Call Number: Birnbaum Collection Mus. 86.3

 

Attribution: Birnbaum, Eduard.

 

Place: Königsberg, Pr.

 

Date: 1894

 

Physical Description: Ink on paper; 50 leaves; 3 scores and parts ; cm; autograph manuscript.

 

Subject: Choral music

 

Description:

 

Psalm 67, verses 2-5 in D major, three settings of choral score, plus individual parts. First setting is for SATB choir. Second and third setting is for SATB choir and cantor soloist (tenor). Final (third) setting of the piece has edits concerning the arrangement and text setting in pencil in Birnbaum’s hand. All settings have similarities in terms of melody and structure, and are likely compositional sketches for one piece.

 

Date from item colophon (on choral score of final setting).

 

Was missing at one time, and therefore was not described by Israel Adler in his cataloging efforts in the 1970s.

 

In some materials associated with the Birnbaum Collection, this item has been known as Mus. 86c.

 

Link to Manuscript record in the HUC Library Catalog