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MS Mus. 1745/1/20

Record Id:
040-002736986
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002016914
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100022562118.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/20
Title:
Frederick Delius: Margot la Rouge (vocal score by Maurice Ravel)
Scope & Content:

An opera in one Act to a French text by Rosenval [Berthe Gaston-Danville], with parallel libretto in Italian.

Threlfall, I/7. Publication: ca.1905, Paris, Propriété des Auteurs, partition piano et chant (in which the piano part agrees with Ravel's arrangement); 1988 (full score), Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 5.

Manuscript vocal score arranged by and in the autograph of Maurice Ravel. The French libretto is also in Ravel's hand.

There are eleven corrections to the Italian libretto in the form of small pasted-over slips (unknown hand). See details below.

Delius has occasionally added French translations of stage directions given in Italian, as indicated below.

  • f. ii. Original front label (unknown hand): 'Margot la Rouge / Drame lyrique en un acte / (Piano et chant) / Frederick Delius'.
  • f. 1. Title-page in Delius's hand: 'Margot la Rouge'. Above the title (struck-through) Delius has written the nom de plume he used ('Paulo Audacior') when the work was submitted in an international competition in Milan in 1904.
  • ff. 1v-2v. Prelude.
  • ff. 3r-4v. Scène I. With two pasted-over amendments to the Italian libretto: f. 5 and f. 6.
  • ff. 7r-12r. Scène II. With five pasted-over amendments to the Italian libretto: f. 8, f. 9, f. 10, f. 11, f. 13 and f. 14. Stage directions in French in Delius's hand on f. 12r.
  • ff. 12v-17v. Scène III. Stage directions in French in Delius's hand on ff. 12v, 15v.
  • ff. 17v-24r. Scène IV. With two pasted-over amendments to the Italian libretto: f. 18 and f. 19. Stage directions in French in Delius's hand on ff. 21r, 21v.
  • ff. 24v-28v. Scène V. At the start of the Scene, at the head of f. 24v, 6 replacement staves (f. 25) have been pasted down. There are also two pasted-over amendments to the Italian libretto: f. 27 and f. 29.
  • ff. 28v-32v. Scène VI.
  • ff. 33r-39r. Scène VII. On f. 37v, there is a pasted-over correction (f. 38), a small piece of recitative in the part of Lili Béguin.
  • f. 39v. Brief two-stave pencil sketch in Delius's hand.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Project / Collection:
Music Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002016914
033-002716836
040-002736986
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. 1745/1/20 : Frederick Delius: Margot la Rouge (vocal score by Maurice Ravel)
Hierarchy:
032-002016914[0001]/033-002716836[0024]/040-002736986
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1745
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 volume (ii, 39 folios)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
French
Italian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1901
End Date:
1902
Date Range:
[1901-1902]
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Physical Characteristics:
Score written on 25 sheets of 24-stave music paper (13½ x 10½ inches).
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. 1-27 + i)
Names:
Ravel, Joseph Maurice, composer, 1875-1937
Subjects:
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Margot la rouge