Add MS 32671

Passim. Fragments of operas from a sketch-book of musical compositions by Michael William Balfe.

1. 'Programme of 'Elfrida'; 8 Nov. 1840. Characters: Romito, Gabriella, Amleto, etc. f. 1. 2. Fragment from 'Joan of Arc ' [1837]. f. 2. 3. Sketches for 'Elfrida.' ff. 2-19 passim, 20-28b. 4. 'Cabaletta aria per Lina'; probably from an Opera in which one of the characters bore that name (see no. 11, below), but possibly written for Mme. Balfe, née Lina Roser. f. 19. 5. 'Remember me in that dear hour.' f. 19. 6. 'Now or never, if you like to have me.' f. 29. 7. Sketches [for 'Le puits d'amour,' 1843]. ff. 31-34. 8. 'A qui dans ma misère': air for [Mme. Anna] Thillon; probably intended for the same work. f. 38. 9. Serenade from 'Joan of Arc.' f. 38. 10. 'Bonheur, descends'; and 'Toi que I'hymen nous donne.' Probably intended for 'Le puits d'amour.' ff. 38b, 39. 11. Duet (Lina and Guglielmo), begins 'Mi dicevan che un Marito.' f. 39b. 12. 'Couplets, M. Henri,' begins 'Veillant pendant les nuits'; and 'De ce bandit, ah, I'audace.' Apparently from 'Le puits d'amour.' ff. 42, 43. 13. 'Les voila, toutes trois.' [From 'Les quatre fils Aymon,' begun in 1843.] f. 43b.

f. 30b. Sketch of ballad, 'I'll do thy bidding, mother dear,' by Michael William Balfe. [Published in 1842.]

f. 37b. 'Plan of [a] Cantata,' by Michael William Balfe, in which the singers were [Mme. Pauline] Garcia Viardot, — Dupont, [Gilbert] Duprez, [Willoughby Hunter] Weiss [who made his début in 1842], the composer, and his wife. Autograph.