79/2081 Maatschappij tot bevordering van de Toonkunst. Small archive, consisting of 10 manuscript (1x printed) letters and 2 manuscript scores, all letters dating from 1850.

= The letters all centre around the music festival ("Muzijkfeest te Haarlem") that was organized in 1850, and are addressed to i.a. C.G.V. Schneevoogt (the secretary of the Maatschappij) and J.J. Viotta, and are partly written by affiliated members of the Maatschappij that offer their help with the various arrangements concerning the festival. I.a. offering singers for the choir, concerns about the lack of urgency in preparing everything for the festival, the availability of scores for the musicians and singers (the most important part of the festival was the first performance in The Netherlands of Mendelssohn Bartoldy's oratorio "Elias" (composed only 4 years earlier). Also including 2 separate manuscript scores, i.a. one with a fair copy of the score of N. DALEYRAC's "Romance de Gulnare" (prob. a version for voice and guitar).