SUPPLEMENTARY NOVELLO COLLECTION. Vols. VI-VIII. Carl Maria von Weber: 'Oberon', opera in three acts (libretto, James Robinson Planché after Christoph Martin Wieland); 1826. Full score. Copy in the hand of Sir George Smart, 1834. Copied in sections, each with a separate original pagination, on a variety of different papers, some with a watermark of 1822. From the statement 'copied from the Original Score by Sir George T. Smart' (Add. 69856, f. 1) the source can be identified as the full scor...
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Sir George Thomas Smart, musician: Full score of C. M. von Weber's 'Oberon' , copied by Sir George Thomas Smart: 1826. Baron Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber,; composer: Christoph Martin Wieland, author: James Robinson Planché, Somerset Herald and dramatist: Opera 'Oberon', full score by Ca...
Vol. VI (ff. iv+93). Act I. With a copy of Smart's letter to Henry Robertson and Robertson's reply, 1834 (ff. iii-iv verso). includes: ff. iii-iv verso Sir George Thomas Smart, musician: Henry Robertson, treasurer of Covent Garden Theatre: Correspondence between Sir George Thomas Smart and Hen...