Liszt, Franz

the full score of the complete movement, with on the final page two passages in arrangement for male voices only ("Veränderungen der Instrumentation wenn der Psalm blos von Männer Chor ausgeführt..."), notated in brown ink on up to twenty-three staves per page, for five-part chorus, organ and orchestra, with a piano reduction added at the bottom of the system, including the male-chorus version, the chorus split into eight parts at the end of the movement (at letters F and G), with annotations by the composer in blue crayon (the pagination 1-9, and a cue for a repeat of 2 bars on the first page) and in orange crayon ("...solo oder halber Chor..."), and rehearsal letters (A-G)

10 pages, oblong folio (c.27 x 35cm), 24-stave paper by Lard Esnault of Paris, with a later nineteenth-century attestation at the foot of the first page ("By Liszt...original mss by Liszt"), [1867-1869], creasing and some splitting along folds, some browning and staining   

LWV (Mueller) J6; Raabe 487 (3rd movement); Searle 15a

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This manuscript of Liszt's separate Graduale "Laudate Dominum" appears to be unrecorded; Raabe notes only a manuscript copy at Weimar.  Liszt originally composed this movement in a version for male chorus in 1849; Rena Mueller records a version for piano and male chorus. The "Laudate Dominum" remained unpublished until Liszt incorporated it into the Hungarian Coronation Mass, when that work was published by Schuberth of Hamburg in 1869. The first performance of the Mass, without this movement, had taken place in Budapest on 8 June 1867, to celebrate the wedding of the Emperor Franz Joseph I and the Empress Elisabeth (better known as "Sisi").  

For another important Liszt manuscript, see lot 202 (part of the Kurt Maschler collection).