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Frederick Delius: Music manuscripts from the collection of the Delius Trust (1885-1984) (MS Mus. 1745) Table of Contents

Frederick Delius: Music manuscripts from the collection of the Delius Trust (1885–1984)

Key Details...... 1

Arrangement...... 1

Provenance...... 1

Publications...... 2

MS Mus. 1745/2/11 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebooks (1887–[?1924])...... 80

MS Mus. 1745/2/12 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin ([1890]–[1931])...... 86

MS Mus. 1745/2/13 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Various Scores and Draft Material in Large Format ([1897]–[1929])...... 88

MS Mus. 1745/3/5 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby) (1928–1929)...... 105

MS Mus. 1745/3/7 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Hassan ([1923]–1940)...... 109

MS Mus. 1745/3/8 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Settings of Walt Whitman (1930–1967)...... 114

Key Details

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745

Creation Date 1885-1984

Extent and Format 3 metres

Languages of Material English; German; French; Norwegian; Danish; Swedish

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Music manuscripts from the collection of the Delius Trust (1885-1984)

Former Internal Reference Deposit 95/28

Scope and Content Music composed by Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (b. 1862, d. 1934), comprising autograph and copy scores formerly in the possession of the Delius Trust. The collection is divided into four parts, reflecting the provenance of the material.

• MS Mus. 1745/1. Bound volumes (1-49) formerly held by the Delius Trust. The material was originally arranged and catalogued by Rachel Lowe: A Catalogue of the Music Archive of the Delius Trust (1974). The sequence of the volumes is retained in the present catalogue. • MS Mus. 1745/2. Under the terms of an agreement (1982) between the Delius Trust and the Sir Thomas Beecham Trust, all the Delius material in the Beecham Library was passed to the Delius Trust. The material transferred was subsequently sorted and arranged by Robert Threlfall, and described in Threlfall, Frederick Delius: A Supplementary Catalogue (Delius Trust: London, 1986). Threlfall's arrangement has been retained. • MS Mus. 1745/3. In 1976, Messrs Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited passed to the Delius Trust all the Delius manuscripts they held. The material comprises, in the main, manuscripts relating to the early operas and dramatic works (particularly to Hassan), and a number of Stichvorlagen of the later works (most of which are in the hand of Eric Fenby). Originally described by Threlfall (1986). • MS Mus. 1745/4. Various manuscripts that were acquired by the Delius Trust at different times as separate accessions.

Arrangement

• MS Mus. 1745/1: Scores (as bound by the Delius Trust). • MS Mus. 1745/2: Sir Thomas Beecham Accession to the Delius Trust. • MS Mus. 1745/3: Boosey & Hawkes Accessions to the Delius Trust. • MS Mus. 1745/4: Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust.

Provenance

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Immediate Source of Presented by the Delius Trust, 29 November 1995. Acquisition

Custodial History The provenance of manuscripts is indicated within the catalogue (at File or Volume level) where the manuscripts are individually described.

A few manuscripts are still held by the Delius Trust. These are listed here for completeness but are not available for consultation at the British Library. Where this is the case, a note to this effect is included in the description.

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Publications

• Rachel Lowe, A Catalogue of the Music Archive of the Delius Trust (London: Delius Trust, 1974 and 1986). • Robert Threlfall, A Catalogue of the Compositions of Frederick Delius: Sources and References (London: Delius Trust, 1977). • Robert Threlfall, Frederick Delius: A Supplementary Catalogue (London: Delius Trust, 1986). • Robert Threlfall, Frederick Delius Complete Works: Editorial Report (London: Delius Trust, 1990).

MS Mus. 1745/1 Frederick Delius: Scores (as bound by the Delius Trust) (1888-1977)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1

Creation Date 1888-1977

Extent and Format 54 volumes (including 12 volumes currently held by the Delius Trust)

Languages of Material English; French; German; Norwegian

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Scores (as bound by the Delius Trust) (1888-1977)

Scope and Content Bound volumes (1-49) formerly held by the Delius Trust, as arranged and catalogued by Rachel Lowe: A Catalogue of the Music Archive of the Delius Trust (1974). The sequence of the volumes (some of which are divided into two parts, designated A and/or B), and Lowe's original foliation, is retained.

The present description of the manuscripts is indebted to the scholarship of both Rachel Lowe and Robert Threlfall, whose publications should be consulted in conjunction with the present catalogue. For ease of cross-reference, Threlfall's classification of Delius's works ( Catalogue, 1977, pp. 10-11) is noted in the description of each manuscript.

Twelve volumes are currently held by the Delius Trust: 5B, 18B, 21, 22, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46. 47, 48B, and 49.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Immediate Source of Delius Trust, 1995. Acquisition

Custodial History Volumes 1-45 comprise five accessions received by the Delius Trust between March 1963 and January 1966. Volumes 1-43 came directly from the Delius house in Grez-sur-Loing, France. Volumes 44-49 were subsequently acquired separately by the Trust, either by purchase or by gift: specific details are given in the catalogue entry for each volume. See also, Rachel Lowe, A Catalogue of the Music Archive of the Delius Trust (1974).

• Rachel Lowe, A Catalogue of the Music Archive of the Delius Trust (London: Delius Trust, 1974 and 1986). • Robert Threlfall, A Catalogue of the Compositions of Frederick Delius: Sources and References (London: Delius Trust, 1977). • Robert Threlfall, Frederick Delius: A Supplementary Catalogue (London: Delius Trust, 1986).

Page 2 2021-07-17 • Robert Threlfall, Frederick Delius Complete Works: Editorial Report (London: Delius Trust, 1990).

MS Mus. 1745/1/1 Frederick Delius: Hiawatha (1888)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/1

Creation Date 1888

Extent and Format 1 volume (i, 36 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius: Hiawatha (1888)

Physical Characteristics The score is written on 35 sheets of 22-stave music paper, upright format, 13¾ x 10½ inches (B & H. Nr. 13. C.)

Scope and Content Autograph full score (ink over pencil), paginated 1-90 by the composer, lacking pp. 4-17 and 46-53.

Tone poem for orchestra. Threlfall, VI/2. Publication: 2008, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Supp. Vol. 6.

• f. i. Original front cover, with original white label bearing autograph title, incorporated into the re-binding: 'Hiawatha / ein Tongedicht für Orchester / nach Longfellow / von / Fritz Delius [signature] 1888 / Januar'. • New front endpaper stamped 'Delius Trust Archives / ACC. No. 1'. • f. 1. Title-page, autograph with signature and date ('1888 / Januar'), and a quotation from Longfellow (ten lines) beginning: 'Ye who love the haunts of Nature'. • ff. 1-36. Autograph score, with autograph marks in pencil and mauve pencil (except 'Schluss' at the top of f. 32v which appears to be in another hand). • Blank sheet between folios 35 and 36, with pressed flower stain. • f. 36v. Short score pencil sketch (9 bars) at the top, and a short score pencil sketch (3 bars) at the bottom. Pressed flower stain. • New endpaper.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

Page 3 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/2 Frederick Delius: Paa Vidderne (Melodrama) (1888)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/2

Creation Date 1888

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 1-61)

Languages of Material German

Title Frederick Delius: Paa Vidderne (Melodrama) (1888)

Physical Characteristics Originally unbound, written on 30 double sheets and 1 single sheet of 20-stave music paper, 14 x 10½ inches (upright format), B & H. Nr. 12.0.

Scope and Content Autograph full score (ink), paginated by the composer. The reciter's text in the score is in German.

For solo voice and orchestra. Threlfall, III/1. Publication: 1988, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 14. Performance: 7 Feb. 1984, London, St. John's Smith Square, Kensington Symphony Orchestra, cond. Leslie Head, narrator Allan Hendrick (English text, trans. L. Carley); 15 July 1984, Cheltenham Town Hall, Hallé Orchestra, cond. Sir Charles Groves, narrator Svein Sturla Hungnes (Norwegian text).

• f.1. Autograph title-page (ink): 'Paa Vidderne / Auf dem Hochgebirge / Gedicht von H. Ibsen. / Melodrama / von / Fritz Delius [signature] 1888. / Edvard Grieg gewidmet.' At the foot of the page, instructions in German requesting that the conductor take into consideration the strength of the reciter's voice.

Nine movements, corresponding to the nine sections of Ibsen's poem ('Paa Vidderne'), as follows:

• ff. 1v-10. Movement 1. • ff. 10v-17. Movement 2. • ff. 17v-24. Movement 3. • ff. 24v-28. Movement 4. • ff. 28v-30v. Movement 5. • ff. 31-36. Movement 6. • ff. 36v-41. Movement 7. • ff. 41v-50v. Movement 8. • ff. 51-61. Movement 9.

The title 'Paa Vidderne' ['On the Heights'] is the title of the poem (1859) by Henrik Ibsen on which the work is based. For the text, in Norwegian and in English, see the next volume, MS Mus. 1745/1/2A.

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

Page 4 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/2A Frederick Delius: Text for Paa Vidderne (by Henrik Ibsen) (Early 20th century)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/2A

Creation Date Early 20th century

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 62-82)

Languages of Material English; Norwegian

Title Frederick Delius: Text for Paa Vidderne (by Henrik Ibsen) (Early 20th century)

Physical Characteristics 10 x 8 inches.

Scope and Content Typescripts of the text set by Delius, in Norwegian with English translation. Foliation continues from the previous volume.

• ff. 62-72. Text in Norwegian. Ibsen's authorship is not indicated. Carbon copy with accents added by hand. • ff. 73-82. Text translated into English, without title, author not indicated.

Neither typescript is dated, and they appear to have been typed on different occasions on different typewriters. Ibsen's poem was written in 1859.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

MS Mus. 1745/1/3 Frederick Delius: Suite for Violin and Orchestra; Rhapsodische Variationen; Orchestration of Grieg's Aus dem

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/3

Creation Date 1888-1889

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 1-78)

Title Frederick Delius: Suite for Violin and Orchestra; Rhapsodische Variationen; Orchestration of Grieg's Aus dem Volksleben, no. 2 (1888-1889)

Physical Characteristics 1. Suite for Violin and Orchestra: • full score: 10 double and 6 single sheets of 24-stave music paper (14 x 10½ inches), upright format • violin part: 3 double sheets of 14-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches), upright format

2. Rhapsodic Variations for Full Orchestra: 10 double sheets of 22-stave music paper (14 x 10½ inches) arranged in two groups of five, upright format. 3. Aus dem Volksleben (No. 2): 5 double sheets of 20-stave music paper (13½ x 10½ inches), upright format.

Scope and Content 1. Suite for Violin and Orchestra (ff. 1-51).

Page 5 2021-07-17 Autograph full score (ink over pencil), with a separate violin part. Delius's signature on f. 1, upper right margin. Without date [1888].

Threlfall, VII/1. Publication: Score, 1985, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition Vol. 28, pp. 1-70. Performance: 28 Feb. 1984 (Radio 3 broadcast), Ralph Holmes, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra cond. Vernon Handley, recorded 24 May 1983, Glasgow; 24 March 1984, St. John's, Smith Square, Ralph Holmes, Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra cond. James Blair.

Full score (paginated 1-89 by the composer):

• ff. 1-11. Andante quasi Allegretto ('Pastorale'), E minor. • ff. 12-24. Allegro molto vivace ('Intermezzo'), C major. • f. 25. A three-bar ending of Movement I struck-through. • ff. 25v-34v. Adagio cantabile ['Elegie'], G major. • ff. 35-46v. Allegro animato, G major.

Violin part (without pagination), headed (f. 47) Pastorale, and indicating different tempi:

• ff. 47-47v. Andante. • ff. 48-48v. Allegro vivace. • ff. 49-49v. Andante. • ff. 50-50v. Allegro. • f. 51. At top and bottom of the folio, two short re-workings in pencil of passages from f. 50.

2. Rhapsodische Variationen für grosses Orchester [Rhapsodic Variations for Full Orchestra] (ff. 52-68).

Threlfall, VI/3. Publication: 1997, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Supp. Vol. 4.

Autograph full score (ink over pencil, and pencil), unfinished, paginated 1-32 by the composer:

• f. 52. Title-page, with signature. St. Malo, September 1888. • ff. 52v-54. [Theme] Moderato. • ff. 54v-56v. [Variation] 1, Tranquillo. • ff. 56v-58. [Variation] 2, Animato. • ff. 58v-59v. [Variation 3], Alla Negra, vivace ma non troppo. • ff. 59v-62. [Variation 4], Eleganza. • ff. 62v-65. [Variation 5], Alla brevetaktiren Agitato. • ff. 65-67. [Variation 6], Lento, con gravita ed molto espressione. • ff. 67-68. [Variation 7], Poco animato (f. 67 completed in ink; f. 67v and f. 68 are partially completed in pencil, the score unfinished).

3. Aus dem Volksleben (ff. 69-78)

Edvard Grieg, opus 19, no. 2, arranged for full orchestra. Threlfall, X/(i)2. Publication: 1997, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Supp. Vol. 2.

Autograph full score (pencil), paginated 1-18 by the composer:

• f. 69. Title-page: 'Aus dem Volksleben / Humoresken von / Edvard Grieg / No. 2 / Norwegischer Brautzug im Vorüberziehen / Orchestrirt von Fritz Delius / (le 2 Decber 1889)'. • ff. 69v-78. full score. • f. 78v. A full score working (pencil) in E major headed Maestoso which has been heavily struck-through.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Accession No. 1.

Page 6 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/4 Frederick Delius: Sakuntala and Maud (1889-1891)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/4

Creation Date 1889-1891

Extent and Format 1 volume (72 folios)

Languages of Material German; English

Title Frederick Delius: Sakuntala and Maud (1889-1891)

Physical Characteristics 1. Sakuntala • full score: 7 double sheets of 20-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches), upright format; • tenor part: 1 double sheet of 10-stave music paper (13½ x 10 inches), upright format.

2. Maud: 26 double and 3 single sheets of 24-stave music paper (14 x 10½ inches), upright format.

Scope and Content 1. Sakuntala (ff. 1-16)

Autograph full score (ink and ink over pencil) with separate tenor part.

Threlfall, III/2. Publication: 1987, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition Vol. 15b.

• f. 1. Title-page: 'Sakuntala' / (gedicht von Holger Drachmann) / Fritz Delius' [signature].

• f. 1v. Poem by Drachmann in a German translation (first three stanzas). • f. 2. Second title-page, with signature and date (1889); at the bottom of the page, the fourth stanza by Drachmann. • f. 2v-14v. Full score (numbered 1-25 by the composer). • ff. 15-16v. Tenor part.

2. Maud (ff. 17-71)

Five songs for tenor and orchestra, words by Alfred Tennyson. Autograph full score (ink over pencil). Each song separately paginated by the composer. Dated 1891 and signed on ff. 33, 40 and 46.

Threlfall, III/3. Publication: 1990, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition Vol. 16.

• ff. 17-26v. 'Birds in the high Hall garden', E major Con moto ed calore. • ff. 27-32v. 'I was walking a mile', C major Andante con tristezza. • f. 33. Title: 'Maud' / 'Go not happy day' / Fritz Delius / 1891. • ff. 34-39v. 'Go not happy day', G major Allegro ma non troppo. • f. 40. Title: 'Maud' / 'Rivulet crossing my ground' / Fritz Delius / 1891. • ff. 40v-45. 'Rivulet crossing my ground', F major Tranquillo. • f. 46. Title: 'Come into the garden Maud' / Fritz Delius / 1891. • ff. 46v-71v. 'Come into the garden, Maud', G major.

Bound at the back of the volume is a pink paper folder that originally housed the score for Sakuntala, with title and date (1889) in the hand of Jelka Delius (f. 72).

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

MS Mus. 1745/1/5A Frederick Delius: Paa Vidderne [On the Mountains] (Concert overture) (1892)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/5A

Creation Date 1892

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. iii + 31)

Title Frederick Delius: Paa Vidderne [On the Mountains] (Concert overture) (1892)

Physical Characteristics 30 sheets of 26-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches), upright format, plus an additional sheet (f. 1 title-page).

Scope and Content Autograph score (ink and ink over pencil). Numbered by the composer (and partly re-numbered by another hand) as pp. 1-55, although the numbering is sometimes incorrect since ff. 2 and 3 are pasted together, as are ff. 19 and 20 (for further details, see Rachel Lowe, Catalogue, p. 35).

Threlfall, VI/10. Publication (as On the Mountains): 1990, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 22. Performance: 10 October 1891, Oslo, Christiania Music Society, Iver Holter.

• f. ii. Original brown paper cover with title in English (not Delius's hand): 'Delius, On the Mountains (Autograph)'. • f. 1. Autograph title-page. Below the title, in pencil: 'Return to John F. Runciman' (with London address). • f. 2. Second title-page, with signature and date (1892). Beneath, five lines from Ibsen's poem ('På Vidderne') in German translation. Beneath the lines from Ibsen, the title in French: '"Sur les Cimes" / Poème Symphonique / d'apres une Poesie de Henrik Ibsen' [accents omitted].

• f. 2v. Pasted to the recto of f. 3. • ff. 3v-30v. Autograph score, with f. 19v pasted to the recto of f. 20. Reheasal letters in blue pencil appear to be in Delius's hand. Instrument names (f. 3) in another hand. • f. 31. Facing f.30v and hinged to the endpaper, a photocopy programme for the concert in Christiania (10 October 1891) at which Paa Vidderne was performed. As reproduced in Rachel Lowe, Catalogue, p. 34.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

Page 8 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/5B Frederick Delius: Paa Vidderne (Concert overture) in copyist's hand (Early 20th century)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/5B

Creation Date Early 20th century

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 31-56)

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Paa Vidderne (Concert overture) in copyist's hand (Early 20th century)

Scope and Content Copy made for Sir Thomas Beecham, with his dynamic markings throughout in blue pencil. The foliation continues from the previous volume, MS Mus. 1745/1/5A.

N.B. This volume is currently held by the Delius Trust. It is therefore unavailable from the British Library.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History The volume remains in the custody of the Delius Trust.

MS Mus. 1745/1/6 Frederick Delius: The Magic Fountain ([1893-1896])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/6

Creation Date [1893-1896]

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. i, 120)

Title Frederick Delius: The Magic Fountain ([1893-1896])

Physical Characteristics Originally unbound, 58 double sheets of 34-stave music paper (15¾ x 11¾ inches), upright format.

Scope and Content Autograph full score, ink (ff. 1-118), with composer's libretto in English. Short score sketches, also ink (ff. 119-120).

Lyric drama in three Acts. Threlfall, I/3. Publication: 1990, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 2. Studio performance for later transmission by the BBC, 30 July 1977; BBC Concert Orchestra, cond. Norman Del Mar.

Each of the three Acts has been paginated by the composer separately.

• f. 1. Original buff card front cover (back cover missing), apparently re-used, with title in the hand of Jelka Delius. 'Act I' appears to be in Delius's hand, with '[II & III]' added.

• ff. 1-2v. Overture. • ff. 3-38. [Act 1] (f. 3 headed 'Scene I'). • ff. 39-72v. 'Act 2' (title in pencil). Overture: ff. 39-40. An additional half-sheet (f. 70) has been pasted onto the bottom half of f. 69v. • ff. 73-118. 'Act 3' (title in pencil), with ff. 77v and 78r pasted together. • f. 119-119v. Short score sketches (ink) on a small piece of music paper. '3rd Act' is written at the top of f. 119; 'Swamps' at the top of f. 119v. • f. 120-120v. Short score sketches on a small 'L'-shaped piece of music paper. 'Florida' is

Page 9 2021-07-17 (perhaps) written at the top of f. 120; f. 120v leads into the call of 'Watawa'.

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

MS Mus. 1745/1/7 Frederick Delius: The Magic Fountain (vocal score) (1953)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/7

Creation Date 1953

Extent and Format 1 volume (108 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: The Magic Fountain (vocal score) (1953)

Physical Characteristics 48 double sheets and 1 single sheet of 12-stave music paper (12 x 9½ inches), upright format.

Scope and Content Manuscript vocal score (black ink with occasional additions in red ink) arranged and prepared by Eric Fenby (autograph), paginated by Fenby as pp. 1-192. The score is undated but is known to have been made in 1953 for Sir Thomas Beecham with a view to publication.

Threlfall, I/3. Publication: 1979, vocal score facsimile publication by the Delius Trust (distributed by Boosey & Hawkes).

• ff. 1-40r. Act I. • f. 1. The title and composer's name (and 'Vocal Score by Eric Fenby') have been taken from a printed source and pasted to the folio. White correction fluid used at top and botton of the folio. • f. 6r. A note from Fenby to the printer ('notes in red ink in small type') written at the bottom of the folio, the note concealed by a small paper cover hinged by clear tape (f. 7). The first of the occasional additions to the score in red ink occurs on this folio. • f. 29r. Note from Fenby to the printer at the bottom of the folio, once again concealed with hinged cover (f. 30). • f. 32r. Note from Fenby to the printer ('small type') at the bottom of the folio, concealed with hinged cover (f. 33). • A blank folio between Acts (most of the bottom stave has been cut away). • ff. 41-73r. Act II. • f. 42. 'Act II' has been taken from a printed source and pasted to the folio. • f. 51. Two replacement bars (voice) taped over, on f. 50v. • f. 52. Pasted down footnote (printed) at the bottom of the folio: 'Three bars of orchestral score are omitted at this point'. • ff. 74r-108. Act III. • f. 75. 'Act III' has been taken from a printed source and pasted to the folio.

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Page 10 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/8 Frederick Delius: Légende for violin and orchestra (1895)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/8

Creation Date 1895

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 18)

Title Frederick Delius: Légende for violin and orchestra (1895)

Physical Characteristics 8½ double sheets of 22-stave music paper (13½ x 10½ inches), upright format.

Scope and Content Autograph full score (in and ink over pencil), paginated by the composer 1-34. Delius has added rehearsal letters in blue pencil. With conductor's markings and remarks in blue and black pencil, only some of which are by Delius.

Thelfall, VII/3. Publication: 1916, Forsyth Bros. Ltd., for violin and pianoforte. Score, first publication 1985, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition Vol. 28, pp. 71-91. Performance: 30 May 1899, London, St. James's Hall, John Dunn, cond. Alfred Hertz. Delius correspondence indicates a prior performance in London, January 1897 (FD to Jutta Bell, [Dec. 1896], and W. Augener to FD, 19 Nov. 1896).

• f. 1. Title-page, signed 'Frederick Delius' and dated 'Paris 1895'. • ff. 2-18. Autograph score, with signature 'Fritz Delius' at the head of f. 2.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

MS Mus. 1745/1/9 Frederick Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away and Appalachia ([1895]-1896)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/9

Creation Date [1895]-1896

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 74)

Title Frederick Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away and Appalachia ([1895]-1896)

Physical Characteristics 1. Over the Hills and Far Away: 6½ double sheets of 22-stave music paper (13½ x 10¾ inches), upright format, and (f. 11) a single sheet of 24-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches), upright format. 2. Over the Hills and Far Away: 24-stave music paper in two gatherings of 6 double sheets and 1 single sheet, and 7 double sheets and 2 single sheets (13½ x 10½ inches), upright format. 3. Appalachia: 27 single and 2 double sheets of 32-stave music paper (14 x 10⅝ inches cream), upright format, except for ff. 62-67 (13½ x 10⅝ inches white). Note also that f. 47 and f. 62 have been cut away at the top, leaving them about one half inch shorter than the rest of the paper to which they belong.

Scope and Content Two copyist scores of Over the Hills and Far Away (the first of which includes a folio in Delius's hand, f. 11), and the autograph score of Appalachia.

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1. Over the Hills and Far Away (ff. 1-14).

Fantasia. Threlfall, VI/11. Publication: 1950, ed. Beecham, G. Schirmer Inc., New York; 1990, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 23a. Performance: 13 November 1897, Elberfeld, Elberfelder Konzert-Gesellschaft, Hans Haym.

Copyist's hand (except f. 11), ink. Originally paginated as pp. 1-26, altered following the insertion of f. 11 to pp. 1-28.

• f. 1. Stamped 'Delius Trust Archives / ACC. No. 13'. • f. 11. Folio in Delius's hand, ink over pencil. • Emendations in Delius's hand (ink over pencil) on ff. 2, 2v, 5, 6, 9, 10v, 13v, 14 and 14v.

• Delius erasure of piccolo part on ff. 7-8 (with slight damage to folio). • Delius deletion (struck-through) of five bars on f. 12. • With orchestral numbers and occasional accidentals and nuances in blue crayon.

2. Over the Hills and Far Away (ff. 16-44). Copyist hand (ink), with some marks and remarks by Delius. Paginated as 1-55. With Beecham's marks in blue pencil throughout.

• f. 15 stamped 'Delius Trust Archives / ACC. No. 16/2', otherwise blank. • f. 16. In Delius's hand (ink): '"Over the hills & far away" / Fantasia / for Orchestra'.

• f. 27. In Delius's hand (pencil), at the top of the folio: 'Sunshine & clouds'.

3. Appalachia: American Rhapsody for Orchestra (ff. 46-74). Autograph full score (ink and ink over pencil), dated 1896. Paginated by the composer as pp. 1-29, although lacking p. 15 (nonetheless, foliation continuous).

Threlfall, VI/12. Publication: 1990, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 23a.

• f. 45 stamped 'Delius Trust Archives / ACC. No. 1', otherwise blank. • ff. 46 and blank folio at end of the volume used as outer wrapper, with title, signature and date (1896) on f. 46. • f. 47. Second title-page, also signed and dated (1896). • f. 47v. Score begins. Thereafter, the score is written on the recto only of each folio, except f. 51v (the score on f. 51 is struck-through).

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Custodial History Over the Hills and Far Away (ff. 1-14) presented to the Delius Trust in 1964 by Eric Fenby. Over the Hills and Far Away (ff. 15-43) purchased by the Delius Trust in 1966.

Page 12 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/9B Frederick Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away (two copies by Eric Fenby) ([1929]-[1934])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/9B

Creation Date [1929]-[1934]

Extent and Format 1 file

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away (two copies by Eric Fenby) ([1929]-[1934])

Scope and Content 1. A photographic version of a copy score made by Eric Fenby, the original of which is held at Stanford University, California. Although the score bears the date 1897, Fenby's copy was made for Beecham between 1929-34 (see Lowe, pp. 44-5).

2. A second copy, also made by Fenby during the same period. (See Lowe, p. 45.)

N.B. Both scores are currently held by the Delius Trust and are therefore not available from the British Library.

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Custodial History The photographic copy of the Stanford score was received by the Delius Trust in 1968. The second copy score by Fenby was received by the Delius Trust in 1969.

MS Mus. 1745/1/10 Frederick Delius: Piano Concerto in C minor (1897)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/10

Creation Date 1897

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 37)

Title Frederick Delius: Piano Concerto in C minor (1897)

Physical Characteristics • The first score (for two pianos) is written on 9 double sheets and 1 single sheet of 12-stave music paper (14 x 10¾ inches), upright format. • The second score (for solo piano) is written on 5 double sheets of 12-stave music paper (10½ x 13¾ inches), oblong format. Added to this score are three additions in Delius's hand, as follows: f. 22 (oblong format, as above); ff. 26-30 (5 single sheets of 11-stave music paper, 11¼ x 9¼ inches, upright format); ff. 34-35 (a double sheet of 18-stave music paper, 13½ x 10½ inches, upright format).

Scope and Content Threlfall, VII/4. 'The compositional history of this work is probably the most tortuous of any in the Delius canon' (Threlfall 1990, p. 189). Publication: 1907 [dated 1897], lithographed full score, Harmonie-Verlag; 1951, full score ed. Beecham, Boosey & Hawkes (8864); 1990, rev. ed., ed Beecham, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 29a. Performance: 24 October 1904 (version in 3 movements), Elberfeld, Stadthalle, Julius Buths, Elberfelder Konzertgesellschaft, cond. Hans Haym; 22 October 1907 (published version), London, Queen's Hall Orchestra, Thodor Szántó, cond. Henry J. Wood.

Page 13 2021-07-17 1. 'Piano Concerto' (ff. 1-19v). Arrangement for two pianos.

• f. 1. Title-page, in Delius's hand: 'Piano Concerto / Spring 1897'. The remainder of the score is in the hand of a copyist (except f. 8); the copyist is probably Julius Buths. • ff. 1v-13. [Movement] I, C minor 4/4. 'Klavier - Concert' is written at the head of f. 1v. • f. 8. Four-bar amendment in Delius's hand, pasted at the top of f. 7v. • ff. 13v-17. [Movement] II, D flat major 4/4. • ff. 17v-19v. [Movement] III, C minor 5/4-4/4. Movement incomplete.

2. 'Concerto' (ff. 20-37). Solo piano part to the Fantasy version of the Concerto (cf. the next volume, MS Mus. 1745/1/11).

• f. 20. Title-page in Delius's hand: 'Concerto / [signature] 1897'. The remainder of the score is in the hand of a copyist except for the folios in Delius's hand noted below. • f. 22. In Delius's hand, 11 bars (ink). • ff. 26-30. In Delius's hand (ink, scored only on the rectos of each folio), f. 26 headed Lento molto tranquillo. • ff. 34-35v. In Delius's hand (ink).

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MS Mus. 1745/1/11 Frederick Delius: Fantasy for Orchestra and Pianoforte (1897)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/11

Creation Date 1897

Extent and Format 1 volume (39 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Fantasy for Orchestra and Pianoforte (1897)

Physical Characteristics 19 double sheets of 28-stave music paper (17¼ x 12¼ inches), upright format, plus original front endpaper of a similar size bearing title.

Scope and Content Threlfall, VII/4. Lowe comments (Catalogue, p. 55): 'Both in its material and in the cyclic repetition of the first section, this one movement fantasy form can be considered the true parent of the piano concerto as we know it in its final version'.

Autograph full score (ink and pencil) with much of the working left in pencil.

• f. 1. Original front paper cover, with title in Delius's hand and his signature (blue pencil).

• ff. 2-39. Autograph score, with Delius signature and date (1897) on f. 2 headed Allegro Moderato. • f. 39v.Two bars of short score workings in pencil.

The second manuscript in the previous volume (MS Mus. 1745/1/10) is the solo piano part of this work.

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

MS Mus. 1745/1/12 Frederick Delius: Seven Danish Songs (1897-1929)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/12

Creation Date 1897-1929

Extent and Format 1 volume (30 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Seven Danish Songs (1897-1929)

Physical Characteristics 36-stave music paper (17¾ x 12½ inches) throughout, upright format, although ff. 2-15 have been cut at the top edge to make slightly shorter 28-stave paper for the first sequence.

Scope and Content Threlfall, III/4. Publication: 1987, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vols. 15a and 15b ('Songs with orchestra' Parts 1 and 2); for the earlier publication of particular songs, including pianoforte versions, see Lowe and see Threlfall. Performances of some of the orchestral versions (see Threlfall for details of particular songs) were given 30 May 1899 (London, St James's Hall, Christianne Andray, cond. Alfred Hertz) and 16 March 1901 (Paris, Société Nationale de Musique, Christianne Andray, cond. Vincent d'Indy).

The manuscript volume comprises two copies of the Danish songs, both in Delius's autograph full score but ordered differently. The first sequence contains only five songs.

1.First sequence (ff. 1-135, five songs.

• f. 1. Title-page: 'Danish Songs' (in the hand of Jelka Delius). Underneath the title, Delius has pencilled the song titles in Danish, but the order does not match either sequence in this volume. Page stamped: 'Frederick Delius / Grez-sur-Loing / 8. et M.' The number '19' is written in pencil at the top of the page. • ff. 2-3r. Headed 'VI' ('Through long, long years'), finishing half-way down f. 3. • ff. 3r-5r. Headed 'VII' in a combination (number change) of pencil and blue pencil ('Let springtime come then when it will'). The final 8 bars (f. 5) are in the hand of Eric Fenby, with the following note underneath also in his hand: '(the scoring of these final bars was completed by dictation to Eric Fenby at Grez in early 1929)'. The verso of (the new) f. 5 containing the dictated bars has been pasted onto the recto of f. 7. Folio 6 is a typescript label. • ff. 7-9v. Headed 'III' ('There was a King in days of old'). • ff. 10-12v. Headed 'IV' ('No leaflet stirs upon the silent shore'). • ff. 13-14v. [No heading] 'Lift on high and clink the glasses'. • f. 15 is blank, save for '23' in blue pencil (a number(?) also in blue pencil struck-through is above it). The following folio is blank.

2. Second sequence (ff. 16-30), seven songs. Signed by Delius and dated (1897) on f. 17r.

• f. 16r. Title-page, in the hand of Jelka Delius: 'Seven / Danish Songs / Frederick Delius / Silken Shoes / Irmelin Rose / Summer Nights / The Seraglio Garden / Wine Roses / Red Roses / Let Springtime come then'. At the top of the folio, number '20)' is written in pencil. • ff. 17-18r. 'Silken Shoes'. • ff. 19-21r. 'Irmelin Rose'. • ff. 21v-22v. 'Summer Nights'. • ff. 23-24v. 'The Seraglio Garden'. • ff. 25-26v. 'Wine Roses'. • ff. 27-28r. 'Red Roses'. • ff. 28v-30r. 'Let Spring time come then'. The final 8 bars (f. 30r) are in the hand of Fenby as dictated by Delius (see f. 5 above), although without Fenby's note. Once again, a new page has been pasted onto an existing folio: f. 28 has been pasted onto the recto of f. 29 (f. 29v is blank).

