page_title: Edmond Michotte collection
section_title: Autographs and printed scores
hierarchical_section_title: Edmond Michotte collection / The collection / Autographs and printed scores
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Partition autographe de la cavatine de la "La Somnambule" de Rossini (Bibliothèque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, B-Bc, FEM 881)
context_page_description: The Edmond Michotte collection is a donation to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels phased between 1897 and 1913, by the Belgian homonymous composer and musicographer, of an important part of the private library of Rossini with whom he became friendly.
context_section_description: The collection contains close to 300 musical manuscripts, amongst which 26 are autograph; the majority  of these are works by Rossini, including 180 compositions pertaining to the lyrical repertoire – mostly unedited airs, fragments or variations – written for the soprano Isabella Colbran (1785–1845), his first wife and creator of major roles, as well as vocal and instrumental music.
  The collection includes the handwritten score of Matilde di Shabran (1821) – a minor work of the composer, but the only one  in Belgium. which sheds light on the evolution of Rossini's bel canto.
  Among some forty manuscripts from other composers is the autograph version of Six Polonaises D824, op. 61 from Schubert although no information is available as to how it became part of Rossini's library.
caption: Cavatine of La Sonnambula (s.d.) (Library of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, B-Bc, FEM-881)
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