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Manuscripts of piano music purportedly received by Rosemary Brown from the spirits of the following deceased composers. 1. ff. 1-45v. Bach i. ff. 1-4. Prelude in E flat minor. Dated 24 Nov. 1966 (f. 1). ii. ff. 5-5v. Prelude in A flat, for harpsichord. Dated 3 Jan. 1967 (f. 5). iii. ff. 6-8v. ...
A circular portrait, painted on glass and framed in lead with a border of red glass, probably taken from the centre of a larger window. The portrait is said to be of Georg Frideric Handel, according to a letter from James S. Hall in Country Life, 24 Sept. 1959, enclosed with the portrait.
Frederick Delius: Suite for Violin and Orchestra; Rhapsodische Variationen; Orchestration of Grieg's Aus dem Volksleben, no. 2
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1. Suite for Violin and Orchestra (ff. 1-51). Autograph full score (ink over pencil), with a separate violin part. Delius's signature on f. 1, upper right margin. Without date [1888]. Threlfall, VII/1. Publication: Score, 1985, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition Vol. 28, pp. 1-70. Performa...
Frederick Delius: Paa Vidderne [On the Mountains] (Concert overture)
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Autograph score (ink and ink over pencil). Numbered by the composer (and partly re-numbered by another hand) as pp. 1-55, although the numbering is sometimes incorrect since ff. 2 and 3 are pasted together, as are ff. 19 and 20 (for further details, see Rachel Lowe, Catalogue, p. 35). Threlfall...
Frederick Delius: Paa Vidderne (Concert overture) in copyist's hand
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Copy made for Sir Thomas Beecham, with his dynamic markings throughout in blue pencil. The foliation continues from the previous volume, MS Mus. 1745/1/5A. N.B. This volume is currently held by the Delius Trust. It is therefore unavailable from the British Library.
Frederick Delius: Légende for violin and orchestra
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Autograph full score (in and ink over pencil), paginated by the composer 1-34. Delius has added rehearsal letters in blue pencil. With conductor's markings and remarks in blue and black pencil, only some of which are by Delius. Thelfall, VII/3. Publication: 1916, Forsyth Bros. Ltd., for violin ...
Frederick Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away and Appalachia
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Two copyist scores of Over the Hills and Far Away (the first of which includes a folio in Delius's hand, f. 11), and the autograph score of Appalachia. 1. Over the Hills and Far Away (ff. 1-14). Fantasia. Threlfall, VI/11. Publication: 1950, ed. Beecham, G. Schirmer Inc., New York; 1990, Boos...
Frederick Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away (two copies by Eric Fenby)
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1. A photographic version of a copy score made by Eric Fenby, the original of which is held at Stanford University, California. Although the score bears the date 1897, Fenby's copy was made for Beecham between 1929-34 (see Lowe, pp. 44-5). 2. A second copy, also made by Fenby during the same pe...
Threlfall, VII/4. 'The compositional history of this work is probably the most tortuous of any in the Delius canon' (Threlfall 1990, p. 189). Publication: 1907 [dated 1897], lithographed full score, Harmonie-Verlag; 1951, full score ed. Beecham, Boosey & Hawkes (8864); 1990, rev. ed., ed Bee...
Frederick Delius: Fantasy for Orchestra and Pianoforte
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Threlfall, VII/4. Lowe comments (Catalogue, p. 55): 'Both in its material and in the cyclic repetition of the first section, this one movement fantasy form can be considered the true parent of the piano concerto as we know it in its final version'. Autograph full score (ink and pencil) with muc...
