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2. Add MS 45934-45935
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- Add MS 45934-45935
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- Vols. I, II (ff. i + 181, ii + 206). Full score of Acts I and II, probably the version used for the first performance at Weimar. This differs in many respects from the full score of the Karlsruhe version, of which only Act I survives (Add. MS. 45937); the latter agrees closely with the printed edition. The chief differences are:-(1) The 'Vorspiel' of Add. MS. 45934, ff. 2-14, has been replaced by a new Overture in the printed and Karlsruhe versions;-(2) The end of Act I is considerably cut i...
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- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1892-1894
- Extent:
- 2 items
3. Add MS 45934-45937
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- Add MS 45934-45937
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- ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vols. I-IV. 'Fantasio': comic opera in two acts based on the play by Alfred de Musset; 1892 - 1894, with later resisions. The libretto, in German, was written by the composer in collaboration with Henry Bennet Brewster (C. St John, op. cit., pp. 83, 90). First performed at Weimar, 20 May 1898 (C. St John, op. cit., p. 93; A. Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, Geneva, 1955, i, col. 121O, gives the date as 24 May) and revived at Karlsruhe, 10 Feb. 1901. Published, in vocal sc...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1892-1894
- Extent:
- 4 items
4. Add MS 45934-45950
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- Add MS 45934-45950
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- ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Musical compositions of Ethel Mary Smyth, D.B.E. 1922 (b. 1858, d. 1944); 1887-1938. Mostly autograph. Further music manuscripts of Dame Ethel are Add. MSS. 46857-46863, containing early unpublished works; Add. MS. 49196 is an autograph catalogue of her compositions. For the location of other manuscripts see C. St John, Ethel Smyth, 1959, p. 308. See also Brit. Mus. Quart., xv, 1952, p. 35. Seventeen volumes. Paper. Various sizes. Presented by Brig.-Gen. Robert Napier...
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- Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE; composer: Musical compositions: 1887-1938.: Mostly autogr.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1887-1938
- Extent:
- 17 items
5. Add MS 45935
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- Add MS 45935
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- Scope & Content:
- Vol. II (ff. ii + 206)
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- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1892-1894
- Extent:
- 1 item
6. Add MS 45936
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- Add MS 45936
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- Vol. III (ff. 15). 'Ouverture zu "Fantasio".' Full score of the Overture as published, in short score, in the 1899 edition. This score is earlier than the Karlsruhe MS. (Add. 45937) which incorporates the composer's alterations to the Cor Anglais part.
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- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1892-1894
- Extent:
- 1 item
7. Add MS 45937
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- Add MS 45937
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- Vol. IV (ff. iii + 311). Full score of Act I only, apparently prepared for the Karlsruhe revival and annotated on the flyleaf (f. iii) by the conductor of this production:-'Karlsruhe. 1O.2.1901. Felix Mottl.' Partly autograph, partly in the hand of a German copyist. For a summary of the differen...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1901
- Extent:
- 1 item
8. Add MS 45938
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- ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vol. V (ff. i + 213). 'Der Wald': opera in one act to a libretto by the composer, originally written in German and based on an idea of H. B. Brewster to whom the work was dedicated (C. St John, op. cit., p. 98; E. Smyth, What Happened Next, pp. 213-214). Full score dated'...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1902
- Extent:
- 1 item
9. Add MS 45939
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- Add MS 45939
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- Scope & Content:
- Vol. VI (ff. ii + 140)
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- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- [1905]
- Extent:
- 1 item
10. Add MS 45939-45941
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- ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vols. VI-VIII. 'Les Naufrageurs': opera in three acts to a libretto, in French, by H. B. Brewster. Full score, dated at the end of Act III 'Dec. 13th. [1905]' (45941, f. 145b). Composed in 1903-1904 (C. St John, op. cit., p. 305) and first performed in Leipzig, 15 Nov. 1906 (What Happened Next, p. 266; A. Loewenberg, op. cit., col. 1274, gives the date as 11 Nov.); a different production followed at Prague, 12 Dec. 1906. Published, in vocal score, by Breitkopf & H...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- [1905]
- Extent:
- 3 items