The Juilliard Manuscript Collection, NYC, USA
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The Juilliard Manuscript Collection is an extraordinary collection of 140 priceless autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs and first editions, which were donated to the school in February 2006 by Juilliard Board Chairman Bruce Kovner.
Considered to be one of the finest music collections to be donated to an institution in recent years, the collection includes materials of great interest to performers and scholars. Among it’s highlights are the late engraver’s proof of Beethoven’s Symphony no 9, with hundreds of markings and annotations by the composer,; the original manuscript of Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, in his arrangement for piano, 4 hands; and the last scene of Mozart’s Le Nozze de Figaro. All of the manusripts scores and sketches have been digitized. Also available on this website are selected manuscripts from Juilliard Library’s Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections, including scores in the Arthur Rubinstein Music Collection.
