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Luigi Silva Musical Score and Personal Papers Collection, 1920-1961

Luigi Silva (1903-1961) is remembered as a distinguished musician, teacher, and scholar of the violoncello. The Luigi Silva Cello Music Collection, dedicated on April 5, 1964, spans nearly 1400 scores, many of which are transcribed or highly annotated by Silva. This collection is renowned among musicologists for its impressive number of annoted Bach suites.

21 exercices pour le violoncelle
75 pages of music ; 33 cm. Cover title. Exercises include accompaniment for 2nd violoncello. Performance notes in the hand of Luigi Silva.
Etudes pour le violoncelle
25, 27 pages of music ; 34 cm. "Composées de Gammes dans tous les tons majeurs et mineurs, et Variées avec differens doigtés en parcourant toutes les cordes, et avec des Préludes en accord et en double corde dans tous les tons." Engraved. No. [1] in bound volume with title: Studi per violoncello, autori diversi.
Exercices pour toutes les positions du pouce
1 ms. score ([46] pages) ; 30 cm. Additional short exercises in pencil, labeled "Melody per violoncello" and dated 1897, in another hand on t.p. and at end (p. [46]). For violoncello, mainly with accompaniment for a second violoncello. Manuscript in brown ink in unknown hand (signature on t.p. in pencil, illegible). No. [3] in a bound volume with title: Studi per violoncello, autori diversi. Stamp on t.p.: Biblioteca, Instituto musicale di Firenze.
Mes matinées, ou, étude pour le violoncelle
22 pages of music ; 34 cm. Engraved. Imprint on label pasted on t.p. Performance notes in the hand of Luigi Silva. No. [2] in bound volume with title: Studi per violoncello, autori diversi.

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