'Luisa Miller'. Trumpet, trombone and ophicleide ('Serpan') parts.
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With printed card covers of Ricordi, Milan. Red chalk markings, cuts made with paste-overs, and small drawings. Player's name added, 'Hawkes'? (trombone).
'I Masnadieri', opera in 4 acts, libretto by Andrea Maffei after Schiller. Written by Verdi for Her Majesty's Theatre. Full score, vocal score, orchestral parts and some chorus parts. Some of the orchestral parts have stamps of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The vocal score contains an ear...
Red chalk markings. Wanting the aria 'Nell' argilla maledetta'. The pages have been extracted from this score and inserted in the full score of Act 2 of 'Luisa Miller'; see MS Mus. 1715/63/2.
5 copies. With red chalk markings and (in copy no. 2) a drawing. Players' names added: 'F Shargool', 'Collins', 'R Hughes', 'Dawson and [Streasher?], 'Fredrick & Co'.