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

MS Mus. 1745/1/13 Frederick Delius: Folkeraadet ('Norwegian Suite') (1897)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/13

Creation Date 1897

Extent and Format 1 volume (ii, 56 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Folkeraadet ('Norwegian Suite') (1897)

Physical Characteristics 28 double sheets of 28-stave music paper (17 x 12 inches), upright format.

Scope and Content Autograph full score (ink). Incidental music to the satirical drama Folkeraadet [ The Council of the People] by Gunnar Heiberg, produced in Oslo in October 1897. The score comprises overtures to Acts I-IV, followed by two brief passages of incidental music for Acts II and V.

Threlfall, I/5. Performance: 18 October 1897 et seq., Christiania (Oslo), Christiania Theatre, cond. Per Winge. Publication: 1990, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 7.

• f. i. Original front label, in Delius's hand: 'Folkeraadet' / Suite für Orchester / Zwischen acts Musik zu Gunnar / Heiberg's Satirischem Drama / Folkeraadet'. • ff. 1-11. [Overture to Act I]. • f. 1. In Delius's hand: 'Norwegian Suite' / Vorspiel Iste Akt / Frederick Delius 1897'. Stamped at the top left of the folio (and struck-through in pencil): 'The Property of the Beecham Opera Cpy'. • f. 3 and f. 4 have been pasted together. • f. 9 and f. 10 have been pasted together. • f. 11v is blank. • ff. 12-25v. [Overture to Act II] • ff. 26-40v. [Overture to Act III]. • ff. 41-54. [Overture to Act IV]. • f. 54v is blank. • f. 55. Incidental music (9 bars) for Act II, headed by Delius (in Norwegian): 'Anden Akt'. Delius has also written brief dialogue in Norwegian to cue the music. • f. 55v is blank. • f. 56. Incidental music (10 bars) for Act V. Headed by Delius: '5te Akt', with brief dialogue to cue the music. • f. 56v. Workings in pencil (2 bars only) on the bottom two staves.

Delius's pencil annotations to the score appear on ff. 4, 5v, 10, 17, 18 (ink), and 43. Further performance markings throughout by Alfred Hertz and Thomas Beecham (see Lowe, Catalogue, p. 62).

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

MS Mus. 1745/1/14 Frederick Delius: Mitternachtslied Zarathustras (1898)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/14

Creation Date 1898

Extent and Format 1 volume (i, 23 folios)

Languages of Material German; English

Title Frederick Delius: Mitternachtslied Zarathustras (1898)

Physical Characteristics Twenty sheets of 36-stave music paper (17¾ x 12¼ inches), upright format. The text is written on three sheets (8¼ x 5¼ inches).

Scope and Content Autograph full score (ink), for baritone and men's chorus with full orchestra. German text from Friedrich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra (Part IV), with English translation.

Threlfall, II/1. Performance: 30 May 1899, London, St. James's Hall, Douglas Powell, cond. Alfred Hertz.

• The binding includes at front and back the original marbled endpapers to the manuscript (ff. i, 23) • f. 1. Title-page, including a dedication to Delius's cousin, Arthur Krönig: 'Meinem Freunde Arthur Krönig gewidmet / "Mitternachts - Lied / Zarathustra's" / aus / also sprach Zarathustra / zu / Fr. Nietzsche / für Baritone Solo, Männer chor & Orchester / Frederick Delius / 1898 / Grez sur Loing'. The anglicised version of Delius's first name has been written subsequent to 1898 over an erasure (not earlier than 1903 when Delius ceased using 'Fritz'). At the bottom of the page are the initials of Sir Henry Wood ('H[.] J.W.') in blue pencil. • f. 1v. Orchestra list (in German). • ff. 2-19. Full score, with ff. 7 and 8 pasted together. The score includes Delius's occasional annotations and pencil sketches, on ff. 4v, 16v, 17, 18, and 19. • f. 19v is blank • ff. 20-22. Text, in English translation (unknown hand), followed by a blank folio.

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Page 17 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/15 Frederick Delius: La ronde se déroule (Symphonic Poem) (1899)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/15

Creation Date 1899

Extent and Format 1 volume (ii, 43 folios)

Languages of Material Danish; German

Title Frederick Delius: La ronde se déroule (Symphonic Poem) (1899)

Physical Characteristics 42 sheets of 28-stave music paper, upright format, with some variation in size where the paper has been cut: ff. 1-11 are 17¾ x 12¾ inches; ff. 12-23 are 17½ x 12 inches; and ff. 24-42 are 17¾ x 13 inches.

Scope and Content Autograph full score (ink).

Thelfall, VI/13. Performance: 30 May 1899, London, St. James's Hall, Alfred Hertz. La ronde se déroule is the first version of Life's Dance (or Lebenstanz).

• The binding includes at front and back the original marbled endpapers to the manuscript (ff. i, 43) • f. 1. Title-page, with Delius's signature and date (1899): '"La ronde se déroule" / Symphonische Dichtung / zu "Dansen Gaar" drama von Helge Rode / von / Fritz Delius / 1899'. Beneath, Delius has inscribed (in Danish) a quotation (9 lines) from the play concerning 'the dance of life'. • f. 1v. Orchestra list (in German). • ff. 2-41. Full score, written on folio rectos only. With Delius's rehearsal numbers and occasional dynamics in blue pencil. On f. 2, Delius has added a direction to the kettle drums: 'zum Schluss ein zweiter Pauken Spieler'. • f. 42. Autograph two-bar short score sketch (pencil) in 6/4 time.

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Page 18 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/16 Frederick Delius: Life's Dance (Symphonic Poem) (1901)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/16

Creation Date 1901

Extent and Format 1 volume (28 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Life's Dance (Symphonic Poem) (1901)

Physical Characteristics 36-stave (21¼ x 13¾ inches), upright format.

Scope and Content Autograph full score (ink and ink over pencil).

Threlfall, VI/15. Performance: 21 January 1904, Düsseldorf, Julius Buths.

• ff. 1-28. Full score, of which ff. 24v-25 and 2 bars on f. 25v have been struck-through with blue pencil. The verso of f. 27 and the recto of f. 28 have been pasted together, with a revised 5 bar ending on what is now f. 28. • f. 1. Title, signature and date (1901) above the start of the score: '"Life's Dance" / (a tone poem)'. Signs of erasure above Delius's signature ('Frederick Delius') suggest that he had previously signed as 'Fritz Delius'. • f. 24. Short score working (pencil) beneath the score (9 bars). • f. 28. Short score working (pencil) beneath the score (9 bars). • Delius's expression remarks in pencil can be found (in Italian and English) throughout, for example on ff. 9, 23, and 26v. • Delius's directions to alter parts are on ff. 25, 26v and 28. • With conductor's markings in blue pencil.

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Page 19 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/17 Frederick Delius: Life's Dance (Symphonic Poem) (1912)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/17

Creation Date 1912

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 1-44 + i)

Title Frederick Delius: Life's Dance (Symphonic Poem) (1912)

Physical Characteristics The score is written on 35 single and 3 double sheets of 28-stave music paper (15¾ x 11¼ inches), upright format, with a single folio of 34-stave paper (15¾ x 11¾ inches) on which the orchestra list is written.

Scope and Content Manuscript score in a copyist's hand, except ff. 39-42v which are in Delius's hand.

Threlfall, VI/15. Performance: 15 November 1912, Berlin, Philharmonic Orchestra, Oskar Fried (dedicatee). Publication: 1912, Tischer & Jagenberg, Cologne; 1988, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 24a.

• f. i. Original manuscript paper cover (green), with title and date in Delius's hand: 'Life's dance / Lebenstanz [struck-through] / (Der Tanz des Lebens) [struck-through] / Frederick Delius / Grez sur Loing / (S&M) / 1912'. • f. 1. Orchestra list in Delius's hand, in German (ink) with parallel English version (pencil).

• f. 1v is blank. • ff. 2-42. Full score, in copyist hand (except ff. 38-42v). Rehearsal letters and most additional markings, including corrections (ff. 3, 7v, 23, 38v) in blue and lead pencil, appear to be in Delius's hand. • f. 2. Although most of the score is by a copyist, Delius has written at the head of f. 2: 'Life's Dance / Oskar Fried gewidmet / Frederick Delius' (name in pencil). Delius has also re-written (in pencil) the names of the instruments against the staves, and the tempo directions 'Very quick - with great vigour' and 'con vigor'. • ff. 38-42v. In Delius's hand, a revised ending incorporating most of the final material from the version of 1901 (for which, see MS Mus. 1745/1/16). • ff. 43-44, the original final folios in the copyist's hand, have been pasted together. On f. 43, remarks by Delius in blue and lead pencil.

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Page 20 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/18A Frederick Delius: Paris (Symphonic Poem, arranged for two pianos by Julius Buths) ([1903]-1977)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/18A

Creation Date [1903]-1977

Extent and Format 1 volume: 90 folios

Title Frederick Delius: Paris (Symphonic Poem, arranged for two pianos by Julius Buths) ([1903]-1977)

Physical Characteristics 12-stave music paper (13 x 11½ inches) with numerous 'taped-over' amendments.

Scope and Content Manuscript arrangement, in the hand of Julius Buths, made in 1903. Paris was composed 1898-99, and published in 1909 by Leuckart (6320) in a lithographed full score.

Threlfall, VI/14.

In September 1977, Buths's manuscript was modified by Eric Fenby by the application of numerous 'taped-over' passages of varying length (in Fenby's autograph) in accordance with the printed full score, for a performance given on 12 December 1977 at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (by John Kozar and Francis Routh) - see Fenby's note on f. 19. The two-piano version was made from an earlier draft of the work, which differs from the printed full score (which was at one time bound at the back of the present volume but was removed before the volume was received by the Britrish Library). For the composer's autograph score of the earlier version on which this arrangement by Buths was based, see MS Mus. 1745/2/13/1.

• f. 1. Title-page. The lower portion of the folio has been torn away, leaving only the upper 8 staves, which are stamped twice at top right: 'Property of Sir Thomas Beecham' and 'Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 1'. The manuscript is entitled: '"Paris" / "Impressions de nuit" / Ein Nachstück für / grosses Orchester / von / Frederick Delius / Für zwei Klaviere übertragen von Julius Buths'. • f. 1v is blank. • ff. 2-90. Score. • f. 90. Beneath the score, a note written by Eric Fenby: 'This arrangement for two pianos by Julius Buths from the early version of "Paris" has been revised in accordance with the printed Full Score by Eric Fenby. September 1977.'

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Page 21 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/18B Frederick Delius: Paris (Symphonic Poem, arranged for two pianos by Julius Buths, copyist's hand) ([1903])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/18B

Creation Date [1903]

Extent and Format 1 volume

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Paris (Symphonic Poem, arranged for two pianos by Julius Buths, copyist's hand) ([1903])

Scope and Content Foliation continues from the previous volume (MS Mus. 1745/1/18A).

NB This volume is currently with the Delius Trust and is therefore unavailable from the British Library.

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Custodial History Remains in the custody of the Delius Trust.

MS Mus. 1745/1/19 Frederick Delius: Le Jardin du Paradis [A Village Romeo and Juliet] (Vocal Score) ([c 1901])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/19

Creation Date [c 1901]

Extent and Format 1 volume (i, 104 folios)

Languages of Material English; French; German

Title Frederick Delius: Le Jardin du Paradis [A Village Romeo and Juliet] (Vocal Score) ([c 1901])

Physical Characteristics Scored on double sheets of 20-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches).

Scope and Content Vocal score entitled Le Jardin du Paradis, in several hands. The piano part (in mauve ink) is in Florent Schmitt's hand, but the voice parts (black ink) are in Delius's hand.

The text is written in French (red ink), above which it is written in English (black ink), and above again it is written in German (pencil) by Jelka Delius with some interpolations by Delius.

The score is undated and appears to be the earliest surviving version of the work. It comprises a Prologue and Acts I-III. Originally bound in two parts (Prologue with Acts I and II; Act III), with green covers to each. These parts have been bound together to form the present single volume, retaining the two original green front covers.

Threlfall, I/6.

• f. i. Original front cover (green paper), in unknown hand: 'Le Jardin du Paradis / Prologue [incompletely erased] / Ir. IIe. et IIIme Acte'. (Despite the title, Act III was not found to be within this original volume.)

Page 22 2021-07-17 • ff. 1-17. Prologue. • f. 10 is a small additional flap of score added to the right edge of f. 9. • f. 11 is a replacement vocal line (The Fiddler) pasted on to the top stave of f. 9v. • ff. 17v-35v. Act I. • ff. 36-55v. Act II. • f. 56. Original front cover (green), in unknown hand: 'Le Jardin du Paradis / IIIme Acte'. • ff. 57-103v. Act III. • f. 104 is blank. • f. 104v. Short score pencil sketch (12 or 13 bars) in Delius's hand, with a further one or two bars erased but partially visible.

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession Nos 1 and 13.

MS Mus. 1745/1/20 Frederick Delius: Margot la Rouge (vocal score by Maurice Ravel) ([1901-1902])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/20

Creation Date [1901-1902]

Extent and Format 1 volume (ii, 39 folios)

Languages of Material French; Italian

Title Frederick Delius: Margot la Rouge (vocal score by Maurice Ravel) ([1901-1902])

Physical Characteristics Score written on 25 sheets of 24-stave music paper (13½ x 10½ inches).

Scope and 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.

Page 23 2021-07-17 • 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.

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MS Mus. 1745/1/21 Frederick Delius: Margot la Rouge (lithographed copy) ([1905]-1932)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/21

Creation Date [1905]-1932

Extent and Format 1 volume

Languages of Material French

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Margot la Rouge (lithographed copy) ([1905]-1932)

Physical Characteristics 18 double sheets saddle-stitched into one section. Volume measures 11 x 7½ inches.

Scope and Content Lithographed copy given to Eric Fenby by Delius. On the front of the volume, Fenby has written: 'Eric Fenby / Grez-sur-Loing 1932'. The score is without markings.

NB This volume is currently held by the Delius Trust and is therefore unavailable from the British Library.

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Custodial History Presented to the Delius Trust by Eric Fenby in 1964. Remains in the custody of the Delius Trust.

Page 24 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/22 Frederick Delius: The Song of the High Hills (two arrangements for pianoforte) (1923)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/22

Creation Date 1923

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 1-30 + i)

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: The Song of the High Hills (two arrangements for pianoforte) (1923)

Physical Characteristics • Heseltine's arrangement (blue-black ink): 7 double sheets of 12-stave music paper (12⅛ x 9¾ inches) with a further double sheet as cover. • Grainger's arrangement (blue and blue-black ink): on double sheets of 12-stave music paper (13¼ x 10½ inches) sewn into brown paper cover stiffened with blank sheets of music paper.

Scope and Content In manuscript, two arrangements for pianoforte of Delius's tone poem for chorus and orchestra.

Threlfall, II/6.

• ff. 1-15. Arrangement for solo pianoforte by Philip Heseltine (undated). • ff. 16-30v. Arrangement for two pianos by Percy Grainger (1923). The second piano part is emphasised with blue pencil throughout with occasional expression remarks by Delius in the margin.

NB This volume is currently held by the Delius Trust and is therefore unavailable from the British Library.

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Custodial History Presented to the Delius Trust by Eric Fenby in 1964. Currently in the custody of the Delius Trust.

Page 25 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/23 Frederick Delius: In a Summer Garden (Rhapsody for full orchestra, unrevised version) (1908)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/23

Creation Date 1908

Extent and Format 1 volume: 24 folios

Title Frederick Delius: In a Summer Garden (Rhapsody for full orchestra, unrevised version) (1908)

Physical Characteristics Written on 23 single sheets of 34-stave music paper (except for ff. 18-23, which are 26-stave), upright format (15½ x 12 inches), with an additional single sheet as f. 24 (32-stave).

Scope and Content Autograph score, in ink, with conductor's markings and remarks in Delius's hand (in blue, red, and black pencil). Conducted by Delius at the Royal Philharmonic Concert, Queen's Hall, London, 11 December 1908.

Threlfall, VI/17. Publication (revised version): 1911, F. E. C. Leuckart, Leipzig; 1988, Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 25a.

• Original marbled front endpaper (not foliated). • f. 1. Title-page: '(dedicated / to my wife) / "In a summer garden" / Rhapsody for full Orchestra / Frederick Delius / Grez sur Loing, Spring 1908'. Beneath, Delius has listed 'The Orchestra required', which includes three tubular bells (B flat, C and D) that are omitted from the revised published version of 1911 (which includes the triangle). Beneath the orchestra list is a two-bar short score working in pencil. • ff. 1v-23. Autograph score, with ff. 8v and 23v blank. The score exhibits various deletions and short score workings in pencil. • f. 24 recto and verso has faint short score workings in pencil.

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

Page 26 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/24 Frederick Delius: North Country Sketches (1913-1914)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/24

Creation Date 1913-1914

Extent and Format 1 volume (i, 48 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: North Country Sketches (1913-1914)

Physical Characteristics Written on 12 double and 22 single sheets of 30-stave music paper (15¾ x 11¾ inches), with paper covers.

Scope and Content Autograph full score (ink and ink over pencil), with dynamics (hairpins) in blue pencil added as far as f.11v.

Threlfall, VI/20. Publication: 1923, Augener Ltd., full score 15927. Performance: 10 May 1915, London, Queen's Hall, LSO, Thomas Beecham. For sketch material and draft scores, see MS Mus. 1745/2/8.

• ff. i and 48. Paper covers of Augener's hire library, with their stamped address, hire library number 59021, and plate number 15927. Composer's name and 'North Country Sketches' written on front cover, with title repeated on back cover. • f. 1. Title-page: '"North Country Sketches" / a) Autumn / The wind sounds in the trees / b) Winter Landscape / c) Dance / d) The March of Spring / (Woodlands, meadows & silent moors) / Frederick Delius / 1914 / Grez sur Loing / (Seine & Marne)'. All Delius's autograph, except 'The March of Spring' (which is perhaps the hand of Philip Heseltine), written over an erased title just legible as 'Spring's Awakening'. • f. 1v. Orchestra list (and Augener's stamped address) • ff 2-11. Movement I. Only the autograph date (1913) and tempo ('slow - with even flowing movement') are visible on f. 2: Delius's title is occluded by Augener's typed title pasted down (f. 3), which slightly differs from the title-page: 'The wind soughs in the trees'. • f. 10v is struck-through by the composer, the revised finale appearing on f. 10. • f. 11v is blank. • ff. 12-15v. Movement II. Entitled, by Delius, 'Winter landscape' and dated 1913. • ff. 16-30v. Movement III. Entitled (in another hand) 'Dance' and dated (by Delius) 1914. A full score pencil sketch on f. 24 is struck-through, and the verso of f. 24 is pasted onto the recto of f. 25. • ff. 31-46v. Movement IV. Entitled, by Delius, '"The March of Spring" / (Woodlands, meadows & silent moors)' and dated 1914. The title in ink has been written over (just legible) 'Spring's Awakening'. Tempo: 'With a light & throbbing movement, never dragging'. • f. 43v is a full score pencil sketch struck-through, • f. 47 is a mis-placed title page for 'Dance', dated 1914 and signed Frederick Delius. • f. 47v is blank.

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Custodial History Given to the Delius Trust by Augener/Galliard in 1964. Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 14.

Page 27 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/25 Frederick Delius: Air and Dance (for string orchestra) (1915)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/25

Creation Date 1915

Extent and Format 1 volume (6 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Air and Dance (for string orchestra) (1915)

Physical Characteristics Written on 3 double sheets of 14-stave music paper (14 x 10½ inches).

Scope and Content Manuscript score (ink) in the autograph of Philip Heseltine.

Threlfall, VI/21. Publication: 1931, Boosey & Hawkes, full score 6924 (incorporating Beecham's markings). Performance: 1915, London (privately, at Lady Cunard's), Thomas Beecham; 16 October 1929, London, Aeolian Hall, Beecham.

• f. 1. Title-page, in Heseltine's hand: 'Frederick Delius / Air and Dance / for string orchestra / (1915)'. Beneath, in another hand: 'Boosey & Hawkes Ltd / 295 Regent Street, London, W1'. And beneath again, stamped: 'The Property of / Sir Thomas Beecham'. • ff. 1v-6. Full score, with Beecham's performance markings in blue pencil throughout. Heseltine has added in pencil the remark 'not in autograph' against a RIT on f. 2 and against slurs on ff. 3 and 3v.

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

MS Mus. 1745/1/26 Frederick Delius: Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, and Orchestra (1915)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/26

Creation Date 1915

Extent and Format 1 volume (39 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, and Orchestra (1915)

Physical Characteristics 18 double and 2 single sheets of 30-stave music paper (15½ x 12 inches).

Scope and Content Autograph full score (ink), with many amendments to both solo parts.

Threlfall, VII/5 (Double Concerto). Publication: 1922, Augener Ltd., London (full score 15741). Performance: 21 February 1920, London, Queen's Hall, May and Beatrice Harrison, cond. Sir Henry Wood.

• f. 1. Title-page and dedication: 'For May & Beatrice Harrison / Concerto / for Violin, Violoncello / & Orchestra / 1915 / Frederick Delius'. At the top left of the folio, Jelka Delius has repeated the dedication (pencil). At the foot of the folio, the address stamp of 'Augener Limited'. • ff. 1v-39. Full score. • f. 10 has been added by Delius by pasting a new folio along the margin (f. 11) of the rejected

Page 28 2021-07-17 folio. • f. 12v is blank. • f. 39v is blank.

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Custodial History Given to the Delius Trust by Augener/Galliard in 1964. Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 14.

MS Mus. 1745/1/27 Frederick Delius: Violin Concerto (1916)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/27

Creation Date 1916

Extent and Format 1 volume (29 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Violin Concerto (1916)

Physical Characteristics 10 double and 2 single sheets of 30-stave music paper (except for ff. 14-15, which is a double sheet of 32-stave music paper), all 15½ x 12 inches.

Scope and Content Autograph full score (ink), including some alterations (ink and pencil) mainly to the solo violin. With rehearsal numbers in red pencil.

Threlfall, VII/6. Publication: 1921, Augener Ltd., London (full score 15569). Performance: 30 January 1919, London, Queen's Hall, Royal Philharmonic Society, Albert Sammons, cond. Adrian C. Boult.

• f. 1. Title-page: 'For Albert Sammons / Violin Concerto / Frederick Delius / 1916 / Grez-sur-Loing / (S&M)'. • f. 1v is blank (except for '25' written in pencil) • ff. 2-29. Full score. • f. 2. Delius's signature and date (1916) at the top right of the folio. • f. 3 is a vertical strip indicating the instruments, pasted along the left margin of f. 2. • f. 13 is a half-page pasted onto the lower portion of f. 12v. • f. 27 is a 3-stave strip pasted horizonatally across f. 26v, immediately below the violin solo. It is blank (presumably covering the original violin solo which now appears two staves higher in the score), although it does bear a faint illegible word or mark in pencil. • f. 29v is blank.

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Custodial History Given to the Delius Trust by Augener/Galliard in 1964. Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 14.

For Albert Sammons's modifications to Delius's original solo part (evident in the manuscript), see Delius Society Journal, no. 78 (January 1983), pp. 4, 18-19.

Page 29 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/28 Frederick Delius: A Dance Rhapsody (No. 2) (1916)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/28

Creation Date 1916

Extent and Format 1 volume (27 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: A Dance Rhapsody (No. 2) (1916)

Physical Characteristics The score is written on 10 double and 5 single sheets of 24-stave music paper (14 x 10½ inches); with two additional single sheets (ff. i and 26).

Scope and Content Autograph full score (ink and ink over pencil).

Threlfall, VI/22. Publication: 1923, Augener Ltd. (full score 16045). Performance: 20 October 1923, London, Queen's Hall, Sir Henry J. Wood. For sketch material and a draft score, see MS Mus. 1745/2/8.

• f. 1. Additional sheet used as a cover for the score, with the title 'Delius mss' (pencil) on the recto; the verso has ten staves ruled off for woodwind but the staves are blank. • f. 2. Title-page and dedication, autograph: 'For Norman O'Neill / A Dance Rhapsody / (No. 2) / Frederick Delius / Spring 1916 / Grez-sur-Loing / (S & M)'. At the bottom of the page, instructions in pencil to the publisher (Augener Ltd.): 'Engrave full score & parts as usual'. At top left, in red ink: 'A.1486'. • ff. 2v and 3recto are blank. • ff. 3v-26. Full score, with occasional phrase marks and dynamics in pencil by the composer.

• f. 3v. An additional title at the head of the page, and a copyright note at the bottom ('Copyright 1923 by Augener Ltd'), both in red ink and in another hand, indicate that this was the manuscript supplied to the publisher. The same hand has also writen (blue ink) the composer's name at the top of the page and the plate number (16045) at the bottom. • Delius has made two additions to the score, both characterised by the use of a darker ink. At the top of f. 17v, a large letter 'V' with the number '30' (both in green pencil) indicates that composer's p. 30 facing (f. 18, scored in darker ink, with f. 18v blank) is to be inserted before the last bar of f. 17v. Secondly, the final two bars of the work (f. 26) are also scored in the same darker ink, with some erasure and revision to the final bar of f. 245.

• f. 267has pencil sketches on recto and verso that are not in Delius's hand but may be in the hand of Bernard van Dieren.

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Custodial History Purchased by the Delius Trust from Sotheby and Co. (16 December 1964, lot 396). Formerly owned by Bernard van Dieren. Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 15.

Page 30 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/29 Frederick Delius: Eventyr (1917)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/29

Creation Date 1917

Extent and Format 1 volume (27 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Eventyr (1917)

Physical Characteristics The score is written on 13 double sheets and 1 single sheet of 32-stave music paper (15¾ x 12 inches).

Scope and Content Autograph full score (ink), with the composer's occasional emendations and his directions concerning dynamics. Rehearsal numbers in blue pencil.

Threlfall, VI/23. Publication: 1923, Augener Ltd. (full score 16014). Performance: 11 January 1919, London, Queen's Hall, Sir Henry J. Wood.

• f. 1. Title-page: 'For Sir Henry Wood / "Once upon a time" / "Eventyr" / (after Asbjørnsens Folklore ["fairy tales" struck-through]) / A Ballad for Orchestra / Frederick Delius / Grez-sur-Loing / (S & M) 1917'. The page also has several publisher's directions: 'A.1455' in red ink at the top left of the page, a stamped date ('14 Jun. 1923') with 'Acton' in pencil written below at top right, and directions to the engraver written at the bottom right of the page. • f. 1v. Second title-page: 'Eventyr / "Once upon a time" / (After Asbjørnsens Folklore ["fairy tales" struck-through]) / A Ballad for Orchestra'. • ff. 2-27. Full score. • f. 2. The title appears again, in another hand, at the top of the page. At the bottom of the page, in red ink: 'Copyright 1923 by Augener Ltd' followed by the letter 'R'. • f. 18v is a struck-through full score sketch (pencil) relating to material on f. 19. • f. 27 is damaged (corner missing) with loss of score for the bass in the last two bars. • f. 27v is blank.

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Custodial History Given to the Delius Trust by Augener/Galliard in 1964. Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 14.

Page 31 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/30 Frederick Delius: A Song Before Sunrise (1918)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/30

Creation Date 1918

Extent and Format 1 volume (6 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: A Song Before Sunrise (1918)

Physical Characteristics Written on two types of music paper (both 15¾ x 12 inches): ff. 1-2, a double sheet of 32-stave paper; ff. 3-6, two double sheets of 26-stave music paper (of which, one double sheet has separated into two single sheets).

Scope and Content Autograph score (ink) for small orchestra.

Threlfall, VI/24. Publication: Augener Ltd. (full score 15724). Performance: 19 September 1923, London, Queen's Hall, Sir Henry J. Wood.

• ff. 1-6. Full score. The title appears at the top of f. 1, signed Frederick Delius and dated (1918) at the top right of the page. The dedication underneath the title ('for Philip Heseltine') is in the hand of Jelka Delius. The page also has various markings relating to the publisher, Augener Ltd. ('A1457' in red ink at top left, and the publisher's address stamp and other markings at the foot of the page). • The score features several publisher's queries (in pencil), with replies written alongside (see ff. 1, 1v, 2, 2v, 4 and 6). The provenance of the replies is uncertain.

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Custodial History Given to the Delius Trust by Augener/Galliard in 1964. Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 14.

MS Mus. 1745/1/31 Frederick Delius: A Poem of Life and Love and A Song of Summer (1918-1929)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/31

Creation Date 1918-1929

Extent and Format 1 volume (48 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: A Poem of Life and Love and A Song of Summer (1918-1929)

Physical Characteristics The music paper in this volume is of several types: • f. 1. A sheet of 26-staves (15¾ x 11¾ inches). • ff. 2-13. 32-stave paper (15¾ x 11¾ inches). • ff. 14-15. One double sheet of 26-stave paper (15¾ x 11¾ inches). • ff. 18-23. 34-stave paper (15¾ x 11¾ inches). • ff. 24-33. 28-stave paper in double sheets (15¾ x 12 inches). • ff. 34-i. A double sheet of 32-stave paper (17½ x 12 inches). • ff. 35-36. A double sheet of 42-stave paper (17¾ x 12¾ inches). • ff. 37-43 + ii-iv. 28-stave music paper (15¾ x 11¾ inches).

Scope and Content 1. A Poem of Life and Love (ff. 1-22, and 23-32v).

Page 32 2021-07-17 Thelfall, VI/25.

An incomplete full score, in Delius's autograph, followed by an incomplete full score (a fair copy) in the hand of Jelka Delius that omits Delius's deletions and copies his amendments. Delius's manuscript was found unbound and in no discoverable order; the present foliation was determined (by Rachel Lowe) by comparison with the two-piano arrangement by Balfour Gardiner and Eric Fenby (MS Mus. 1745/1/32).

• ff. 1-22r. Composer's autograph score (incomplete). • f. 1. Title-page: 'Poem of Life & Love / for orchestra / Frederick Delius / 1918'. • f. 2. Title, signature and date appear again at the head of the page. • ff. 2-10. Scored in ink, with whole page deletions and amendments in pencil. • ff. 10v-14v. Draft score (pencil). • ff. 15-17v. Scored in ink (f. 17v deleted by pencil). • f. 18 is scored in pencil. • ff. 18v and the following folio (recto and verso) are blank. • ff. 19-22 are scored in ink with some pencil amendments. • f. 22v is blank. • ff. 23-32v. Fair copy (incomplete) in the hand of Jelka Delius. Whilst this score is based upon ff. 1-22, the copy was evidently made from more than one version (see Lowe, Catalogue, p. 98). At the head of f. 23, a signed note (ink) by Fenby: 'Copy of original MSS. of A Poem of Life and Love in Jelka Delius's hand.' For further pages from JD's copy score, see MS Mus. 1745/2/8.

Delius's autograph score is dispersed as follows:

• composer's paginated pp. 1-31 and and 48-50 are ff. 1-22 above; • pp. 32-43 can be found in the Delius Trust Beecham Accession (MS Mus.1745/2/8); • pp. 44-47 are held by the Bodleian Library, presented by Delius in 1930 (Western MSS, Don. b. 2) but are also available, with Delius's covering letter, as photostats at the back of the present volume (see below).

2. A Song of Summer (ff. 33-42).

Threlfall, VI/26. Publication: 1931, Boosey & Hawkes (full score 6931). Performance: 17 September 1931, London, Queen's Hall, BBC Orchestra, Sir Henry J. Wood.

Sketches (ff. 33-35) dictated by Delius to Fenby (1929), and a full score fair copy (incomplete, in Fenby's autograph) of the first version of the work.

• f. 33. Headed 'A Song of Summer' (top right corner of folio torn away with some loss of score to top stave on f. 33v). Workings in pencil and in ink, annotated at the bottom of the page by Fenby: 'rejected sketch for ending / dictated to Eric Fenby'. • f. 33v. Two dictated sketches (ink and pencil) of 10 bars and 9 bars duration, followed by a blank folio. • ff. 34 and 35 rectos are sketch material (ink and pencil) corresponding to pp. 8-10 of the published score - annotated by Fenby (1929) at the foot of each page as 'sketch for A Song of Summer'. • ff. 34 and 35 versos are scored upside down, and comprise a full score sketch fragment (ink) of another work, Hassan [prelude to Act V]. With an identifying note by Fenby on f. 34v. • ff. 36-42. The first fair copy of A Song of Summer (full score, blue ink), which differs from the published version and is incomplete. Headed (black ink): 'A Song of Summer / Copy of MSS. by Eric Fenby'. • ff. 36-42 are paginated by Fenby as pp. 1-11. • f. 41v comprises only a 2-bar pencil score relating to p. 13 of the published score. • f. 42, the concluding page of the the work, is paginated p. 18. (Thus, the score lacks Fenby's pp. 12-17. For 'his' pp. 12-15, see the supplementary photostat material in Delius's hand referred to below and bound at the back of the present volume. Fenby's pp. 16-17 are one and the same as f. 22 above, in Delius's hand, from A Poem of Life and Love; the folio was repaginated by Fenby from Delius's original pp. 48-49 to become Fenby's pp. 16-17, and the folio shows its re-numbering in Fenby's blue ink. Although f. 22 was found with Fenby's manuscript, it was subsequently restored to its original position in Delius's score. For further details, see Lowe, Catalogue, pp. 97-9.) • f. 42 is followed by 2 blank folios.

