By Geri Laudati
Mills Music Library recently acquired Music Manuscripts of the Classical and Romantic Eras, Series I: Autograph music manuscripts from the Musikbibliothek der Stadt Leipzig. 14 reels and guide.
The Music Library of the City of Leipzig contains an abundance of musical riches -- autographs, manuscripts, and early and first printed editions, directly related to the variegated musical life of the city. The Bach manuscripts from the collection originated from an amalgamation of various collections that combined in 1954 to form the Musikbibliothek der Stadt Leipzig. Among these was the Politz collection, presented by Karl Heinrich Ludwig Politz, a professor at Leipzig University, to the City in 1839. Carl Ferndinand Becker, the Leipzig organist and lecturer, sold his library of Bach manuscripts to the City in 1856. A third group was contributed by the Peters Music Library, a public music library founded and run by Max Abraham and Henri Heinrichsen. Scores from the C. F. Peters publishing firm were preserved as part of the Peters Library. Purchases of other manuscript collections in the early years of the twentieth century further increased the number of Bach compositions, some of which exist only in manuscript form, in the City Library.
In addition to the Bach manuscripts, musical manuscripts of Haydn, Handel, and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, as well as letters of Mendelssohn, and Robert and Clara Schumann, are contained in this expansive set.
Sentir el Tango (Buenos Aires: Editorial Altaya, 1998) is a ninty-six compact disc set covering the art of Tango by such luminaries as Carlos Gardel, Troilo-Fiorentino, Roberto Goyeneche, Osvaldo Pugliese, Astor Piazzolla, Edmundo Rivero, Mariano Mores, Julio Sosa, Carlos Di Sarli, Susana Rinaldi, Alberto Castillo, Miguel Caló, Tanturi-Castillo, D'Arienzo, Alberto Marino, Ángel Vargas, Agustín Magaldi, Osvaldo Fresedo, Mercedes Simone, Roberto Goyeneche, Charlo, and numerous others. Many discs are devoted to individual performers, duos or trios; others are compilations such as "Voces femeninas del tango." All have been digitally remastered and a five volume guide accompanies and illuminates the recordings. The performers can be searched individually in MadCat or under the set title Sentir el Tango.