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MS Mus. 1745/1/13
- Record Id:
- 040-002736688
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002016914
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022561543.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1745/1/13
- Title:
- Frederick Delius: Folkeraadet ('Norwegian Suite')
- Scope & Content:
-
Autograph full score (ink). Incidental music to the satirical drama Folkeraadet [The Council of the People] by Gunnar Heiberg, produced in Oslo in October 1897. The score comprises overtures to Acts I-IV, followed by two brief passages of incidental music for Acts II and V.
Threlfall, I/5. Performance: 18 October 1897 et seq., Christiania (Oslo), Christiania Theatre, cond. Per Winge. Publication: 1990, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 7.
- f. i. Original front label, in Delius's hand: 'Folkeraadet' / Suite für Orchester / Zwischen acts Musik zu Gunnar / Heiberg's Satirischem Drama / Folkeraadet'.
- ff. 1-11. [Overture to Act I].
- f. 1. In Delius's hand: 'Norwegian Suite' / Vorspiel Iste Akt / Frederick Delius 1897'. Stamped at the top left of the folio (and struck-through in pencil): 'The Property of the Beecham Opera Cpy'.
- f. 3 and f. 4 have been pasted together.
- f. 9 and f. 10 have been pasted together.
- f. 11v is blank.
- ff. 12-25v. [Overture to Act II]
- ff. 26-40v. [Overture to Act III].
- ff. 41-54. [Overture to Act IV].
- f. 54v is blank.
- f. 55. Incidental music (9 bars) for Act II, headed by Delius (in Norwegian): 'Anden Akt'. Delius has also written brief dialogue in Norwegian to cue the music.
- f. 55v is blank.
- f. 56. Incidental music (10 bars) for Act V. Headed by Delius: '5te Akt', with brief dialogue to cue the music.
- f. 56v. Workings in pencil (2 bars only) on the bottom two staves.
Delius's pencil annotations to the score appear on ff. 4, 5v, 10, 17, 18 (ink), and 43. Further performance markings throughout by Alfred Hertz and Thomas Beecham (see Lowe, Catalogue, p. 62).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002016914
033-002716836
040-002736688 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1745 : Frederick Delius: Music manuscripts from the collection of the Delius Trust
MS Mus. 1745/1 : Frederick Delius: Scores (as bound by the Delius Trust)
MS Mus. 1745/1/13 : Frederick Delius: Folkeraadet ('Norwegian Suite') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002016914[0001]/033-002716836[0016]/040-002736688
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1745
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume (ii, 56 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1897
- End Date:
- 1897
- Date Range:
- 1897
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 28 double sheets of 28-stave music paper (17 x 12 inches), upright format.
- Custodial History:
- Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Original foliation: 1 volume (ff. 1-56 + i)
- Subjects:
- Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Folkeraadet