3. A Song of Summer: Supplementary Material (ff. 43-48)

Bound into the volume at the back are 6 leaves of photostat material copied from original material held at the Bodleian Library, comprising:

Page 33 2021-07-17 • ff. 43-44. Autograph letter (2 leaves, 26 May 1930) from Delius to Michael E Sadler, presenting: 'a double sheet of orchestral manuscript in my own handwriting. It is a sketch, at least, part of a sketch for my latest orchestral work "A Song of Summer". This work has only just been completed and is not yet published.' • ff. 45-48. Autograph score (4 leaves). A fragment from A Song of Life and Love, originally numbered by Delius as pp. 44-47, but subsequently re-numbered by Fenby as pp. 12-15 of A Song of Summer.

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MS Mus. 1745/1/32 Frederick Delius: A Poem of Life and Love and A Song of Summer (arrangements for two pianos, and for solo

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/32

Creation Date 1928-1929

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 1-47/48 + i-iii)

Title Frederick Delius: A Poem of Life and Love and A Song of Summer (arrangements for two pianos, and for solo piano) (1928-1929)

Physical Characteristics Scored on several different types of music paper, as follows: • ff. 1-21. 20-stave paper (14¼ x 10½ inches); • ff. 22-25. 14-stave paper (approx. 14 x 10½ inches); • ff. 26-30 + i. 14-stave paper (approx 14 x 10½ inches); • f. 31. 12-stave paper (14¼ x 10½ inches); • ff. 32-40. 14-stave paper (13¾ x 10½ inches); • ff. ii-41. 12-stave paper (14¼ x 10½ inches); • ff. 42-47. 12-stave paper (13¾ x 10½ inches); • f. iii. 12-stave paper (14¼ x 10½ inches).

Scope and Content The volume comprises: (1) Two copies of A Poem of Life and Love arranged for two pianos by Balfour Gardiner and Eric Fenby; (2) selected material from A Poem of Life and Love (a short score for solo piano dictated to Fenby by Delius); (3) A Song of Summer arranged for two pianos by Fenby.

(1) Two copies of A Poem of Life and Love (1918), arranged for two pianos, scores in the hands of Balfour Gardiner and Eric Fenby. Without date, but known to be 1928 (Fenby, Delius As I Knew Him). There is no title-page.

• ff. 1-13v. The first copy of the score, entirely in the hand of Balfour Gardiner. • ff. 14-25v. The second copy of the score, which is lacking the final 16 bars. In Gardiner's hand until f. 23v. Score continues in Fenby's hand, ff. 24-25. • f. 14. A heading by Fenby (with signature): 'Arrangement by Balfour Gardiner in 1928 of "A Poem of Life and Love" made to be ready for my arrival at Grez that year to form the basis of our first work by dictation. Most of this work was rejected and the material used for A Song of Summer. Eric Fenby.' • f. 21. The score breaks off after 2 bars, resuming at the top of f. 22 with music corresponding to the first bar of f. 10 in the first copy of the score.

(2) A Poem of Life and Love. Short score for solo piano of selected material, taken down at dictation by Fenby from Delius. In blue ink, with some overworkings and passages cancelled in pencil.

• ff. 26-30. Short score, headed 'Opening bars' on f. 26. • f. 30v. Eight bars struck-through by pencil.

Page 34 2021-07-17 • f. i is blank.

(3) A Song of Summer (1929). Arranged for two pianos by Eric Fenby, in his hand. Two identical copies, without date (but known to be 1929). With dynamics in blue and lead pencil, and bar numbers in black and red pencil.

• f. 31. Title-page to the score (for Piano I): 'A Song / of / Summer / by / Frederick Delius / (arranged for two pianos / Eric Fenby ) / Piano I'. The folio is stamped 'Frederick Delius / Grez-sur-Loing / S. et M.' • ff. 32-40v. Copy of the score (for Piano I), with the title again at the head of f. 32, and once again with Delius's personal stamp. • f. ii is blank. • f. 35 is a one-bar amendment pasted onto f. 34. • f. 36 is a two-beat amendment pasted onto f. 34v. • f. 38 is a two-bar amendment pasted onto f. 37. • f. 41. Title-page to the second copy of the score (for Piano II), with text and stamp as on f. 31. • ff. 42-47v. Copy of the score (for Piano II). • f. 48 is a two-bar amendment pasted onto f. 47. • f. iii is blank.

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

MS Mus. 1745/1/33 Frederick Delius: A Song of Summer; Cynara; A Late Lark; and Idyll (1929-1932)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/33

Creation Date 1929-1932

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. i, 83 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: A Song of Summer; Cynara; A Late Lark; and Idyll (1929-1932)

Physical Characteristics • ff. 1-44. 32-stave paper (17½ x 12¼ inches); • ff. 45-48. 36-stave paper (17½ x 12¼ inches; • ff. 49-55. 18-stave paper, photostat score (13¾ x 11½ inches); • ff. 56-83. 32-stave paper, photostat score (17½ x 13½ inches).

Scope and Content 1. A Song of Summer (ff. 1-30/31). Manuscript full score (ink) in Eric Fenby's hand. Tone poem for orchestra.

Threlfall, VI/26. Publication: 1931, Boosey & Hawkes (full score 6931). Performance: 17 September 1931, London, Queen's Hall, BBC Orchestra, Sir Henry J. Wood.

• Original cream paper front cover (f. i) to A Song of Summer, Cynara and A Late Lark. Titles in pencil, with 'Delius' in blue pencil. • Second original cream paper front cover (also not foliated), blank. • f. 1. Title-page (ink): 'A Song of Summer / by / Frederick Delius', dated '1929' at the bottom right of the folio, which bears a circular stamp: 'Bibl Delius Trust' (all folios stamped thus to f. 48, except f. 4). • f. 1v is blank. • ff. 2-30/31. Full score, with many pasted-down amendments foliated as follows: • f. 3 is a 5-bar amendment in the cello part on f. 2v. (Cf. Lowe, Catalogue, p. 103.)

• f. 5 is a 3-bar amendment in the harp part on f. 4.

Page 35 2021-07-17 • f. 6 is a 7-bar amendment in the celli and bass parts on f. 4v. • f. 9 is a half-bar amendment in the clarinet part on f. 8. • f. 10 is part of the direction ('Poco più Lento') on f. 8v. • f. 11 is a 2-bar amendment in the oboe part on f. 8v. • f. 12 is a 3-bar amendment in the first clarinet part on f. 8v. • f. 13 is a two-bar amendment in the second/third clarinet part on f. 8v. • f. 14 is part of the direction ('Poco più Lento') above the brass on f. 8v. • f. 15 is part of the direction ('Poco più Lento') above the strings on f. 8v. • f. 17 is a 2-bar amendment in the flute part on f. 16r. • f. 18 is a single bar amenment in the oboe part on f. 16r. • f. 20 is a 3-bar amendment in the trombone part on f. 19v. • f. 22 is a 3-bar amendment in the double bassoon and horn parts on f. 21r. • f. 23 is a single bar amendment in the celli and bass parts on f. 21r. • f. 25 is a single bar amendment in the part for second violin on f. 24r. • f. 26 is a re-naming of bassoons 1 and 3 in the margin of f. 24v. • f. 27 is a single bar rest in the part for third bassoon on f. 24v. • f. 28 is a 2-bar amendment in the third bassoon part on f. 24v. • f. 29 is a 2-bar amendment in the parts for second violin and viola on f. 24v. • f. 31 is a 5-bar amendment in the part for third bassoon on f. 30r.

2. Cynara (ff. 32-44). Manuscript full score (ink) for baritone voice and orchestra, in the hand of Eric Fenby. This fair copy was made in 1929. The work was sketched by Delius in 1907, and finished by dictation to Fenby in 1929.

Threlfall, III/5. Publication: 1931, Boosey & Hawkes (full score 6964). Performance: 18 October 1929, London, Queen's Hall, John Goss, BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Sir Thomas Beecham.

• f. 32r. Title-page: 'CYNARA / words by / ERNEST DOWSON / SETTING FOR / Baritone Voice and Orchestra / by / FREDERICK DELIUS'. • f. 32v is blank. • f. 33r. The text for Cynara, i.e. the poem by Ernest Dowson, 'Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae'. Dowson's title is from Horace ('I am not the same as I was in the days of Cynara'). • f. 33r is blank. • ff. 34-44. Full score, with Sir Thomas Beecham's markings in blue pencil throughout, including a change of tempo from 60 crotchet BPM to 80 crotchet BPM. • f. 34. The title is repeated at the head of the folio, together with the names of Dowson and Delius, and the date '1907', indicating when the work was first sketched. • f. 42v includes a single bar deletion effected by a vertical strip of white paper (f. 43) pasted over. • f. 44v is blank. • For Fenby's score prepared for the engraver, see MS Mus. 1745/3/9.

3. A Late Lark (ff. 45-48). Manuscript full score (ink) for voice and orchestra, in the hand of Eric Fenby. Setting of a poem by W. E. Henley, sketched in 1924 or 1925, and completed by dictation to Fenby for the 1929 festival.

• ff. 45-47. Full score, with title at the head of f. 45: 'A LATE LARK / W. E. Henley / Frederick Delius / 1925 ['5' is struck-through in pencil and '4' is written underneath]. With conductor's markings throughout in blue pencil by Sir Thomas Beecham. • f. 48 is a mis-placed title-page, which includes a pencil comment by Henry Gibson (Beecham's secretary at the time of the 1929 festival): 'Vocal Score sent to Heddle Nash 8.7.29'. • For a fair copy manuscript by Fenby, used as the publisher's Stichvorlage and incoporating Beecham's performance markings, see MS Mus. 1745/3/11.

4. Idyll (ff. 49-83). Photostat copy of the manuscript full score (ink) for soprano, baritone and full orchestra, in the hand of Eric Fenby [1932]. The text was adapted by Robert Nichols from several poems by Walt Whitman (particularly, 'Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City'). The music of Idyll is extracted from the opera Margot la Rouge (see Lowe, Catalogue, p. 166, for a concordance).

Threlfall, II/10. Publication: 1933, Boosey & Hawkes (Fenby, vocal score: 13824); 1988 (Fenby, study score), Boosey & Hawkes, Collected Edition, Vol. 13b. Performance: 3 October 1933, London, Queen's Hall (Promenade Concert), Dora Labette, Roy Henderson, BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Sir Henry J. Wood.

• f. 49. Title-page to Idyll (written by Fenby, upper case in blue pencil), incorporating in parenthesis 'Once I Passed Through a Populous City'. • f. 50. Title-page to Prelude to the Idyll (written by Fenby, upper case in blue pencil), also

Page 36 2021-07-17 incoporating the title of Whitman's poem. • ff. 51-55. Prelude full score (photostat), dated 1901 on f. 44. • ff. 56-83. Idyll full score (photostat). The score exhibits Beecham's rehearsal markings throughout. Blank portions of the score reveal Beecham's performance 'deletions' (or occlusions), effected by his covering of the original score in various places, on ff. 58v, 64r, 66v, 68r (the copy of all of original p. 22 showing 'white' rather than 'black') and 68v. The photostat was produced with Beecham's occlusions in situ. On f. 56r, the first 12 bars have been struck-through by Beecham. • f. 83v is blank. • For the original manuscript from which these photostat pages were made (revealing those parts of the original score that Beecham cut, i.e. occluded by covering), see MS Mus. 1745/3/8/4.

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

MS Mus. 1745/1/34 Frederick Delius: Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Nos. 1 and 3 ([1905]-1930)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/34

Creation Date [1905]-1930

Extent and Format 1 volume (122 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Nos. 1 and 3 ([1905]-1930)

Physical Characteristics • ff. 1-9 are 12-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches). • ff. 10-12 are 18-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches). • ff. 14-23 are 12-stave music paper (11½ x 9¼ inches, white). • ff. 24-36 are 12-stave music paper (12 x 9½ inches, cream). • ff. 37-44 are 12-stave music paper (11½ x 9¼ inches, except ff. 37, 38, and 44 which are of variable reduced sizes). • ff. 45-52 are 12-stave music paper (14 x 10½ inches, except f. 51 which is a small slip of manuscript amendment). • ff. 53-79 are the printed first proof (14¼ x 10 inches). • ff. 112-122 are 12-stave music paper (13½ x 10½ inches).

Scope and Content 1. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, with first proof copy (ff. 1-79), and two printed scores (both 1917).

Threlfall, VIII/6. Publication: 1917, Forsyth Bros. (see below). Performance: 24 February 1915, Manchester, Houldsworth Hall, A. Catterall and R. J. Forbes.

• ff. 1-12. Sketches in Delius's autograph, largely in pencil, without title or date (attributed to 1905); f. 9v is blank. The material, which includes much deletion and reworking, relates to movements 1 and 2 only. • ff. 13-36. A fair copy of the finished Sonata in the hand of Philip Heseltine. • f. 13 (an additional small leaf hinged to f. 14) records that 'This copy is in the handwriting of Philip Heseltine'. • f. 14r. Title-page (ink): 'Frederick Delius / Sonata / for / Violin and Pianoforte / 1915'. Beneath the title, a comment in pencil (in another hand) suggests that this copy by Heseltine is the fair copy made for the publisher, Forsyth: 'Eng [Engrave] same size & style as Legende by Delius'. • f. 14v, on which the score begins, includes in pencil, at the foot of the page: 'Copyright MCMXVI by Forsyth Bros Ltd'. • ff. 37-44r. Copy (ink) of the solo violin part, in an unknown hand, which is believed to have also gone to the engraver. • f. 38 is a single stave pasted across the bottom of f. 37.

Page 37 2021-07-17 • f. 44v is blank. • ff. 45-52. A second copy (ink) of the solo violin part, in a different unknown hand. It is characterised by various deletions and insertions (f. 51 is a 3-stave strip lightly attached to the bottom of f. 50v) that suggest it may represent an earlier stage of composition. • f. 52v is blank. • ff. 53-79. First Proof Copy (all folios stamped but otherwise unmarked) of which the violin part is ff. 73-79. Copyright MCMXVI, by Forsyth Bros. Ltd. Stamped as 'The Property of Sir Thomas Beecham'. Printed on folio rectos only. • There follows (ff. 80-95) the first printed copy (Forsyth Bros. Ltd., 36 Great Titchfield Street, 1917), stamped as Beecham's property, pp. 1-21, enclosing violin part, ff. 86-89. • There further follows another printed score, of the same date but from the subsequent address of the publisher, ff. 96-111 (Forsyth Bros. Ltd., 13 Mortimer Street, London, 1917): Violin part (ff. 97-100) and Violin and Piano (ff. 101-111).

2. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 (ff. 112-122).

Threlfall, VIII/10. Publication: 1931, Hawkes & Sons (6929). Performance: 6 November 1930, London, Wigmore Hall, May Harrison and Arnold Bax.

• f. 112r. Title-page: 'Third / Sonata / for / Violin and Piano / Frederick Delius / 1930'. Note beneath title: 'Clean final draft after being taken down at Delius's dictation by Eric Fenby / Grez-sur-Loing / Seine-et-Marne / France.' • ff. 113-122r. Score. • f. 122v is blank.

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MS Mus. 1745/1/35 Frederick Delius: Early Chamber Music and Piano Pieces ([1888]-1923)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/35

Creation Date [1888]-1923

Extent and Format 1 volume (24 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Early Chamber Music and Piano Pieces ([1888]-1923)

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).

Scope and 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.

Page 38 2021-07-17 • 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.

Page 39 2021-07-17 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].

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MS Mus. 1745/1/36 Frederick Delius: A Volume of Songs (1885-1903) (1885-1903)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/36

Creation Date 1885-1903

Extent and Format 1 volume (110 folios)

Languages of Material English; German; Danish; Norwegian; French

Title Frederick Delius: A Volume of Songs (1885-1903) (1885-1903)

Physical Characteristics • ff. 1-2 are 8-stave paper (oblong format, 6½ x 8 inches, composer's ruling on plain sheets). • ff. 3-4 are 12-stave music paper (13 x 10½ inches). • ff. 5-6 are 12-stave music paper (13 x 10½ inches). • ff. 7-9 are 16-stave music paper (13¾ x 10¾ inches). • ff. 10-11 are 10-stave music paper (13 x 10 inches). • f. 12 is 12-stave music paper (13 x 10½ inches). • ff. 13-18 are 12-stave music paper (13½ x 10½ inches). • f. 19 is 12-stave music paper (12¼ x 9½ inches). • ff. 20-27 are 12-stave music paper (13½ x 10½ inches). • f. 28 is 12-stave music paper (13 x 10½ inches). • ff. 29-32 are 12-stave music paper (12¼ x 9½ inches). • ff. 33-34 are 18-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches). • f. 35 is 12-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches). • ff. 36-37 are 12-stave music paper (13½ x 10½ inches). • ff. 38-41 are 12-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches). • f. 42 is 12-stave music paper (13½ x 10½ inches). • ff. 43-44 are 12-stave music paper (13½ x 10¾ inches). • ff. 45-46 are 12-stave music paper (13½ x 10½ inches). • f. 47 is 12-stave music paper (13¼ x 10½ inches). • ff. 48-51 are 12-stave music paper (oblong format, 10½ x 13¾ inches). • ff. 52-84 are 12-stave music paper (13½ x 10½ inches). • f. 85 is 16-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches). • ff. 86-91 are 18-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches). • f. 92 is 16-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches). • ff. 93-109 are 12-stave music paper (13¾ 10½ inches).

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Scope and Content Various manuscript songs brought together. Scored in ink and in Delius's autograph (unless otherwise indicated). Grouped as follows:

• 1. Six early four-part songs (unpublished). • 2. Early Norwegian songs (unpublished). • 3. Two early German songs. • 4. Settings of Heinrich Heine (unpublished). • 5. French songs (unpublished). • 6. Various copies of 'Lyse Naetter'. • 7. Four copies of Delius's setting of 'Sommer i Gurre' (Drachmann). • 8. Originals and copies of settings of three poems by J. P. Jacobsen.

1. Six early four-part songs, with words in German (ff. 1-9v). Threlfall, IV/1.

• ff. 1-2v. 'Lorelei von H. Heine' (A minor). • ff. 3-4. 'Oh! Sonnenschein' (G major). • f. 4v is blank. • ff. 5-6v. 'Durch den Wald / von Schreck' (D flat major). • f. 7-7v. 'Ave Maria', dated 'March 87' (E flat major). • f. 8-8v. 'Frühlingsanbruch / Björnsen' (C major). • f. 9-9v. 'Sonnenscheinlied / Björnsen' (F major).

2. Early Norwegian songs (ff. 10-19):

• ff. 10-11. Untitled four-part song, beginning 'Herude, herude skal gildet stå' (from Ibsen) - final four bars scored in pencil. • f. 11v is blank. • f. 12-12v. 'Over the mountains high / Björnstjerne Björnsen', signed and dated 1885. (Threlfall, V/2.) With four verses in English on f. 12v. • f. 13-13v. 'Hochgebirgsleben / (Ibsen)', signed and dated 1888. (Threlfall, V/6.) Words in German. With alterations in pencil. • f. 14. A 13-bar pencil sketch (3/4, D major) for 'Paa Stranden' by Holger Drachmann. • f. 14v. A 15-bar pencil sketch for 'Sweet Venevil' by Bjørnson, one of the Seven Songs from the Norwegian, published in 1892. (Threlfall, V/9.) • f. 15. A title-page, in Delius's hand (ink): '"Aus dem Norwegischen" / 7 Lieder / für eine Sing Stimme / von / Fritz Delius / 1890'. Below, in the hand of Jelka Delius (pencil), three song titles: 'Chanson de Fortunio / Skogen gir susende / Mit deinen blauen Augen'. For the second of these songs, see f. 18 below; for 'Chanson de Fortunio', see f. 37v; for 'Mit deinen blauen Augen', see f. 28. • f. 15v is blank. • ff. 16-16v. The last page of 'Lyse Naetter' with Danish words (the last bar of which is on f. 16v). For 'Lyse Naetter', see also ff. 42-60 below. • ff. 16v-17v. 'Jeg havde en nyskaaren Seljefløjte' [I had a newly-cut willow pipe], words by Vilhelm Krag. (Threlfall, V/14.) • f. 18-18v. A song in Norwegian, beginning: 'Skogen gir susende'. On f. 18v, there is a related 18-bar pencil sketch. (Threlfall, V/10.) • f. 19. An early sketch for the last page of 'Irmelin Rose' (one of the Jacobsen songs), with the title subsequently added in pencil by Jelka Delius: 'Pagen'. • f. 19v. A 17-bar sketch (ink) for an unidentified piece for violin and pianoforte.

3. Two early German songs (ff. 20-27):

• ff. 20-23r. 'O schneller mein Ross' [Quicker, my horse], words by Emanuel Geibel. In a copyist's hand (with the composer's name on f. 20 in his autograph). Published in 5 Chansons, Musique de Fritz Delius (Paris, 1896). Threlfall, V/7. • f. 23v is blank. • ff. 24-25r. 'Traum Rosen' [Dream Roses]. Threlfall, V/18. • f. 25v is blank. • ff. 26-27r. 'Traum Rosen' in a copyist's hand, with the author's name (Marie Heinitz) and the composer's name (anglicized) in his autograph. • f. 27v is blank.

4. Settings of Heinrich Heine (ff. 28-37v). Threlfall, V/11.

• f. 28r-v. 'Der Fichtenbaum'. Dated 1886, signed 'Fritz Delius'. With three corrections in blue pencil, perhaps by another hand. (Threlfall, V/4.) • f. 29r. 'Mit deinen blauen Augen'. The manuscript has several alterations in ink.

Page 41 2021-07-17 • f. 29v is blank. • ff. 30-31r. 'Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht'. Signed 'Fritz Delius'. A fair copy by Delius (for draft, see f. 32 below). • f. 31v. A pencil sketch of 6 bars for voice and piano, with only a single word ('Weh') in the voice part. The sketch may relate to the opera Irmelin. • f. 31r-v. 'Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht'. A draft manuscript. • ff. 33-34. 'Hör ich das Liedchen Klingen'. Dated 1890, signed 'Fritz Delius'. Appears to be a fair copy (despite a single bar deletion). • f. 34v is blank. • f. 35r-v. 'Hör ich das Liedchen Klingen'. Dated 1891, signed 'Fritz Delius'. Appears to be the first draft of a second version. • ff. 36-37v. 'Aus deinen Augen fliessen meine Lieder....' At the head of f. 36, in Eric Fenby's hand (green ink): 'Copyist's hand'.

5. French songs (ff. 38-42):

• f.38r. A title-page with the title erased, except for 'Chanson'. Underneath Delius has written: 'Croissy le 12 Novembre 1889'. • ff. 38v-39v. 'Chanson Fortunio / de Musset'. Signed 'Fritz Delius'. Threlfall, V/8. • ff. 40-41. 'Nuages / (Richepin)'. Dated 1893, signed 'Fritz Delius'. Threlfall, V/15. • f. 41v is blank. • f. 42r-v. In a copyist's hand, an untitled song, beginning: 'La plage est silencieuse et déserte....' With some amendments made by Delius in pencil. The words are a French translation of 'Lyse Naetter' by Holger Drachmann.

6. Various copies of 'Lyse Naetter' (ff. 43-78v). Threlfall, V/13.

• ff. 43-44r. 'Lyse Naetter'. Dated 1891, signed 'Fritz Delius'. Marked 'Sehr ruhig & stimmungs voll'. In 6/8, key of E flat. With alterations in pencil and in ink. • f. 44v contains an incomplete pencil sketch of the previous page. • ff. 45-46r. 'Dreamy nights / Lyse Naetter'. Signed 'Fritz Delius'. Words in English and Danish. A fair copy of ff. 43-44r. • f. 46v is blank. • f. 46r-v. 'Summer Nights' (title added in pencil by Jelka Delius). An entirely different version. Originally with the words in Danish only, but a French translation (roughly in pencil) has been added either by the composer or by Jelka Delius. Cf. f. 42 above. • f. 48r. The page comprises two fragments: 3 final bars (ink) from a song ending 'De ta jeunesse' (from Paul Verlaine, 'Le ciel est par-dessus le toit'); and unidentified song sketch material in pencil. • f. 48v-50r. Under the heading 'Melodies sur des vers de Holger Drachmann / (Traduit du Danois) / Fritz Delius', a complete fair copy of the French version of 'Lyse Naetter', beginning: 'La plage est silencieuse....' Cf. ff. 42 and 47. • ff. 50v-51v are blank. • ff. 52-53r. 'Summer Nights'. Copyist's manuscript (27 bars). Cf. f. 42 above (20 bars). With German translation of the English words written above (in pencil, by Jelka Delius) and also at the end (f. 53) where the words are then crossed out. For the final version in German, see ff. 56-57 below. • ff. 53v-54v. 'Wine Roses' (Jacobsen), set in English. Copyist's manuscript, with German translation added in pencil by Jelka Delius. Pencil annotation by Delius at bar 8 (f. 54r): 'don't drag'. • f. 55r-v. A pencil note in the hand of Eric Fenby at the head of f. 55r states that the first 7 bars are 'merely a duplicate ending of "Summer Nights"'. Following this, Fenby adds a title to the setting below: 'Through the long years' (i.e. 'Red Roses'). Setting in English, copyist's hand, with Jelka Delius's addition of German words in pencil. • ff. 56-57. 'Helle Nachte'. The final version of 'Summer Nights' in German translation. Score and words in the hand of Jelka Delius, who has commented (pencil) at the head of f. 56r: 'Good German transl.' The German words are written out again on f. 57r. • ff. 57v is blank. • ff. 58-78v. 'Jeg hører i Natten' (Holger Drachmann), dated 1901. In 12/8, key of D flat major. The principal words are in German on a series of pasted-down strips (ff. 59-67; 69-77; 79-82), above which Jelka Delius has written an English translation in pencil. It seems likely that the strips cover the original Danish words in Delius's hand.

7. Four copies of Delius's setting of 'Sommer i Gurre' by Holger Drachmann (ff. 83-95v). Threlfall, V/24.

• Published posthumously as Summer Landscape (Oxford University Press, 1952). • ff. 83-84v. Score for voice and piano, signed 'Frederick Delius' and dated April 1902. Words in Danish, with German translation beneath or above (pencil) in the hand of Jelka Delius. The coda for piano is two bars less than the final version. At the end of the score (f. 84v),

Page 42 2021-07-17 Delius has written the Danish words again. • f. 85r. Title-page, signed 'Frederick Delius', and dated 1902. • f. 85v. Delius has written: 'Evening Landscape'. • ff. 86-91r. Full score setting for voice and orchestra: 2, 2, CA, 2, 2; Horns in F; Kettledrums; Harp; Strings. The score includes a number of pencil revisions. Delius has pencilled an English translation beneath the Danish words; a German translation (red ink, another hand) is written above. • f. 91v is blank. • f. 92 is the 'back cover' of a double sheet (with f. 85). On f. 92 there are 11 bars in draft of the song 'Avant que tu ne t'en ailles' (Verlaine). • f. 92v is blank. • ff. 93-95v. Ink copy by Jelka Delius of the same work arranged for voice and piano, words in Danish and German. English words added in pencil. • f. 93r is a title-page, with German words in pencil. • f. 93v comprises 6 bars in Delius's hand - his amendment to the closing bars on f. 95v which are struck-through. Jelka Delius's copy is based on the pianoforte version (ff. 83-84v above); Delius's amendment revises her copy score to agree with his the full score version. • ff. 96-97v. 'Summer Landscape / Sommer Landschaft', words in English and German, 'composed in 1902'. A final fair copy by Jelka Delius, incorporating Delius's amendments in ff. 93-95. • Cf. the draft full score setting in the Beecham Accession, MS Mus. 1745/2/6.

8. Originals and copies of settings of three poems by J. P. Jacobsen (ff. 96r-109v):

• ff. 96r-99r. 'Pagen højt paa Taarnet sad' (beginning: 'The page sat in the lofty tower'). Signed 'Fritz Delius'. Threlfall, V/17. • f. 99v is blank. • ff. 100-101r. 'Pagen højt paa Taarnet sad'. Signed 'Fritz Delius'. • f. 101v. Sketch (ink and pencil) for 'Lyse Naetter' (cf. f. 16 above). • ff. 102r-103r. A fair copy by Jelka Delius of 'Pagen højt paa Taarnet sad', in Danish, German and English. • f. 103v is blank. • ff. 104-105v. 'Løft de Klingre Glaspokaler'. (Threfall, III/4.) Above the title, in Eric Fenby's hand (marking pencil): 'First version'. Also above the title, in Jelka Delius's hand (pencil): 'Unpublished songs including / Chanson de Fortunio / Negro melodies'. She has also written, beneath the title, 'Sketch'. The manuscript is signed 'Fritz Delius'. • f. 106r-v. 'That for which we longed / Det bødes derfor'. (Threlfall, III/4.) Words in Danish and English, with revised English words above in pencil. • f. 107r-v. 'Det bødes der for'. Score identical to ff. 106r-v. Words in Danish, using the revised English text, and with German words added by Jelka Delius, who has also written 'Sketch' under the title. • f.108. An 8-bar pencil sketch (perhaps the material to which JD was referring when adding 'Sketch' on f. 107). Cf. the sketch setting of 'Alle de voksende Skygger' in a small notebook (MS Mus. 1745/2/11/2, f. 42), and also the draft setting of the same words in MS Mus. 1745/2/6. • f. 108v is blank. • f. 109r-v. 'Det bødes der for'. A fair copy by Jelka Delius in Danish and German, recording that the German translator is Robert F. Arnold.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

Page 43 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/37 Frederick Delius: Five Songs from the Norwegian (1888)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/37

Creation Date 1888

Extent and Format 1 volume (6 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius: Five Songs from the Norwegian (1888)

Physical Characteristics 12-stave music paper (13¾ x 10½ inches).

Scope and Content Composer's autograph score (ink) for voice and pianoforte, dated 1888. For all songs, the original text is in German, with an English translation added (in red ink) by another hand. 'English words by W. Grist'.

Threlfall, V/5. Publication: 1890, Augener Ltd., London.

• f. 1. Title-page: 'Frau Nina Grieg gewidmet / 5 Lieder, (Aus dem Norwegischen) / Fritz Delius 1888'. Below the title, publisher's stamp (Augener & Co.) and various publisher's remarks in mauve marking pencil. • f. 1v. 'Der Schlaf / (Bj. Bjornsen) / (Slumber Song)'. G major. • f. 2-2v. 'Sing, Sing! / (Welhaven) / The Nightingale'. E flat major. • f. 3-3v. 'Am schönsten Sommer abend war's / (J. Paulsen) / Summer Eve'. F sharp major. • ff. 4-5. 'Sehnsucht / (Th[eodor] Kjerulf) / Longing (or "Yearning")'. D major. • ff. 5v-6. 'Beim Sonnenuntergang / A. Munch / Sunset'. G flat major. • ff. 6v is blank.

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 14.

Page 44 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/38 Frederick Delius: Notebook (1887-[c 1900])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/38

Creation Date 1887-[c 1900]

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 1-42)

Title Frederick Delius: Notebook (1887-[c 1900])

Physical Characteristics Notebook of 41 leaves (12-stave music paper, approx. 9¾ x 6¾ inches), and an additional 2-stave strip bound at the back (f. 42). With original grey soft covers.

Scope and Content Autograph sketches in ink and pencil, the notebook having been used from both ends. Some material is dated but much material is not.

• ff. 1-25 to be read front to back. • ff. 26v-41v to be read back to front. • ff. 25v-26r are blank (and so are ff. 22v-23r and f. 8r). • f. 42 is a two-stave strip containing an unidentified short score working (in pencil) that was originally found folded into the notebook at f. 29.

Throughout his holiday of 1887, Delius noted down musical ideas recording the day and place the entry was made. However, this dating practice was not continued in the notebook, which spans several years. Thus, most dated material is from 1887 (ff. 1, 1v, 2v, 3v). As an exception, an incomplete orchestral piece (beginning f. 8v) is dated 1889. From the variation in Delius's hand and from the material itself, Rachel Lowe has concluded (Catalogue, p. 133) that 'this note-book accompanied [Delius] on holidays at least until the turn of the century, if not later.'

Amongst the material can be noted:

• f. 1. 'Norske Wiser'. A short score sketch (ink) of 16 bars, followed by brief workings in pencil, dated 18 July 1887. • ff.1v-2. Five folk tunes, treble voice only. • f. 5v. A draft of the horn tune (struck-through with pencil) from the last movement of Florida Suite. • ff. 8v-14 (with pencil workings following) is an incomplete orchestral work headed 'Leirungs Hytte, Jotunheim, Norge, August 1889'. • f. 20 is headed 'Hiawatha'. (For further sketch material for Hiawatha, see MS Mus. 1745/2/10, ff. 35-37.) • f. 24. Germ material for The Song of the High Hills. • f. 31. Under the heading 'Vorspiel', a sketch for part of the prelude to Act III of Irmelin.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archive Accession No. 1.

