Missouri Classical Music News

— the working draft of the four-hand piano arrangement of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge . . .
— The long-lost transposed continuo part of Bach's Cantata BWV 176, with markings by the composer
— First sketches for the ethereal opening of Beethoven's Ninth, together with the corrected copy of the symphony that was sent to the printer
— Corrected proofs of Brahms's Klavierstücke Op. 118 and 119
— Copland's Clarinet Concerto, inscribed to Benny Goodman
— Mozart's score for the wind, brass, and timpani in the final scene of The Marriage of Figaro (written out separately because there wasn't room in the main score)
— A draft of the ending of the first movement of Mahler's Ninth
— A draft of the opening scene of Puccini's Fanciulla del West
— A major trove of Schubert manuscripts and marked editions
— Sketches for an unknown Symphony in C minor by Schumann
— A large batch of manuscripts of Alfred Schnittke, including sketches for the opera Historia von D. Johann Fausten
— Stravinsky's earliest sketches for Petrushka
— The typescript of Joseph Gregor's libretto for Richard Strauss's Daphne, with notes by the composer in the margins