Hans Adler Music Museum Exhibits of Note and Rarity at Witwatersrand University
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Rare and Notable Items from the exhibit case of Witwatersrand University's Hans Adler Music Museum, Including "Frontispiece" by Maurice Ravel, letters of acknowledgement of a gifted copy by the British Museum, a reply to an invitation to perform in South Africa by Alber Schweizer, and compositions dedicated the HA by noted pianists John Ogdon and Julian Dawson-Lyell
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Interesting exhibition
Documents and Articles from the Hans Adler Memorial Music Collection at the
The University of Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg South Africa
The Ravel Composition Ex ‘Feuillets d’art’
Original Josef Suk Serenada
Signed original Josef Suk Manuscript - Serenada. Signed Josef Suk Original Manuscript - Serenada
Facsimile of Debussy’s approx. 1882 composition of “Jane” conveyed to HA on behalf of Paul Hollanders de Ouderaen (who helped in the biography of Anna Magdalena Bach, JS’s second wife). Madam Paul Hollanders owned a number of manuscripts and facsimiles of Debussy works, including this original manuscript.
Of special interest is the fact that this was donated in 1956, and “Jane” seems to have been first published in the 1960s
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A few Articles on some of the Unusual “finds” visiting musicians made in the H.A. home library
…..a violin piano sonata with 2 movements composed by Schumann, I by Brahms & 1 by Albert Dietrich in honour of Joachim…. A piano duet Maurice Ravel called Frontispiece… A copy of Debussy’s “Symphony en Si”
…..a violin piano sonata with 2 movements composed by Schumann, I by Brahms & 1 by Albert Dietrich in honour of Joachim…. A piano duet Maurice Ravel called Frontispiece… A copy of Debussy’s “Symphony en Si”
…..A Special section in the library, like Piano music for various number of hands, …. Smetana Sonata for 8 hands on 2 pianos and Stravinsky March for 3 hands. Oddities like “Variations on a Russian Theme for large Orchestra”, written by Artciboucheff, Wihtol, Liadov, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Sokolow & Glazonov …..a violin piano sonata with 2 movements composed by Schumann, 1 by Brahms & 1 by Albert Dietrich in honour of Joachim…. A piano duet Maurice Ravel called Frontispice… A copy of Debussy’s “Symphony en Si” a movement of a symphony in B minor composed when he stayed with Madame von Meck (Tchaikovsky’s
…..a violin piano sonata with 2 movements composed by Schumann, I by Brahms & 1 by Albert Dietrich in honour of Joachim…. A piano duet Maurice Ravel called Frontispiece… A copy of Debussy’s “Symphony en Si”
…..A Special section in the library, like Piano music for various number of hands, …. Smetana Sonata for 8 hands on 2 pianos and Stravinsky March for 3 hands. Oddities like “Variations on a Russian Theme for large Orchestra”, written by Artciboucheff, Wihtol, Liadov, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Sokolow & Glazonov …..a violin piano sonata with 2 movements composed by Schumann, 1 by Brahms & 1 by Albert Dietrich in honour of Joachim…. A piano duet Maurice Ravel called Frontispice… A copy of Debussy’s “Symphony en Si” a movement of a symphony in B minor composed when he stayed with Madame von Meck (Tchaikovsky’s
…..In 1791, Mozart composed a piece for the Glasschord, played by the blind musician, Marianne Kirschgessner. This sheet music (for glasschord, flute, oboe, viola and cello) are in the HA library. …And the
Musicologist Eva Badura-Shoda’s remarks……… and HA’s continues searching for an 18th Century biography of JS Bach. He has the 1802 biography by JR Forkel, published a half century after Bach’s death but many think there must be an earlier issue. His Library has an original manuscript of Joseph Suk’s (Dvorak’s son-in-law) String Orchestra Serenade, probably the only one to slip through the Iron Curtain from Czechoslovakia, and keeps turning down good offers……
…..In 1791, Mozart composed a piece for the Glasschord, played by the blind musician, Marianne Kirschgessner. This sheet music (for glasschord, flute, oboe, viola and cello) are in the HA library. …And the
Alexander Borodin, great composer and medical innovator, a professor of medicine and chemistry, who founded the world’s first school of medicine for women. A well known Pharmaceutical Company sponsored ‘Linking Medicine and Music’. A recording of an almost forgotten Borodin Piano
Alexander Borodin, great composer and medical innovator, a professor of medicine and chemistry, who founded the world’s first school of medicine for women. A well known Pharmaceutical Company sponsored ‘Linking Medicine and Music’. A recording of an almost forgotten Borodin Piano
Books on Boethius’ treatise, the Bach Biography of 1802, Leopold Mozart’s Violin tutor, published the year Wolfgang was born, the Ravel “Frontispice” and the gift to the British Museum. One of the finest privately owned sheet music collections in the world, attracting global attention. Of piano concertos alone there are
300. Visiting artists frequently find among this music, works previously unknown to them, some by famous composers and others by forgotten ones. (Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg)