The notebook is discussed in Robert Threlfall, Delius's Musical Apprenticeship: Incorporating a Survey of the Leipzig Notebooks (London: Delius Trust, 1994), pp. 118-52.

Page 45 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/39 Frederick Delius: A Volume of Sketches (1888-[1911])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/39

Creation Date 1888-[1911]

Extent and Format 1 volume (122 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: A Volume of Sketches (1888-[1911])

Physical Characteristics The sketches are written on a wide variety of music paper, including some small manuscript strips.

Scope and Content • f. 1-1v. Headed in the hand of Eric Fenby (green ink): 'Early attempt at piano piece'. 71 bars in 3/4 time, in G minor/B major in a mazurka style, scored in ink. • f. 1v. (Upside-down), a 21-bar pencil sketch for voice and pianoforte. • f. 2-2v. Headed (in pencil): 'Rhapsody good'. Harmonic plan on two staves for a short work, instrumentation not indicated. Scored in ink and pencil. 36 bars to 'End A', followed by 2 further bars and the remark 'etc'. • ff. 4-14r. Preceded by an (f. 3) interleaved white sheet headed: 'Zanoni - 1888'. Short-score sketch (ink, with pencil additions) for the musical and dramatic treatment of the novel Zanoni by Bulwer Lytton. The score, which spans Acts 1-IV, includes dialogue (in English) and detailed stage directions. Folios 13v and 14v are blank. • ff. 15-18r. Headed by Delius '(Marche des Marionettes)', with an annotation in the hand of Eric Fenby beside the title: '- rejected unfinished work'. First draft full score (pencil) of 42 bars. Followed by 4 blank folios (unfoliated) • f. 19r-v. Passages in short score (ink) from Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. • ff. 21-25v. Preceded by an (f. 20) interleaved white sheet with the heading (in Fenby's hand, green ink): 'incomplete orchestral sketch (A L'Amore) / pencil'. The score begins with the last four bars of a movement, followed by a 3-bar link to the extant score (beginning f. 21v) which is in B major and common time. Related to draft material in the Beecham Accession, MS Mus. 1745/2/10, ff. 57-64. (Threlfall, VI/8) • ff. 27-52v. Preceded by an (f. 26) interleaved white sheet with a heading that repeats Delius's heading on f. 24: '"Legendes" pour piano & orchestra (Sagan) / Fritz Delius / 1890'. Scored in pencil, with ff. 46v and 47r blank. • f. 54r-v. Carbon copy (8½ x 5¼ inches) of pencil notes for the last part of the libretto of The Magic Fountain, differing from the final version. • f. 56r. A small manuscript leaf torn from a pocket-book (6¼ x 4 inches) containing a 4-bar sketch (ink) on two staves. • f. 56v. (Upside-down), a 10-bar pencil sketch on two staves, in B flat. Beneath, Delius has written: 'Zadkeil Grammaire'. • f. 55r. Notes (in the hand of C. F. Keary, in ink) for the libretto of Koanga, Act II, 'Chorus of Negroes'. (The remainder of Keary's draft libretto, pp. 2-9, is in the Beecham Accession, MS Mus. 1745/2/7.) • f. 55v is blank. • f. 57r-v. Headed (in Fenby's hand, green ink): 'Sketch for Koanga'. An ink short-score sketch, headed by Delius 'Palmyra's dance' followed by 'good' (in large hand, pencil). On f. 57v there is a sketch for 'He will meet her when the sun goes down'. • ff. 58-59r. 'Rhapsody'. A sketch (ink) in 3/4, on 20-stave music paper. • f. 59v. Written the opposite way up, a 42-bar sketch, 3-stave score (paginated as p. 13 by Delius). Material for Over the Hills and Far Away (cf. bar 248, recapitulation). The score is struck-through with a single pencil stroke. • ff. 60-61r. The title 'Dance' (in ink) is preceded by (in pencil) either the personal pronoun 'I' or perhaps by the Roman numeral 'I'. After this, Delius has written: 'good'. The ink score concludes on f. 61r, where Delius has written in pencil 'the end of dance'. Staves 9 and 10 of this score are also the opening four bars of In a Summer Garden. At the bottom of f. 61r, there is a 16-bar pencil sketch in 3/4. • f. 61v. 'Rhapsody'. A 31-bar pencil sketch. • f. 62r-v. Headed 'Rondel' (in pencil), an ink short-score sketch, with two bars added in pencil on f. 62r. • f. 63r-v. 'Mountain Poem (Rhapsody)', struck-through on f. 63r but not on f. 63v. At the foot of f. 63r, in Fenby's hand (pencil): 'rejected material - Over the Hills & Far Away'. For f. 63v, cf. the middle section of Winter Night (Sleigh Ride), in MS Mus. 1745/1/49. • f. 64r-v. Short-score pencil sketches for an untitled dance-like piece. Folio 64v is paginated

Page 46 2021-07-17 '2'; cf. f. 90r-v below which are paginated '3' and '4' and scored on the same oblong format paper (10½ x 13¾ inches). • ff. 65r-66vv. Short-score sketch (ink and pencil). Incidental music for Gunnar Heiberg's play Folkeraadet. On f. 66v, Delius refers to the '5th Act' and includes some dialogue. For Folkeraadet, see MS Mus. 1745/1/13. • f. 67r-v. Sketch in ink and pencil for the piano piece Badinage; cf. the copyist's score in MS Mus. 1745/1/35 (ff. 15-16v). For the autograph draft score, see MS Mus. 1745/2/5 (ff. 5-7). • f. 68r-v. 'Chimères & Realities'. An unfinished short-score sketch in common time. (The same title also appears in the notebook MS Mus. 1745/2/11/4, at the foot of f. 3.) • f. 69r. A short piece of vocal score (pencil) beginning 'Vagabonds are we ...'. An early sketch for the Paradise Garden scene in A Village Romeo and Juliet. • f. 69v is a continuation of 'Chimères & Realities' begun on f. 68. • f. 70r. Vocal score pencil sketch (beginning 'Où est Margot la Rouge') for the last nine bars of Margot la Rouge. Paginated '73' by Delius. (For the draft short score to which this folio belongs, see MS Mus. 1745/2/13/3.) • f. 70v is blank. • f. 71r. Pencil sketch fragment, for voice and pianoforte. The words end with the line: 'I shall have had my day' (Tennyson, Maud,Part 1, Section XI). At the foot of the page (and upside-down), a heading in pencil: 'Variations'. • f. 71v is blank. • f. 72r-v. With an annotation in the hand of Eric Fenby at the head of the page: 'Cello Sonata - rejected'. 26 bars for cello and piano; f. 72v has been deleted with a single (and faint) pencil stroke. Bars 35-52 of the published score correspond (with some differences) to f. 72r. For a 6-bar continuation of the Cello Sonata draft, see MS Mus. 1745/2/5 (f. 14 recto, numbered p. 5). • f. 73 is a 5-stave strip from a large sheet of full score paper. The recto is headed 'Dance' and contains a pencil short-score sketch of 9 bars in 4/4 time. Three more bars in the same vein are on f. 79v, which also includes another 5 bars, scored more neatly and in ink. • ff. 74-80r comprise pencil sketches for The Song of the High Hills, scored on music paper of different types and sizes, including some manuscript strips. • f. 74r. Headed, in Fenby's hand: 'Song of the High Hills - rejected'. A full-score sketch; cf. p. 23 of the published score. • f. 74v contains only a 3-bar chord in the strings. • There follows a blank folio that has not been foliated. • ff. 75-76 is a double sheet, again headed by Fenby (f. 75r) as rejected material. • f. 75r is a short score sketch of the opening bars. • ff. 75v-76v have been used upside-down. • f. 77r contains a full score sketch headed 'Variation O', beside which Fenby has added: 'rejected sketch / High Hills'. • f. 77v is a deleted short-score sketch for the entry of Gerda's sisters in Fennimore and Gerda (cf. ff. 101-116 below). • f. 79 is a five-stave manuscript strip. On the recto, headed 'Symphonie / AAA', a short score (pencil) of 26 bars annotated 'mountain song'; on f. 79v, a short score (pencil and ink) of 17 bars also annotated 'mountain song'. • ff. 78-80r are both five-stave manuscript strips. In the left margin of f. 78r, Delius has written 'Var 9' and scored for strings and woodwind; Fenby has annotated 'High Hills - rejected'. 'Var 9' also appears in the left margin of f. 80r, which contains only a single bar of short score. • f. 78v has been used both ways up, and includes material in 12/8 which has been struck-through. • f. 80v is blank. • ff. 82-87v is a folding of three double sheets of 16-stave music paper which includes both short score sketches referring to the Requiem and sketches for songs in English. Among the sketches are 'Two Songs for Children', published by Oxford University Press (1924) - the Stichvorlagen for these two songs (in Jelka Delius's hand) are in MS Mus. 1745/4/3. • ff. 88-94 is a mixed group of sketches, including (f. 89r) 15 bars on four staves headed in Fenby's hand 'Quartet sketch', and (ff. 90-91r) material headed by Fenby as 'rejected sketches String Quartet'. (For related sketch material for the Quartet, see the Beecham Accession, MS Mus. 1745/2/5.) Other material in this group includes: 'Dance Rhapsody' (Delius's annotation at the bottom of f. 89v); 'Slow movement - symphonie' (Delius's heading on f. 92r, before which Fenby has added 'Poem of Life & Love - sketch rejected'); and 'Dance for harpsichord - rejected sketch' (Fenby's heading, f. 94r). The sketch on f. 94v includes the melody in the Prelude to Act V, Hassan. • There is a blank folio (unfoliated) between ff. 94 and 95. • ff. 95v-97v are full score sketches paginated by Delius as pp. 1-5, f. 95r being an unpaginated draft title-page: 'Impressions / Summer morning on the moors [both in very faint erased pencil, followed by in ink:] / Summer evenings / on the river / Summer morning on the moors / in the ball room'.

Page 47 2021-07-17 • ff. 98-99v are a revision of ff. 95v-97v and have been paginated by Delius as pp. 1-4. (For related material, paginated pp. 5-8, see ff. 108-109 below. Further related material paginated pp. 9-12 is in the Beecham Accession, MS Mus. 1745/2/9 - sketches and drafts for 'Impressions of Nature') • ff. 101-116 is a group of sketches referring mainly to Fennimore and Gerda. • f. 116v is blank. • ff. 118-121v are sketches for Hassan. • f. 122r is a memorandum in German (ink, unknown hand) listing errata in an unspecified full score (identified by Rachel Lowe as Songs of Sunset, and presumed to be 1911). • f. 122v is blank.

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Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession Nos. 1 and 13.

MS Mus. 1745/1/40 Frederick Delius: Sketches for Paris ([1898]-1935)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/40

Creation Date [1898]-1935

Extent and Format 1 volume (32 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Sketches for Paris ([1898]-1935)

Physical Characteristics Scored on music paper of two sizes: 36-stave, 17¾ x 12¾ inches (ff. 1-25); and 28-stave, 17½ x 12½ inches (ff. 26-32).

Scope and Content Autograph full-score sketches and short-score workings, for the most part in pencil. Preceded by an extract from a related letter (1935, photocopy) from Eric Fenby to Sir Thomas Beecham.

Threlfall, VI/14.

• ff. 1-3r. Letter extract (photocopy). Grez-sur-Loing, [19 January 1935], Eric Fenby to Sir Thomas Beecham, letter pages 2, [2v], and 3. The letter refers to his discovery of the sketches for Paris ('these were unearthed today') and includes a preliminary analysis. • ff. 1-17v. 'Scenes Parisienne'. • ff. 18-31r. 'Episodes & Aventures'. • f. 22v is blank (except for clef signs and a semibreve chord), and so are ff. 29v and 32v.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

Page 48 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/41 Frederick Delius: Piano Concerto in C minor (1914)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/41

Creation Date 1914

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 1-42)

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Piano Concerto in C minor (1914)

Physical Characteristics A photostat of 42 leaves of 22-stave music paper.

Scope and Content Photostat copy of a full score, in a copyist's hand.

Formerly belonging to Percy Grainger, with his ownership stamp (f. 1v). In addition, Grainger has headed each page: 'DELIUS: PIANO CONCERTO, Conductor's Score'.

The copyist has dated the score on the final page: '1914, Wien'.

In addition to many conductor's marks and remarks on the score that were photographed when the photostat was made, the photostat itself also shows numerous blue pencil dynamics made by Sir Thomas Beecham, indicating that he used the photostat as his conducting copy.

The score differs in many details of orchestration from the Harmonie-Verlag score published in 1907.

N.B. This volume is currently held by the Delius Trust and is therefore not available from the British Library.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Formerly owned by Percy Grainger.

Page 49 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/42 Frederick Delius: Irmelin (vocal score, arranged by Dennis Arundell) ([1953])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/42

Creation Date [1953]

Extent and Format 1 volume (218 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Irmelin (vocal score, arranged by Dennis Arundell) ([1953])

Physical Characteristics Bound into green cloth boards, the score is interleaved with plain bank paper. Dimensions: 325 x 250 mm.

Scope and Content A photographic copy of a manuscript pianoforte reduction, presumed to be in the hand of the arranger, Dennis Arundell.

The vocal score was prepared for the Oxford production, 4 May 1953. Performed by the Oxford Operatic Society and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Thomas Beecham.

Publication: Dennis Arundell's vocal score arrangement was published by Boosey & Hawkes (B & H 17365), 1953.

The score has been paginated pp. 1-227 (omitting title-pages):

• Act I, pp. 1-65. • Act II, pp. 66-137. • Act III, pp. 138-227.

Foliation:

• The score is interleaved with sheets of plain white bank paper, many of which contain production remarks in red, blue and lead pencil.

• Front endpaper, stamped in red as 'The Property of Sir Thomas Beecham' (the same stamp also appears on the inside front and inside back covers). • f. 1r. List of characters. Ownership stamp of Sir Thomas Beecham. • ff. 1v-65v. Act I. • f. 66r. Title-page, Act II. • ff. 66v-135r. Act II. • f. 137r. Title-page, Act III. • ff. 137v-217r. Act III. • f. 218 follows f. 217 and is blank save for the ownership stamp of Sir Thomas Beecham. • A blank interleaf and a blank endpaper.

In addition to remarks made on the interleaves, annotations in red, blue and lead pencil, also appear on the score itself.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.

Page 50 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/43 Frederick Delius: Five Songs (from Gottfried Keller) by August Reuss, with an autograph dedication to Delius

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/43

Creation Date 1900

Extent and Format 1 volume (pp. 28)

Languages of Material German

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Five Songs (from Gottfried Keller) by August Reuss, with an autograph dedication to Delius (1900)

Scope and Content Tag & Nachtesänge aus Gottfried Keller's Buch der Natur. 5 Gesänge für eine mittlere Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung von August Reuss, Op. 7 (G. Kühle, Wien).

With an autograph dedication: 'Herrn Frederick Delius'.

N.B. This volume is currently with the Delius Trust and is therefore unavailable from the British Library.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Presented to the Delius Trust by Eric Fenby in 1964.

MS Mus. 1745/1/44 Frederick Delius: Family Book (Genealogical Tables) (1906-1927)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/44

Creation Date 1906-1927

Extent and Format 1 volume (with additional unbound material)

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Family Book (Genealogical Tables) (1906-1927)

Scope and Content A collection of genealogical tables, with the following title on cover and title-page: 'Stammbaum / der / Familie Delius / Westfalischen Zweiges / 1604-1906'. The frontispiece is a coloured lithoprint of the Delius coat-of-arms.

Placed inside the book:

• a complete family tree on a large folded sheet; • two copies of the Delius family newspaper, published in Bielefeld [North-Rhine, Westphalia], dated 1913 and 1927.

N.B. This volume is currently held by the Delius Trust and is therefore not available from the British Library.

Page 51 2021-07-17 Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Presented to the Delius Trust by Eric Fenby in 1964.

MS Mus. 1745/1/45 Frederick Delius: Dance Rhapsody (No. 1), arranged for piano duet by Philip Heseltine ([1921])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/45

Creation Date [1921]

Extent and Format 1 volume (ff. 1-11 + i)

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Dance Rhapsody (No. 1), arranged for piano duet by Philip Heseltine ([1921])

Physical Characteristics 6 double sheets of 12-stave music paper (12 x 9¾ inches).

Scope and Content Manuscript in the hand of Philip Heseltine.

N.B. This volume is currently held by the Delius Trust and is therefore not available from the British Library.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Bought by the Delius Trust in 1966. Originally the property of Bernard van Dieren.

Page 52 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/46 Frederick Delius: Koanga (vocal score) (Early 20th century)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/46

Creation Date Early 20th century

Extent and Format 1 volume

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Koanga (vocal score) (Early 20th century)

Physical Characteristics Scored on oblong paper (10½ x 14 inches).

Scope and Content Manuscript vocal score, in a copyist's hand with additions in the hand of the composer.

N.B. This volume is currently held by the Delius Trust and is therefore unavailable from the British Library.

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Purchased by the Delius Trust from Mrs Anthony Bernard in 1967.

MS Mus. 1745/1/47 Frederick Delius: Appalachia (edited by E. J. Dent) ([1942])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/47

Creation Date [1942]

Extent and Format 1 volume (pp. 1-130 + 1 folio without number)

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Appalachia (edited by E. J. Dent) ([1942])

Physical Characteristics Dimensions: 14 x 10¼ inches: pp 1-122 are 22-stave paper; pp. 113-130 are 24-stave paper.

Scope and Content Manuscript full score in the hand of E. J. Dent, being a reduced version of the orchestral score prepared for a performance in the Guildhall, Cambridge, March 1942, conducted by Dr. P. A. S. Hadley. With Hadley's blue pencil and other marks in Hadley's hand.

Threlfall, II/2.

The endpaper bears the stamp of Boosey & Hawkes Hire Library (H.1894). Pasted onto the endpaper is a typewritten explanatory note identifying the hand of E. J. Dent and citing the Cambridge performance. Also, attached, the concluding page of a letter from Balfour Gardiner (addressee not indicated) recommending that, if the score is to be used for performance, 'the original string-parts should be used in preference to those edited by Dent'.

N.B. This volume is currently held by the Delius Trust and is therefore unavailable from the British Library.

Page 53 2021-07-17

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Custodial History Given to the Delius Trust by Boosey & Hawkes Ltd. in April 1968.

MS Mus. 1745/1/48A Frederick Delius: Suite for Orchestra (1890)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/48A

Creation Date 1890

Extent and Format 1 folder (13 folios)

Title Frederick Delius: Suite for Orchestra (1890)

Physical Characteristics Unbound: 6 double sheets of 24-stave music paper (14 x 10¾ inches), with a double sheet wrapper (of later date) of slightly larger size.

Scope and Content Autograph full score, in ink and ink over pencil, in three movements.

Threlfall, VI/9.

• f. 1 is a double sheet of 16-stave music paper subsequently used as a wrapper for the original score, with the title and date (1890) written in an unknown hand, stamped Delius Trust Archives (Accession No. 34). • f. 2r. Title-page, in Delius's hand, dated 1890. The title, in black ink ('Suite for Orchester strings, W wind and horns'), has been written over an earlier title (pencil) in French: 'Petite suite d'orchestre'. • ff. 2v-13r. Autograph full score, with several pencilled additions, alterations and overworkings by Delius. • ff. 2v-5v. First movement. 'Allegro, ma non tropo' (in pencil), G minor, C. • ff. 6-9v. Second movement. 'Con moto', G minor, C. • ff. 10-13r. Third movement. 'Allegretto', E major, 6/8. • f. 13v is blank.

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Custodial History Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 34 (acquired January 1969).

Page 54 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/1/48B Frederick Delius: Suite for Orchestra (copyist's full score) (Early 20th century)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/48B

Creation Date Early 20th century

Extent and Format Unbound (ff. 13-24)

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Suite for Orchestra (copyist's full score) (Early 20th century)

Physical Characteristics 6 double sheets of 24-stave music paper (14½ x 10¾ inches), gathered and sewn into one section.

Scope and Content A faithful copy, in the hand of William Borner, of the autograph manuscript (MS Mus. 1745/1/48A), with which it is continuously foliated. The composer's pencilled alterations to the original score have also been copied.

Performance: 'Petite Suite d'orchestre' was performed on 13 May 1978, at Stratford-upon-Avon College of Further Education, by the Beauchamp Sinfonietta, cond. David O. Tall.

N.B. Currently held by the Delius Trust and therefore unavailable from the British Library.

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Custodial History Acquired by the Delius Trust in January 1969.

MS Mus. 1745/1/49 Frederick Delius: Winter Night (Sleigh Ride) No. 2 from Three Small Tone Poems (Early 20th century)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/1/49

Creation Date Early 20th century

Extent and Format 39 numbered pages + 1 blank page, enclosed in a double sheet wrapper

Access Conditions Unavailable as awaiting cataloguing Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Winter Night (Sleigh Ride) No. 2 from Three Small Tone Poems (Early 20th century)

Physical Characteristics Two gatherings of 6 and 4 double sheets of 26-stave music paper (16⅝ x 11 inches).

Scope and Content Manuscript copy (pencil) of the full score, in the hand of George Brownfoot. The titles of the instruments and clefs are printed on each page.

Threlfall, VI/7. Publication: Winter Night. 1976, Boosey & Hawkes (full score 20346). Performance: Three Small Tone Poems, 18 November 1946, Central Hall, Westminster, London, RPO, Richard Austin.

N.B. Currently held by the Delius Trust and therefore unavailable from the British Library.

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MS Mus. 1745/2 Frederick Delius: Sir Thomas Beecham Accession to the Delius Trust (1885-[1931])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2

Creation Date 1885-[1931]

Extent and Format 29 files

Languages of Material English; French; German; Danish; Swedish

Access Conditions Unrestricted Not known

Title Frederick Delius: Sir Thomas Beecham Accession to the Delius Trust (1885-[1931])

Scope and Content Under the terms of an agreement (1982) between the Delius Trust and the Sir Thomas Beecham Trust, all the Delius material in the Beecham Library was passed to the Delius Trust as a single accession (Accession 218). The material transferred was subsequently sorted and arranged by Robert Threlfall, and described in Threlfall, Frederick Delius: A Supplementary Catalogue (Delius Trust: London, 1986). Threlfall's arrangement has been retained by the British Library.

• 1745/2/1: Early Works for Orchestra, 1889-90. • 1745/2/2: Piano Concerto in C minor (Parts). • 1745/2/3: Three Concertos for string instruments. • 1745/2/4: Hassan. • 1745/2/5: Instrumental music. • 1745/2/6: Vocal music. • 1745/2/7: Sketches and drafts for the early operas. • 1745/2/8: Draft scores for orchestral works. • 1745/2/9: Sketches and drafts for various works • 1745/2/10: Sketches and drafts for early works (unpublished), and miscellaneous manuscripts. • 1745/2/11: Notebooks. • 1745/2/12: Irmelin (3 bound volumes) • 1745/2/13: Scores on outsize paper (Paris, Piano Concerto, A Village Romeo and Juliet, Margot la Rouge, A Mass of Life, Songs of Sunset, Cynara, Fennimore and Gerda, and miscellaneous sketches and drafts).

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Custodial History Delius Trust Accession No. 218.

Robert Threlfall, Frederick Delius: A Supplementary Catalogue (London: Delius Trust, 1986).

Page 56 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/2/1 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Early Works for Orchestra (1889-1890)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/1

Creation Date 1889-1890

Extent and Format 1 box (5 items, 134 folios)

Languages of Material German; French

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Early Works for Orchestra (1889-1890)

Physical Characteristics • 1. Eight bifolia: 7 gathered , with 1 bifolia (pp. 24-27) inserted before the last leaf. 20-stave paper (350 x 268 mm). • 2. Three gatherings of 4, 5, and 5 bifolia, 20-stave paper (357 x 270 mm). With a separate bifolium of 22-stave paper (also 357 x 270 mm). • 3. An outer bifolium (24-stave, 350 x 270 mm) enclosing gatherings and single leaves of 20-stave bifolia and a 26-stave bifolium (all approx. 350 x 270 mm). • 4. Five bifolia gathered (24-stave, 352 x 270 mm). • 5. Single leaf title-page (20-stave, 350 x 270 mm), with: (I) 5 bifolia gathered (24-stave, 356 x 272 mm), (II) 6 bifolia gathered (20-stave, 350 x 270 mm), and (III) 5 bifolia gathered (24-stave, 356 x 272 mm).

Scope and Content (1). ff. 1-16. Idylle de Printemps

• Threlfall, VI/5. • Autograph fair copy, ink and ink over pencil. Score pp. [1]-29. • Outer title: '"Idylle de Printemps" / morceau symphonique / pour Orchestre / Fritz Delius / 1889'. Above the title (top left), there is a two-bar sketch (ink) that has been struck-through. • Inner title: 'Idylle de Printemps / Fritz Delius / 1889'. The page includes the traces of an epigraph in French that has been erased. • The score begins on the verso of the inner title, as [p. 1]. Instruments: 1e, 2e, 3e Flute; 2 Hautbois; 2 Clarinettes en La; 2 Bassons; 4 Cors en Fa; Harpe; Timbales; Violons 1er, 2de; Altos; Celli; Contrebasses. • [p. 1]. G major, 6/8, Allegretto (4 bars); 3/4, Meno mosso (4 bars). • p. 2. Andante semplice. • p. 8. B minor, Poco piu animez. • p. 22. 6/8, Tranquillo poco piu vivo. • p. 25. 3/4, Andante semplice, quasi Allegretto. • The work ends on p. 29, in G major. • Published in Collected Edition, Vol. 21c (Rev. ed., 1992).

(2). ff. 17-46. Petite Suite d'Orchestre

• Threlfall, VI/6. • Autograph fair copy, ink over pencil. Title-page + pp. 1-58 (with blank back-cover page). • Title-page: 'Petite Suite d'Orchestre / Mai / 1889 / Fritz Delius'. The remaining space on the title-page is taken up with a pencil short score sketch in F#major (unidentified). Other pencil short score sketch material appears on pp. 8 and 12 (the material on p. 8 is headed 'over the hills and far away' although it bears no resemblance to the work of that name). • Instruments: Petite flute; [2] Flutes; 2 Hautbois; 2 Clarinettes en Si flat; 2 Bassons; 4 Cors (Mi, Sol, Ut, Fa); 2 Trompettes (Ut, Sol); Timbales; Cymbales seules; Tambour; Strings, as above. With Harp, reserved for second movement. • p. 1. 'Marche'. C major, 4/4. Tempo di Marcia. • p. 9. 'Berceuse'. G major, 4/4. Andante tranquillo. Single woodwind and horn, harp and strings without double basses. • p. 13. 'Skerzo'. G major, 3/8. Allegro Vivace. Trumpets and drums silent. • p. 24. D major, 3/4. Molto tranquillo (Andante quasi Allegretto). Woodwind only. • p. 27. Molto Vivace (Tempo I). • p. 36. Più Lento & tranquillo. • p. 37. Presto.

Page 57 2021-07-17 • p. 38. 'Duo'. B minor, 3/4. Andante. Double woodwind and strings only. • p. 45. 'Tema con Variazione'. E minor, 3/4. Allegro (poco Maestoso). Strings only. • p. 47. Moderato (tranquillo). Clarinets and brass. • p. 50. Poco più Animato. Woodwind only. • p. 53. 4/4. Animato giocoso. • p. 55. Molto allegro. • p. 57. 6/4. Maestoso (Moderato). • p. 58 fin.

(3). ff. 47-86. Suite de 3 morceaux caracteristiques pour Orchestre

• Threlfall, VI/6(a). • Autograph fair copy, ink and ink over pencil (each movement separately paginated). • Title on outer bifolium: 'Suite de 3 morceaux caracteristiques / pour Orchestre / Fritz Delius // La Quadroone. Rhapsodie Floridienne / Skerzo / Marche Caprice'. Dated 1899 (in pencil). • First movement title (unnumbered leaf): 'La Quadroone (une Rhapsodie Floridienne) / Fritz Delius / 1889' (date in pencil). On the verso and continuing onto p. 1, a 15-bar deleted opening (F# minor, 4/4, Con moto). • pp. 1-18. First movement, Allegro gracioso. • Second movement title (unnumbered leaf): 'Skerzo / für Orchester / Fritz Delius / 1890'. Verso blank. • pp. 1-36. Second movement, beginning E major, 6/8 Presto. • Third movement title (unnumbered page): 'Une Marche Caprice / Fritz Delius / 1890'. Verso numbered p. 1. • pp. 1-16. Third movement. C major, 4/4 Allegro con Moto (tempo di Marcia). With hairpins and other performance markings in blue pencil by Beecham (first performed by Beecham at the Delius Festival, London, 21 November 1946). The score is a revised and extended version of the 'Marche' which forms the first movement of Petite Suite d'Orchestre (see above). • Publication: Collected Edition Vol 21c (1st and 2nd movements).

(4). ff. 87-96. Marches Française

• Threlfall, VI/6(b). • Autograph, ink and ink over pencil (pp. 1-11) and pencil (pp. 12-17). • Title (in pencil) on outer bifolium: 'Marches Française 1890 / Fritz Delius' (verso blank).

• pp. 1-17. G major, 6/8. Tempo not indicated. Score unfinished.

(5). ff. 97-134. 3 Symphonische Dichtungen für Orchester

• Threlfall, VI/7. • 'I / Symphonische Dichtung / für Orchester / Fritz Delius / 1890 / "Sommer Abend"'. Score begins on the verso, [p. 1]. • pp. [1]-17. Autograph fair copy, ink over pencil. D major, 6/4 Adagio quasi Andante. With Beecham's conductor's markings in blue pencil. • Publication: 1951, Joseph Williams, full score 5813, ed. Beecham. • 'II / Winter Nacht / Fritz Delius / 1889' followed by an epigraph in German (for English translation, see Threlfall 1977, p. 129). Score begins on the verso, [p. 1]. • pp. [1]-22. Autograph fair copy, ink over pencil, with Beecham's markings in pencil and blue pencil. • [p. 1]. A major, 2/4 Allegretto con moto. • p. 7. 3/4 Andante Molto tranquillo. • p. 13. Tempo I. • p. 21. Lento molto tranquillo. • p. 22 verso (back cover), 5-bar pencil sketch on ten staves. • Publication: 1976, Boosey & Hawkes, full score 20346. • 'III / Frühlings Morgen / Symphonische Dichtung / für Orchester / Fritz Delius / 1890 / Frühlingsmorgen'. Score begins on the verso (p. 1). • pp. 1-19. Autograph fair copy, ink over pencil. A major, 4/4 Andante molto tranquillo. With Beecham's markings in pencil and blue pencil. • Publication: Collected Edition Vol. 21b (Rev. ed., 1989).

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MS Mus. 1745/2/2 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Piano Concerto in C minor (solo piano part) ([c 1900])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/2

Creation Date [c 1900]

Extent and Format 1 file (21 folios)

Access Conditions Unrestricted Not known

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Piano Concerto in C minor (solo piano part) ([c 1900])

Scope and Content (1). ff. 1-19. Solo piano part, in the hand of the 'Paris Copyist':

• 2 gatherings, each of 5 bifolia (12-stave oblong, 272 x 350 mm.) • Title-page, pp. [1]-35, with 2 pages blank (and 2 removed). • Title page: in black ink, 'Concerto / for Pianoforte & Orchestre / Frederick [altered over erasure] Delius'. Beneath (pencil): 'Grez sur Loing / Seine & Marne'. • [p. 1]. C minor, C Allegro ma non troppo. • p. 14. D flat major, C Largo. • p. 19. C minor, 5/4 Maestoso - con moto. • With blue pencil rehearsal letters and many performer's markings.

(2). ff. 20-21. In the composer's autograph, a early(?) draft of the final cadenza:

• 1 bifolium (16 stave, 350 x 270 mm.). • In black ink, with much pencilled over-writing.

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Page 59 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/2/3 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Three Concertos for String Instruments. (1915-1921)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/3

Creation Date 1915-1921

Extent and Format 1 file (103 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Three Concertos for String Instruments. (1915-1921)

Scope and Content (1). ff.1-30. 'Concerto for Violin and Cello'

• Threlfall, VII/5. • An incomplete draft manuscript, signed and dated '[S]pr[ing] 191[5]' at the head of the first page, and dedicated to 'May and Beatrice Harrison'. Ink, with many pencil alterations and over-writing. • 15 bifolia (24-stave, 358 x 270 mm), pp. [1]-4, 17-64, and 69-74. Thus, pp. 5-16 and 65-68 are lacking. • Pencil sketch material follows p. 74. • Together with the manuscript, there is a portion of the red paper packet in which the manuscript was originally kept, bearing the title in pencil ('Incomplete Double Concerto M.S.') in Jelka Delius's hand. It also bears the date '1911' (although the final digit has been struck-through). • For the final score, see MS Mus. 1745/1/26.

(2). ff. 31-50. [Violin Concerto]

• Threlfall, VII/6. • A preliminary draft score, together with short score pencil sketches, as follows: • ff. 31-36. 3 bifolia (24-stave, 358 x 270 mm) comprising the first ten pages of a preliminary draft (pencil); • ff. 37-40. 2 bifolia (20-stave, 350 x 270 mm) comprising short score pencil sketches. • For the final score, see MS Mus. 1745/1/27.

