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Contemporary copy of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21857-21858
Dates:
1853.
Copy in a contemporary hand of the score of ‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi.
Item
Identifier: MS.21856
Scope and Contents
‘Il Trovatore’ by Verdi was first performed in 1853.
Dates:
1853.
Corrected full score of 'Thomas the Rhymer', an opera in four acts by David Johnson.
File
Identifier: MS.22152
Scope and Contents
The opera is based on the Border ballad collected by Sir Walter Scott (folio 1).Of the many corrections the most substantial are the additional leaves at folios 11, 21, 35, 38 (formerly stapled to folio 39), 45 (formerly stapled to folio 44) 46, 53-54, 57 and 100 (formerly stapled to folio 101). Leaves are cut out after folio 80 and 108.The score is preceded by a typed press release (folio i) and a printed programme (folio iii) of the premiere, which was performed in...
Dates:
1974-1976.
Facsimile of chorus part of acts I-III of 'Christian the pilgrim', an opera, undated, by James A Moonie, with words adapted by George Peacock from “Pilgrim's progress” by John Bunyan; and a vocal trio from 'A broken coupling', undated, an operetta by Moonie.
File
Identifier: MS.22015
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century-3rd quarter of 20th century.
Fragmentary full score of ‘Tita’, the first opera by Ladislao Zavertal, composer and conductor.
File
Identifier: MS.6300
Scope and Contents
The opera was produced at Treviso in 1870, and later rewritten and published as ‘Adriana’ (Lago di Como, 1930). The score, in the handwriting of Ladislao Zavertal’s father, Vaclav Hugo Zavertal, then Director of the Istituto Musicale of Treviso, appears to have been undergoing revision, and many pages have been discarded and replaced by others.
Dates:
[1870, or before].
Full opera score of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi with German libretto.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14056/1-3
Scope and Contents
A score in three volumes, written in Germany with the libretto translated into German. The copy is the work of several copyists, none of whom has been identified. The numbering of sections in the manuscript corresponds to the numbering found in Verdi's autograph rather than the printed editions of the opera. The German translation is that of Ricordi's edition of 1852. First German-language performances of Rigoletto took place in 1853. Consistent with the...
Dates:
ca. 1855
Manuscripts in the Cecil Hopkinson Collection of Hector Berlioz.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3428-3429
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Miscellany of music.
File
Identifier: MS.21850
Scope and Contents
The material consists of:(i) A setting, 1772, for voice and piano by John Collett of 'An ode in honour of the birthday of Andrew Crosbie' by John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn (folio 1);(ii) A copy, in an early nineteenth-century (apparently contemporary) hand, of Karl Czerny, 'Choix de Walses brillantes et faciles pour le piano-forte' (folio 11);(iii) A full score, in an apparently late eighteenth-century hand, of the aria 'Son confusa pastorella' from the...
Dates:
1745-early 19th century.
Operatic, instrumental, and vocal music by Learmont Drysdale (died 1909), much of it in the composer's autograph.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3199-3216
Dates:
Late 19th century-1909.
Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21983-22014
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 20th century, undated.