Reinhard Oppel Collection, 1858-1935
By Maristella Feustle
Collection Overview
| Title: |
Reinhard Oppel Collection, 1858-1935 |
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| ID: | 06/ 085 |
| Primary Creator: | Oppel, Reinhard |
| Extent: | 19.0 Boxes |
| Subjects: | |
| Languages: | German |
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The collection consists of about 19 boxes of materials related to the life and work of composer and music theorist Reinhard Oppel.Subject/Index Terms
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Box and Folder Listing
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Box A
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Folder 1: Letter from Franz Liszt, 1858 May 8
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Folder 2: Photo print of Oppel; correspondence between Dr. Carl Loewe and Emilie Mayer (3 letters), 1859-1860
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Folder 3: Typed statement regarding Emilie Mayer
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Folder 4: Letter from Winifred Wagner to Fräulein Bötticher, 1931 September 22
Dated at Nussdorf. -
Folder 5: Two envelopes
First envelope from circa 1930. Second envelope originally addressed to Elfriede Oppel. -
Folder 6: Reinhard Oppel: Über Beziehungen Beethovens zu Mozart zu Ph. Em. Bach
Very brittle. Post-it labeled "Book 1" removed from cover. Re-bound in light-green cover. -
Folder 7: Iwan Knorr: Die Fugen des "Wohltempierten Klaviers" von Joh. Seb. Bach, 1912
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. Labeled "Book 2." Includes looseleaf chart, envelope, and letter addressed to Oppel dated March 10, 1924. -
Folder 8: Der Tonwille, 1924 October
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Folder 9: Katalog XII, Musik und Theater Enhaltend die Bibliothek des Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker, Wien; Arthur Schopenhauers Metaphysik der Musik, undated; 1895
Katalog - Antiquariat und Autographenhandlung Heinrich Hinterberger, Wien.
Schopenhauer - Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel.
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Folder 10: Handwritten lists of Oppel's works; list of Oppel's publications; document conferring doctorate on Oppel, 1911 June
Portrait-orientation; not a diploma in the conventional sense. Poster-sized. Date on document. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Post-it on envelope: "scanned." -
Folder 11: Schenker: analysis of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, 1924
Tonwille-Verlag. 73 pages. -
Folder 12: Program for Regents Faculty Lecture by Dr. Timothy Jackson, Oppel's setting of "Ich sah den Wald sich farben," letter to Oppel from Felix Salzer, 2002 November 6; 1925; 1935 February 2
Song text by Geibel, in envelope due to brittle paper. -
Folder 13: Oppel's analysis of Bach's Der Kunst der Fuge
Entirely handwritten in ink. Folder formerly labeled "Folder 3." -
Folder 14: Zwei Lieder für eine Singstimme, Op. 3
Berlin: Ries & Erler. Plate number R. 7685 E. -
Folder 15: Zwei Etüden für Klavier, Op. 31
Kiel: Walter G. Mühlau. -
Folder 16: Fünf Stücke für Klavier, Op. 21
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. Plate numbers 28795-28798. -
Folder 17: Schubert: Allegretto für Klavier, 1907
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. Plate number E.P. 8. Belonged to Oppel. -
Folder 18: J.S. Bach: Klavierwerke
Leipzig: C.F. Peters. Plate number 2696(210). Herausgegeben von Czerny, Griepenkerl, unt Roitzch. -
Folder 19: Joseph Knettel: Lied I & V aus dem Siebenden Ring von Stefan George
Autograph score in ink. Formerly labeled "Folder 1" with a Post-It. -
Folder 20: Spiegel und Lefse
Single-page manuscript in pencil. Title in Oppel's handwriting. Previously labeled "Folder 2."