(3). ff. 41-103. 'Cello Concerto'

• Threlfall, VII/7. • The material comprises pencil sketches, a draft score, a complete full score, and an arrangement for cello and piano in the hand of Philip Heseltine, as follows: • ff. 41-42. 1 bifolium (16-stave, 340 x 265 mm) containing 2-stave and 3-stave pencil sketches. Some material marked 'Prelude'. • ff. 43-50. 4 bifolia (20-stave, 358 x 270 mm), numbered pp. 16-31, comprising a draft score (pencil) equivalent to bars 72-154. • ff. 51-89. Autograph full score, in pencil (24-stave, 358 x 265 mm), being the composer's final score from which the Stichvorlage was copied by C. W. Orr. Arranged and numbered as follows: • pp. 1-57, with p. 52 missed in the pagination (14 bifolia); • pp. 58-59, with p. 59 struck-through (1 leaf); • pp. 59-70 (3 bifolia); • pp. 72-75, with p. 71 missed in the pagination (1 bifolium); • p. 76, on the verso of which is a struck-through p. 75 (1 leaf); • an entirely blank leaf (the recto of which is numbered p. 75); • pp. 77-78, plus two blank pages (1 bifolium). • ff. 90-103. 'Frederick Delius / Cello Concerto (1921) / Arranged for cello and piano by P.H.'

• Cello and piano score (ink), pp. 1-20, with Universal Edition stamps (Wien, 20.6.22) on the unnumbered front title-page. 12-stave, 300 x 240 mm, separate sheets (split bifolia). • Cello part (ink), pp. 1-5 (the verso of p. 5 is blank), plus an additional unnumbered blank leaf. 12-stave, 300 x 240 mm, separate sheets (split bifolia). The title appears above the score at the head of p. 1.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/4 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Hassan ([1920]- [1930])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/4

Creation Date [1920]-[1930]

Extent and Format 1 file (110 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Hassan ([1920]-[1930])

Scope and Content Incidental music for tenor and baritone soloists, chorus and orchestra, written for the poetic drama of the same name (published 1922) by James Elroy Flecker. The manuscripts comprise:

• elements of the composer's autograph score; • additional copy material in the hand of Jelka Delius; • an arrangement by Eric Fenby, and in his hand, of the 'Serenade' for cello and chamber orchestra; • a full score in Fenby's hand.

Threlfall, I/9.

(1). ff. 1-46. Material from the partly-dispersed composer's autograph full score (pencil) of Hassan.

• f. 1. 'A light appears in the next house' - two pages of music which follows and completes Act I Scene II. 1 bifolium, 20-stave 360 x 280 mm. • ff. 2-5. 'Prelude Act II', pp. 1-7 (p. 7 verso is blank). 2 bifolia, 22-stave 360 x 268 mm.

• ff. 6-13. 'Act II' (up to and including the first four 12/4 bars of the women's chorus), pp. 1-16. 4 bifolia, 26-stave 350 x 270 mm. • f. 14. Two pages numbered 17 and 18, p. 18 headed 'Scene II Act 2'. 1 leaf, 22-stave 360 x 268 mm. • ff. 15-25. Pages numbered 1-20, duplicate numbering for pp. 16 an 17 (6 bifolia, 20-stave 360 x 268 mm), with the following headings: 'Act III Prelude' (p. 1); 'Curtain. Scene I Act III' (p. 5); 'Yasmin comes up to Hassan' (p. 7); 'Scene II' (p. 8); '(Enter the Herald) Fanfare to be played before announcing each personage' (p. 18); 'Entry of the Caliph' (p. 19). Two blank pages follow p. 20. • ff. 26-45. Pages numbered [1]-40 (10 bifolia, 2 of 20-stave and 8 of 24-stave, both 360 x 268 mm, plus 1 leaf as pp. 29-30 of 20-stave 360 x 280 mm), with the following principal headings: 'Prelude to Act V' [p. 1]; 'The Song of the Muezzin (Sunset)' (p. 10); 'The Procession of protracted death' (p. 11); 'The Ghost of the artist of the Fountain rises from the Fountain itself - Prelude to Scene II Act V' (p. 21); '(Scene II) At the Gate of the Moon. Bagdad. (Blazing moonlight)' (p. 31). Following p. 40 ('End'), there are two blank pages. • f. 46. A single manuscript page, torn from a bifolium of 20-stave 355 x 270 mm music paper. Numbered faintly on the recto as p. 7 and containing the traces of two bars of music that have been erased (?Act 2 Divertissement). On the verso, six bars are sketched on the top stave. • For a guide to the dispersal of Delius's full score, see Threlfall (1986), p. 229, which describes its incorporation in the score prepared by Philip Heseltine for Universal Edition in 1923. Heseltine's score later passed to Boosey & Hawkes, and subsequently to the Delius Trust. The score is now MS Mus. 1745/3/7/1. See also, Add MS 50497 for a further fragment (Act I Scene I, the off-stage serenade for tenor and piano, preceded and followed by passages in full score - mostly in Delius's hand but partly in the hand of Jelka Delius).

(2). ff. 47-72. Copy manuscripts (by Jelka Delius) of additional material prepared for the London performances (20 September 1923, His Majesty's Theatre, produced by Basil Dean, cond. Eugène Goossens on the opening night, thereafter Percy E. Fletcher).

• 'Act II [sic] / Between Scene I and Scene II' [the Intermezzo from Act I], pp. 1-6, two blank pages following. 2 bifolia, 24-stave 368 x 272 mm. • 'added on to divertissement - Lesjaskog', pp. 1-3, one blank page following. 1 bifolium, 24-stave 368 x 272 mm.

Page 61 2021-07-17 • '25.5.23 for Act II Scene II'. A short score preliminary sketch for Ishak's song (crossed out). On the verso, three bars of unrelated material. Followed by two blank pages. 1 bifolium, 14-stave 340 x 270 mm. • 'Act II Scene II / Ishak: Why have they pinned the carpet of execution', pp. 1-4. 1 bifolium, 24-stave 368 x 272 mm. • 'Yasmin comes up to Hassan', pp. 1-6, two blank pages following. 2 bifolia, 16-stave 340 x 265 mm. • 'Act IV Music connecting Scene I with Scene II', pp. 1-5, three blank pages following. 2 bifolia, 24-stave 368 x 272 mm. • Short score preliminary sketch material x 3: 'from G Act 5 leading to last scene'; 'Act IV Music connecting Scene I with Scene II'; 'Caliph: Fanfare'. 1 bifolium, 14-stave, 340 x 270 mm. • 'From G Act 5 leading to last Scene / The Cry of the Watchman', pp. 1-7, one blank page following. 2 bifolia 24-stave 368 x 272 mm. • 'At the Gate of the Moon, Bagdad, blazing moonlight', pp. 8-19. 3 bifolia, 24-stave 368 x 272 mm.

(3). ff. 73-75. 'Serenade from Hassan arranged for Cello solo and Chamber Orchestra'.

• Arranged by Eric Fenby, and in his hand (ink). • 2 unnumbered sheets within a bifolium, all 34-stave 400 x 302 mm. • Title to the front of the bifolium, with the following written large in red crayon: '(rough sketch) / B. Harrison (score / & / piano / parts)'. Referring to the cellist Beatrice Harrison. • The arrangement was made in 1929. First performed by Beatrice Harrison and the Chamber Orchestra of Boston, cond. N. Slonimsky, 12 January 1930.

(4). ff. 76-110. Full score of Hassan, in the hand of Eric Fenby

• Outer bifolium (36-stave 453 x 330 mm) entitled (by Jelka Delius): 'Hassan / Grosse Partitur' (mauve pencil) and 'To be / revised' (red pencil). With Delius's address stamp at the top of the page. • Scored in black and in blue ink, on 10 + 4 gathered bifolia (42-stave 453 x 330 mm), pp. [1]-55, followed by 1 blank page. • 1. Prelude to Act I, p. [1]. • 2. Act I, Interlude between Scenes I and II, p. 3. • 3. Curtain music, Act I, Scene II, p. 6. • 4. Prelude to Act II, p. 7. • 5.1. Ballet, Dance of the Beggars, p. 9. • 5.2. Entry of the Beauties (Chorus of Women), p. 12. • 5.3. Divertissement, p. 14. • 5.4. General Dance, p. 18. • 6. Act II, Scene II, The Persian Dawn, p. 25. • N.B. The final two bars of the Prelude to Act III (p. 27) are occluded by a rectangle of plain paper. • 7. Act III, Interlude between Scenes I and II, p. 27. • 8. Act III, Scene II, Chorus of Soldiers, p. 29. • 9. Prelude to Act IV, p. 34. • 10. Prelude to Act V, p. 38. • 11. The Procession of Protracted Death, p. 40. • 12. Prelude to the Last Scene, p. 42. • Fenby's score is a copy of the complete work in its final form (including the additional material copied by Jelka Delius - see 2 above), but excluding Chorus of Beggars and Dancing Girls, Entry of the Caliph, Fanfares, and Call of the Muezzin.

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Page 62 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/2/5 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Instrumental Music (1885-1930)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/5

Creation Date 1885-1930

Extent and Format 1 file (225 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Instrumental Music (1885-1930)

Scope and Content (1). ff. 1-14. Piano solo

• ff. 1-2. 'Pensées Mélodieuses (No. 2)'. Signed and dated 'June 10/85'. F major, C Allegro Moderato. Ink, fair copy. 2 leaves, 12 stave 336 x 263 mm. (Threlfall, IX/2.) • f. 3. A single page composition, probably incomplete, with only the number 'I' as a heading. Without date. F major, 3/8 Presto leggiero. Ink, with some pencilled alterations. 16-stave 344 x 265 mm. The verso is blank. • f. 4. 'Pieces for Piano & Songs'. Without date. Scored in pencil. 11 bars A major, C Animato, followed by 14 bars F major, 6/8 to End. 5 bars A major continuing onto the verso, followed by c. 24 bars F major. 12-stave 340 x 268 mm. • ff. 5-7. ['Badinage']. Draft manuscript (ink), without title or date. 3 leaves, 30-stave 353 x 268 mm. For the score in a copyist's hand, see MS Mus. 1745/1/35 (ff. 15-16v); for autograph sketches, see MS Mus. 1745/1/39 (f. 63), and also the notebook material in MS Mus. 1745/2/11/3 (f. 3). (Threlfall, IX/4.) • f. 8. Dictated piano pieces in the hand of Jelka Delius, dated '3.12.1923' (recto) and '15.1.1924' (verso). Pencil, 12-stave 310 x 235 mm. • f. 9. Autograph sketch (late hand), perhaps related (suggests Threlfall) to Second Violin Sonata. 13 bars, pencil, 12-stave 310 x 235 mm. Verso blank. • ff. 10-11. Two dictated fragments in the hand (pencil) of Jelka Delius. Dated '17.8.1924' on the recto of f. 10 (5 bars, 6/8); dated '3.8. 1924' on the verso of f. 11 (4 bars, 12/8, R.H. only). One bifolium, 16-stave 330 x 240 mm. Part of f. 11 has been cut away. • f. 12. Dictated fragment in the hand (pencil) of Jelka Delius. Without title or date, comprising only 8 bars, 2/4, on the recto of f. 12. Remainder blank. One bifolium, 14-stave 304 x 230 mm. Three staves at the bottom of the next (blank) folio have been cut away. • ff. 13-14. Numbered p. 5, f. 13 recto continues the draft of the Cello Sonata in MS Mus. 1745/1/39 (i.e. follows f. 68, which is numbered pp. 3-4). Pencil sketches for 'Avant que tu ne t'en ailles' are on ff. 13v-14; on ff. 14-14v are pencil sketches that may relate to the Cello Sonata. One bifolium, 12-stave 378 x 270 mm.

(2). ff. 15-28. 'Romance / Violoncelle & Piano'

Threlfall, VIII/5.

• Two identical scores by a copyist (ff. 15-21 and 22-28), ink, paper covers, both pp. 7, [4]. The first copy is signed by Delius and inscribed 'à Monsieur Joseph Hollmann' [sic] (p. 1). For the autograph score, see MS Mus. 1745/1/35 (ff. 11-14).

(3). ff. 29-39. Various Dictations to Jelka Delius (all pencil, and all in her hand unless noted otherwise)

• Written on the 'free space' of four bifolia previously used (copyists's scores, '2e Violon / Appalactria [sic] / American Rhapsody / Fritz Delius 1896'). Each bifolium is 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • First bifolium (ff. 29-30). Two passages only, both written on the first page: (1) upper staves: bars 6-11 of the 'Waltz' (Five Piano Pieces, No. 3); (2) lower staves: voice part only, bars 1-17 of the 'Lullaby' (Five Piano Pieces, No. 4), including two bars (11-12) in Delius's very late hand (differing from the published score). • Second bifolium (ff. 31-32). Beginning on the back page, bars 1-14 of the piano part of the 'Lullaby'; bars 15-18 continue on the first page. The back page includes two bars in Delius's late hand that have been struck-through. • Third bifolium (ff. 33-34). Beginning on the back page: 'Tennysson' [sic] bars 1-12 in short score, in Delius's hand, of 'The splendour falls...'; the passage is crossed through. Beneath, and continuing onto the front page, Jelka Delius has copied bars 9-19 and bars 20-35.

• Fourth bifolium (ff. 35-39). Beginning on the back page (upside-down), JD has continued the

Page 63 2021-07-17 previous bifolium, copying bars (which she has numbered) 36-40; 1-8; 41-52; and 53-67. The Stichvorlage (in JD's hand) for 'The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls' is in MS Mus. 1745/4/3.

(4). ff. 40-135. Works for Violin and Piano

4.1. [Légende for violin and piano] (ff. 40-44)

• Threlfall, VII/3. • 2 bifoilia and 1 folio. 12-stave 354 x 272 mm. Ink and ink over pencil. The autograph manuscript is without title and without tempo indication, and there is no separate solo part. In several places, the piano part is incomplete or missing. For a comparison between this manuscript and the printed score, see Threlfall (1986). • For the autograph full score, see MS Mus. 1745/1/8.

4.2. An incomplete and untitled work for violin and piano (ff. 45-48).

• 1 bifolium and two separate folios. 12-stave oblong 272 x 350 mm. • C minor, C (no tempo indication), in the composer's autograph.

4.3. [Violin Sonata in B major] (ff. 49-82)

• Threlfall, VIII/3. • f. 49. Title-sheet (unknown hand, in blue pencil): 'Sonata for Violin and Piano'. • f. 50. A single folio (16-stave, 344 v 268 mm) containing sketch material (in pencil and in ink) for the slow movement. • f. 51. A single folio (numbered pp. 3 and 4, 12-stave 345 x 278 mm) of apparently rejected material (ink and pencil) for the Sonata. • ff. 52-59. Violin part, entitled 'Sonata in H dur' with Delius's signature. Paginated pp. [1]-15. 4 bifolia, 16-stave 344 x 265 mm. Autograph, ink, beginning Allegro con brio. • ff. 60-82. Autograph score, with Delius's signature and date (1892) to the outer cover, signed again on the first page of the score. 10 bifolia, the first of which acts as the outer cover. 12-stave 352 x 270 mm. Inner bifolia numbered pp. [1]-37 (the verso of p. 37 is blank). • f. 65 is a new page pasted over the original page entirely. • f. 71v. Andante molto tranquillo (F# major). • f. 75. Allegro con moto.

4.4. [Draft material for Violin Sonata No. 2] (ff. 83-102)

• Threlfall, VIII/9. • The material falls into three parts: • (1) ff. 83-87. An incomplete ink draft in Delius's (late) hand. 12-stave 340 x 265 mm, numbered pp. 1-[10]. Con moto. Corresponds to published bars 1-140. • (2) ff. 88-99. A complete draft in Delius's hand. 5 bifolia and 1 folio (12-stave 340 x 265 mm), numbered pp. 1-19 (with some re-numbering and crossings-out, and some blank pages). Scored in ink (pp. 1-5) and then in pencil (pp. 5-19). There are three deleted bars in ink on p. 10. • (3) ff. 99-102. In the hand of Jelka Delius, a fair pencil copy of bars 61-118, 119-183. 2 bifolia, 12-stave 360 x 268 mm. • The Stichvorlage, in the hand of Jelka Delius, is in the Boosey & Hawkes Accession (MS Mus. 1745/3/17). • First published 1924, Hawkes & Sons 6260, eds. Albert Sammons and Evlyn Howard-Jones.

4.5. 'Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano' (ff. 103-135)

• Threlfall, VIII/10. • f. 103. Outer wrapper (pink manilla folder) with the above title in Eric Fenby's hand, dated 'Spring 1930'. • ff. 105-106. Headed 'Sonata' (by Jelka Delius), 2 bifolia (12-stave 362 x 268 mm), draft material in Delius's autograph for the commencement of the first movement (first 3 bars in ink, the remainder in pencil). • ff. 107-114. There follows Eric Fenby's pencil draft of the first movement, headed 'Sonata'. The bars are numbered [1]-95, although the numbering is not consecutive. The draft includes some pasteovers, alterations and sketch material. Scored on paper of different sizes (4 bifolia). • ff. 115-116. Dated '11.10.1924', 6 bars pencil notation in JD's hand (the beginning of the second movement). Immediately following, and occupying the remainder of the bifolia, pencil sketches in Fenby's hand for the middle section of the second movement, numbered bars 40-90. 1 bifolium, 16-stave 330 x 240 mm. • f. 117. A single leaf (with the bottom two staves torn off, 12 staves remaining) containing:

Page 64 2021-07-17 on the recto, further pencilled draft material (Fenby's hand) for the middle section of second movement, bars 30-37 (on single staves), followed by bars 23-26; on the verso, and unrelated, Fenby's sketch material (blue ink) for A Song of Summer, headed (in pencil) 'opening muted strings' and 'Sketch opening bars'. • ff. 118-119. Fenby's complete pencil draft of the second movement in its final form, bars numbered in black ink (2 folios formerly a single bifolia, 30-stave 362 x 268 mm). • ff. 120-132. Draft material for the third movement, most of which is in Jelka Delius's hand (passages dated '19.9.24', '20.10.1924', '28.9.1924', '16.10.1924' and '10.10.1924'). Material dated '10.10.1924' is headed 'Sonata / good copy', to which Fenby has added bar numbers in black ink; JD's notation has been completed by Fenby from bar 84 to the end. There is some sketch material in Fenby's hand immediatey following relating to the first movement. Cf. sketch material in the Delius notebook MS Mus. 1745/2/11/6, ff. 9-10. • ff. 133-136. Violin part, headed 'Sonata / No III / Violin' and dated 'Spring 1930'. Ink, in Fenby's hand. Includes May Harrison's performance indications, added (by her?) in pencil. 1 bifolium and 2 folios within, all 14-stave 350 x 270 mm. • The Stichvorlage, in Fenby's hand, is in the Boosey & Hawkes Accession (MS Mus. 1745/3/17). • First published 1931, Hawkes & Sons 6929 (phrased and edited by May Harrison and Eric Fenby).

(5). ff. 137-225. String Quartet (1916)

• Threlfall, VIII/8. • The material is preceded by a small portion of the original blue paper packet in which it was housed (f.137), with title in JD's hand: 'Quartet / M.S. complete / and Sketches'. Dated '1916' in pencil. • ff. 138-160. Autograph early draft score, numbered pp. [1]-38 (with some re-numbering, blank pages, and occasional crossings-out), and a further bifolium (ff. 161-162) numbered pp. 24-26 (rejected material), comprising: • pp. [1]-14. Allegro Moderato / With Animation. • pp. 14-22. 'Late Swallows' / With slow waving movement. • pp. 23-38. Quick & Vigorously. • pp. 24-26. Rejected pages (with some different material sketched at the end). • ff. 163-167. There follows the first pencil draft score of the Quick and lightly movement (here, 'lightly & quick'). 9 pages of music and 3 blank pages (3 bifolia, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm). • ff. 168-175. There further follows (on 4 bifolia, 24-stave 358 x 270 mm) the earlest pencil draft score (incomplete) of the work in its original 3-movement form, as follows: • 1st bifolium (ff. 168-169): With animation but not hurried (the first half of the first movement). • 2nd bifolium (ff. 170-171): Commencing with 'Late Swallows' (Quietly but not dragging) in score, and continuing thereafter with 2-stave sketches for the last movement. • 3rd bifolium (ff. 172-173): 'Late Swallows' (Slow) complete with the middle section, and including a further idea (4/4) for an opening theme that has been crossed-out. • 4th bifolium (ff. 174-175): 'Last movement' (incomplete), together with sketches for a slower section. (For the final page, see the fragment in MS Mus. 1745/1/39, f. 84.) • ff. 176-191. A set of parts (lacking 1st violin) in the hand (ink) of Jelka Delius for the original version of the work. Entitled 'Quartett / Frederick Delius 1916'. All 16-stave 365 x 280 mm. • ff. 192-224. The final 4-movement version of the score (still dated 1916), pp. 1-58 as follows: • ff. 192-201. With animation. Fair copy in JD's hand. 4 bifolia and 1 folio (p. 17), 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. The lower part of p. 10 is pasted-over. • ff. 202-207. Quick and lightly. In Delius's hand. 3 bifolia, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 208-215. 'Late Swallows'. Slow and wistfully. In Delius's hand. 3 bifolia, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. There are two paste-overs on p. 37. The verso of p. 40 is unnumbered and blank. • ff. 216-224. Very quick and vigorously. In Delius's hand, except for pp. 45-54 (in JD's hand, with Delius's alterations). 5 bifolia (the 4th bifolia lacking its second leaf), 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. • Publication: 1922, Augener Ltd.; 1984, Stainer & Bell, ed. Fenby (Collected Edition Vol. 32). • First performance (3 movements): 17 November 1916, London, Aeolian Hall, London String Quartet. • First performance (revised version in 4 movements): 1 February 1919, London, Aeolian Hall, London String Quartet.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/6 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Vocal Music (1888-[c 1930])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/6

Creation Date 1888-[c 1930]

Extent and Format 1 file (233 folios)

Languages of Material English; Danish; German; French; Swedish

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Vocal Music (1888-[c 1930])

Scope and Content (1). ff. 1-20. Words for songs

Words for songs, including translations, all in the hand of Jelka Delius unless otherwise indicated:

• Danish translations (from the Norwegian) of two poems by A. O. Vinje, 'Tytebaeret' (complete) and 'Vaaren' (first six lines only). Both poems were set by Grieg in the original Norwegian (1880, op. 33/1, nos. 4 and 2). • German translation of 'To Daffodils' by Robert Herrick. Two copies: a copy in pencil, and a second copy in blue ink. • German translation from the Danish of Holger Drachmann: 'Im Glück wir lachend gingen'. Two copies: a copy part pencil and part ink, and a second copy in ink (by 'Jelka Rosen'). • German words (pencil), beginning 'Ich höre in der Nacht'. • On a sheet of Thomas Beecham's letterhead ('The Cottage, 8A Hobart Place, S.W.'), the English words of 'Black Roses', in pencil ('Say, why are you so sad today?' from the Swedish of Ernst Josephson). On the verso, an English translation ('Let springtime come then') from the Danish of Jens Peter Jacobsen ('Lad Vaaren komme'). • 'Oh Mensch! gieb Acht!' (Nietzsche, 'Zarathustra's Roundelay', from Also Sprach Zarathustra). • 'No further up / Not one step more'. Two copies, both in pencil (small blue notepaper) of a draft translation into English from the German of Nietzsche ('Der Wandrer und sein Schatten', from Menschliches, Allzumenschliches). • On identical small blue notepaper, German translation of 'I-Brasîl' by Fiona MacLeod [William Sharp]. • Draft translations (pencil) into German of Ernest Dowson, 'They Are not Long', and, on the verso, Paul Verlaine, 'Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit'. • In an unidentified hand, a pencil fragment in French from 'Le Mariage des Roses' by Eugène David. (Set by César Franck.) • In an unidentified hand, in German, 'In der Seraï Garten', 'Irmelin Rose', 'Weinrosen'. • Large folded sheet of plain paper, inscribed on the front (unknown hand) to 'Madame la Psse. de Cystria / 2 copies / sans la paroles / à copier aussi gros que possible'. Inside the wrapper (inverted), a translation (unknown hand) from Danish into French of 'I Seraillets Have' ['In the Seraglio Garden'] by Jens Peter Jacobsen. • Draft translation (pencil) into German from the French poem by Paul Verlaine, 'Les sanglots longs'. Written on the verso of a 'Harmonie' back cover sheet.

(2). ff. 21-39. Sketches for songs, in Delius's hand

• An early ink draft of 'Pagen højt paa Taarnet sad'. Beginning 8 bars in C# minor (struck-through), then continuing in G minor Lento. 1 folio and 1 bifolium (upper portion of second leaf torn away), 12-stave 315 x 240 mm. • Sketch material (pencil) for Folkeraadet, 'Alle de voksende Skygger' (Jacobsen), and Irmelin (?Act 3, Scene 1). 1 bifolium with an inserted leaf, 12-stave 290 x 235 mm. • Ink sketch for A Mass of Life, and pencil draft for 'Silken Shoes' (Jacobsen). 1 bifolium, 12-stave 290 x 235 mm. • Sketch material (ink) for 'Irmelin Rose' (Jacobsen), Badinage, and, perhaps, Légende (violin), the last in pencil. 1 folio, 24-stave 356 x 270 mm.

Page 66 2021-07-17 • 'Sketch for Sommer i Gurre', A major, 3/2 (pencil, 31 bars). 1 folio, 16-stave 350 x 270 mm.

• Pencil draft of the original ending (final version) of 'Sommer i Gurre' (Drachmann). Verso blank. 1 folio, 12-stave 355 x 270 mm. • Unidentified sketch material (ink and pencil), and pencil draft for the start of 'Sommer i Gurre'. 1 bifolium, 16-stave 350 x 268 mm. • Sketch (ink) for rejected version of 'La lune blanche' (Verlaine), with other unidentified sketch material. 1 folio, 30-stave 353 x 268 mm. • Pencil draft setting of 'Chanson d'automne' ('Les sanglots longs') by Verlaine. Verso blank. 1 folio, 30-stave 350 x 270 mm. • Pencil sketches for setting of 'O Hymen O Hymenee' (Whitman). 10 bars, unfinished; A minor, 4/4 Lento. 1 folio, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • Pencil sketches for 'Das gelbe Laub erzittert' (Heine), and 'Vidunderlige Tove' (Jacobsen). 1 bifolium, 12-stave 345 x 275 mm. For the Heine sketch, cf. the system of music in the small notebook MS Mus. 1745/2/11/2, at the foot of f. 3. • Pencil draft setting of 'Le Mariage des Roses' (David). 13 bars, C major, 6/8. 1 folio, 12-stave 335 x 270 mm.

(3). ff. 40-62. '7 Songs from the Norwegian'

• Threlfall, V/9. • Autograph manuscripts used as Stichvorlagen by the original publisher, Augener Limited (London, 1892). Texts in German, with English translations by W. Grist added in red ink (except the first song, 'Cradle Song', translated by William Archer). • Front title-page: '7 Songs / from the Norwegian / Fritz Delius 1890 / Paris'. At the bottom of the page, in pencil, Augener's number '9489'. 1 bifolium outer wrapper, 20-stave 350 x 270 mm.

• 1. 'Wiegenlied' ('Cradle Song'). 1 bifolium, 12-stave 340 x 270 mm. With Archer's translation, in Delius's hand, on the verso of the second leaf. • 2. 'Auf der Reise zur Heimat' ('On the Homeward Journey'). 1 bifolium (now separated), 12-stave 340 x 270 mm. • 3. 'Abendstimmung' ('Evening Sounds'). 1 bifolium continuing onto the recto of the next bifolium, 12-stave 340 x 270 mm. • 4. 'Venevil'. 1 bifolium (inner two pages only), 12-stave 340 x 270 mm. • 5. 'Spielleute' ('Minstrels'). 1 bifolium, 12-stave 340 x 270 mm. • 6. 'Verborg'ne Liebe' ('Hidden Love'). 1 bifolium, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • 7. 'Eine Vogelweise' ('The Birds' Tale'). 2 bifolia, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 57-62. On six sheets of plain paper, the English words to the seven songs, in Grist's hand, including his alterations in red ink. With occasional comments by Delius (e.g. regarding 'Evening Sounds').

(4). ff. 63-98. Various songs in Delius's autograph

• Preceded by part of the red wrapper that originally retained both the songs in the composer's autograph listed below and also the songs by copyists that follow (f. 63). Title on the retained portion of the red wrapper (in Jelka Delius's hand): 'Songs in M.S. that are now published. Some incomplete sketches, some in Delius handwriting, others by copyists.' • ff. 74-65. 'O schneller mein Ross' (Geibel). Signed 'Fritz Delius' and dated '1888'. German words, with French translation interlined in red ink. 'Duplicata' (blue pencil) written in left margin of first page. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 66-67. 'Plus vite, plus vite, mon cheval' (Geibel). Signed 'Fritz Delius' (no date). French words, with German words added. The manuscript was the Stichvorlage for the publisher L. Grus. 1 bifolium, 30-stave 354 x 270 mm. • ff. 68-69. 'I Seraillets Have' (Jacobsen). Signed 'Fritz Delius' and dated '1894'. Danish words, with free German translation written at the end. 1 bifolium, 24-stave 350 x 270 mm. • f. 70. Incomplete draft (ink) of 'I Seraillets Have', without title or date. Danish words. 1 folio, 12-stave 315 x 240 mm. • f. 71. Incomplete draft (pencil) of 'I Seraillets Have'. Without date. A different setting (in D flat major) to the drafts above. On the verso, a pencil draft of 'Ein schöner Stern' (Heine), here entitled 'O lüge nicht'. 1 folio, 12-stave 346 x 276 mm. • ff. 72-73. 'Lad Vaaren Komme' [Let Springtime Come] (Jacobsen). Signed 'Fritz Delius' (no date). Danish words, with German translation above the voice line. Some revision in pencil. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 348 x 271 mm. • f. 74. Without title, further draft material for 'Lad Vaaren Komme' on the recto only of a single folio. On the verso, a pencil draft of 'Le Mariage des Roses' (David): 11 bars, A major C. 1 folio, 16-stave 350 x 267 mm. • ff. 75-76. 'Irmelin Rose' (Jacobsen). Signed 'Fritz Delius' (no date). Ink fair copy, with some over-writing in pencil. Danish words, with English translation above the voice line. Followed by a pencil draft revision of the ending. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 77-78. 'Irmelin Rose' (Jacobsen), without signature or date. An earlier version, ink

Page 67 2021-07-17 draft. Only Danish words. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 315 x 240 mm. • ff. 79-80. 'Il pleure dans mon coeur' (Verlaine). Signed 'Fritz Delius' (no date). Ink fair copy (used as Stichvorlage), with dedication: 'à André Messager'. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 338 x 272 mm. • ff. 81-82. 'Nach neuen Meeren' (Nietzsche). Ink fair copy. No signature or date. The German are copied at the end of the song. Also, on the verso, 'Der Wanderer' (incomplete). 1 bifolium, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • f. 83. 'Der Wanderer und sein Schatten' [Nietzsche], no signature or date. Ink fair copy. 1 folio, 12-stave, 350 x 270 mm. • f. 84. 'Der Wanderer und sein Schatten' (Nietzsche), no signature or date. Another ink fair copy, but with the voice part in the bass clef. 1 folio, 12-stave, 350 x 270 mm. • f. 85. 'Min lille Blomst'. No signature or date. Ink draft, in A major. Danish words. 1 folio, 18-stave, 353 x 270 mm. • ff. 86-88. 'Efteraar' (Ludwig Holstein). Signed and dated 'Fritz Delius 1900'. Ink fair copy. 1 bifolium (18-stave, 353 x 270 mm) enclosing a single folio (12-stave, 353 x 270 mm). • ff. 89-90. 'Nightingale' (W. E. Henley). Title (pencil) in Jelka Delius's hand, who has also added in pencil her German translation above the voice line. Ink draft with over-working in pencil. Followed by an incomplete pencil draft setting (words also by Henley: 'Gulls in an aery morrice'). 1 bifolium, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 91-92. 'Spring, the sweet Spring' (Thomas Nashe). Signed and dated 'Frederick Delius 1915 / February'. Ink fair copy with some pencil over-working. 1 bifolium, 12-stave printed braces, 360 x 265 mm. • ff. 93-94. 'So White, So Soft, So Sweet, is She' (Ben Jonson). Signed and dated 'Frederick Delius / March 1915'. Ink, with some pencil additions (final bar, crossed-out). The name of the English tenor Gervase Elwes is written in pencil at the head of the first page. In three places, the words have been revised (red ink) in the hand of Philip Heseltine. On the verso, a pencil sketch for the beginning of the Double Concerto. 1 bifolium, 12-stave printed braces, 360 x 265 mm. • ff. 95-96. 'To Daffodils' (Robert Herrick). Signed and dated 'Frederick Delius 1915 / March'. 'Gervase Elwes' is again written in pencil at the head of the first page. Ink fair copy. 1 bifolium, 12-stave printed braces, 360 x 265 mm. • ff. 97-98. 'To be sung a summer night on the water'. Signed and dated 'Frederick Delius Spring 1917'. Incomplete, in ink. Unaccompanied part song (S.C.T.B.). (Threlfall, IV/5.) 1 bifolium, 24-stave 358 x 270 mm.

