Original Scores

[brahmsian]

Is there anywhere online where I can look at the original score to a piece of music?

[Kassaa]

What is the original score?

What the composer wrote? That's often quite unreadable.

[BoliverAllmon]

try reading some beethoven. that is scary.

[Etude]

I know, the associated board editions of the Beethoven sonatas have some copies of pages of the autograph's for some of the sonatas, like the moonlight or les adieux, I don't know how they were published.

[BoliverAllmon]

tedious research

[bernhard]

This very site (Pianostreet) has the facsimiles of the autographs for all 15 J.S. Bach 2-voice inventions (you need to be a gold member to access them though).

For other works I suggest you just google the name of the composer followed by “facsimile autograph” and see what comes up (and if you search in "images" rather than the "web" you may save sometime).

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[claudio]

difficult question. s.th. there is a charity/trust that was founded to collect or
exhibit certain manuscripts. however, most of the time they have no jpgs on the
internet.

a good start could be:

pierpont morgan library, n.y. (they have lots on mahler, some mozart, beethoven
and schubert, even an autograph of listz's mephisto waltz).
https://www.morganlibrary.org/collections/collectionsThumbs.asp?id=Music

the british library (e.g. haendel, mendelssohn, etc.)
https://www.bl.uk/collections/musiccollections.html

library of congress (might also be a good starting point)
https://www.loc.gov/

beethoven haus bonn (beethoven museum in bonn, germany)
https://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php//portal_en

paul sacher foundation basel (largest collection of contemporary music)
https://www.paul-sacher-stiftung.ch/e/collections.htm (only for professional
musicians or scientists  )

wiener landesbibliothek (for autographs of schubert, strauss family, etc.)
https://www.stadtbibliothek.wien.at/index.htm (but no pictures  )

[Dazzer]

anyone know where i can get the complete scarlatti, by Kirkpatrick?

[claudio]

ah, i forgot. the federal library, berlin (german) has published the complete
autograph of beethovens 9th symphony on the internet:

https://beethoven.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/

there are about 176 scarlatti sonatas on the internet at
https://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/Scarlatti.html for free. don't
know which edition.

[quantum]

I don't know if Kirkpatrick actually edited all 555 or so Sonatas.  The only ones I know of are the 60 published by Schirmer.  I would however love to see all of them edited by him.

[dlu]

difficult question. s.th. there is a charity/trust that was founded to collect or
exhibit certain manuscripts. however, most of the time they have no jpgs on the
internet.

a good start could be:

pierpont morgan library, n.y. (they have lots on mahler, some mozart, beethoven
and schubert, even an autograph of listz's mephisto waltz).
https://www.morganlibrary.org/collections/collectionsThumbs.asp?id=Music

the british library (e.g. haendel, mendelssohn, etc.)
https://www.bl.uk/collections/musiccollections.html

library of congress (might also be a good starting point)
https://www.loc.gov/

beethoven haus bonn (beethoven museum in bonn, germany)
https://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php//portal_en

paul sacher foundation basel (largest collection of contemporary music)
https://www.paul-sacher-stiftung.ch/e/collections.htm (only for professional
musicians or scientists  )

wiener landesbibliothek (for autographs of schubert, strauss family, etc.)
https://www.stadtbibliothek.wien.at/index.htm (but no pictures  )

Can you view the entire facsimile of the Mephisto online? I could only get the first page at that site.
DLu

[claudio]

no, only the one page 

[Dazzer]

I don't know if Kirkpatrick actually edited all 555 or so Sonatas.  The only ones I know of are the 60 published by Schirmer.  I would however love to see all of them edited by him.

yes i've got the 60.