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The Juilliard School has received an extraordinary collection of music manuscripts from Juilliard Board Chairman, Bruce Kovner. Formally announced by Juilliard President Joseph W. Polisi at a press conference on 28 February 2006, the donation comprises 139 autograph manuscripts, sketches, Stichvorlagen, and first editions with composer annotations. Among the many highlights of the collection are the newly discovered manuscript of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, in his arrangement for piano, 4 hands; the engraver's proof of Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 with extensive markings by the composer; the "lost" continuo part for Bach's Cantata no. 176 with composer markings; the autograph final scene of wind parts to Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro; the earliest surviving manuscript for Purcell's Dido & Aeneas; and sketchbooks for parts of Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, Stravinsky's Petrushka, and Barber's Antony and Cleopatra. The collection will be housed in a new Scholars Reading Room, to be completed in September 2009 as part of a campus-wide renovation and expansion project. Access to individual items is quite limited until...

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