(5). ff. 99-201. Various songs (not in Delius's hand unless indicated)

• ff. 99-100. 'Wiegenlied' (Ibsen). Ink fair copy. Transposed into E flat. German and English words. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 355 x 263 mm. • ff. 101-103. 'Evening Voices' ('Twilight Fancies' struck-through). Ink fair copy. Transposed into C minor. English words. 1 bifolium with inner attached folio, both 12-stave 350 x 267 mm.

• ff. 104-107. 'Indian Love Song / Chant indien', beginning 'I arise from dreams of thee' (Shelley). English and French words. Ink. Transposed into C. Annotated (pencil): 'à graver en 7 planches' (Grus, Stichvorlage). 2 bifolia, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 108-110. ['The Minstrel']. Transposed into E minor, German words. Proofs (Grus), pp. 2-5, with some corrections in ink. Annotated (blue pencil) on front page: 'Une 2e Epreuve pressée'. 345 x 268 mm. • ff. 111-113. 'Mélodie de F. Délius / Sur des Vers de Paul Verlaine' ('Le ciel est pardessus le toit si bleu si calme'). Printed, with 'Jelka Rosen / 1896' written on front blank page. The last two systems are crossed through in pencil, followed by a revised ending in the hand of a copyist on a bifolium pasted to the back of the second page. 1 printed bifolium with (adhered) 1 bifolium (12-stave, 318 x 240 mm). • f. 114. In the hand (ink) of another copyist, the same revised ending to the setting of Verlaine. 1 folio, 15-stave 348 x 270 mm. • ff. 115-116. 'I Seraillets Have'. Danish words with English translation above; the first two page only also have German translation in pencil below, perhaps by Delius. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 347 x 270 mm. • ff. 117-118. 'In the Seraglio garden'. English words, transposed into D flat. Ink. 1 bifoliuim, 12-stave 347 x 270 mm. • ff. 119-120. 'Seraillets Have'. Danish words (mauve ink) with French (red ink) and English translations (black ink) above. Signed by Delius on the first page of the score, with the Danish song title and the English translation above it in his hand. 1 bifolium with blank back cover folio attached, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 121-122. 'Silkesko over Gylden Last'. Signed 'J. Rosen'. Words in Danish and German, with English translation (pencil) in Delius's hand. 1 bifolium, 12-stave, 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 123-141. 'Silken Shoes' (Jacobsen). English words, with German words above pasted-over with plain paper strips. Ink manuscript on the outer pages of a bifolium, beginning on the back page (inner pages blank). 12-stave, 340 x 270 mm. • ff. 142-144. 'Wine Roses' (Jacobsen). Arranged for voice and pianoforte by Eric Fenby, English

Page 68 2021-07-17 words. Ink, in Fenby's autograph. 2 gathered bifolia, scored on the inner bifolium. 12-stave, 360 x 275 mm. • ff. 145-146. 'Irmelin Rose' (Jacobsen). German words, with Danish words pencilled above by Delius. Ink manuscript by copyist. The last verse ends in B, and verses 2-3 are ot yet in their final state. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • f. 147. 'Irmelin Rose'. Another ink copy of the last verse, also ending in B. 1 folio, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 148-149. 'Irmelin Rose'. A further ink copy, also ending in B. English, Danish and German words. 1 bifolium, 12-stave, 347 x 270 mm. • ff. 150-151. 'Song "Irmelin"'. Ink copy, transposed into G minor. English words only. Apart from the transposition, the score agrees with the published version, ending in the tonic key. 1 bifolium, 305 x 250 mm. • ff. 152-153. 'Let Springtime come then' (Jacobsen). Ink copy, exhibiting an earlier version of the ending. English words, with German words above in Delius's hand (ink over pencil). 1 bifolium, 12-stave 340 x 270 mm. • ff. 154-155. 'Let Springtime come then'. Ink copy of the final version. English words, with German words above in Jelka Delius's hand (pencil). 1 bifolium, 12-stave 357 x 277 mm. • ff. 156-157. 'Noch ein Mal' / 'Also sprach Zarathustra' [i.e. 'O Mensch! gib Acht'] (Nietzsche). A setting for Bass voice and piano. Ink manuscript in a copyist's hand. i bifolium, 18-stave paper 350 x 270 mm. • f. 158. Fragment of ['O Mensch! gib Acht'], lacking the first 9 bars and with the voice part in the treble clef. In the hand of Jelka Delius, who has also copied out the words following the setting. 1 folio, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 159-160. 'The Violet' (Holstein). English text, scribal hand, in A major (Threlfall V/21). 1 bifolium, 12-stave 360 x 268 mm. • f. 161-162. 'Efteraar' (Holstein), copyist's hand. Danish words. 1 bifolium, 355 x 270 mm. • f. 163. A single folio comprising: (recto) the beginning of another copy, in the same hand, of 'Efteraar' which has been curtailed and struck-through; (verso, upside-down) the soprano chorus part of 'See how the trees and the osiers' (from Songs of Sunset), with German words added in pencil. 1 folio, 12-stave 350 x 255 mm (width previously trimmed by scissors).

• ff. 164-174. 'Schwarze Rosen / Svarta Rosor' (E. Josephson). In a copyist's hand, but signed by Delius on the first page. German text, with Swedish below (red ink); also, additional alternative German text by Jelka Delius in pencil. Incorporating an earlier version of the last verse of the song. 1 bifolium and 1 folio, both 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • f. 175. 'Svarta rosor'. An incomplete copy, title only in the hand of Jelka Delius. Swedish words. Lower half of the final (blank) page has been cut away. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 355 x 270 mm. • ff. 176-177. 'They are not long, the weeping and the laughter' (Dowson). Title in the hand of Jelka Delius. English words, with German words above also in her hand. Setting for soprano and piano (Songs of Sunset, Threlfall, II/5). Setting followed by Delius's pencil sketches for 'Pale amber sunlight falls' (also Songs of Sunset). 1 bifolium, 14-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 178-179. 'Midsummer Song', with Delius's signature (mauve pencil) beside the title. Incomplete, lacking final sheet. Unacccompanied part song for mixed voices (Threlfall, IV/4). Copyist's hand. 1 bifolium, 20-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 180-182. 'The Nightingale has a Lyre of Gold' (Henley). Scribal hand. 2 bifolia gathered and sewn, 12-stave 356 x 280 mm. • f. 183. 'La Lune Blanche' (Verlaine). Copyist's hand. Heading in the hand of Jelka Delius. 1 bifolium, 22-stave 360 x 270 mm. For the autograph manuscript (Stichvorlage), see MS Mus. 1823, ff. 10-11. • ff. 184-185. 'La lune blanche'. A further ink copy, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 186-187. ['Automne'] in a copyist's hand (?JD). Followed by a pencil draft in the composer's autograph of the ending of 'Black Roses'. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • f. 188. A single folio on which is only written the tempo 'Lento' and three clefs without notation. Key of D flat major indicated. 1 folio, 12-stave 345 x 270 mm. • ff. 189-190. 'I-Brasîl' (Macleod). Ink copy in the hand of Philip Heseltine, including an ink draft of bars 1-2 in orchestral score. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 355 x 268 mm. • ff. 191-193. 'Spring, the sweet Spring' (Nashe). Ink copy in the hand of Philip Heseltine, words in red ink. 2 bifolia gathered, 12-stave 295 x 235 mm. Stamped 'The Property of Sir Thomas Beecham'. • ff. 194-195. 'So white, so soft, so sweet is She' (Jonson). Ink copy in the hand of Philip Heseltine, words in red ink. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 295 x 235 mm. Stamped 'The Property of Sir Thomas Beecham'. • ff. 196-197. 'To Daffodils' (Herrick). Dated 'March 1915'. In the hand (ink) of Jelka Delius. Stamped 'The Property of Sir Thomas Beecham'. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 362 x 267 mm. • ff. 198-199. 'Avant que tu ne t'en ailles' (Verlaine). Title (ink) in Heseltine's hand; the remainder of the manuscript (ink) in Jelka Delius's hand, with her German translation of the French words written above them (in pencil). 1 bifolium, 12-stave 340 x 265 mm. For the publisher's Stichvorlage (in Fenby's hand), see MS Mus. 1745/3/17. • f. 200. 'A late lark twitters from the quiet skies'. In Jelka Delius's hand, 15 bars of an

Page 69 2021-07-17 early pencil sketch. On the verso, a 5-bar pencil sketch in Delius's (late) autograph. 1 folio (torn to half size), 10 staves remaining, 200 x 260 mm. • f. 201. 'A late lark'. In Jelka Delius's hand, a pencil draft. 1 bifolium, 12-stave 362 x 277 mm.

(6). ff. 202-233. Songs in Delius's original orchestration

6.1. ff. 202-214. Seven bifolia (26-stave 400 x 300 mm), paginated pp. [1]-26, comprising three songs in the composer's autograph full score (all ink over pencil), with occasional blue pencil corrections and red crayon cue numbers. The three songs were orchestrated in 1908 at the request of Olga Wood and performed by her in the same year. Songs as follows:

• pp. 1-3. 'Das Veilchen' (Holstein). Signed 'Frederick Delius'. (Threlfall, V/21.) • pp. 4-8. 'Abendstimmung' (Bjørnsen [sic]). With some erasure and score correction on p. 8. (Threlfall, V/9.) • pp. 9-26. 'Ein Vogelweise' (Ibsen). Pp 12-26 have been re-numbered in blue pencil. (Threlfall, V/9.) • 2 blank pages follow.

6.2. ff. 215-223. 'Summer Landscape' (Threlfall, V/24)

• '"Sommer in [sic] Gurre" (Holger Drachmann) / "Summer in Gurre" / (Evening Landscape)'. Signed and dated 'Frederick Delius 1903'. English words only. 2 bifolia, 26-stave 400 x 300 mm. • Without title, an earlier autograph draft of the orchestral setting. 5 folios (numbered pp. [1]-9), 28-stave 450 x 325mm. • On the verso (upside-down) of the final folio is a rejected version of p. 36 of La Ronde se déroule (cf. MS Mus. 1745/1/15, f. 37). • Cf. the orchestral setting of 'Sommer i Gurre' in MS Mus. 1745/1/36 (ff. 63-70).

6.3. ff. 224-227. 'The Violet' and 'Twilight Fancies'

• Two full score fair copy settings in the hand (black ink) of Eric Fenby. 2 gathered bifolia, 32-stave 450 x 310 mm. Outer title-page and inner pages numbered pp. 1-6, outer back page blank. • Title-page: 'The Violet / (Holstein) / And / Twilight Fancies / (Bjørnsen)' [sic].

• English words only. • Threlfall, V/21 and V/9.

6.4. ff. 228-233. 'Wine Roses'

• Full score fair copy setting in the hand (black ink) of Eric Fenby. 2 bifolia within an outer bifolium, 24-stave 347 x 270 mm. Outer title-page and inner pages numbered [1]-9, outer back page blank. • Title-page: 'Wine Roses / song / for / voice and orchestra / words / by / J. P. Jacobsen / Music By / Frederick Delius'. • English words only. • With some additions of expression in pencil, and an altered note with annotation (Flutes, bar 1, p. 5). • Threlfall, III/4.

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Page 70 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/2/7 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Drafts for the Early Operas ([1890]-[1904])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/7

Creation Date [1890]-[1904]

Extent and Format 1 file (315 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Drafts for the Early Operas ([1890]-[1904])

Scope and Content (1). ff. 1-10. Irmelin: miscellaneous sketch pages (including some material for The Magic Fountain)

• f. 1. Ink sketches on 3 staves, followed by pencil sketches of the Irmelin motive: 'End of Act 1st' / 'Vorspiel to last Act'. (16-stave 344 x 265 mm.) • ff. 2-4. Ink draft of scene with Nils and the women (Act 2). (1 bifolium and 1 folio, 12-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 5. Ink drafts (paginated G and H) for Nils' 'Farewell O castle old ... Farewell old Rolf so bold'. (20-stave, 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 6. Ink draft paginated p. 72 (from Act 3): 'Knight knocks at the door of Irmelin's chamber...'; and 'Vision of Irmelin & Nils, in the woods hand in hand....' (18-stave 347 x 268 mm.) • f. 7. In pencil, 'Albumblat' (A major, 3/4), 24 bars for piano solo, followed by different sketch material. On the verso, also in pencil, 'Entracte I' (the opening of Act 3), followed by the music at bar 494 in that Act, and then a sketch for the women's chorus in Act 2. (14-stave, 348 x 268 mm.) • f. 8. Ink sketch. On the verso: 'Enter Nils' and 'What wouldst thou - Speak'. (16-stave, 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 9. Early pencil sketches with various words (e.g. 'Why so pale & sad'), and notes at the bottom of the page regarding Nils's arrival at the castle. On the verso, 9 bars ink draft of 'Watawa' with motives from Acts 2-3 of The Magic Fountain. (18-stave, 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 10. Ink notes, and some workings in pencil, of several motives, including that for the final duet. Verso blank. (24-stave, 342 x 263 mm.)

(2). ff. 11-72. The Magic Fountain

Miscellaneous sketch sheets, and ink drafts for Act 1 and 2 only.

2.1. Miscellaneous sketch sheets:

• f. 11. Ink draft: 'Talum Hadjo'. Verso blank. (Bottom portion of a folio, 10 staves remaining.) • f. 12. Ink drafts. On the recto: 'W[atawa] & S[olano] fall asleep'. (Bottom portion of an unevenly torn folio, 15/16 staves remaining of 24.) • f. 13. Drafts in ink. On the verso (pencil): 'Dance of spirits in the swamps'. (1 folio, 24-stave 355 x 268 mm.) • f. 14r. Ink draft of part 3 of Paa Vidderne (melodrama). Verso: ink draft headed (pencil) 'Entract to 2 Act 1st Scene' - in fact, the end of Act 2. (1 folio, 18-stave 348 x 270 mm.)

• ff. 15-16. Ink draft: 'In the Swamps'. (1 bifolium, 24-stave 350 x 270 mm - the second page of which is torn across but present and intact.) • f. 17. Various ink sketches, recto headed '3rd Act'. (1 folio, 24-stave 340 x 265 mm.) • f. 18. Ink draft, [Watawa's approach to Talum Hadjo]. (1 folio, 24-stave 355 x 270 mm.)

2.2. Early drafts for Act 1 in vocal score:

• ff. 19-37. A fairly complete early draft for Act 1, mainly in ink. (8 bifolia and 3 folios gathered in, 24-stave 342 x 266 mm.) • ff. 38-46. Portion of another similar draft, less complete. Largely in ink, with some words in pencil. (1 folio and 4 bifolia, 24-stave 355 x 268 mm.)

2.3. Early drafts for Act 2 in vocal score:

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• ff. 47-72. A fairly complete ink and pencil draft, except for the ending. • Drafted on a variety of bifolia and single folios, the first 2 folios on 20-stave paper and the remainder 24-stave paper.

(3). Koanga

3.1. ff. 73-80. Draft libretto for Act 2:

• In a green manilla Boosey & Hawkes folder, a draft libretto for Act 2 in the hand of C. F. Keary (pp. 2-9 only). • For the first page of the draft libretto, see MS Mus. 1745/1/39 (f. 52).

3.2. Various sketch sheets:

• ff. 81-82. Ink and pencil sketches, including passage marked 'return to plantation'. (1 bifolium torn in half horizontally, 24-stave 358 x 271 mm.) • f. 83. Pencil sketches for Act 3 at cue 12. (Upper portion of folio, 13 staves remaining of 16-stave paper 350 x 270 mm; one half of a bifolium, the other half of which, also containing Act 3 material, is below.) • f. 84. Pencil sketch for epilogue, annotated 'good' in large hand. (1 folio, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 85. In ink, 'Slow' 3/4 F minor (cf. scene-change music in Act 3), followed by, on the verso, pencil sketch headed 'Banjos'. (1 folio, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 86. Pencil full score, 6 bars including banjos, scored on the recto, verso blank. (1 folio, 36-stave 450 x 315 mm.) • f. 87. In ink, 'Before the feast 2nd Act / Calinda dance' (recto), and 'Transformation music to the swamps' (verso). (1 folio, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 88. On the recto, headed (pencil) 'Prelude' and 'Act 3' (ink); on the verso, in pencil, material used after cue 20 in Act 3. (1 folio, 16-stave 350 x 270 mm; appears to be, to judge from the shape of the tear, the second leaf inverted of the bifolium above - 'Act 3 at cue 12'.) • f. 89. 'Prelude 3[rd] Act', and pencil sketches for the chorus 'O hail Koanga' (Act 3 , cue 6); on the verso, pencil sketch headed 'Chorus (Koanga is our chief & priest)'. (1 folio, 16-stave 350 x 270 mm.)

3.3. Early drafts (ink) for Act 1 in vocal score:

• ff. 90-91. 'Act 1', starting with the chorus later used to open Act 2: 'I will meet you when the sun goes down'. (1 bifolium, 16-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 92. 'old Plantation / a group of negroes singing negro melodies'. (1 folio, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 93-94. Beginning: 'Stop stop I am tired to death of dancing as we've done all day'. (1 bifolium, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 95-98. Headed in pencil (large hand) 'Koanga' and beginning (ink) 'the story of Koanga and Palmyra'. (1 bifolium 16-stave 350 x 270 mm, gathering 2 folios.) • ff. 99-101. Beginning (directions): 'Negroes one by one appear...' Perez: 'lazy lying when day is nigh'. (1 bifolium gathering 1 folio, all 18-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 102. Sketch for Negro chorus and dialogue (cf. Act 1 cue 13): '... and many a sugar cane must be cut back'. (1 folio, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 103-104. Continuation: 'No sir he would die I know the sort'. (1 bifolium, 18-stave, 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 105-106. Continuation: 'I have already chosen one'. (1 bifolium, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm.)

• f. 107. Continuation. 'Tell me about your country'. (1 folio, 16-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 108. 'Quartet & Chrorus' (cf. Act 1 cue 24). (1 folio, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 109-110. Continuation. (1 bifolium, 16-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 111-112. Continuation. (1 bifolium, 16-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 113-114. Continuation, including quintet (cf. Act 1 cue 29). (1 bifolium, 16-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 115. 'It must be beautiful in Africa? / The most beautiful of all countries is my country'. Bras Coupé's narration - cue 17 but differs. (1 folio, 16-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 116-123. Chorus and first entry of Bras Coupé, up to quartet and chorus. (4 bifolia, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm.)

3.4. ff. 124-315. Prompter's vocal score (première, 1904):

• 30 March 1904 (and two subsequent performances), Elberfeld, Stadttheater, dir. Hans Gregor. (Excerpts only first performed 30 May 1899, London, St. James's Hall; Delius orchcestral concert, cond. Alfred Hertz.)

Page 72 2021-07-17 • Three volumes, sewn, without covers, each marked 'Souffleur' in red crayon. • 'Koanga Act I'. In an unidentified scribal hand. No orchestral introduction. German text only. Un-numbered title-page (verso blank), pp. [1]-93 (numbering begins p. 7), p. 94 blank, followed by blank un-numbered final folio. (Five gatherings sewn together, 12-stave 350 x 275 mm.) • 'Koanga Act II / J.R.' In the hand of the 'Paris copyist'. With two insertions in Delius's hand: (1) 3 cut-down bifolia sewn between pp. 37 and 38 (Palmyra's aria); (2) paste-overs on pp. 67 and 68. English text, with German words added in red ink (except for the composer's insertions). Un-numbered title-page, score begining on the verso, pp. [1]-[80] (numbered between), with three blank pages. (Four gatherings sewn together, 12-stave oblong, 275 x 350 mm.) • '3. Act. "Koanga" v. Delius / Clavier-Auszug'. Copyist's hand. No orchestral introduction. German text only. No separate title-page, pp. 1-66, two blank pages following. (Three gatherings sewn together, 12-stave 340 x 260 mm.)

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MS Mus. 1745/2/8 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Draft Scores for Orchestral Works ([1898]-[1929])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/8

Creation Date [1898]-[1929]

Extent and Format 1 file (115 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Draft Scores for Orchestral Works ([1898]-[1929])

Scope and Content (1). ff. 1-11. [Paris, or Scènes Parisiennes]

• Threlfall, VI/14. • Draft full score (pencil), pp. 28-53, lacking pp. 37-41. (For pp. 1-27, see MS Mus. 1745/1/40.) • 3 bifolia, 34-stave 400 x 302 mm: paginated 28-31; 32-35; 36, 42, 43, 44. • 1 bifolium, 32-stave 355 x 270 mm: paginated 45-48. • 1 folio, 32-stave 355 x 270 mm: paginated 49-50. Annotated: 'good - End'. • 1 bifolium, 32-stave 355 x 270 mm: paginated 51-53 followed by un-numbered blank page. At the top of p. 53: 'End'; further down the page: '5 o'clock / strokes of the / Glockenspiel'.

(2). ff. 12-31. [In a Summer Garden]

• Threlfall, VI/17. • Draft full score (pencil), of earlier date than the autograph full score (dated Spring 1908) which is MS Mus. 1745/1/23. • 10 bifolia, 34-stave 355 x 270 mm. • Un-numbered title-page, the score beginning on the verso, pp. [1]-35. The final bifolia (partly ink) is numbered pp. 18-21, forming an earlier draft score for pp. 18-23 of the autograph full score (MS Mus. 1745/1/23). • The title-page lists ten alternative titles, all of which (except for 'Rhapsody') contain the word 'Summer'; the tenth title listed is 'In a summer garden'.

(3). ff. 32-41. 'Harmonic Dances' (i.e. 'A Dance Rhapsody [No. 1]')

• Threlfall, VI/18. • Draft score (pencil). The beginning (headed 'End also') only includes part of the cor anglais solo (marked 'Caravanserail') and not the bass oboe. The final fast coda is not included; nor are several short intermediary sections. • 4 bifolia and 2 folios, 34-stave 400 x 300 mm. The two single folios are pp. 15-16 and 19-20.

(4). ff. 42-82. 'North Country Sketches', including some draft scores

Page 73 2021-07-17 • Threlfall, VI/20. • For the final autograph full score, see MS Mus. 1745/1/24.

4.1. ff. 42-56. 'Woodlands, meadows & moors' (Various sketches)

• 1 bifolium (30-stave 400 x 300 mm) which acts a wrapper to the folios listed below, and has the following title (pencil) to the outer page: 'Woodlands, meadows & moors / Dance [struck-through] / 1914 / North Country Sketches'. • Front cover verso: 8 bars (ink) of the final version of In a Summer Garden. Followed by sketches (pencil) for 'Slow dance'. • Within the bifolium, various pencil sketches on 13 folios (3 bifolia and 7 single leaves). • The back page of the outer-bifolium is blank.

4.2. ff. 57-60. 'Autumn'

• Draft score (pencil), also entitled 'The wind sounds in the Forest'. 2 bifolia, 30-stave 400 x 300 mm.

4.3. ff. 61-62. 'Winter Landscape 1913'

• Draft score (pencil). 1 bifolium, 30-stave 400 x 300 mm.

4.4. ff. 63-72. 'Slow Dance'

• Draft score (pencil), with a different and struck-through introduction on p. 1 (paginated pp. 1-20). 5 bifolia, 30-stave, 400 x 300 mm.

4.5. ff. 73-76. [Part of the 4th movement]

• Draft score (pencil) of part of the 4th movement: cues 43 + 5 to 49 + 4. Paginated pp. 9-16. 2 bifolia, 30-stave, 400 x 300 mm.

4.6. ff. 77-82. '(The wind sounds in the forest)'

• A further draft score (pencil, dated 1913) of the first movement. Paginated pp. [1]-12. 3 bifolia, 36-stave 450 x 327 mm.

(5). ff. 83-96. ['A Dance Rhapsody No. 2']

• 3-stave pencil sketch. 1 bifolium, 20-stave 348 x 270 mm. • 'Dance'. A draft score (pencil), to bar 200. Paginated pp. 1-[23] (p. 16 duplicate number). Includes short scores notes pp. 14-15 carrying the music towards the final climax. 6 bifolia, 24-stave 358 x 270 mm. • Threlfall, VI/22. • For the autograph full score, see MS Mus. 1745/1/28.

(6). ff. 97-115. [A Poem of Life and Love]

• Threlfall, VI/25.

6.1. ff. 97-102. Miscellaneous fragments (in the hands of Eric Fenby and Balfour Gardiner)

• f. 97. Fragment of a two-piano score (blue ink, Fenby), equivalent to pp. 14-15 of Balfour Gardiner's arrangement although the allocation between the players differs (for Gardiner's arrangement, see MS Mus. 1745/1/32, ff. 1-25). 1 folio, 14-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 98-99. Longer fragment (blue ink, Fenby), equivalent to pp. 14-16 of Gardiner's arrangement. 1 bifolium, 14-stave 350 x 270 mm. The lower portion of the second leaf is missing (torn away), and its verso is blank. • f. 100. The ending to the arrangement, in Gardiner's hand (black ink). 1 folio, 14-stave 350 x 270 mm. • f. 101. 'strings shimmering on the bridge 7/4'. Sketch (pencil, Fenby) for the start of A Song of Summer. On the verso, an earlier sketch (pencil, Fenby) for the same, headed 'Strings & violas all divided'. The upper portion only (6 staves) of a single folio. • f. 102. A single page of short score sketches (pencil, Fenby) for bars 72-93 of A Song of Summer [1929]. 1 bifolium (first 3 pages blank), 20-stave 356 x 265 mm. (For sketches in Fenby's hand for bars 56-71, see MS Mus. 1745/1/31, ff. 35-36).

6.2. ff. 103-109. Fragments of the original full score (in Delius's hand)

• Originally paginated (ink) pp. 13-14 and 32-43. Taken together with the pages in MS Mus.

Page 74 2021-07-17 1745/1/31 (ff. 1-33) and further material held in the Bodleian Library, the material listed below completes the original autograph full score of the work. • f. 103. (pp 13-14). Headed 'Requiem' (by Jelka Delius). Scored in pencil. 1 folio, 26-stave 398 x 300 mm. • ff. 104-105. 'gradually slowing & quieting down'. Ink with pencil additions. Pp. 32-35 (with re-pagination in pencil, as pp. 25-27 by JD). 1 bifolium, 26-stave 398 x 300 mm. At the top of p. 33, JD has written 'copy from here'. • f. 106. (pp. 36-37) Ink. 1 folio, 26-stave 398 x 300 mm. • ff. 107-108. pp. 38-41. 'With animation but rather slower than at first & broader'. Includes orchestral cue numbers 36, 37, 38 (blue pencil) and metronome marks. 1 bifolium, 26-stave 398 x 300 mm. • f. 109. pp. 42-43. Cue number 39. 1 folio, 26-stave 398 x 300 mm.

6.3. ff. 110-115. Pages from Jelka Delius's copy score

• Probably made in 1924, these pages from JD's copy score immediately follow ff. 24-33 in MS Mus. 1745/1/31. • 4 bifolia, all 28-stave 400 x 302 mm, as follows: pp. 21-24 (ink); p. 25 (ink) and 3 blank pages; pp. 30-[31] (pencil) and 2 blank pages; pp. 30-[33] (pencil), with p. [32] blank except for bar lines. N.B. p. 30 in this bifolium is not the same as p. 30 in the previous bifolium.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/9 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Drafts ([1896]-[1930])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/9

Creation Date [1896]-[1930]

Extent and Format 1 file (106 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Drafts ([1896]-[1930])

Scope and Content (1). For works subsequently published:

• ff. 1-4. Piano Concerto in C minor. • ff. 5-9. Early material and sketches for Lebenstanz and for Paris. • ff. 10-20. Sketches for Sea Drift, including some pages marked Cynara. • ff. 21-30. Two Pieces for Small Orchestra. Sketches and drafts for 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring' and for 'Summer Night on the River'. • ff. 31-40. Sonata No. 1 for violin and pianoforte. • ff. 41-56. Miscellaneous sketches, including material relating to: Cello Sonata (f. 41); Fennimore and Gerda (f. 42); Lebenstanz (f. 43); In a Summer Garden (f. 43v-44); sketch headed 'Gerda?' (ff. 45-46); 'The song of midday' - an early sketch for A Mass of Life, II/3 (f. 47); Appalachia ('O honey') and 'End Tanz Lied', also from A Mass of Life (f. 47v); Appalachia (f. 48v); Eventyr and 'Avant que tu ne t'en ailles' (f. 49); unidentified material (for piano and violin?) and Lebenstanz (ff. 50-51); various pencil sketches (several of which marked 'good') including material for Dance Rhapsody No. 2, 'Eventyre' [sic], and Dance for Harpsichord (ff. 52-55).

(2). For the inconcluded work provisionally titled 'On the Moors' and/or 'Impressions of Nature':

• ff. 57-58. Bifolium, cut down to oblong format. On the recto of f. 57 and on f. 58v, a 3-stave draft (ink) headed in pencil 'on the moors' and 'Impressions of Nature'. On the two inner pages of the bifolium, a pencil sketch for the choral version of Appalachia. • f. 59v. 'End of Moors'. • f. 60. Ink draft, followed by pencil on the verso. • f. 61. Ink, including motives from Over the hills and far away. • ff. 62-63. Bifolium headed 'On the moors (Impressions of Nature) / 4 pieces' (f. 62), and

Page 75 2021-07-17 'Sunday morning on the moors' (f. 63). In the margin (f. 63v), in pencil: 'Nils Lyne'. • ff. 64-69. Draft score (ink) on 3 bifolia. Pencilled across f. 8: 'Nils Lyne'. On f. 69v, the heading 'Mountain poem' and , lower down the page among short score notes, 'See over the hills'. • ff. 70-71. Bifolium, paginated pp. 9-12. A pencil-sketched score relating to 'Nils Lyne'. For continuous material paginated pp. 5-8, see MS Mus. 1745/1/39. • f. 72. The lower portion of a folio containing a pencilled sketch score including the 'Celesta & Harp' motive. • f. 73. The lower portion of a folio, headed 'on the moors' with harp and celesta motive (ink); on the verso (inverted), 'Summer night' (ink), the title pencilled-over by the heading 'Niels Lyne'.

(3). For works of the later period:

• ff. 74-80. Sketches for a Piano Concerto (not the published Concerto), beginning (f. 74) with a sketch (ink) in two-piano format, 'orchestra' indicated; ff. 77-80 are pencil sketches, in Delius's later hand, headed 'Piano Concerto'. • ff. 81-82 (1 bifolium, f. 9v blank). Pencil score for 'Lament' for cello and piano (in Eric Fenby's hand), comprising the penultimate draft for the Elegy (Threlfall, VII/8). Every fifth bar is numbered in red crayon. Two extra bars (later deleted) occur between bars 21 and 22 of the printed version. • f. 83. Sketches in Delius's late hand (pencil) including a 15-bar 2-stave sketch of the music ('good' in the margin) which later became the Caprice (up to bar 19 of the published work). On f. 83v, pencilled sketches for cello and piano ('slow movement' written in the margin), material not found elsewhere. • f. 84. Headed 'good' on recto and verso, pencil sketches for the Elegy (on two staves, no indication of solo instrument). Some notes reminiscent of the Violin Concerto. • f. 85. Pencil sketches, including the melody which appears on p. 50 of the published score of the Requiem. • ff. 86-87. Headed 'Cortege Funebre', 2- and 3-stave pencil drafts of the whole Elegy (no indication of instrumentation). Further sketch material follows, (marked 'good'), resembling the 'Valse' from Five Piano Pieces. • ff. 88-101. Sketches for Songs of Farewell (Threlfall, II/9), made [1920 or 1921], although the material that forms item (b) is written on the verso of a bill dated 1904 (W. Straker Ltd, General Steam Printers, Kensington). • f. 88. A narrow strip of plain paper (35 x 180 mm) on which Delius has noted (ink) a 3-bar motive in 3/4 used in Movement I. • ff. 89-90. An early pencilled draft in choral score of movement I. (1 bifolium, 20-stave 360 x 280 mm.) • f. 91. Upper portion of a folio of manuscript paper (13 staves) containing sketch material (pencil) that includes the cello introduction to movement II. (145 x 255 mm.) • ff. 92-93. A bifolium originally used for a 2-stave pencil sketch for part of Poem of Life and Love, then inverted and reversed and used for a 3-stave draft of movement II, words and harmonies only with voice notes drafted up to 'sea and sky'. (1 bifolium, 16-stave 360 x 266 mm.) • ff. 94-95. A later pencil draft of movement II. Includes Fenby's indication of instruments on f. 19. (1 bifolium, 16-stave 360 x 266 mm.) • ff. 96-97. The orchestral ending to movement II (in 2-stave pencil), followed by 'Now finale to the shore' (movement V). On f. 97v, 'The garden of the Caliph's Palace' (i.e. Hassan, Prelude to Act 3), almost identical to bars 27-32 and 12-17 of Songs of Farewell - these bars do not appear in ff. 89-90 above but they are included in the draft full score in MS Mus. 1745/2/13/5. (1 bifolium, 16-stave 360 x 266 mm.) • f. 98. Pencil draft of movement III, words added by Fenby. Without the cello counterpoint. The draft continues as bars 122-145 of the work. Then, to bar 154, Fenby overwrites and drafts the harmony, adding the words. Bars 155-156 do not appear. (1 folio, 16-stave 360 x 266 mm.) • f. 99. A pencil draft in Fenby's hand of the climax and ending of movement III from bar 157 onwards, soprano line and accompaniment only. On f. 24v, the date '17.6.27' (ink) in Jelka Delius's hand, noting (in pencil) a ?violin line, 10 bars, 4/4. (1 folio, 14-stave 304 x 230 mm.) • f. 100. Pencil draft (9 bars) of movement IV, from the beginning to bar 186. With Fenby's annotation '3 bars' in the lower right margin. Verso blank. • f. 101. On the verso of a bill for paper and envelopes received from W. Straker Ltd, Kensington (5 December 1904), a 2-stave notation (pencil) of material used in movements IV-V. (210 x 135 mm)

(4). ff. 102-106. For Fantastic Dance

• ff. 102-104. Autograph draft full score (pencil, no title), for the first 20 bars. Folios 104v and the next folio are blank. (2 bifolia, 24-stave 362 x 265 mm.)

