Song for high voice and piano, composed in 1892 and first published in 1913 by Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. The words by Gabriel Trarieux (1870 - 1940). The manuscript bears a dedication at the top of the title page to ‘Madame M. Sulzbach’ and a second dedication signed by composer at the bottom to...
For voice and piano. Second version of the song. Further revised and published under the title Adoration (H. 57) in 1917. With the pencil annotation at foot of title page: ‘From the Library of D[enis] Byndon-Ayres (Singer)’. See: P. Hindmarsh, Frank Bridge: a thematic catalogue (1983), p. 37.
Benjamin Britten: ‘The Sword in the Stone’, incidental music for the radio play adapted by Marianne Helwig from the novel by Terence Hanbury White. Autograph full score. Comprising fifteen numbers, with one leaf of the composer's written instructions and comments on the music. Scored for voices...
Benjamin Britten: ‘Ben was a four-foot seven Wop’, from On the Frontier
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‘Ben was a four-foot seven Wop’, from On the Frontier (Auden and Isherwood), Act 3, Scene 1. With letters about this and the preceding manuscript written on the composer’s behalf by R. Strode.