Ferdinand HÉROLD (1791–1833). Signed autograph musical manuscript; oblong in-4 notebook, 60 pages on 30 leaves, 19x25 cm, with a marbled paper board cover. A very interesting and rare sketchbook, signed on the cover. Hérold jotted down numerous themes and motifs for orchestral pieces (symphonies, dance tunes, waltzes, marches, overtures, etc.) and for piano (notably rondos, including a “Military Rondo”), vocal arias (“No more happiness for me, I am abandoned”…, “bass-baritone comic aria,” romances…), marches and dances, a fugue, notations of melodies heard in Italy (“banda tedesca in Bologna,” the “Miserere from the Sistine Chapel in Rome”…), etc., with key signatures and interesting notes on development and instrumentation: “trombones with the entire orchestra in unison,” “duet accompanied only by cellos and bassoons in unison Salieri,” “a chorus accompanied only by all string instruments in unison,” “in a slow aria, the entire orchestra playing legato with the cellos alone providing accompaniment,” “ritornello of an aria to be artfully arranged among the wind instruments, one after the other” Provenance: Hérold Family Archives, Drouot, June 12, 1991 (no. 63).