October 19, 2023

Dear Nathaniel,

While drafting a letter to The Lobkowicz Music Archive asking for .pdf scans of all 605 admittedly damaged pages in their three Catallieri Il Segregeto boxes, it occurred to me that it might be of professional benefit for your career to apply for help to Dr. Kathryn Libin who is an Associate Professor at Vassar, and who was recently instrumental in reorganizing the Lobkowicz Music Archive, who knows the Lobkowicz adminitrators, and whose endorsement of your project might be decisive.

And then it further occurred to me that it was probably awkward if not impossible to use these damaged manuscripts for performances until they had been converted to printed musical scores, and that such conversion had now become feasible and inexpensive by use of artificial intelligence.  If texunbox is as good as its word, the conversion cost might be as low as $6.07 for the entire 603 pages of the Lobkowicz Il Segreto collection.  Furthermore, although the original manuscripts are in the public domain, your conversion, especially if annotated, would have the benefit of copyright. Given that there are hundreds of 17th 18th and 19th century musical manuscripts stored in cardboard boxes in uncounted libraries, you and your Camelot Music Trust could be in business. Maybe you could do for Antonio Casimir Cartellieri - and others - what Felix Mendelssohn did for Johann Sebastian Bach.

Your role model might be your great grandmother's younger sister Virginia Grace, a classical archeologist who made herself a pivotal member of her profession by learning to date Greek amphora, and whose skills made her an indispensable consultant to numerous excavations in which she was not otherwise involved, and who was rewarded in part by becoming for one year a colleague of Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, whose motto "Es lebe die Unverfrorenheit!" (Long live impudence!) the ultimate explanation for his theory of general relativity, is useful to us all.

Meanwhile I will continue to look for suitable artificial intelligence
software. Please let me know what you think. Love, Jochen

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu-sn&q=+Dr.+Kathryn+Libin+%28Vassar+College%29#ip=1
https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu-sn&q=ai+handwriting+to+text+converter
https://textunbox.app/#page-top?via=topaitools
https://www.fiverr.com/compumusic/convert-handwritten-music-notation-into-pro-sheet-music