IRA LEVIN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION

COMPOSERS
Felix Mendelssohn
Hector Berlioz (letter)
Franz Liszt (Weimar 1885 with dedication to Carl Bechstein)
Camille Saint-Saens (signature & musical quote from his 4th piano concerto, 1877)
Johannes Brahms (letter 1888 to Simrock, signed „JB“)
Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni (autograph and musical quote from Liszt’s BACH 1900)
Richard Strauss & Hans Pfitzner (together on one postcard, 1934)
George Enescu
Igor Stravinsky (1931)
Paul Hindemith
Walter Braunfels (signed photo)
Walter Braunfels (letter to his son Michael, 1940)
Walter Braunfels (sketches for his Te Deum, 1922)
Moritz Moskowski
Samuel Barber
Pierre Boulez (dedication to Ira with quote from the third piano sonata, 1994)

PIANISTS
Clara Schumann
Moriz Rosenthal
Leopold Godowsky (letter, 1928)
Josef Hofmann  x3 (including one with musical quote from Dvorsky’s  (Hofmann’s) „Chromaticon“ and one with his two children  „my two concertos“)
Alfred Cortot (1958)
Iganz Friedman – letter and photograph, 1922
Benno Moiseiwitsch
Vladimir Horowitz x2
Guiomar Novaes (with a dedication to Olga Samaroff, 1947)
Egon Petri (London 1937)
Rudolf Serkin (signature on my own music manuscript, 1974)
Jorge Bolet (dedication to Ira L.1978 and letter 1982)

CONDUCTORS
Hans von Bülow
Arthur Nikisch
Arturo Toscanini ( Bayreuth 1931)
Bruno Walter ( with "Das Lied von der Erde" quotation)
Hans Knappertsbusch
Pierre Monteux (1928 Philadelphia program w. W. Horowitz)
Erich Kleiber (signed pencil sketch on postcard, 1928)
Fritz Reiner
Wilhelm Mengelberg
Victor de Sabata
Dmitri Mitropolous x 2 (Signature + signed photo with dedication to Eugene List)
Felix Weingartner (1910)
Eleazar Carvalho
Michael Gielen (dedication to I.L. on Schoenberg score, 1987 and four letters 1998-2005)

IRA LEVIN FACSIMILE COLLECTION

BACH
Mass in B minor
Art of the Fugue
Notebook for Anna Magdalena
Cantata BWV 205
Cantatas 131, 10, 33, 171, 112, 97, 9, 118 (one volume, Garland)
Inventions
Sonatas and Partitas for violin

HAYDN
Symphony # 104 "London"
String Quartet opus 77 # 1
"Creation Mass"

MOZART
Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail
Le Nozze de Figaro
Der Schaulspieldirektor
Don Giovanni
Cosi fan Tutte
Die Zauberflöte
Requiem
Mass in c-minor
Symphony No. 35
Symphony No. 41
Piano concerto No.19
Piano concerto No. 21
Piano concerto No. 23
Piano concerto No. 26
Piano concerto No. 27
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Deutsche Tänze K. 509
Piano Fantasy and Sonata K. 457& 475
Strinq Quartets K. 575, 589, 590, String Quintet K. 614 (one volume)

BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 opus 67
Symphony No. 6 opus 68
Symphony No. 9 opus 125
Piano Concerto No. 5 opus 73
Piano Sonata opus 28
Piano Sonata opus 53 (Beethoven Haus)
Piano Sonata opus 57 (1927 edition)
Piano Sonata opus 101 (Beethoven Haus)
Piano Sonata opus 110 (1967 Stuttgart)
Piano Sonata opus 111 (1923 edition)
Bagatellen opus 126 (2 volumes Beethoven Haus)
Violin-Piano Sonata opus 96
Missa Solemnis opus 125: Kyrie
Fidelio opus 72: Florestan aria
Autograph Miscellany 1786-1799 (2 volumes British Museum 1970)
Beethoven Letters in America (1927 edition)

VON WEBER
Der Freischütz

SCHUBERT
Die Winterreise
Mass in Eb major

MENDELSSOHN
"Wie die Zeit läuft!"
Symphony # 4 1833 and 1834 versions
Violin concerto

CHOPIN
Preludes opus 28
Scherzo No. 2 opus 31
Ballade No. 3 opus 47
Barcarolle opus 60
Polonaise – Fantasie opus 61
Book of various  facsimiles (Warsaw catalogue)

SCHUMANN
Dichterliebe opus 48
Waldszenen opus 82

LISZT
Piano Sonata b-minor

VERDI
Falstaff (1951 edition)

WAGNER
Die Meistersinger: Prelude act one  (1923 edition)
Lohengrin:  Preludes act 1 and 3

BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 opus 68
opuses 40, 34, 18, 39, 87, 118#1, 119#1 (one volume, Garland)

TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6 opus 74
"The Seasons" opus 37

DVORAK
Piano Concerto opus 33

SMETANA
The Bartered Bride (complete opera in piano score)

MAHLER
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 7
Symphony No. 9
Der Abschied

DEBUSSY
Prelude de l’apres midi d’une faune
Preludes Book 1
Pelleas et Melisande, sketches

SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder (1st edition Universal 1912, Facsimile of autograph)

BARTOK
Dance Suite
Concerto for Orchestra (Bartok’s piano score)
Music for strings percussion and celesta

HOLST
The Planets

"Musikerhandschriften" (Praetorius to Britten)
"Musical Autographs" (two volumes Dover ed. Winternitz)