Page 76 2021-07-17 • ff. 105-106. In addition to autograph pencil sketch material for the middle section of Fantastic Dance on f. 106v (inverted), ff. 105v and 106r contain a draft for a piano piece (not otherwise seen) and also material for the Dance for Harpsichord. The recto of f. 105 contains miscellaneous pencil sketch material. (1 bifolium, 20-stave 360 x 265 mm.) • The completed full score and piano-conductor part (both in Fenby's hand) are MS Mus. 1745/3/16.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/10 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Drafts for Early Works ([1886]-[c 1930])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/10

Creation Date [1886]-[c 1930]

Extent and Format 1 file (174 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Drafts for Early Works ([1886]-[c 1930])

Scope and Content (1). ff. 1-23. Early drafts of works(s) for piano and orchestra (ff. 1-23)

• ff. 1-9. Autograph draft without title (ink over pencil with pencil additions, and in pencil only from the bottom of f. 7v). Paginated pp. [1]-18. Beginning in C# minor 3/4, in two-piano score. With some indications of orchestration. (4 bifolia and 1 folio, all 14-stave 348 x 266 mm.) • ff. 10-13. Autograph draft without title (ink over pencil with pencil additions, and in pencil only from the bottom of f. 11). Partly paginated [3]-[10] (only pp. 4-7 bear page numbers). Again, beginning in C# minor [3/4], in two-piano score, before turning to D-flat major Allegro con moto 6/8 (marked 'last movement', f. 10). On f. 12 (p. 7), the draft appears to return to the same matter as f. 1 above. At the head of f. 12v: 'After 2nd Theme before Durchführung in F. Durchführung in E.' An early form of the Irmelin motive appears here. On the final page of the draft (f. 13) are two-stave pencil notes, passage marked 'Cadenza'. Folio 13v is blank. (2 folios and 1 bifolium, 14-stave 348 x 266 mm.) • ff. 14-17. Beginning with two systems in ink (cf. ff. 1-2 above), followed by pencil sketches marked 'slow movement' and 'last movement'. The Irmelin motive appears again and is ringed. (1 bifolium and 2 folios, 14-stave 348 x 266 mm.) • ff. 18-19. Beginning (ink with pencil overwriting) Pesante G minor 3/4, some material as above. Folio 18v is blank, and f. 19 contains related 2-stave rough pencil sketches. (1 bifolium, 14-stave 348 x 266 mm.) • ff. 20-23. Headed 'Fantaisie pour Piano & Orchestre'. G minor, M ässig [Moderately], C 12/8, two-piano score (ink). From f. 21v, continuing in pencil only. (2 bifolia, 14-stave 348 x 266 mm.)

(2). ff. 24-35. Various sketches for early works

• ff. 24-25. 'Fest auf Solhaug'. Pencil draft score for full orchestra, F minor 6/4. Scored only on ff. 24-25 recto. (2 bifolia gathered, 24-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 26-28. Sketches for Paa Vidderne (overture). On f. 28v, a 23-bar 2-stave ink draft in G-flat, similar in style to Badinage. (3 folios, 16-stave 346 x 263 mm.) • f. 29. 'Endymion'. Pencil sketch in A major 3/4, indicating flute, oboe and strings. The verso is blank. (1 folio, 14-stave 348 x 268 mm.) • f. 30. Pencil sketch material similar to the previous folio, and including the following words: 'this is to wish Richard Le Gallienne and his fair spouse a happy new year'. (In 1897, the English poet Richard Le Gallienne married Julie Noiregard.) (1 folio, 16-stave 348 x 280 mm.) • ff. 31-32. Two-stave pencil sketches. On f. 31v, a passage headed 'Sakuntala' (which does not refer to the work of that title), and on f. 32, the heading 'Motifs Irmelin' (again, not recognizable as such). Folio 32v is blank. (1 bifolium, 16-stave 346 x 265 mm.) • ff. 33-35. Pencil sketches for material found in Hiawatha. Similar material is sketched

Page 77 2021-07-17 in the notebook MS Mus. 1745/1/28.

(3). ff. 36-90. Various draft scores for early orchestral works.

• ff. 36-39. 'Valse Lente / I'. Pencil draft score for orchestra (strings, woodwind, and horns only). E minor, 3/4. From f. 38v, a first draft pencil score for 'Elegie' (C minor, 3/4), for which see also ff. 83v-90 below. (2 bifolia, 24-stave 340 x 265 mm.) • ff. 40-41. The last four pages of a pencil draft full score (C major, 2/4) of an orchestral work not otherwise identified. (1 bifolium, 22-stave 353 x 270 mm). The earlier portion of this manuscript appears to be MS Mus. 1823, ff. 2-5 (entitled 'Mazurka'). • f. 42. Two pages of a pencil draft full score (C major, 2/4), slightly resembling the Marche Caprice but not otherwise identified. (1 bifolium, 24-stave 355 x 270 mm.) • f. 43. Deleted pencil draft full score of material resembling the second theme of Paa Vidderne (overture). (1 folio, 24-stave 355 x 270 mm.) • ff. 44-45. Pencil draft full score, including an Irmelin motive, and also the G minor theme found in the 'Fantaisie' (ff. 20-23 above). (1 bifolium, 16-stave 344 x 265 mm.) • f. 46. Pencil draft score, 12 bars in F# major, flute theme ('last time'), as noted on the title-page of Petite Suite d'Orchestre (see MS Mus. 1745/2/1 and 1745/2/9). (1 folio, 14-stave 348 x 265 mm.) • f. 47. Pencil draft full score (F# major, 6/8), 11 bars. (1 folio, 20-stave 352 x 270 mm.) • ff. 48-53. Pencil draft score (numbered pp. 2-13), B major, 4/4. 'Skerzo' is pencilled across f. 48, 'mocking bird' on f. 50r, 'fireflies' on f. 52v, and 'Hiawatha' on f. 53v. (3 bifolia gathered, 20-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 54-61. Numbered pp. 56-70 complement the draft entitled 'A L'Amore' in MS Mus. 1745/1/39, ff. 19-23. The final page of pencilled notes (f. 61v, which is not numbered) appears to refer to the Scherzo of Petite Suite d'Orchestre - see MS Mus. 1745/2/1. (4 bifolia gathered, 20-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 62-68. Entitled 'Serenade' (pencil), and numbered pp. [1]-15, a full score (ink over pencil, pencil only from f. 64v). No tempo, D major 6/8. The final two pages are blank. (4 bifolia gathered, 24-stave 356 x 272 mm.) • ff. 69-74. Entitled 'Ouverture', a draft full score in pencil. G minor 6/8 'Allegretto tranquillo'. The music also appears in part of the 'Fantaisie' (ff. 20-23 above) and also features the motive later used in the String Quartet. (3 bifolia gathered, 24-stave 356 x 272 mm.) • ff. 75-76. Entitled 'Rhapsody Floridienne' (pencil draft, clefs in ink). D major C. (1 bifolium, 24-stave 342 x 265 mm.) • ff. 77-82. Entitled 'Nuit en Florida' but the same music as the previous item ('Rhapsody Floridienne'). D major C, 'Allegretto'. Paginated pp. 1-10, 12. There is no p. 11, and the final page (f. 82v) is not paginated. Beginning in ink, but moving to pencil on f. 78, and pencil only thereafter. On f. 82, the dance theme used in Florida/III. (3 bifolia, 24-stave 342 x 265 mm.) • ff. 83-90. First page blank, beginning on f. 83v and entitled 'Elegie' (two rejected titles struck-through: 'Idylle de la Nuit' and 'Plainte d'Amour'). Unfinished full score, ink over pencil and pencil only on the final two pages (f. 90). C minor 4/4 'Andante tranquillo'. For an earlier draft, see ff. 38v-39 above.

(4). ff. 91-140. Miscellaneous sketches, mostly titled but not necessarily identified.

• f. 91. 'Prelude 1st Act'. G minor 6/8, 'Adagio'. Ink. Later material resembles the theme of the Prelude to Act III of Irmelin, and also III/461. (1 folio, 26-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 92. Ink sketch of the same material. Inverted, f. 92v has pencil sketch material. (1 folio, 16-stave 346 x 264 mm.) • ff. 93-95. Beginning with the heading (?)'American Suite', miscellaneous pencil notes, including melodies used for Dance for Harpsichord and for 'Floridian Tanze' (f. 93). The bifolium was turned to draft the inner pencil material. Inserted within the bifolium, the upper portion only of a folio (f. 95) bearing the draft of ?chorus material. On f. 94v (also inverted), material relating to Maud. (1 bifolium, 20-stave 350 x 268 mm., and a partial folio showing 12 staves) • f. 96. Pencil sketches headed 'Suite / slow movement', and music also found on f. 42 above. On f. 96v, a rejected p. 20 of full score including a violin part in ink. (1 folio, 20-stave 350 x 268 mm.) • f. 97. Pencil draft headed 'Harmonie', in B major, scored on the back of a printed music sheet (plate 8419). The sheet has suffered damage and loss - the first bar of the draft is missing. (1 folio, 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 98-101. Headed 'Quartet', two pages of draft score, beginning C major C; on f. 98v, Allegro 3/2. Inserted, bifoliate manuscript strip (ff. 100-101) with a passage in pencil annotated 'quartet' and another 'sonata'; also on the strip, in Eric Fenby's hand (ink), a bar of piano accompaniment. Inverted, f. 99 contains other 2-stave material in pencil. (1 bifolium, 20-stave 360 x 282 mm., and a double manuscript strip showing 5 staves.)

Page 78 2021-07-17 • f. 102. Ink score of part of another string quartet movement, G major 6/8 Con moto. (1 folio, 20-stave 350 x 265 mm.) • f. 103. Headed 'Symphony' (pencil), ink draft fragment. On f. 103v, pencil notes (crossed-out) for Act 3 of The Magic Fountain. (1 folio, 32-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 104-105. Pencil sketches marked 'danse' (cf. ff. 36-39 above), and material for 'Elegie' and for Dance for Harpsichord. (1 bifolium, 14-stave 348 x 268 mm.) • f. 106. pencil sketches headed 'plainte d'amour' (i.e. 'Elegie' - see above). On f. 106v, pencil notes based on the melody of 'Rhapsody Floridienne' (see ff. 75-76 above). (1 folio, 14-stave 348 x 268 mm.) • ff. 107-108. Pencil draft headed 'After Holger Drachmann' ('Spring Song' crossed-out). D-flat major 9/8, on 3 staves, and then 2 staves. (1 bifolium, 10-stave 345 x 260 mm.) • ff. 109-110. Ink draft with pencil additions, headed 'Summer night (Lyse Naetter) / Symphonic Poem'. D major C. (1 bifolium, 10-stave 345 x 260 mm.) • f. 111. Pencil short score with much over-writing, headed 'Lyse Naetter (Sommer nacht)'. (1 folio, 24-stave 356 x 270 mm.) • f. 112. Pencil draft headed '(Sommernachte)', in C major 2/4, Allegro moderato. Includes German words, and English words on the verso. (1 folio, 20-stave 348 x 270 mm.) • f. 113. Brief pencil draft on the first page only (verso blank) headed 'Sommernacht', the music resembling the last interlude in The Magic Fountain, Act 2. (1 folio, 24-stave 340 x 265 mm.) • f. 114. Pencil draft headed 'Sommernacht' - four systems of orchestral score, B-flat minor 6/8. (1 folio, 24-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • ff. 115-116. Under the title 'Nocturne', the start of a score (D major C) similar to 'Nuit en Florida' (ff. 77-82 above). On f. 115v, a two-stave pencil sketch headed 'Entracte'. The recto of f. 116 is blank, and f. 116v contains further two-stave material at the bottom of the page. (1 bifolium, 24-stave 340 x 265 mm.) • f. 117. Ink, headed 'Mineur', marked for 'Solo Cello', with accompaniment. On the verso, various notes (ink and pencil) including the 'Silver Stream' motive from Irmelin, Act 2. (1 folio, 18-stave 346 x 268 mm.) • f. 118. Two-stave pencil sketch, without title. On the verso, ink copy 'Finale', Swedish words. (1 folio, 12-stave 340 x 260 mm.) • ff. 119-121. Two-stave pencil sketches which include motives and harmonies found in Paris. (1 folio and 1 split bifolium, 12-stave 290 x 235 mm.) • f. 122. Brief pencil sketch on 2 staves, 4 bars only. Verso blank. (1 folio, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 123. Pencil sketches including, on the recto, the Lebenstanz motive. (1 folio, 24-stave oblong 270 x 350 mm.) • f. 124. After an extensive contrapuntal draft in open score, there is an 18-bar 2-stave draft of a melody also found in MS Mus. 1745/1/39 (at the foot of f. 56) where it appears a tone lower in 4/4. (1 folio, 16-stave 350 x 273 mm.) • f. 125. Marked 'Slowly', a pencil 2-stave draft of a similar melody. Further down the page, 'Introduction', a draft of the music in MS Mus. 1745/1/39 (ff. 60 and 85). (1 folio, 16-stave oblong 268 x 350 mm.) • f. 126. Pencil drafts, including at the foot of the recto, the motive from the String Quartet/II. (1 folio, 15-stave 350 x 265 mm.) • f. 127. Unidentified pencil workings. (1 folio, 10-stave 345 x 275 mm.) • f. 128. Pencil workings headed 'Appassionato', E major C. (1 folio, 16-stave 345 x 265 mm.)

• ff. 129-131. Pencil drafts, of which f. 129 only is inverted and marked 'slow movement'. The material includes the central melody of In a Summer Garden. (1 bifolium and 1 folio, 18-stave 350 x 272 mm.) • f. 132. Entirely blank except for (pencil) 2 bars and a single note at the foot of the recto. (1 folio, 24-stave 355 x 270 mm.) • ff. 133-140. Miscellaneous fragments, including a 1910 Christmas card (f. 140) from Adine and Norman O'Neill. All, including the card, contain musical notations.

(5). ff. 141-174. Manuscripts not in Delius's hand, and copies by Delius of other composers' music.

• ff. 141-150. In Delius's hand, an extract from the vocal score of Wagner's Parsifal, Act 3, corresponding to pp. 9-60 of the full score (from G[urnemanz]: 'Von dort her kam das Stöhnen' to 'Oh Gnade! Höchstes Heil! Oh!' (cue 237). (5 bifolia, mixed paper numbered intermittently 1-[20], all approx. 350 x 270 mm.) • f. 151, Without title, 'Andante' for strings, E-flat 2/4, in score. 9 bars in ink followed by, on the verso, 9 bars in pencil. (1 folio, 12-stave 305 x 230 mm.) • f. 152. By Carl Maria von Weber, ink. Verso blank. (1 folio, 10 hand-drawn staves 232 x 220 mm.) • f. 153. In Eric Fenby's hand (pencil), untitled score, 5 bars only on first page, remainder blank. (1 bifolium, 32-stave 450 x 310 mm.) • ff. 154-166. Bound orchestral score, the original front board annotated (blue crayon): 'Score

Page 79 2021-07-17 without / Name or title'. Adagio in B minor for full orchestra, chorus and brass 'en scène'. Manuscript (black ink) with instrument names printed. 25 pages (13 numbered folios, blank folios following, 36-stave 445 x 310 mm.) • ff. 167-174. In addition, 1 folio (pencil, 'Horns in F') and 6 miscellanious bifolia.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/11 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebooks (1887-[?1924])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/11

Creation Date 1887-[?1924]

Extent and Format 7 notebooks, plus various manuscript 'strips'

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebooks (1887-[?1924])

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MS Mus. 1745/2/11/1 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 1 (1887)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/11/1

Creation Date 1887

Extent and Format 1 notebook (46 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 1 (1887)

Physical Characteristics Black-covered boards, 45 leaves (8-stave 168 x 263 mm).

Scope and Content The notebook, which contains dated exercises (in ink) including canon and fugue, is evidence of Delius's studies at the Leipzig Conservatoire.

• f. 1. Flyleaf, with Delius's signature ('Fritz Delius'), dated 'March 29/87'. • f. 2. The first entry (dated 'March 31/87'): 'Der Doppelte Contrapunkt'. • ff. 44v-45v. The last dated entry ('Nov. 1st 87'). • ff. 46v-45v. With the notebook reversed, a pencilled song draft (another setting of 'Der Fichtenbaum', first set in 1886). • The remains of 3 removed leaves can be seen following f. 46.

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The notebook is discussed in Robert Threlfall, Delius' Musical Apprenticeship: Incorporating a Survey of the Leipzig Notebooks (London: Delius Trust, 1994), pp. 80-104.

Page 80 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/2/11/2 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 2 ([1890])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/11/2

Creation Date [1890]

Extent and Format 1 notebook (folios 47-96)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 2 ([1890])

Physical Characteristics Green cardboard covers, 47 ff (one removed), 6-stave 95 x 133 mm. With 1 loose paper sheet (before f. 1) and two silver foil inserts as page markers (at ff. 14 and 41).

Scope and Content A small, undated music notebook, with a label to the inside front cover: 'H. Lard, 25 Rue Feydeau, Paris'. The contents (all notation) are chiefly written in pencil, with some in ink.

• In addition to the stationer's label pasted to the inside front cover (H. Lard), Delius has noted there in pencil two books: 'Fraser's [sic] / Golden Bow [sic] / David Cox / on Folk lore'. (The Golden Bough by J. G. Frazer was first published in two volumes in 1890.) • f. 50. 'Nocturne'. • f. 51. At the foot, a system of music also met in the sketched setting of 'Das gelbe Laub erzittert' (Heine) in MS Mus. 1745/2/6. • f. 52. 'Endymion (Act 3)'. • f. 54. 'Vorspiel'. • f. 55v. 'Prelude to Endymion'. • f. 58. 'Irmelin'. • f. 58v relates to the Prelude to Act 3 (Irmelin). • f. 60. 'Sonata'. • f. 63v. 'Sundown, Symphony'. • f. 64. 'Irmelin' (in the margin), with words set: 'Am I dreaming Am I dreaming'. • f. 64v. 'Vorspiel to First Act'. • f. 65. 'Irmelin Prelude to 1st Act'. • f. 67. 'Irmelin motif'. • f. 67v. 'Rolf (in the margin), and 'Nils comes upon the Castle' • f. 68. 'Prelude 1st Act'. • f. 68v. 'Sundown, Irmelin's Room'. • f. 69. 'Nils motif'. • f. 69v. 'Till the moon is up'. • f. 71. 'Marcato Wedding'. • f. 71v. 'Irmelin fair' and (margin) 'Longing motif'. • f. 72. 'Sundown' and (set) 'I sit alone'. • f. 72v. 'Sundown'. • f. 73. 'Nils song. Pipe plays.' And (margin) '3 Act'. • f. 73v. 'End of Prelude'. • f. 74v. 'Prelude before last Scene'. • f. 77. In margin, 'Nils adieux to Castle'. • f. 81v. 'Irmelin' (ink). • f. 82. 'Nils Song' (ink). • From f. 83v, pages are inverted, but foliation continues as from the front of the notebook.

• f. 84. In the margin, 'Valse' [struck-through] and 'danse'. Across the page, 'Parisiana'. • f. 84v. 'Parisiana' [oboe melody]. • f. 87v. 'Bretagne'. • f. 88v. 'Kyrie Eleison'. • After f. 40v, a piece of silver foil is inserted. • ff. 90-89. Preliminary draft of 'Alle de voksende Skygger' (Jacobsen). For a more developed draft of a quite different setting of the same words, see MS Mus 1745/2/6; and for another draft setting (8 bars only), see MS Mus. 1745/1/36 (f. 86r). No complete and final setting of this poem appears to exist. • f. 91. In ink, ?tunes collected in Brittany (an address in Finisterre is quoted). • f. 95v. 'Danse & chanson Bretonne'.

Page 81 2021-07-17 Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

MS Mus. 1745/2/11/3 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 3 ([1895]-[?1907])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/11/3

Creation Date [1895]-[?1907]

Extent and Format 1 notebook (folios 97-124)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 3 ([1895]-[?1907])

Physical Characteristics Music notebook, sewn without covers. 8-stave 145 x 225 mm. With 4 loose sheets inserted.

Scope and Content The notebook (undated) contains notes, in ink and in pencil, for several works, as follows:

• Koanga: 'Calinda dance' (f. 97); 'Quintette' (f. 98); 'Entracte to 3rd Act Koanga' (f. 104); and a two-page description (in English) of the 'Prelude to III Act' (ff. 123v-124, notebook inverted and reversed). • 'Danse lente' [i.e. Badinage] on f. 99. (See also the ink drafts in MS Mus. 1745/2/5, ff. 5-7.) • Piano Concerto (ff. 102v-103). • Folkeraadet (ff. 107-108 and 113-114), f. 114 headed 'The poet & the girl'. • Paris: 'Joyeuse nuit' (f. 117v), and 'Carneval' (f. 120v). • f. 123 (inverted) is headed 'The Bells, Poe' (referring to the poem of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe).

In addition, there are four loose sheets that contain some material of apparently later date:

• f. 109. Small sheet of ruled paper headed 'Page 53 Solo Tenor' - stave drawn and tenor entry noted [from A Mass of Life]. Underneath: 'Top C instead of low C' [correction of misprint, ?1907]. Underneath this, in pencil, restaurants are listed. Verso blank. • f. 110. Small sheet of plain paper listing various books by George Meredith, J. M. Barrie, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Paul Bourget. Also listed: 'to get / Meistersinger! / Parsival / in Pocket Partitur'. • f. 111. Small sheet of ruled paper listing a Norwegian itinerary ('try to find a Sanatorium where Jelka can paint'). • f. 112. 8-stave leaf torn from a notebook with sketch material on both recto and verso, the verso marked 'requiem / no 4'.

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Page 82 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/2/11/4 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 4 ([1904]-[1920s])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/11/4

Creation Date [1904]-[1920s]

Extent and Format 1 notebook (folios 125-139)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 4 ([1904]-[1920s])

Physical Characteristics A 'home-made' notebook (sewn) covered in brown paper turned-in (12 ff, 12-stave paper 135 x 175 mm.).

Scope and Content Undated material, in pencil and some in ink, with the following headings and annotations:

• f. 126. A loose leaf (ruled page from a notebook of smaller size) containing a list of various books by George Meredith, Henry James, J. M. Barrie, and Gustave Flaubert (repeating many of the books included on a similar sheet of paper in the previous notebook). • f. 127. 'Zarathrustra' (passage in pencil marked 'Women's Chorus'). Beneath, under the heading (ink) 'Modern Requiem', a short score notation of a passage from the closing section of Sea Drift, with words from the poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' by Walt Whitman ('O throat, O trembling throat'), continuing onto f. 127v (notes in ink, words in pencil). • f. 127v. At the foot of the page, 'Nietzsche' (pencil), referring to the music (ink) that begins on f. 127v and continues onto f. 128 (cf. A Mass of Life). • f. 128v. The heading 'Modern Requiem' is struck-through (by pencil) and 'Dowson' (pencil) is written alongside. • f. 129. 'Sea drift' in the right margin, and 'Chimeres & Realities' at the foot of the page (the latter title also appears over an unfinished short-score sketch in MS Mus. 1745/1/39, f. 64). • f. 130. The ink heading 'Modern Requiem' is overwritten by 'Mittags' (pencil), the page containing a sketch for A Mass of Life (the later sections of II/4). • f. 130v. Headed with the titles of two poems by Whitman (to which Delius has added definite articles): 'The Song of Myself' and 'The Song of the Open Road'. Accompanied by a Whitmanesque title of Delius's devising: 'The Song of my Life'. • f. 132. At the foot of the page, 'Zarathustra' is written beneath the bell motive. • f. 133v. 'Lento molto', 2/2 (unidentified harmonic skeleton follows). • f. 134v. Half-way down the page, 'Cynara' and 'I cried for madder music' (words to final verse). • f. 135. Headed 'Concerto' (but not the music of the published work). • f. 135v. Headed 'Cynara' and 'I cried for madder music'. • ff. 136v-137. Headed (in red crayon across both pages): 'The song of the sea The song of the woods The song of the night'. The ink draft beneath is not otherwise known. • f. 137v. A 16-bar melody that appears to be in the hand (pencil) of Jelka Delius (as amanuensis?) • f. 138. Blank. • f. 138v. A few bars of harmonic progression characteristic of the mature Delius (cf. 'Little Birdie', Two Song for Children). • On the inside back cover, a London address in pencil which includes 'Gloucester Place'.

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The notebook has been published in facsimile: Robert Threlfall (ed.), A Musical Notebook: Frederick Delius (London: Delius Trust, 1993).

Page 83 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/2/11/5 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 5 ([1904]-[1907])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/11/5

Creation Date [1904]-[1907]

Extent and Format 1 notebook (folios 140-153)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 5 ([1904]-[1907])

Physical Characteristics Notebook made by cutting the top 12 staves from a bound score MS: 143 x 356 mm. Folios 23 and 38 are only a half-page in width.

Scope and Content Most of the notebook is unused.

• f. 140. Heading: 'Zarathustra' above 5 bars in ink. • f. 140v. Heading: 'Har du sikt Pan'. • f. 143. Heading: 'Prelude 3rd Act R & J' (although the draft beneath is for the Interlude in Act 3). 'Chorus' (ink) in the right margin. • ff. 144, 144v and 145 each bear the heading 'Cynara'. • Notebook reversed and inverted: • ff. 153-151 refer to the middle section of Brigg Fair. • ff. 149v-147r. A complete pencil draft of the song 'Jeg hører i Natten'.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/11/6 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 6 ([1920]-[?1924])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/11/6

Creation Date [1920]-[?1924]

Extent and Format 1 notebook (16 ff.)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 6 ([1920]-[?1924])

Physical Characteristics Music notebook with brown card covers, 6-stave 163 x 275 mm. (rusted central staples removed).

Scope and Content Label on the outside front cover: 'Norsk Musikforlag / Noder - Musikinstrumenter / Kristiania'. Written on the label in pencil, '32941' and the number '23' circled. The contents are, in the main, pencil sketch material related to Hassan, with some brief additional material relating to Fantastic Dance and to Sonata No. 3 (for violin and piano).

• f. 1. Headed: 'Hassan'. • f. 1v. 'Prelude to Act 4'. • f. 2. 'beggars Dance'. • f. 8v. A note (without heading) of the first two bars of Fantastic Dance. • ff. 9-10. Draft of a work (Sonata No. 3) which was also noted down in simpler form by Jelka Delius in 1924 (cf. MS Mus. 1745/2/5). • Blank folios: 11v, 12v-16v (end).

Page 84 2021-07-17 Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

MS Mus. 1745/2/11/7 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 7 ([?1924])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/11/7

Creation Date [?1924]

Extent and Format 1 notebook (folios 167-169)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 7 ([?1924])

Physical Characteristics Brown paper covers, 6-stave 175 x 260 mm (rusty central staples removed).

Scope and Content Apart from pencil notes on f. 168 (Violin, 5/4) and, inverted. on f. 169 (3 bars only), the notebook is entirely blank.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/11/8 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Various MSS strips containing draft material (Early 20th century)

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Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/11/8

Creation Date Early 20th century

Extent and Format 16 items (folios 170-187)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Various MSS strips containing draft material (Early 20th century)

Physical Characteristics 16 music manuscript strips (13 folio strips and 3 bifolia strips).

Scope and Content Sixteen strips of music manuscript paper containing autograph draft material in pencil and in ink.

None of the material is dated, and only two items have headings ('Orchestra Variations' and 'Dowson'). A few passages are annotated with Delius's characteristic annotation 'good'.

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Page 85 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/2/12 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin ([1890]-[1931])

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Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/12

Creation Date [1890]-[1931]

Extent and Format 3 volumes

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin ([1890]-[1931])

Scope and Content Autograph full score (ink) of the complete opera, bound in three volumes. The score was used by Sir Thomas Beecham for his 1953 production (New Theatre, Oxford) and includes his dynamics and other markings in blue pencil throughout. Bar numbers were added in pencil by Beecham's librarian, George Brownfoot.

The Prelude (1931) to the opera, in the hand of Eric Fenby, is placed with the first volume.

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Custodial History Stamped Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 218.

MS Mus. 1745/2/12/1 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin Act 1, and Prelude to Irmelin ([1890]-[1931])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/12/1

Creation Date [1890]-[1931]

Extent and Format 1 volume and 3 bifolia (63 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin Act 1, and Prelude to Irmelin ([1890]-[1931])

Physical Characteristics 1 volume (365 x 280 mm.), and 3 bifolia (270 x 340 mm.)

Scope and Content (1). ff. 1-6. Prelude [1931] to the opera, full score in the hand (black ink) of Eric Fenby. Based on four themes from the opera, using parts of the Preludes to Acts 1 and 3.

• Threlfall, VI/27. • Performance: 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House. Performed as an Interlude in Act III of Koanga, cond. Beecham. • Publication: 1938, Boosey & Hawkes (Hawkes Concert Edition), full score 8000, pp. 11. • 2 bifolia within an outer bifolia, each 24-stave oblong 270 x 340 mm. • Outer title page, in capitals: 'Prelude / to the / Opera / Irmelin // Frederick Delius'. • On the verso of the title-page, and on the inside back cover, are faint pencil workings. • The two inner bifolia are paginated pp. 1-7, where the score finishes, the verso of which [p. 8] is blank. • The score includes dynamics and other markings in blue pencil by Beecham.

(2). ff. 7-63. Irmelin Act 1 (autograph full score in black ink, bound).

• Threlfall, I/2. • 112 numbered pages, of which the first 7 pages (the introduction) are counted but not numbered, and occluded pp. [8] and [9] are pasted together. Scene I begins on p. 10, the first page that is numbered.

Page 86 2021-07-17 • Scene II, p. 44 (bar 249). • Scene III, p. 48 (bar 291). • Scene IV, p. 53 (bar 347). • Scene V, p. 61 (bar 418). • Scene VI, p. 81 (bar 524). • End of Act 1, p. 112 (bar 692). • The score includes Beecham's dynamics [1953] and other markings in blue pencil, and bar numbers in the hand (pencil) of George Brownfoot. • Cuts are indicated by Beecham (blue pencil) for bars 28-31, 38-42, and 610-614.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/12/2 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin Act 2 ([1890])

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Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/12/2

Creation Date [1890]

Extent and Format 1 volume (59 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin Act 2 ([1890])

Physical Characteristics 1 volume (365 x 280 mm.)

Scope and Content Irmelin Act 2, autograph full score (black ink), bound. Paginated pp. 113-229, consecutive with the previous volume.

• Threlfall, I/2. • Introduction, p. 11. • Scene I, p. 122 (bar 92). • Scene II, p. 156 (bar 315). • Scene III, p. 182 (bar 488). • Scene IV, p. 193 (bar 551). • Scene V, p. 208 (bar 658). • End of Act 2, p. 229 (bar 835). • The score includes dynamics and other markings in blue pencil by Beecham. • Cuts are indicated by Beecham (blue pencil) for bars 41-55, 75-79, 168-169, 350-353, and 449-452.

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Page 87 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/2/12/3 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin Act 3 ([1890])

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Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/12/3

Creation Date [1890]

Extent and Format 1 volume (81 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin Act 3 ([1890])

Physical Characteristics 1 volume (365 x 280 mm.)

Scope and Content Irmelin Act 2, autograph full score (black ink), bound. Paginated pp. 230-381, consecutive with the previous volume.

• Threlfall, I/2. • Introduction, p. 230. • Scene I, pp. 242-327 (bars 95-704). • Prelude, p. 328 (bar 705). • [Scene II], p. 336 (bar 766). • Fine, p. 381 (bar 1072). • On the recto of the folio following p. 381 there are two bars short score in pencil. • The score includes dynamics and other markings in blue pencil by Beecham. • Cuts are indicated by Beecham (blue pencil) for bars 59-70, 489-90, and 882-892. Bars 960-74 were first crossed out by Beecham but then marked 'all IN'. • Paste-overs (of 2 bars full score) appear at bars 1013-14, 1015-16, and 1044-5.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/13 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Various Scores and Draft Material in Large Format ([1897]-[1929])

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Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/13

Creation Date [1897]-[1929]

Extent and Format 8 files

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Various Scores and Draft Material in Large Format ([1897]-[1929])

Scope and Content Various manuscript full score material on large-size paper, from drafts to final scores, for the following works:

• Piano concerto; • Paris; • A Village Romeo and Juliet; • Margot La Rouge; • A Mass of Life; • Cynara; • Songs of Sunset (Songs of Twilight & Sadness); • Fennimore and Gerda; • Appalachia; • The Song of the High Hills;

Page 88 2021-07-17 • Requiem; • Sketches or drafts for various works, on large-size paper; • Drafts for an unfinished work for piano and orchestra.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/13/1 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Piano Concerto; Paris ([1897]-1900)

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Creation Date [1897]-1900

Extent and Format 1 file (137 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Piano Concerto; Paris ([1897]-1900)

Scope and Content (1). Piano Concerto (ff. 1-105)

• Threlfall, VII/4.

