Estimate of the debt of the navy on 30 September 1704
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This manuscript was recorded missing since before 1825. The contents according to the printed Harley catalogue (1808) were as follows: 'Estimate of the Debt of the Navy, as it stood, 30 Sept, 1704'.
This manuscript was recorded missing since before 1825. The contents according to the printed Harley catalogue (1808) were as follows: 'Index to the Public Accounts, &c.'
Choral song no. 2 for SATB from Abt’s Fünf Chor Gesänge, op. 152. Signed: ‘Franz Abt. Braunschweig, 16/7/61.’ Written in ink on a single sheet with 8 pre-printed staves, blue decorative floral borders and caption at the bottom middle reading: ‘Aus dem Album von Carl Gurckhaus’. Single leaf from ...
Published by John E. West in ‘Old English Organ Music’, no. 24, as no. 2 of ‘Two Pieces’ by Attwood, with the title ‘Cathedral Fugue’. Dated 7 July 1826.
Sketch for the first 17 bars of the String Quartet no 1, dated 16 January 1908 and extracted from the ‘Black Pocket-Book’, between the present ff. 8 and 9. (for the facsimile edition of 1987, see British Library, a.264.). On 7, 9 and 14 January Bartók had described his feelings at his rejection...
Sir Arnold Bax: Music for the film ‘Oliver Twist’ (1948), directed by David Lean
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Sir Arnold Bax: music for the film ‘Oliver Twist’ (director David Lean); 1948. Full score. With a detailed music cue sheet, and dossier regarding the contractual rights and obligations of those involved in the production, both typewritten The manuscript comprises some 80% of the music for the fi...
Luciano Berio: ‘Sequenza X per tromba in do (e risonanze di pianoforte)’
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A single leaf of a draft corresponding approximately to the passage from page 8, system 3 to page 10, system 2 in the published score. Sold for charity, and signed and dated by the composer for that purpose.
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley: Copy of his Three Piano Pieces, composed in 1927, with autograph signature, dated 1929, so probably made for Jan Smeterlin, who performed them in that year.