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Leuven, Universiteitsarchief, PU/elewijck/114



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Identification

Holding institution

Leuven - Universiteitsarchief [B-LVu]

Shelfmark

Archief Familie Van Elewyck 114

Format

bundle

Category

carillon

Content

Autograph of Matthias Vanden Gheyn containing 11 preludia for carillon and 6 arrangements for carillon

Language(s)

Italian; French; Dutch

Context

Origin

Leuven

Date / Date range

between 1745 and 1785

Material description

Support

paper

Folios

15 ff.

Height

24,5 cm

Width

30 cm

Illumination

no

Date

Autograph discovered in 1995

Provenance

Van Elewyck, Xavier

Codicological description - Notes

A second music manuscript, containing music for organ and harpsichord, is kept in the same sheath under the same archive number
The carillon preludes are numbered in two ways. The (probably) original numbering is a simple numeral above the beginnings of the preludes. The second numbering is of the type 'prelude + numeral'.

Inventory

1. Vanden Gheyn, Matthias: Preludio in G p. [1]
2. Vanden Gheyn, Matthias: Preludio in C p. [2-3]
3. Vanden Gheyn, Matthias: Preludio in C p. [6-7]
4. Vanden Gheyn, Matthias: Preludio in d p. [8-9]
5. [undetermined]: Allegro in D p. [10-11]
6. [undetermined]: [piece in D] p. [11]
7. [undetermined]: Aria in G p. [12-13]
8. [undetermined]: [piece in G] p. [14-15]
9. [undetermined]: Minuet in C p. [15]
10. [undetermined]: Andante in d p. [16-17]
11. Vanden Gheyn, Matthias: Preludio in d p. [18-19]
12. Vanden Gheyn, Matthias: Preludio in g p. [20-21]
13. Vanden Gheyn, Matthias: Preludio in G p. [22-23]
14. Vanden Gheyn, Matthias: Preludio in a p. [24-26]
15. Vanden Gheyn, Matthias: Preludio in C p. [26-27]
16. Vanden Gheyn, Matthias: Preludio in F p. [28-29]
17. Vanden Gheyn, Matthias: Preludio in C p. [30]

Bibliography

Schreurs 2010 Eugeen Schreurs, 'Elf preludes voor beiaard, zes korte speelstukken voor klavier en acht orgelversetten', in P. Delsaerdt, K. Smeyers en M. Derez (ed.), Anima Academiae Bibliotheca: dertig jaar aanwinsten voor de Leuvense Universiteitsbibliotheek 1980-2010 (Leuven, 2010), 86-87.
Huybens-Rombouts 1997 Gilbert Huybens and Luc Rombouts (ed.), Matthias Vanden Gheyn, Preludia voor beiaard = Preludes for carillon (2 vol.) (Monumenta Flandriae Musica 2) (Leuven-Peer, 1997).
Van Elewyck 1862 Xavier van Elewyck, Matthias Van den Gheyn, le plus grand Organiste et Carilloneur belge du XVIIIme siècle, et les célèbres Fondeurs de Cloches de ce nom depuis 1450 jusqu'à nos jours (Paris-Bruxelles-Louvain, 1862).

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