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Box B
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Folder 1: Autograph scores
Osterhymnae (three movements based on religious texts, March 1905); analysis of Bach C-minor prelude; Messe II; Sonata für Klavier, G moll; work for solo instrument and piano ("Langsam"); Passacaglia (August 29, 1907); Brunneninschriff; Vorspiel zum Choral: Ein feste Burg (1885); first movement of string quartet; work for solo instrument and piano (July 28-30, 1918, Lille); work for violin and organ (April 21, 1932, Leipzig); Cello Romanze / Bei der Wiederholz Folgende Anderungen; Klavier Sonate, I. Satz (June 9, 1919, Kiel); single page of sketches; string quintet (partial); sketch of quartet; Praeludium I. Piano (July 12, 1899); small sheet labeled "Berlin 1757," and other years; sketch of piano work. -
Folder 2: Suite für Violine solo in e-moll, Op. 19, 1913
Kiel: Self-published. Plate number R.O. 2. Numerous copies. -
Folder 3: Autograph scores
Reformationslied (SATB, Bonn); Polenisches Weihnachtslied für Kinder (Bonn, July 20, 1907); Himmelfahrtslied I (Bonn), II. Shopfe (Mainz, 1907); Komm nicht in später Nacht (Op. 17, No. 3, Köln: Tischer & Jagenberg, T. & J. 166); Zwei ungarische Volklieder; Himmelfahrtslied aus der Reformationszeit (February 1907); Fantasie in Fugenform für Orgel; Sonate fur Klavier und Cello (Bonn, January-February 1904); Cello Arie bei Hilsdorf-Bingen (four movements); Liturgieen für gemischten Chor, Op. 6, No. 3 (1909); Zwei Lieder fur eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte (Op. 3, Berlin: Ries & Erler, pl. no. R. 7685 E., 2 copies); Drei zweistimmige Lieder, Op. 4 (soprano and alto, Berlin: Ries & Erler, pl. no. R. 7687-7689 E. -
Folder 4: Fra Pensieri Quel Pensiero
Autograph score. For flute or violin, alto, and piano
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Box C
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Folder 1: "Messe" - settings of texts from the Ordinary of the Mass
Includes Gloria, Credo, and Sanctus. -
Folder 2: String Quartet No. 2, D minor
String quartet, composed at Kiel. Score and parts. -
Folder 3: Tanzsuite für Streichquartett; Terzetto fur 2 Violinen und Viola, Op. 11, 1935 May; August 6
Tanzsuite dated May 1935; Terzetto dated August 6, at Bonn. -
Folder 4: String Quartet No. 1, E-flat major, 1920 (?) December 20
Score and parts. -
Folder 5: String Quartet No. 3 in C minor / Cellostimme: Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Bach für Streichquartett, 1932 December 8
Composed at Kiel. "Schulze-Prisca Quartett." No score. -
Folder 6: Hans Weisse: Sieben Dreistimmige Stücke fur Klavier nebst einem Anhang: Ricercar für Laute
"Heinrich Schenker zugeeignet." See also: "Hans Weisse, Joseph Knettel, Paul Kletzki Collections" (06/084), Box 1, Folder 11 (photocopy).
