ff. 1-218. Incidental music and playscript for The Pretenders by Henrik Ibsen, words adapted by Peter Haworth, for soprano solo, male chorus, woodwind, brass and percussion; 1965. Autograph score, in ink (ff. 1-34); photocopy of autograph score (ff. 35-74); set of autograph parts, in pencil (ff. ...
Miscellaneous pencil sketches. The leaves are numbered A1, A2, A3 and C-H. There is no leaf B. The sketches include material for the fourth, fifth and sixth string quartets, the fourth and fifth symphonies, the horn quartet, and ‘Energy’ for brass.
f. 1. ‘Trocknet nicht, tränen’ (words, Goethe), for voice and piano; 1942. Score, in ink. Dated ‘23.xii.42’ at the beginning of the score. f. 2. ‘The Cherry Tree’ (words, A.E. Housman), for voice and piano; n.d. Photocopy of the autograph manuscript. On the score Simpson referred to himself as ‘M...
Score, in green ink, with various ink and pencil annotations. Dated at the end ‘21. vii. 1951 at Muswell Hill’. Submitted by the composer for his doctorate at the University of Durham in 1951. First performed in Copenhagen on 11 June 1953. Published by Alfred Lengnick & Co, 1956.
Two photocopies of the autograph score, which is dated 18th January 1979 at the beginning and ‘8.vii.79 6.30 p.m. at Chearsley’ at the end. One copy (ff. 1-27) contains a few manuscript annotations in pencil; the other (ff. 28-56) is heavily annotated in ink and pencil and contains a manuscript l...
Commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and dedicated to Havergal Brian. Published by Alfred Lengnick & Co., 1972; rev. ed. published 1974.
Score, in pencil. ‘Dedicated in admiration to The London Symphony Orchestra’ (f. 1). Annotated at the end ‘5.55 p.m. 10.xii.1972 at Chearsley’. Published by Alfred Lengnick & Co., n.d.