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A selection of highlights in the NMI collections will be digitized within the next few years, and presented online with annotations. In this way, unlimited access will be possible without any harm to the original.

Johann Gottfried Walther: The 'Frankenberger' manuscript (ca. 1730)

The so-called Frankenberger manuscript is one of the most precious items in the collection of the Netherlands Music Institute. It contains 196 organ chorale settings from the period 1650-1730, compiled and copied by the composer and organist Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748).

Franz Liszt: correspondence with Marie Espérance von Schwartz

The NMI has 47 letters by Liszt in its keeping. A special part of this collection are four unpublished letters to Baroness Marie Espérance von Schwartz (1818-1899). Better known under her pen name Elpis Melena, she had some fame as a writer, philanthropist, and as a political activist.

This presentation contains images of these four letters together with transcriptions, translations and extensive commentary.

Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921)

Alphons Diepenbrock - Music Manuscripts

This collection contains autographs of all the compositions of Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921). Also included is a selection of photographs, correspondence and a few audio fragments. The music of Diepenbrock is one of the highlights in Dutch music history.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - handschrift “Galimathias Musicum Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Galimathias Musicum K32

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed Galimathias Musicum in March 1766, shortly after his tenth birthday, on the occasion of the inauguration of Prince William V as stadholder of the United Provinces.

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