SIR ARTHUR BLISS: autograph sketches for ‘Checkmate’, together with an autograph letter (with envelope) from Bliss to Ernest and Rachel Mackower; 1937. Placed on loan by O. J. Mackower Esq., 10 March 1997. Bound. With the letter and envelope loose.
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Ernest Mackower: Rachel Mackower, wife of E Mackower: Sir Arthur Drummond Bliss, KCVO; CH; Master of the Queen's Music: Letter to Ernest Mackower and Rachel Mackower from Sir Arthur Drummond Bliss: 1937: Autogr. Sir Arthur Drummond Bliss, KCVO; CH; Master of the Queen's Music: Sketches for 'Che...
Isaac Albeniz: ‘King Arthur: a Trilogy of Lirical Dramas founded on the Morte D’Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory by Francis Coutts ... 1st Opera – Merlin’; circa 1906. Full score of Act 1. Copy, in ink, with engraver’s markings throughout. Folio. Published Paris: Edition Mutuelle, 1906. Isaac Manue...
Manuscripts are listed below. Catalogue records for printed music in this loan (Music Loan 109.A1–X6) are in the Current Music Catalogue. Lent by the B.B.C., 2000, 2001.
Sir Granville Bantock: ‘Omar Khayyám: The Ruba’iyat according to Edward Fitzgerald, set to music for 3 Solo Voices (Contralto, Tenor, and Baritone), Chorus and Orchestra ... in 3 Parts’; [1906]. Full score of Part 1. Autograph, in ink. pp. 431. Large folio. Published Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hä...
Alfred Cellier: ‘The Masque of Pandora by H. W. Longfellow’ and ‘Gray’s Elegy’; May 1880. The poems are written on each verso in ink, apparently in the hand of A. Charles Stephenson, whose signature is on the title page, with musical sketches in pencil on each facing recto, setting the correspo...
John Field: ‘L’incendie Par L’orage: 5e Concerto Pour Le Piano Forté, Composé et Dedié a Son Excellence Madame de Rosenkampf’; circa 1830. Full score, in ink, with modern pencil markings throughout. Folio. Published St Petersburg: Chez l’Auteur, [1817]. pp. 139. John Field, composer and pianis...