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MS Mus. 1745/3/2
- Record Id:
- 040-002749028
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002016914
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022770435.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1745/3/2
- Title:
- Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): The Magic Fountain (vocal score by Florent Schmitt)
- Scope & Content:
-
Bound vocal score (ink), in thin card covers, with the piano part and voice parts throughout in the hand of Florent Schmitt (with the exception of part of the introduction to Act 3 which is in Delius's hand - see below). Scene directions and English words are in Delius's hand. Interlined, a German translation (red ink) in another hand, and a French translation (mauve ink) that may be in Schmitt's hand.
- Title to front cover in Jelka Delius's hand: 'Piano Score / The Magic Fountain / Opera in 3 Acts / by / Frederick Delius / Piano Score by Florent Schmitt'.
- Title-page alternately in French and German. In Delius's hand (black ink): 'Act I / Klavier Auszug / von / Florent Schmitt'. With the date '1893' also in Delius's hand (added subsequently).
- On the verso of the title-page, the cast list in German and French (red and mauve ink).
- The paper throughout is 16-stave 346 x 264 mm.
- The score is not consecutively paginated; instead, each bifolia has been numbered, each Act numbered separately.
- 'Prélude' (1 un-numbered bifolium).
- Act 1: bifolia 1-19 and 1 folio numbered 20.
- Act 2: bifolia 1-8, 1 folio numbered 9, bifolia 10-21, and 1 un-numbered folio.
- Pasted-over corrections in Act 2 appear on bifolia 2, 5, and 21.
- Act 3 introduction (un-numbered): 1 bifolium (Schmitt) and 1 folio in Delius's hand
- Act 3: bifolia 1-18 (final page blank).
Loosely inserted, in the hand of Philip Heseltine on a double sheet of foolscap, an incomplete summary of the plot, breaking off in the middle of Act 2.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002016914
033-002749006
040-002749028 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1745 : Frederick Delius: Music manuscripts from the collection of the Delius Trust
MS Mus. 1745/3 : Frederick Delius: Boosey & Hawkes Accessions to the Delius Trust
MS Mus. 1745/3/2 : Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): The Magic Fountain (vocal score by Florent Schmitt) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002016914[0004]/033-002749006[0002]/040-002749028
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1745
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (ii + 132 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
German - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1893
- End Date:
- 1893
- Date Range:
- 1893
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Volume dimensions: 350 x 270 mm.
- Custodial History:
- Title-page stamped Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 150.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Heseltine, Philip Arnold, alias 'Peter Warlock', composer, 1894-1930,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109127321
Schmitt, Florent, composer, pianist and critic, 1870-1958 - Subjects:
- Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Magic fountain