CARL MARIA VON WEBER: ‘Hymne, "In seiner Ordnung schafft der Herr"’, op.36, for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, four-part chorus and orchestra (words, Friedrich Rochlitz); 1825. Score. Copy, in ink, with annotations in pencil. The words are not written into the score. A copy made for Sir...
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: ‘D’un bell’uso di Turchia, Duetto’, from ‘Il Turco in Italia’ (words, Felice Romani), for two basses (Selim and Geronio) and orchestra; first half of 19th cent. Score. Copy, in ink, written on paper ruled with ten staves to the page, in the same hand throughout, with correcti...
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: ‘Tantum Ergo’, for two tenors and bass soloists and orchestra; second half of 19th cent. Parts. Copies in ink, in the same hand throughout, with a bombardone part added in another hand (ff. 85-6). Most parts are bound in blue paper covers numbered ‘589’. Second tenor part sig...
A. EDWARD ELGAR: ‘Proof sheets of Pomp & Circumstance March No 4, with composer’s corrections’; 1907. Full score. Signed by the composer (ff. 1, 2), and initialled in pencil at the bottom right corner of most sheets. Some corrections to the harp part in green ink may be in another hand. With some notes in pencil in another hand in German on f. 26v, dated 5 July 1907. Published Boosey & Co., 1907. ff. 1-26. 322 x 270mm.
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includes: ff. 1-26 Sir Edward William Elgar, Baronet; OM; composer: Proof sheets of Pomp and Circumstance March no.4, corrected by the composer: 1907: Printed.
B. REYNALDO HAHN: ‘I know you love me not’, song for voice and piano (words, Mary Robinson, afterwards Darmesteter); 1903. Autograph. Score in ink, with engraver’s markings in pencil, signed by the composer (f. 30) and inscribed ‘Mlle Suzette Lemaire 1903’ (f. 27). Published Paris: Heugel [1903?], and subsequently London: Joseph Williams, [before 1911] as the last of a set of three songs, Love Without Wings. This set was subsequently published in a bilingual edition as Amour sans ailes, Pari...
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includes: ff. 27-30 Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, afterwards Darmesteter afterw. Duclaux; poet: Reynaldo Hahn, composer: Song, 'I know you love me not' by Reynaldo Hahn, to words by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson: 1903: Autogr.
C. IGOR STRAVINSKY: ‘Etude pour orchestre’ (‘Madrid’, the fourth of the ‘Quatre études pour orchestre’); circa 1928. Copyist’s score in pencil, probably in the hand of Catherine Stravinsky, annotated partly in autograph. Signed by the composer, ff. 31, 32, and dated ‘1917-1928’. The annotations mainly consist of corrections of the copyist’s errors. Some of these corrections were not incorporated into either of the published scores. Orchestrated from the ‘Etude for Pianola’ (1917). Published ...
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includes: ff. 31-42 Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, composer: Catherine Stravinsky, wife of I F Stravinsky: 'Madrid', étude for orchestra by Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, probably in the hand of Catherine Stravinsky: 1928: Copy, with autogr. annotations.
D. PETER WARLOCK: ‘One More River’, song (words anonymous); [circa 1925]. The song was originally written in two versions, one scored for baritone solo, unison male voice chorus and piano, the other for four male voices and piano. This is an arrangement of the accompaniment for strings, piano and timpani. Purchased by Tyson at Sotheby’s, 20 July 1965 (lot 432). ff. 43-54. Largest size 356 x 264mm. 1. ff. 43-5. Score of the accompaniment only, in black ink, with words and cues for solo and ...
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includes: ff. 43-72 Philip Arnold Heseltine, alias 'Peter Warlock'; composer: Songs: circa 1925-30: Autogr.
E. WARLOCK: ‘Youth’, song for voice and piano (words, Robert Wever); July 1928. Score, in ink. Autograph. A copy of the score in Add. 52907, ff. 5-6, with engraver’s markings in pencil and ink. Published Elkin & Co., 1928. Purchased by Richard Macnutt at Sotheby’s, 20 July 1965 (part of lot 423), and subsequently passed to Tyson. ff. 55-6. 355 x 262mm.
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includes: ff. 55-6 Robert Wever, poet: Song, 'Youth', by P. Warlock, to words by R. Wever: 1928.
F. WARLOCK: ‘The Fairest May’, song (words anonymous, from Harley 7578); 6 Nov. 1930. A rewriting of the song ‘As ever I saw’ for voice and string quartet. Autograph score and parts, in ink. The original title is deleted and replaced on the score, but remains on the parts. With a letter from Ian Copley to Tyson, dated 11 Sept. 1965 (ff. 71-2). Original version for voice and piano published Winthrop Rogers, 1919. Purchased by Tyson at Sotheby’s, 20 July 1965 (lot 425). ff. 57-72. 310 x 237mm...
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includes: ff. 71-2 Ian Alfred Copley, composer: Alan Walker Tyson, musicologist: Letter to Alan Walker Tyson from Ian Alfred Copley: 1965: Typewritten, signed.