ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Comley (James). Hymn Tunes, Kyries, etc.; March 16, 1885. Autograph. ‘A Selection of Sacred Music …’ dedicated to Queen Victoria, with an introductory letter. All for voice and piano. ff. 71. James Comley, composer: Church music: 1885: Autogr. Victoria of England: Musi...
R.M.21.e.45-46. ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Santa Chiara (the German text by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer); 19th century. Opera in 3 acts, in full score. Dedicated to Albert, Prince Consort. Paper. Two volumes.
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Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, author: Music manuscripts , text by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer: 19th cent. Victoria of England; Albert, Prince Consort: Music manuscripts , dedicated to Albert: 19th cent. Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh; Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; 2nd son of Queen Victoria: Mus...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Diana von Solange; 19th century. Opera in 5 acts, in full score. Dedicated to Albert, Prince Consort. 1st performance, Dec. 5, 1858. Reproduced from manuscript. Paper. ff. 289. Victoria of England; Albert, Prince Consort: Music manuscr...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Felsted (Samuel). The Dedication; early 19th century. ‘An oratorio from the Third Chapter of Daniel’, the words, also by Felsted, prefacing the score. For solo voices and chorus; with oboes, trumpets, horns, tympani, strings and organ obbligato. The bass is figured. Pape...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Florimo (Francesco). Romanze; 19th century. A set of 3 songs; with pianoforte accompaniment, in score. Dedicated to the compser’s friend Vincenzo Bellini. Paper. ff. 4. Vincenzo Bellini, composer: Music manuscript , dedicated to Vincenzo Bellini: 19th cent. Francesco F...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Gluck (Christoph Willibald von). Alceste; 18th century. Opera in 3 acts and 64 numbers, using flutes, oboes, bassoons, cors anglais, trumpets, horns, trombones, strings and cembalo (figured bass). 25 loose parts under one cover, separate parts only. In the same hand throu...
R.M.21.f.6-8. ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Gounod (Charles François). Faust; May 5th, 1879. Opera in 5 acts; the full score, with a supplement containing the ballet music to the Walpurgis Night Scene, copied with a prefatory note by Francis Deffell. Finished on the date given and presented to the Royal Library on the following day. [Similar copy held at the Royal Academy of Music]. Paper. Three volumes.
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Charles François Gounod, composer: Music manuscripts: 19th cent: Classical-greek, Fr: Copies. Francis Deffell, music copyist: Music manuscripts , in the hand of Francis Deffell: 19th cent.