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Add MS 49624-49632
- Record Id:
- 032-002016450
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002016450
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000037.0x000365
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 49624-49632
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HERSCHEL SYMPHONIES
49624-49632. Twenty-four symphonies by Sir William Herschel (b. 1738, d. 1822); 1760-1764. Autograph. In full score, for four to eleven instrumental parts, mostly with a figured bass, together with parts for nos. 2-24. For an account of his life at the time when these works were written, see C. A. Lubbock, The Herschel Chronicle, Cambridge, 1933, pp. 12-41. For a further account with a thematic index of the symphonies and facsimiles from 49624 and 49626 of Symphonies nos. 2, 5 and 13, see The Symphony, 1720-1840, series E, iii, ed. B. S. Brook, New York, 1983, pp. xv-xxxv, 1-40. For the text of his autobiographical memoranda, see The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel, ed. J. L. E. Dreyer, i, 1912, pp. xiii-xxiii. Belonged, 20th cent., to Mrs E. D. Shorland, niece of Sir John Herschel.
Nine volumes. Quarto, in oblong format, except for 49627.
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Sir William formerly Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, composer and astronomer: Symphonies: 1760-1764: Autogr.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002016450
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- Add MS 49624-49626 : HERSCHEL SYMPHONIES. Vols. I-III. Symphonies nos. 1-18; 1760-1762. Full scores. Fair copies. For Herschel's own account of…
Add MS 49627 : HERSCHEL SYMPHONIES. Vol. IV (ff. i+46). Symphonies nos. 20-24; 1763-1764. Title, 'Symphonies in Score The 4th. half dozen',…
Add MS 49628-49632 : HERSCHEL SYMPHONIES. Vols. V-IX. Parts for Symphonies nos. 2-24 and full score of no. 19; 1760-1764. With the score and with…
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- Fonds
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1760
- End Date:
- 1764
- Date Range:
- 1760-1764
- Era:
- CE
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- Herschel, William formerly Friedrich Wilhelm, composer and astronomer