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Showing posts with label Autograph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Autograph. Show all posts

Thursday, 30 July 2015

Mozart Sonata K.331 (Alla Turca finale) Autograph Fragment Online


Newly discovered autograph fragment 

Mozart's famous Sonata in A major, K. 331 (with 'Alla Turca' finale)

The Hungarian National Széchényi Library has just launched a website to make this precious manuscript freely accessible to all:- http://mozart.oszk.hu/index_en.html

Balázs Mikusi (mikusi@oszk.hu)
Head of Music
National Széchényi Library, Budapest 

You will also be delighted to hear that Henle is producing a new Urtext edition of the sonata - there's a video about it here.

Thursday, 2 October 2014

Pianists, an unknown Mozart autograph has been discovered!

Sonata in A major, K. 331

(best known for its ‘alla turca’ finale)

Read about the event to celebrate this discovery - in Budapest.  CLICK HERE.

What's more, our professional association found this published online in the New York Times: CLICK HERE.



Thursday, 23 January 2014

Charles Dickens signed our Visitors Book! (Athenaeum, now Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)

"I guess it isn’t every day that you discover Charles Dickens’ signature on your visitors’ book. He opened the Glasgow Athenaeum (the predecessor of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) in December 1847, and consequently ‘signed in’ on the 28th of that month.", explains Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Archives Officer, Stuart Harris Logan.

First, we were the Athenaeum, when Charles Dickens delivered the opening address and signed our visitors' book. (Except we called it a Strangers Book - times change!) Now we're the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. We're no longer in the old Glasgow Athenaeum building, but have been in the new Renfrew Street building for 25 years. And Stuart Harris-Logan, our Archives Officer, found the Strangers Book, with Dickens' signature there for all to see. He's very happy to welcome any visitors to our archive facility to view this and other marvels - just email him (S.Harris-Logan@rcs.ac.uk).