Alfred Cellier: ‘The Masque of Pandora by H. W. Longfellow’ and ‘Gray’s Elegy’; May 1880. The poems are written on each verso in ink, apparently in the hand of A. Charles Stephenson, whose signature is on the title page, with musical sketches in pencil on each facing recto, setting the correspo...
John Field: ‘L’incendie Par L’orage: 5e Concerto Pour Le Piano Forté, Composé et Dedié a Son Excellence Madame de Rosenkampf’; circa 1830. Full score, in ink, with modern pencil markings throughout. Folio. Published St Petersburg: Chez l’Auteur, [1817]. pp. 139. John Field, composer and pianis...
Paul Hindemith: ‘Trauermusik für Streichorchester und Solobratsche’; 21 Jan. 1936. Autograph full score, in ink. pp. 11 + 2 loose sheets. Folio. Published Mainz & Leipzig: Schott, 1936. Paul Hindemith, composer: 'Trauermusik' for solo viola and string orchestra: 1936: Autogr.
Nicolò Jommelli: ‘Magnificat [in D major] etc. a 4 Voci, 2, Corni, 2 Fl. Trav:, 2 Oboi, 2 Violini, Viola e Continuo’; 18th cent. Full score, in ink. Lat. Apparently the same as the Magnificat in D attributed to Zach in a MS in CZ-Pnm and to Brixi in a MS in D-Bsb. pp. 118. Folio. ‘Purchased at ...
Nicolò Jommelli. Oblong folio. i. ‘Miserere &c. Salmo L.’, in G minor, for two sopranos and strings; 18th cent. Copy. Score, in ink. Ital. ii. ‘Sequenza Per li Giorni di Pentecoste, A Quattro Voci Concertata’ [and basso continuo]; 18th cent. Copy, in another hand from the first item. Sco...
Franz Schubert: ‘La Croisade des Dames’; 19th cent. Copy. Full score, in ink. Germ. A version of ‘Die Verschworen’, D787, with replacement overture and some other numbers omitted. Oblong folio. For autograph full score, see Add. 29802. Published Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1889. Franz Pet...
Arthur Somervell: ‘Young April. Overture for full orchestra’; n.d. Autograph. Full score, in ink. Folio. Sir Arthur Somervell, composer: 'Young April': n.d.: Autogr.
Henryk Wieniawski: [Fantaisie brillante sur les motifs de l’opera "Faust" de Gounod, pour le violon avec accompagnement d’orchestre, op.20]; circa 1900. Probably copy. Full score in ink. pp. 64. Oblong folio. Violin and piano score published Leipzig, Fr. Kistner, [c. 1880]. Henryk Wieniawski, v...
Anthems; January 1695/6. Copies. Score, in ink, in the same hand throughout. pp. 9-261 (230-248 misnumbered as 130-148 and 149-161 misnumbered as 349-361; 2 unnumbered pages between 90 and 91; pp. 353-4 (i.e.253-4) repeated). Folio. Signed ‘Tho: Williams’ on front flyleaf and with bookplates of ...
A. Vernon Butcher: ‘English Organ Music (from John Blow to Samuel Wesley)’; circa 1940. The editor’s neat copy, in ink, with engraver’s markings. Folio. Organ music by Roseingrave, Blow, Felton, Arne, Dupuis, Bennett, Beckwith, Keeble, Walond, Russell, Boyce, Travers, S. Wesley, Handel and Stanl...