Letter in Italian from Haydn to Madame Loise Polzelli, 20th Jun 1793
MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn d. 5
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Letter in Italian from Haydn to Madame Loise Polzelli, 20th Jun 1793
Shelfmark
MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn d. 5
Summary
Autograph. Printed, Pohl and Botstiber, Jospeh Haydn, iii, 1927, pp. 70-1. Translation, MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn c. 15, 5. The decoration on the case includes the opening bars of Haydn's sonata in D major, Hob. XVI:37.
Date
1793, 1938
Language
Italian
Physical facet
The vellum case was decorated by A. Blochmann, Weimar, 1938.
Physical extent
1 leaf
Custodial history
The following owners and catalogues are listed by H. C. Robbins Landon in Haydn's Collected Correspondence, etc., 1959, p. 330: Rudolf Brockhaus, Leipzig (1886); K.E. Henrici, Verst. Kat. 155 (Jul 1929), No. 45; Otto Haas, Cat. 7 (Mar 1938) No. 71.
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Collection contents
The M. Deneke Mendelssohn Collection
Music by other composers owned by Margaret Deneke: manuscripts given in memory of her
Letter in Italian from Haydn to Madame Loise Polzelli, 20th Jun 1793
