All other manuscripts from Rachmaninoff's flat were moved by the state to archives of the Glinka Museum in Moscow, including the manuscript of the two-piano version of the symphony as well as some sketches for the work, but the manuscript score disappeared.

The publication of the uncut manuscript drew considerable interest because Rachmaninoff's alterations of the Second Symphony and Second Piano Sonata in the 1930s were actually detrimental to those pieces.

Because of Rachmaninoff's removal of these contrasts, writer Elger Niels called the manuscript version a missed culmination in Rachmaninoff's development.

A page from Beethoven's manuscript of the 9th Symphony

One of Abel's works became famous due to a misattribution: in the 19th century, a manuscript symphony in the hand of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was catalogued as his Symphony no.

Original manuscript of Symphony No. 15 in E major ( 1762 ).

He also left a Symphony in A minor in manuscript.

Among the items are the printer's manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, complete with Beethoven's hand-written amendments, that was used for the first performance in Vienna in 1824 ; Mozart's autograph of the wind parts of the final scene of The Marriage of Figaro ; Beethoven's arrangement of his monumental Große Fuge for piano four hands ; Schumann's working draft of his Symphony No. 2 ; and manuscripts of Brahms's Symphony No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 2.

* The Music of Mahler: A catalogue of manuscript and printed sources The entry for the First Symphony outlines the work's history, provides a list of performances up to 1911, a discography of early recordings, and detailed descriptions of the surviving manuscript and printed sources.

Arnold Schönberg famously expressed the opinion that no one could possibly write a Tenth Symphony without being close to the hereafter ( see Curse of the ninth ); and a mistaken report led Richard Specht to suggest Mahler wanted the manuscript burned after his death.

His wife recounts seeing him feeding manuscript papers into a fire in 1945, and some believe that among these papers was the completed Eighth Symphony.

No. 13 – Symphony in D major dated 1769 in a manuscript in the Moravské Zemské Muzeum in Brno

No. 15 – Symphony in F major preserved in a manuscript of ca.

No. 16 – Symphony in B-flat major preserved in a manuscript of ca.

No. 17 – Symphony in G major preserved in a manuscript collection from the early 1770s in the Music Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C.

No. 48 – Symphony in D major dated 1780 in a manuscript in the Biblioteca Civica Girolamo Tartarotti in Rovereto

No. 54 – Symphony in E-flat major preserved in an undated manuscript in the České Muzeum Hudby in Prague

No. 55 – Symphony in G major preserved in an undated manuscript in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena

However, because the commission fee was lower than Prokofiev was willing to accept, Prokofiev only allowed the Boston Symphony to purchase the manuscript of the work, rather than commission it.

Other holdings include material from ancient Egypt and medieval liturgical objects ( including Coptic literature examples ), Emile Zola, William Blake's original drawings for his edition of the Book of Job ; concept drawings for The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; a Percy Bysshe Shelley notebook ; originals of poems by Robert Burns ; a Charles Dickens manuscript of A Christmas Carol ; a journal by Henry David Thoreau ; an extraordinary collection of autographed and annotated libretti and scores from Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Mahler and Verdi, and Mozart's Haffner Symphony in D Major ; and manuscripts of George Sand, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë and nine of Sir Walter Scott's novels, including Ivanhoe.

The first page of the manuscript carries the title, " Symphony for Full Orchestra, Op.

For example, the Eighth Symphony existed in three versions: Bruckner's original manuscript of 1887, a revised manuscript of 1890 which incorporated suggestions from Schalk, Arthur Nikisch and others, and the first published edition of 1892 which went even further in the direction of the changes suggested by Bruckner's friends.

He composed the quartet shortly after the New World Symphony, completing the manuscript in only three days.

A manuscript of that period in the royal library, Windsor ( No. 20, E iv.

" No phenomenon is mortal ," Malevich wrote in an unpublished manuscript, " and this means not only the body but the idea as well, a symbol that one is eternally reincarnated in another form which actually exists in the conscious and unconscious person.

In 1958, Bell Labs filed a patent application for their proposed optical maser ; and Schawlow and Townes submitted a manuscript of their theoretical calculations to the Physical Review, published that year in Volume 112, Issue No. 6.

On the twelfth of the fifth month, sensing his impending death, Musashi bequeathed his worldly possessions, after giving his manuscript copy of the Go Rin No Sho to the younger brother of Terao Magonojo, his closest disciple.

Ludwig van Beethoven's manuscript sketch for Piano Sonata No. 28 ( Beethoven ) | Piano Sonata No. 28, Movement IV, Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr und mit Entschlossenheit ( Tempo | Allegro ), in his own handwriting.

No trace has been found of the draft manuscript.

The Sutro sisters also played a major part in the fate of the manuscript of the Violin Concerto No. 1: Bruch sent it to them to be sold in the United States, but they kept it and sold it for profit themselves.

Al least one of Stamitz's clarinet concertos ( concerto No. 6 in E-flat major ) seems to have been jointly composed by Stamitz and Beer as both names appear on the title page of the Viennese manuscript.

The Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres the magicians is a manuscript among the Chester Beatty Papyri No XVI, which has been edited and translated by Albert Pietersma.

This manuscript, Matenadaran No. 7117, first published by Ilia Abuladze in 1937 is a language manual, presenting different alphabets for comparison – Armenian, Greek, Latin, Syrian, Georgian, Coptic, and Caucasian Albanian among them.

No statement of his can be accepted without verification, and no manuscript he has handled without careful examination, but he did much useful work.

The following century and a half produced the Dowland manuscript ( the original is now lost ) and the Lansdowne, and possibly a few others, such as Grand Lodge No 1, for which only 17th century copies exist.

The first page from the manuscript by Anna Magdalena Bach of Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007

Of the first seven epistles there is only one manuscript extant, of which one part is now at Bern ( No. 219 ), the other at Paris ( No. 3791 ).

Another work that has been revived is his Cello Concerto No. 1, which was first performed by the composer in Stuttgart shortly before he came to the U. S. For many years, the work was unpublished and apparently unperformed, surviving only in manuscript.

Ludwig van Beethoven's manuscript sketch for Piano Sonata No. 28 ( Beethoven ) | Piano Sonata No. 28, Movement IV, Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr und mit Entschlossenheit ( Tempo | Allegro ), in his own handwriting.

In the colophons of the Malatia Gospel of 1268 ( MS No. 10675 ), Armenian manuscript illuminator Toros Roslin described the brutal sack of Antioch by Baibars: "... at this time great Antioch was captured by the wicked king of Egypt, and many were killed and became his prisoners, and a cause of anguish to the holy and famous temples, houses of God, which are in it ; the wonderful elegance of the beauty of those that were destroyed by fire is beyond the power of words.

No manuscript of the poem is extant.