MS Mus. 97. DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION. Vol. i. Gustav Mahler: cancelled folio from the draft orchestral full score of the third movement, ‘Rondo-Burleske’, of the Symphony no.9 in D major; [probably 1909]. Autograph. Written in ink on paper of 24 staves. The recto contains bars 412-25 and the v...
MS Mus. 1587. George Frideric Handel: Keyboard music; between circa 1717 and 1775. Sonatas, suites and other works for keyboard instrument by Handel and other composers. Copy in ink. The first part of the manuscript (ff. 1-52r) was made by the copyist RM1 in about 1717. (For copyists, see J. P. Larsen: Handel’s Messiah: Origins, Composition, Sources (Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard, 1957)). This is apparently the earliest surviving English copy of Handel’s keyboard music. In this part of the ma...
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includes: ff. 1-46 James Stevens, composer and pianist: 'Concertetto concitato', for piano and orchestra: circa 1960: Photocopy. ff. 1-52r. George Frideric Handel, composer: Keyboard suites, HWV 426-432, 434, 438. Not all complete, and some with additional movements from HWV 8, 428, 442, 495, 5...
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Piano Concerto; Paris
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(1). Piano Concerto (ff. 1-105) Threlfall, VII/4. (a) ff. 1-15. Various separate sheets of drafts of earlier versions in full score, comprising: ff. 1-3. Paginated pp. 19-20 and pp. 21-24 (1 folio and 1 bifolium, 26-stave 400 x 302mm.): ink over pencil, partly scored on p. 19, with the piano par...
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Appalachia; The Song of the High Hills; Requiem; various sketches and drafts; and drafts for an unfinished work for piano and orchestra
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(1). Appalachia: sketches and drafts (ff. 1-44) Threlfall, II/2. Comprising material for the earlier version(s) and material for the later version. Followed by 6 large sheets on the rectos of which are pencilled part of an early score of the Piano Concerto; the versos, however, comprise draft ...
Benjamin Britten: Music for the film Instruments of the Orchestra, later published as The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Variations on a theme of Purcell), op. 34. Autograph draft
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Draft score. The music was originally composed for the film Instruments of the Orchestra (1946). No earlier sketches are known to survive, and it seems that Britten composed the piece directly into the present draft score. The title-page bears Britten's signature and the words 'Orchestral Film' ...
Johann Christian Bach: ‘Figli addio’, aria from Carattaco, Warburton G7/21b, for soprano, 2 violins, viola and cello
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Copyist’s score, in ink. The opera seria Carattaco (words, Giovan Gualberto Bottarelli) was first performed at the King’s Theatre, London on 14 February 1767. The present version of the aria differs in its scoring from the version preserved in J.C. Bach’s autograph score (Conservatoire royal de B...