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MS Mus. 1745/1/35

Record Id:
040-002737732
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002016914
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100022565235.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/35
Title:
Frederick Delius: Early Chamber Music and Piano Pieces
Scope & Content:

1. [String Quartet] (ff. 1-6).

Threlfall, VIII/1.

  • Incomplete autograph score (ink), undated but believed to be from the year 1888. Lacking the first movement and most of the second movement.
  • Paginated by the composer as pp. 17-29 with some re-numbering. The first page (f. 1) is numbered p. 17, but f. 1v is numbered as p. 19; thereafter, numbering is consecutive (if revised).
  • The manuscript begins (f. 1) with the final 11 bars of the middle section of a scherzo-like movement in G minor.
  • ff. 1-2v. Adagio, con molto expressione (C minor).
  • ff. 3-6v. Finale. Agitato Allegro (C minor).
  • Below the final stave of the quartet (f. 6v), there is an 8-bar pencil sketch on two staves.

2. Romance for violin and piano (ff. 7-10).

Threlfall, VIII/2.

  • Autograph score (ink), dated 1889.
  • f. 7. Title-page with signature (in pencil): 'Romance / pour violon / Fritz Delius'.
  • f. 7v is blank.
  • ff. 8-10. Score, headed (f. 8): 'Romanze / Fritz Delius'. Dedication: 'an seinem Freunde / Fred Hertz'. Dated: 1889. The dedication to conductor Alfred Hertz (b. 1872) must have been added at a later date (he did not meet Delius until 1898).
  • f. 10v is blank.

3. Romance for cello and piano (ff. 11-14).

Thelfall, VIII/5. Publication: 1976, Boosey & Hawkes (20336). Performance: 22 June 1976, Helsinki Festival, Julian Lloyd Webber, Timo Mikkila; repeated 24 June, London, Purcell Room, Lloyd Webber, Yitkin Seow.

  • Autograph score (ink), dated 1896.
  • f. 11. Title ('Romance') at the head of the page, signed and dated 'Fritz Delius 1896'. Dedication: 'dediée à Monsieur Joseph Hollman'.
  • f. 11-11v. Lento tranquillo (B major).
  • ff. 11v-13. Molto tranquillo (E major).
  • ff. 13-14. Tempo I° (B major).
  • f. 14v is blank.

4. Badinage, for pianoforte (ff. 15-16v).

Threlfall, IX/4.

  • Score in the hand of an unknown copyist (ink), without date.
  • Title ('Badinage / F. Delius') added subsequently in red pencil at the head of f. 15, in the hand of Jelka Delius.
  • For autograph drafts, see MS Mus. 1745/2/5 (ff. 5-7) and MS Mus. 1823 (f. 1).

5. Valse (f. 17-17v).

Thelfall, IX/5 [Two Piano Pieces].

  • A 48-bar piece, headed 'Valse / Frederick Delius / Croissy 1891 / (finished Grez 1922)'. In the hand (pencil) of Jelka Delius.

6. Rêverie (ff. 17v-18).

Threlfall, IX/5 [Two Piano Pieces].

  • 18 bars (pencil), copied by Jelka Delius, with the concluding bar only on f. 18. Bars 12, 13, 15 and 18 are lightly struck-through (with a 'X').

7. Sketch (f. 18r).

Threlfall, IX/8. Publication: 1923, Anglo-French Music Co., London.

  • With a generic title at the left margin, the score comprises last 16 bars of Prelude One, in the hand (pencil) of Jelka Delius. The published version (London, 1923) extends the cadence by two more bars.

8. 'Prelude III Scherzando' (f. 18v).

Threlfall, IX/8. Publication: 1923, Anglo-French Music Co., London.

  • Despite the heading, the score comprises the first 21 bars of Prelude One, in Jelka Delius's hand. The penultimate bar, marked with a circle, was omitted on publication.
  • Beneath, on the last four staves of f. 18v, there is an unidentified piano sketch in Delius's autograph.

8. Piano Pieces (ff. 19-22). Four of the Five Piano Pieces (1925, Universal Edition), in the hand of Jelka Delius. At the head of f. 22, there is a note in Eric Fenby's hand: 'Copies such as this were made by Jelka Delius lest the originals were lost in the post from France.'

Threlfall, IX/7.

  • ff. 19-20v. 'Waltz'. Title-page (f. 19): 'Waltz / Frederick Delius / Croissy 1891 / (finished at Grez sur Loing) / 1922'. On f. 19v, where the score begins, the piece is dedicated to 'Evelyn Howard Jones' [sic]. Scored in ink, exactly as published.
  • f. 21. 'Petite valse. 1923'. Scored in pencil, with a few notes in ink towards the end of the piece. Published together with the following piece as Mazurka & Waltz for a Little Girl.
  • f. 21v. 'Waltz for a little girl'. Dated 1923. Title in ink, scored in pencil.
  • f. 22-22v. 'Lullaby / (for a modern baby)'. Dated 1922. Title and score in ink.
  • f. 23-24: a photocopy of 'Waltz for a little girl' in Delius's autograph and dedicated 'For Yvonne O'Neill' [Yvonne Hudson, Delius's god-daughter].
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Project / Collection:
Music Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002016914
033-002716836
040-002737732
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. 1745/1/35 : Frederick Delius: Early Chamber Music and Piano Pieces
Hierarchy:
032-002016914[0001]/033-002716836[0039]/040-002737732
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1745
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Not applicable
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1888
End Date:
1923
Date Range:
[1888]-1923
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:
  • ff. 1-6 are 16-stave music paper (14 x 10½ inches).
  • ff. 7-10 are 14-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches).
  • ff. 11-14 are 12-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches).
  • ff. 15-16 are 12-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches).
  • ff. 17-18 are 20-stave music paper (14½ x 11 inches).
  • ff. 19-21 are 14-stave music paper (13½ x 10½ inches).
  • f. 22 is 12-stave music paper (14½ x 10½ inches).
Custodial History:
Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Accessions 1 and 13.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Notes:
Original foliation: 1 volume (ff. 1-22)
Names:
Hertz, Alfred, conductor, 1872-1942
Hollman, Joseph, Dutch cellist, 1852-1927
Howard-Jones, Evlyn, pianist, 1877-1951
Hudson, Yvonne Patricia, daughter of Norman O'Neill, b 1916
Subjects:
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Badinage
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Pieces, piano (1890)
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Pieces, piano (1923)
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Preludes, piano
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Quartets, strings (1888)
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Romances, cello, piano
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Romances, violin, piano
Related Material:
  • For proof-sheets of Delius, Three Preludes (London: Anglo-French Music Co., [1923]), with corrections partly by Jelka Delius, see BL Music Collections h.3886.d.(1.).
  • Stichvorlagen (Jelka Delius's hand) for Five Piano Pieces: British Library Loan 54/1.
Related Archive Descriptions:
MS Mus. 1856