaves. Manuscript. VS 525. + other partly bound wrappers with music for piano, violin, wind instruments, a.o., songs, dance and orchestral music, anthologies, a.o. Circa 19th-20th century.

Moreover can also be mentioned printed and handwritten music by i.a.: Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, Carl Heinrich Graun, Georg Benda, Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Joseph Schuster, Friedrich Preu, Ignaz Umlauf, Antonio Salieri, Francois Devienne, Johannes Simon Mayr, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, André Grétry, Antonio Sacchini, Etienne de Fay, [Amélie-Julie] Candeille, Pierre Gaveaux, François-Adrien Boïeldieu, Nicolas Dalayrac, Giuseppe Sarti, Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen, Joseph Schuster, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Ferdinand David, J. B. Wendling, Georg Onslow, Gioacchino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, August Friedrich Pott, Antonín Dvořák, Edvard Grieg, Frédéric Chopin, Johannes Brahms, Reynaldo Hahn, Georg Friedrich Händel, Per Lasson, Franz Liszt, Hans Christian Lumbye, Edvard MacDowell, Jørgen Martin Nielsen, Kai Nielsen, Alexander Fesca, etc. incl. several anonymous.

PLEASE NOTE! The collection is partially registered in RISM (www.rism.info) with the library mark DK-Tv, which can be searched in advanced search (library siglum). Bruun Rasmussen does not guarantee that all RISM registered parts are present in the collection, nor do Bruun Rasmussen guarantee the completeness of the individual works. However, there is also material in the collection which is probably not registered in RISM.

This interesting and unique collection of music gives us an clear insight into the music life at Valdemar's Castle during the mid 18th century to mid 19th century. Thanks to the chamberlain Frederik Juel (owner 1781–1827) and Carl Baron Juel-Brockdorff (1827–1859) the music life on the castle was European oriented - especially towards Germany - it was vivid and of high quality in classical music as well as in dance music. The collection is both of culturally and historically importance.

Literature: Sybille Reventlow: Musik på Fyn 1770–1850. Cph: C.E.F. Gads Forlag 1983.

Provenance: Valdemar's Castle, Tåsinge.

Condition

The collection is partially registered in RISM (www.rism.info) with the library mark DK-Tv, which can be searched in advanced search (library siglum). However, there is also material in the collection which is probably not registered in RISM. Bruun Rasmussen does not guarantee that all RISM registered parts are present in the collection, nor do Bruun Rasmussen guarantee the completeness of the individual works.

Auction

Manuscripts from Valdemar's Castle and antiques, 14 June 2023