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Box D
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Folder 1: Analysis and Counterpoint
Page 5 of unidentified work; Brahms IV-I Durchführung; Zu Bach, Solos für Viol und Cello; Bach Solos g IV 28 v 31; 24. Two-Voice Fugue (September 9, 1920); Fugue in C#, W.K [Well-Tempered Clavier] I (Kiel, Christmas, 1928); D Toccata (October 1931); W. K. I, Fuga II / Praeludium C I; Schenker-Oppel: Bach, Prelude I in C-sharp; Analysis of Prelude in E minor; Brahms, E-flat minor; Bach E Kleine Preluden 2. Teil; Bach, G minor; Bach, E minor (March 20, 1930); Bach, G minor solo sonata; cutouts of magazine art related to composers; 3 leaflets from Dr. Benno Filser Verlag, Augsburg; Palestrina, Plei sunt coeli; Brahms E-flat minor intermezzo / W.K. Fugue 2; Short analyses on folded paper; Analysis (February 6, 1919, at Kiel) / Chopin A-flat Etude Op. 25-I; two-voice fugue; No. 11, 12, 13, 14; Trio, October 20, 1919; "Tocc. g Fuge 38 + 509"; No. 4 3-voice Fugue in C; Sketches and "Hallelujah!" in black folder; Bach Studieren (April 1919); Palestrina, Agnus Dei; Einleitung / Ägypter; Analysen; Notizen; Jesu meine Freunde; 5-voice fugue in C for organ; Bach W.K. II fugue (on reverse of letter dated January 4, 1929); 5-Voice Fugue for Organ - analysis, April 27, 1922; newspaper, November 16, 1928; Tchaikovsky, Lied der Zigeunerin; newspaper with "De Profundis" (Psalm 130) highlighted; Frankfurter Zeitung, November 20, 1928 -
Folder 2: Bach and Handel
Correlli-Joachim: Allegro from Sonata V in B major, "with one flat" (with two pages of printed music, pl. no. 2636) W.K. II No. 14, Canon; Polisches Volkslied - Carl Busse (TTBB, 2 copies, manuscript); Die Fromme Paulina von Rud. Baumbach (TTBB) / Die Harte Nuß (Peter Rosegger); Largo; Requiem (text by Friedrich Hebbel, also set by Reger, July 18-19, 1901; Nymphaea alba (gedicht von Wilhelm Walloth, for 4-voice men's chorus, July 17, 1901); Letter to Dr. Schmidt (May 3, 1933, Leipzig); Handel analyses; Palestrina: Missa ad Fugam analysis; Corelli - Vivace der 2. Sonata - B dur; Corelli - Sonata VIII, 2 Satz, op. 3 / Sonate da Chiesa (May 27, 1931); Paper Zur Handlungs[?]heit Bach zur Themen, folded with letter from Prof. J. Milsohn [illegible], November 1928); List of themes; card advertising Oppel lectures; Corelli 3. Sonate Allegro / Bach / Corelli/ illegible, soft fiber paper; 11 small leaves of notes; timeline of composers; 2 leaves of notes; poem, in "Kleines Feuilleton"; 2 additional leaves of notes; illegible soft paper; Bach - Fuga. -
Folder 3: Oppel: String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 18, 1912
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Folder 4: Oppel: String pieces and other works
Sonate fur Violine solo in D-moll, Op. 12 (October 1910) - self published, pl. no. R.O. 1 Paul Thoma gewidmet
Der Brauttanz (1910) - text by Simon Dach. Leipzig: Fr. Kistner, pl. no. 10434. TTBB
Lied der Freundschaft für gemischten Chor - text by Simon Dach. Gottingen: Verlag von Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Streichtrio in C moll, Op. 10. Violin, viola, cello. Parts only.
Ciacona B-dur - for piano
Präludium [und Grave] e moll fur Violin und Klavier (Leipzig, April 21, 1932), dedicated to Cyrill Ko[illegible]. Score and parts.
Konzert für Violin mit Begleitung des Orchesters, g moll, Op. 20 (Kiel, March 30, 1913), dedicated to Walter Schulze Prisen (?). For piano and violin - score, with written cadenza.
Klaviertrio (November 24, 27, 1921 / December 25, 1928) - score and parts.
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Folder 5: Messe, Op. 32, and other works
Nun laßt uns Gott dem Herre - for organ. Numbered 1-10, possibly related to item with 11 through 14 noted in Folder 1, November 1923.
Untitled, Wurzburg, September 4, 1933; Handel Fugue in F minor, with article "On Handel's Instrumental Fugues" (Leipzig), and letter from Neue Bachgesellschaft zu Leipzig (July 3, 1931)
Ciacona B dur für Klavier. Marked "QIII." Includes sketch of different work labeled August 29, 1922
Messe für Vierstimmigen Chor, Op. 32 (SATB).
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. Paris: E. Fromont, pl. no. E. 1091 F., 1895.
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