GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE ‘Cantate du Narcisse’ (words Paul Valéry) for soprano and baritone soloists, women’s chorus and orchestra. Vocal part for soprano soloist. Copy, with autograph additions; n.d. ff. 13 350 x 270mm. Germaine Marcelle Tailleferre, composer: Paul Ambroise Valéry, writer: Sopr...
CHARLES GOUNOD Duet ‘Du repos voici l’heure’, from Philemon et Baucis. Copy by F. Deffell; 1869. ff. 18 350 x 270mm. Charles François Gounod, composer: Francis Deffell, music copyist: 'Du repas voice l'heure', duet from 'Philemon et Baucis' by Charles François Gounod, in the hand of Francis ...
‘Original letters’; 1813-1955, n.d. The principal part of the series, surviving from the Society’s archive since its inception, had been gathered together and arranged by 1910. Subsequently select later letters were inserted into the series, and the whole bound into these volumes on their incorporation as a loan in the British Museum. A small number of draft letters from the Society is included, placed in order with the letters from the addressee. The letters are arranged in alphabetical o...
‘Chanson de Mai’ , for soprano and orchestra. Copy; n.d. ff. 12 242 x 305mm. Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer: François Henry Joseph Blaze, alias Castil-Blaze; librettist: 'Chanson de Mai', for soprano and orchestra by Giacomo Meyerbeer, to words by François Henry Joseph Blaze: n.d.: Fr: Copy.