Cadenzas. Musical compositions.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A virtuoso solo passage inserted into a movement in a concerto or other work, typically near the end. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of a photograph, 1894, of Nora Blair, her mother and sister; and cadenzas for Beethoven's Violin Concerto composed for her in 1894 by her tutor, Maurice Sons, leader of the Scottish Orchestra.
File
Identifier: MS.21859
Dates:
1894.
Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21669-21713
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates:
17th century-1972.