(a) ff. 1-15. Various separate sheets of drafts of earlier versions in full score, comprising:

• ff. 1-3. Paginated pp. 19-20 and pp. 21-24 (1 folio and 1 bifolium, 26-stave 400 x 302mm.): ink over pencil, partly scored on p. 19, with the piano part only at the foot of subsequent pages (some pages showing evidence of erasure). The material bears no close resemblance to other surviving versions of the work, although the same thematic material is involved. • ff. 4-15. paginated 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 22, 41, 43, 48, 49, and 51 (28-stave 446 x 310 mm.). Most of the material resembles the 'Fantasy' version (cf. MS Mus. 1745/1/11). At a subsequent date, Delius used the versos of these sheets (except pp. 16 and 22) for other works. Thus, with the exception of pp. 16 and 22, the material in this file consists of photocopies of the Piano concerto material on the rectos; the original folios (which include faint pencil details that have not photocopied well) have been placed according to the material on the versos, as follows: pp. 8, 48, 49, and 51 (A Village Romeo and Juliet) are placed in MS Mus. 1745/2/13/2, and pp. 10, 11, 13, 15, 41 and 43 (Appalachia) are placed in MS Mus. 1745/2/13/5.

(b) ff. 16-105. Full score of the 3-movement version of the Piano Concerto (lacking 2nd movement):

• On single sheets (pasted to guards) of 28-stave paper 446 x 310 mm. Originally bound, but covers and endpapers removed. • Ink and ink over pencil, comprising material for the first and third movements only. • 1st movement, paginated as pp. 3-26, 31, 33-46. Scored on the rectos only, except for p. 26 which has material on the un-paginated verso. • 3rd movement, pp. 57-103, scored (and paginated) on recto and verso, as follows: • p. 57. Maestoso - con moto Moderato, 5/4. • p. 67. Molto Tranquillo, 4/4. (The verso of p. 73 is blank and not paginated.) • p. 83. Again, 5/4. • p. 92. Molto Tranquillo, 4/4. • p. 97. Lento / ad libitum (quasi una Improvisazione). • p. 99. Passionato - Piu mosso. (The verso of p. 100 is blank and not paginated.) • p. 101. Meno mosso. • p. 103. ralldo. molto to end. • There are conductor's markings in blue and red crayon from early performances, with some remarks and overworking in pencil in the composer's hand. • The musical text agrees with the two-piano version (MS Mus. 1745/1/10) and the solo part with the manuscript attributed to the 'Paris copyist' (MS Mus. 1745/2/2). • Hinged slips (apparently by Theodor Szántó) survive on pp. 3, 4 (1 chord only, largely torn away), 5, 6, and 16. Szántó's ink additions to the score appear on pp. 10, 11, 12, 19, 35, 41, 42 and the verso of p. 44.

Page 89 2021-07-17 (2). 'Paris' (ff. 106-137).

• Threlfall, VI/14. • Autograph full score in ink, pp. 1-56, preceded by a 'fly-leaf' containing: (recto) orchestral details, and (verso) the title of the work, Delius's signature and the span of composition ('Oct. 1899 Feb 1900'), and a poem beginning 'Mysterious city!' in English and in German. • Title ('fly leaf' verso): 'Paris / Impressions de nuit / 'Ein Nachtstück'. • 14 bifolia, 36-stave 542 x 350 mm. With original marbled endpapers. • The manuscript was used for some early performances, evident from conductor's markings including cue numbers. • The score is almost identical to the final, published version; it agrees with the two-piano arrangement by Julius Buths (MS Mus. 1745/1/18). • 4 bars have been crossed out in blue crayon on p. 30.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/13/2 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): A Village Romeo and Juliet ([1899])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/13/2

Creation Date [1899]

Extent and Format 1 file (173 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): A Village Romeo and Juliet ([1899])

Scope and Content The material comprises a number of groupings of draft full score, various sketch sheets partly in vocal score form, and short score sketches for Scene 4.

Threlfall, I/6.

(1). ff. 1-155. Draft full score.

Drafted in pencil on ungathered bifolia, all 36-stave 543 x 350 mm.

• ff. 1-38. Act I, Scenes 2-3, pp. 1-43; and, continuing on the verso of p. 43, [Act II, Scene 4], lacking the ending, pp. 1-33. 19 bifolia. • ff. 39-56. [Scene 1] = Prologue, 8 un-numbered pages (identified by Threlfall as i-vii followed by a blank page) followed by pp. 4-30 (including two pages numbered 8). 9 bifolia.

• ff. 57-80. [Scenes 2-3], pp. 48-96 (NB there is no p. 49 - the verso of p. 48 is p. 50). A later stage of composition than Scenes 2-3 above. 12 bifolia. • ff. 81-105. [Scene 4, lacking the start]. Un-numbered (identified by Threlfall as ff. 1-26, f. 26 being blank). Again, a later stage of composition than Scene 4 above. 13 bifolia. • ff. 106-147. [Scenes 5-6], lacking the ending. Un-numbered (identified by Threlfall as ff. 27-68). 21 bifolia. • ff. 148-155. Portions of Scene 6, comprising rejected sheets from the final score (some inked-in), identified by Threlfall as ff. 69-76.

(2). Various pencil sketch sheets partly in vocal score form (ff. 156-169)

• f. 156. The upper portion of previously-used score paper (now, 14 staves, 215 x 290 mm.), a short-score sketch for the climax and end of the interpolated Walk to the Paradise Garden. With further pencil sketches on the verso. • f. 157. Lower portion of score paper roughly torn across (now, 11 staves, approx. 240 x 270 mm) with pencil sketches on recto and verso for the fairground scene. • f. 158. Headed 'R & J'. Pencil sketches for the fairground and closing scenes. 15-stave, 347 x 271 mm. • f. 159. 'Vreli my own'. Pencil sketches. 16-stave, 342 x 265 mm. • f. 160. 'Fiddler' and 'their little children'. On the verso (annotated 'good'), horn calls used at the start of Scene 6. 18-stave, 350 x 270 mm.

Page 90 2021-07-17 • f. 161. 'Vagabonds are we'. 16-stave, 350 x 270 mm. • f. 162. Basic notes for the fairground scene. 18-stave, 353 x 270 mm. • f. 163. 'S & V dancing', paginated as pp. 4-5. 15-stave, 355 x 270 mm. • ff. 164-165. 'The fiddler plays a few strains / on his fiddle', paginated as pp. 14, 15, 16, 16. 1 bifolium, 16-stave, 350 x 272 mm. • ff. 166-169. 'Our wedding bed awaits us' (f. 166); 'Finale' (f. 168); '(They drift away a close embrace)' (f. 169r); and 'The boat disappears' (f. 169v). 2 gathered bifolia, 16-stave, 350 x 272 mm.

(3). Short score sketches for Scene 4 (ff. 170-173).

• Sketched on the versos of pages from an early score of the Piano Concerto (the Concerto material on the paginated rectos - pp. 8, 48, 49 and 51 - has been photocopied and placed with other Concerto material in MS Mus. 1745/2/13/1).

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MS Mus. 1745/2/13/3 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Draft Scores for Margot la Rouge and for A Mass of Life

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/13/3

Creation Date 1902-1905

Extent and Format 1 file (246 folios)

Languages of Material French; Italian; German

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Draft Scores for Margot la Rouge and for A Mass of Life (1902-1905)

Scope and Content (1). ff. 1-117. Margot la Rouge (sketches and draft scores)

Threlfall, I/7.

• ff. 1-3. Fragmentary sketches, comprising 1 folio and 1 bifolium (12-stave, 290 x 235 mm.). Two-stave pencil sketches. Annotations include: 'good', 'Margot motif', 'Lili Beguin', and 'Margot's song of woods'. • ff. 4-40. Complete pencil draft short score, pp. 1-73, on a variety of paper. French words. The final page (p. 73) is in the form of a photocopy - the original folio is bound into MS Mus. 1745/1/39 as f. 66. • ff. 41-85. Complete pencil draft full score, comprising title-page and pp. 1-85 (and three blank pages following). Drafted on 36-stave paper, 542 x 350 mm. 1 folio (title-page) and 22 bifolia with an additional folio (p. 59) inserted to replace deleted p. 59. The title-page is signed by the composer and dated: 'Commencé le 7 Avril - terminé le 6 Juin / 1902'. Title: 'Margot la Rouge / Drame Lyric / Karl Rosenval [written in another hand] / Frederick Delius'. Scene I (p. 5); Scene II (p. 12); Scene III (p. 18); Scene IV (p. 28); Scene V (p. 45); Scene VI (p. 55); Scene VII (p. 66); Scene VIII (p. 85), 'Rideau', 'Fin'. • ff. 86-117. Exercise book (sewn) containing the libretto translated into Italian. 265 x 210 mm. Mottled green covers with title label (stamped '87') to the front: '"Paulo audacior..." / Margot la Rossa / traduzione Italiana'. 29 numbered leaves, text written on rectos only, preceded by 'Personaggi'.

For 'Margot La Rossa' (final full score, ink), see MS Mus. 1745/2/13/6.

(2). A Mass of Life (sketches and draft scores)

Threlfall, II/4.

(a) ff. 118-133. Sketches, comprising 2 ink manuscript strips (on a variety of paper).

(b) Fragmentary pencil draft short score, with German text (mainly on 14-stave paper, 350 x

Page 91 2021-07-17 270 mm.), comprising:

• f. 134. 'O Du mein Wille' - this draft exceptionally in ink. • ff. 135-136. Also 'Du mein Wille'. • ff. 137-138. 'Erhebt eure Herzen'. • ff. 139-160. An extensive pencil draft for I/3, paginated 1-4, 5-8, 9-15 (15 duplicated), 9-12, 13-16, 17-20, 21-23 (23 duplicated), 24-27, 28-31, 32-35. • ff. 161-162. pp. 34 ('directly after Mittags'), 35, 32 (page struck-through), 36 (= I/4). • ff. 163-166. pp. 37 ('directly before Mitternachtslied' = II/2), 38-40, 41-42. pp. 42 and un-numbered facing page are struck-through pencil sketches for 'Double Chorus' (II/1). Following page blank. • ff. 167-172. pp. 1-[12]. 'Nachtlied' (ink and pencil), with p. 9 struck-through ('Zarathustra'). • ff. 173-174. pp. 1, [2], [3], 4 (20-stave 337 x 268 mm.). Choral score of II/1. • ff. 175-178. pp. 5-8 and 9-12 are II/4, ending (p. 12) 'here follows Süsse Leier'. • ff. 179-181. pp. 1-5. 'Trunken Süsse Leier' (= II/5). (The verso of p. 3 is paginated p. 5 and struck-through.) • f. 181-182. Including a folio headed 'Prelude' (18-stave 350 x 270 mm.), a pencil sketch for II/6. • ff. 183-186. pp. 4, 6, 5 are also sketches for II/6, on the outer pages of 2 bifolia. The inner material (ink) of the bifolia is unrelated, and includes the heading 'Symphony'.

(c) ff. 187-236. Pencil draft full score (incomplete) comprising 25 bifolia and 2 folios, 36-stave 543 x 350 mm. The draft does not include material for II/3 or II/6.

• Heading (p. [1]): 'Eine Messe des Lebens für Orchester, Sopr. Alt. Tenor / & Baritone Solo & Doppelt Chor'. • pp. [1]-20 and 2 blank pages (= I/1-2). 'Con fervore' (p. 1); 'Maestoso / Marcia poco piu lento / as many harps as possible' (p. 5); 'Erhebt eure Herzen / Recitativo' (p. 14). • pp. [1]-43. 'Tanzlied' (p. [1]) for I/3; 'V/Nachtlied' (p. 29) for I/5; 'fuller orchestration' (p. 33); 'IV Wehe mir wo ist die Zeit hin (Zarathustra & Chorus)' (p. 37) for I/4; 'Nachtlied folgt' (p. 43) = end of I/4. The verso of p. 43 is blank. • pp. [1]-9. 'II Partie' (p. [1]); 'Piu tranquillo, meno mosso' (p. 4); 'Dal Segno' (p. 9). A blank page follows. • pp. 1-26. 'Mittags' (p. 1) for II/4; 'Süsse Leier' (p. 12) for II/2; on p. 16, II/2 ends ('Orchestral interlude/prelude'), followed by 'No. 8 [II/5] Gottes Weh ist tiefer'; the draft ends on p. 26 ('without stopping to Mitternachtslied'). The final two pages are blank.

In addition:

• f. 237. Folio headed 'Geschichte Der Jungling, der Gewissenhaften & die Tanzenden Mädchen', with very faint but illegible traces of scoring in pencil beneath and on the verso. 36-stave 450 x 318 mm. • f. 238. Folio with pencilled scoring (ink clefs) leading to fanfares for 3 trumpets alternating with 3 horns (cf. the introduction to II/1). 36-stave 450 x 328 mm. • ff. 239-240. 1 bifolium containing a pencil draft for cues 132-135. 36-stave paper cut down to 31 staves, now 453 x 350 mm. • ff. 241-246. 3 bifolia (36-stave 450 x 328 mm., first and second bifolia pasted together), pp. 1-9 with a blank un-numbered page following p. 5, comprising the original introduction to A Mass of Life. Entitled 'Eine Messe des Lebens / (In Memoriam)' With signature and date: 'Frederick Delius / 1905'. The work commences 'Lento con Solemnità', F major C. Part of this music can be recognized in the final score in the opening chorus, six bars preceding cue 4. For the remainder of the autograph full score to which these 3 bifolia are the introduction, see the two volumes MS Mus. 1745/2/13/7-8.

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Page 92 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/2/13/4 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Cynara; Songs of Sunset; Fennimore and Gerda (1906-[1929])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/13/4

Creation Date 1906-[1929]

Extent and Format 1 file (i + 192 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Cynara; Songs of Sunset; Fennimore and Gerda (1906-[1929])

Scope and Content (1). Cynara: sketches and drafts

Threlfall, III/5.

(a) ff. 1-24. A green Boosey & Hawkes' Manilla Cover housing various sketches and a voice/piano reduction by Eric Fenby:

• f. i. Front cover inscribed 'Cynara' by Sir Thomas Beecham. • ff. 1-12. Six manuscript strips and fragments, lettered (a)-(g), bearing pencil notes, some marked 'Cynara' and some marked 'Dowson'. On the verso of 'Cynara' (f), there are notes headed 'Zarathustra'. On the verso of 'Cynara' (g), there are untitled ink sketches for Brigg Fair. • ff. 13-14. 1 bifolium (14-stave 350 x 270 mm.). An early pencil draft headed 'Cynara' (pp. 1-4). • ff. 15-16. 1 bifolium (20-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Pencil sketch headed 'Cynara' (pp. 1-2). The third page (paginated p. '52', originally an outer page) begins with a single bar in F# major (cf. Légendes, MS Mus. 1745/1/39, ff. 24-49) before being used for another sketch for Cynara: p. '52' and the un-numbered final page of the bifolium contain another setting of Dowson, beginning 'We fling up flowers & laugh'. The final page is annotated 'with Zylophone'. Dowson's words in this second sketch are taken from his poem 'Carthusians' (eighth stanza, omitting the last line). • ff. 17-19. (14-stave, differing paper), pp. 3-[8]. Sketch setting: 'all night upon mine heart' (Dowson, 'Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae'). • f. 20. single folio (18 stave 350 x 270 mm.). On the recto (p. 5), another pencil sketch setting beginning 'all night upon mine heart'. On the verso, a sketch headed 'Prelude Zarathustra'. • ff. 21-24. 'Cynara', a voice/piano reduction in the hand (ink) of Eric Fenby, paginated pp. 1-6. English words with German words added beneath or above in pencil by Jelka Delius. The last bar is deleted in red crayon, and annotated: 'add revised ending'. 1 bifolium with 1 folio (2 sheets pasted together) inserted, all 15-stave 350 x 270 mm.

(b) ff. 25-33. Pages 27-45 (p. 36 duplicated) of a pencil draft full score, including chorus and (baritone) soloist:

• The draft setting begins, in medias res, with the fragment: 'ration bear us on to the ultimate night', which derives again from Dowson (from the poem 'Exile': 'While the sad waters of separation / Bear us on to the ultimate night'). • At the head of the first page (p. 27), the heading 'Cynara follows' (struck-through). The draft continues by taking up again words from Dowson's 'Carthusians' ('We fling up flowers').

• Page 30 is headed 'CYNARA beginning' (in Fenby's hand), following which is Delius's original draft setting of 'Non sum qualis...' • Scored on 36-stave 542 x 350 mm. 4 bifolia (of which, 2 bifolia, pp. 33-39, have been cut down) and 2 folios.

(2). Songs of Sunset ('Songs of Twilight & Sadness'). ff. 35-71.

Threlfall, II/5.

(a) Miscellaneous fragments:

• f. 35. Pencil sketch beginning 'See how the trees & osiers'. The upper portion of a single

Page 93 2021-07-17 leaf (14 staves remaining, now 230 x 265 mm.). • f. 36. Short score pencil sketch, setting 'Sound of the waters of separation'. 1 folio, pp. 15-16 (12-stave oblong, 270 x 350 mm.). • f. 37. Pencil sketches, beginning setting 'with all my memories that could not sleep' (from Dowson, 'Spleen'). Headed 'III'. 1 folio (20-stave 337 x 267 mm.).

(b) Autograph full score (ff. 38-71):

• 17 bifolia (36-stave 450 x 327 mm), comprising title-page and pp. 1-67. Page 3 has been mis-numbered as p. 4, and the following 2 pages [pp. 4-5] have been cut down at the top, losing 4 (unused) staves, and are therefore un-numbered; p. 6 and all pp. thereafter are correctly numbered. • Ink, with overworking in pencil. • Title-page: 'Songs of twilight & sadness / Frederick Delius 1906 Sept 1907 Jan / for Solo Soprano, Baritone, Mixed Chorus / & Orchestra'. Note in pencil beneath: 'These songs must not all be played à la suite but in the following order" (Delius then lists the opening line of each poem according to the published version). • English words, with German translation by Jelka Delius in pencil above (and in mauve ink, pp. 61-65). • p. 14 annotation: 'bar missing'. • p. 19 annotation: 'bar missing'. • Annotation across pp. 53-54: 'as before on Page 50'.

(3). Fennimore and Gerda. ff. 72-107:

Threlfall, I/8.

(a) ff. 72-76. Fragmentary sketches (ink and pencil) for 'Niels Lyhne' (original title):

• 4 manuscript strips (a)-(d) and one double strip (e)-(f), each headed 'Niels Lyhne'. • Some strips have unrelated and unidentified material of the versos. On the verso of (e), there are (untitled) ink bars from A Mass of Life (I/3).

(b) ff. 78-107. Sketches for various scenes, in short score draft:

• ff. 78-79. 'Scene I'. 1 bifolium (cut from larger paper, now 18-stave oblong, 272 x 350 mm.). Ink. • ff. 80-81. Beginning 'Scene VII' deleted (f. 3r), thereafter 'Scene I'. 1 bifolium (20-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Ink. • ff. 82-83. 'End of Act I' (f. 6v). 1 bifolium (cut from larger paper, now 18-stave oblong, 272 x 350 mm). Ink. • ff. 84-85. 'Scene III' and 'Scene IV' (f. 8v). 1 bifolium (cut from larger paper, now 18-stave oblong, 272 x 350 mm). Pencil. • ff. 86-87. 'Scene IV'. 1 bifolium (20-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Pencil. • ff. 88-89. 'Scene VII' (cf f. 3r above). 1 bifolium (20-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Ink with pencil additions. • f. 90. [Scene VII], pp. 4-5. 1 folio (20-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Ink. • f. 91. [Scene VII], pp. 6-7. 1 folio (20-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Ink. Annotated 'End' in pencil (f. 14v). • ff. 92-93. 'Prelude to Scene VIII' (pp. 1-3). Inverted, f. 16v is headed 'Scene VII' (page deleted). 1 bifolium (20-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Largely ink. • ff. 94-95. [Scene VIII], pp. 4-7. 1 bifolium (20-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Ink. • f. 96. [Scene VIII], pp. 8-9. 1 folio (20-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Ink. • ff. 97-98. '[Scene] VIII' (? an earlier draft). 1 bifolium (20-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Ink. • f. 99. 'Nils Lyne' (pencil). On the verso (inverted), in ink, '3rd Act' and 'a way to the woods' (? Irmelin). 1 folio (18-stave 350 x 270 mm.). • f. 100. 'Music between Scene X and Scene XI / Prelude to Niels & Gerda'. 1 folio (18-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Pencil. • f. 101. 'Scene X'. On the verso, the Prelude to Scene II is sketched. 1 folio (20-stave 340 x 270 mm.). Pencil. • ff. 102-103. 'Scene XI' (early version). Annotated (f. 26v): 'love duet comes here'. 1 bifolium (20-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Ink. • f. 104. 'II', 'Nils' and 'Gerda'. 1 folio (12-stave with words lines, 350 x 266 mm.). Pencil.

• f. 105. 'III'. Sketch of duet for Gerda and Niels. Verso blank. 1 folio (18-stave 350 x 270 mm.). Pencil. • ff. 106-107. An early draft of the close of the opera, paginated pp. 7-10. 1 bifolium (20-stave 340 x 270 mm.). Pencil.

(c) ff. 108-192. Pencil draft full score, with German words:

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Paginated pp. 1-121 (31 bifolia), 1-32 (8 bifolia), [1]-[4] (1 bifolium), and 1-10 (3 bifolia). All 30-stave 403 x 300 mm. (except for the first two bifolia which are 34-stave).

• pp. 1-121: 'Scene II' [= Scene 1] (p. 1); 'Scene III' [= Scene 2] (p. 20); p. 34 is blank; 'Scene IV' [= Scene 3], [p. 35]; between pp. 49 and 50 there is an un-numbered page headed 'Dance'; 'Scene V' [= Scene 4] (p. 50); 'Scene VI' [= Scene 5] [p. 69]; 'Rhapsody' and 'Prelude to Buchenwald' interlined (p. 72); 'Scene VII' [= Scene 6] (p. 92); 'Scene VIII' [= Scene 7] (p. 103); there are two pages numbered 112 and a blank page following p. 121. • pp. 1-32: 'Scene IX [= Scenes 8-9] (the end is wanting). • pp. [1]-[4]: 'Scene X'; 'Scene XI' at the foot of [p. 4]. • pp. 1-10: 'Scene XI', but with an introductory interlude quite different from the final one; the draft ends at the reference to Romeo and Juliet's grave (cue 126 of the printed score); two blank pages follow p. 10.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/13/5 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Appalachia; The Song of the High Hills; Requiem; various sketches and

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/13/5

Creation Date [1896]-[1905]

Extent and Format 1 file (147 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Appalachia; The Song of the High Hills; Requiem; various sketches and drafts; and drafts for an unfinished work for piano and orchestra ([1896]-[1905])

Scope and Content (1). Appalachia: sketches and drafts (ff. 1-44)

Threlfall, II/2.

Comprising material for the earlier version(s) and material for the later version. Followed by 6 large sheets on the rectos of which are pencilled part of an early score of the Piano Concerto; the versos, however, comprise draft material for Appalachia (the Concerto material has been photocopied and placed with other Concerto material in MS Mus. 1745/2/13/1).

• Earlier version(s), ff. 1-21: • ff. 1-2. 'a Southern night'. Ink short score introducing the Appalachia theme, D-flat semiquaver setting (cf. the early version in MS Mus. 1745/1/9). 1 bifolium, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. • f. 3. 'Nigger Rhapsody', including 'Banjo', also in D-flat semiquavers. Ink. 1 folio, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. • f. 4. Similar material, with 'VI' in the margin. Ink. 1 folio, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 5-8. Sketched score in ink, introducing the theme in quavers. 2 bifolia, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. • f. 9. Pencil short score. Draft of a version starting with '4 horns'. 1 folio, 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 10-11. Pencil draft full score introducing the same horn fanfare. Paginated pp. 14-16 (f. 11v is blank). 1 bifolium, 32-stave 355 x 270 mm. • ff. 12-13. Pencil sketched scoring of quaver melody with much overworking. 1 bifolium, 28-stave 446 x 310 mm. • ff. 14-15. Pencil sketch score, paginated pp. 5-8. 1 bifolium, 28-stave 446 x 310 mm. • ff. 16-21. Ink draft score, paginated pp. [1]-12. Starting with the horn fanfare (f. 9 above). On f. 18, the change to 2/4 is annotated in pencil: 'Skerzo / negro games / develop'.

• Later version, ff. 22-37: • f. 22. A pencil sketch of music at cue Y in the finished work. 1 folio, 12-stave oblong 270 x 350 mm. • f. 23. A 3-bar sketch, beneath which are words beginning 'after night has gone comes de day'.

Page 95 2021-07-17 Page torn from a notebook (verso blank). 1 folio, 203 x 160 mm. • f. 24. 'Negro chorus in finale'. On f. 24v, sketch for music at cue V in final score. Pencil. 1 folio, 16-stave 350 x 270 mm. • f. 25. Pencilled notes on the recto. On the verso, ink copy of 4 bars from Wagner: Act 2, Scene 3, of Die Meistersinger ('Es klang so alt...'). 1 folio, 22-stave 347 x 270 mm. • ff. 26-33. 'Slow movement' (f. 26); 'last movement (f. 30), ending with the funeral march. From a preliminary draft score, in ink and pencil. 8 folios trimmed roughly at the edges, approximately 400 x 270 mm. • ff. 34-35. Pencil (faint) draft score, paginated pp. 1-4. 1 bifolium, 36-stave 542 x 350 mm.

• ff. 36-37. Miscellaneous notations, in pencil and in ink, on f. 36r only. Remainder blank. 1 bifolium, 36-stave 542 x 350 mm.

• ff. 38-43. Six large sheets, originally pp. 10, 11, 13, 15, 43, and 41 of an early score of the Piano Concerto. Page 10 is over-written in pencil, in large hand: 'Appalachia / last movement'. The verso of p. 10 is numbered p. 1 ('Allegro moderato') and starts with the 4-horn fanfare of Appalachia. The remaining versos, which continue the Appalachia draft, are numbered: 2, 3, 7 (over-written as p. 6 on the recto), 8 and 10.

(2). The Song of the High Hills: sketches and drafts (ff. 44-75):

Threlfall, II/6.

• ff. 44-45. (a) and (b). A double manuscript strip, with notation on the recto and verso of each portion. The verso of (b) is headed: ' pp chorus / a capell[a] + / 1st chorus'. • f. 46. With pencil sketches for this work on the verso only (the recto has sketches for a different piece). 1 folio, 20-stave 340 x 266 mm. • ff. 47-48. Headed: 'The Song of the High Hills'. Pencilled 3-stave sketches. 1 bifolium, 20-stave 340 x 266 mm. • ff. 49-50. Material drafted in ink, noting 'chorus a capella'. 1 bifolium, 20-stave 340 x 266 mm. • ff. 51-52. Headed: 'Songs of Nature'. Early pencil draft. 1 bifolium, 20-stave 340 x 266 mm.

• f. 53. Pencil draft score, paginated as p. 3. Verso blank. 1 folio, 30-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 54-56. Pencil draft score, paginated pp. 6-10. 1 bifolium with 1 folio inserted, both 30-stave 350 x 270 mm. • ff. 57-66. Pencil draft full score headed 'Mountain Sounds', comprising pp. [1], 2, 7 [folio inserted], 8, 9, 10, 11-14, 15-18, 16-19, and 20 followed by 3 blank pages. 5 bifolia and 1 folio, 34-stave 400 x 302 mm. • ff. 67-75. Another draft full score, here represented by fragments, comprising pp. [1]-2 and 2 un-numbered pages, 1-4, 5-6 [folio] 21-[24], 42-45. Beginning, without title, as ink over pencil, thereafter pencil. 4 bifolia and 1 folio, 36-stave 450 x 327 mm.

(3). Requiem: sketches and drafts, and portions of two draft full scores (ff. 76-147)

Threlfall, II/8.

• f. 76. Headed 'I'. Pencil sketches for the start of movement I. 1 bifolium (p. 1) and 1 folio (p. 2), both 16-stave oblong 268 x 350 mm. • 'Very slow', a pencil sketch of the beginning (pp. 1-8). 1 bifolium and 2 ff, 16-stave oblong 268 x 350 mm. • f. 83. Folio numbered '31', with pencil sketches on both sides (cf. MS Mus. 1745/1/39, ff. 77-81). 1 folio, 16-stave oblong 268 x 350 mm. • ff. 84-85. 'Das gelbe Getreide', followed by material for 'The March of Spring' (North Country Sketches). Final page blank. 1 bifolium, 14-stave 350 x 268 mm. • ff. 86-101. Pencil draft full score (pp. 1-30, with irregularities) corresponding to the first 26 pages of the printed score. 8 bifolia, 30-stave 350 x 270 mm. • Portions of another pencil draft full score, on larger paper, as follows: • ff. 102-103. (= movement II). 1 bifolium, 42-stave 452 x 327 mm. • ff. 104-105. ('würden Alle meine Geliebte'), 50, 51, 49. 1 bifolium, 32-stave 452 x 327 mm.

• ff. 106-107. (cf. pp. 46-7 of printed score). 1 bifolium, 32-stave 452 x 327 mm. • ff. 108-109. Pages 54-55 resemble pp. 50-51 of the previous bifolium. 1 bifolium, 32-stave 452 x 327 mm. • ff. 110-111. 'Cortège Funebre' is written on the first p. 56. 1 bifolium, 42-stave 452 x 327 mm. • ff. 112-113. 'Die weitet sich still' (p. 57), and 'Das gelbe Getreide' (p. 58). 1 bifolium, 42-stave 452 x 327 mm. • ff. 114-115. Cf. printed score IV, p. 38. 1 bifolium, 42-stave 452 x 327 mm. • f. 116 and 3 blank pages. '... und seine trunkene Seele versinkt...'. 1 bifolium, 42-stave 452

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(4). Sketches or drafts for various works, on large paper (ff. 117-132)

• ff. 117-119. Part of an early pencil score of Brigg Fair. 1 bifolium and 1 cut down folio, 36-stave 450 x 325 mm. • ff. 120-121. The ending of an early pencil score of An Arabesque (German words). 1 bifolium, 42-stave 452 x 325 mm. • f. 122. Headed 'Eventyr' (by Jelka Delius). Pencil draft. 1 folio (with upper right margin cut out), 32-stave 400 x 300 mm. • f. 123. Title-page to the score of Lebenstanz (now bound into MS Mus. 1745/1/16), ink and pencil. 1 folio, 36-stave 545 x 350 mm. • f. 124. Plate pull of the final page (p. 63) of the published score of Lebenstanz with Delius's additions in pencil (e,g. 'Lento molto'). 332 x 267 mm. • ff. 125-126. 2 folios (ink) from 'La ronde se déroule' (p. 8 and un-numbered), both 28-stave 450 x 325 mm. • f. 127. A faintly-pencilled draft page of full score, probably also for 'La ronde se déroule'. 1 folio, 28-stave 450 x 325 mm. • ff. 128-132. [Songs of Farewell]. Pencil draft score of the first movement, for 8-part chorus and large orchestra. 2 bifolia, 32-stave 450 x 328 mm.

(5). Drafts for an unfinished work for piano and orchestra (ff. 134-147)

Threlfall, VII/4(a).

• ff. 134-135. 'Rhapsody piano and orchestra' (over-writing an earlier title, 'Mountain Solitude'). Pencil sketches, in 6/4. 1 bifolium from which most of the second leaf has been cut away. 12-stave oblong 270 x 350 mm. • ff. 136-141. Pencil draft, at first in score, then only the piano part. 3 bifolia, 36-stave 542 x 350 mm. • ff. 142-147. Draft full score of part of the same work, annotated 'good' in large hand (p. 1). 3 bifolia, 36-stave 542 x 350 mm.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/13/6 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): 'Margot La Rossa' (autograph full score) (1901)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/13/6

Creation Date 1901

Extent and Format 1 file (44 folios)

Languages of Material French; Italian

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): 'Margot La Rossa' (autograph full score) (1901)

Physical Characteristics 22 bifolia, 36-stave 545 x 350 mm.

Scope and Content Final full score (autograph, ink, bound, with marbled endpapers). Words in French, with Italian translation added (mauve ink, probably by Jelka Delius).

• On the fly-leaf, 'Margot la Rossa' and 'Personaggi'. • On the verso of the fly-leaf, 'L'orchestra'. • Signed and dated at the start of the score [p. 1]: 'Frederick Delius / Grez sur Loing / (Seine et Marne) / Spring 1901'. • ff. 1-44, originally numbered pp. [1]-85 followed by 3 blank pages. • f. 2r. 'Introduzione'. • f. 4r. Scene I.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/13/7 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): A Mass of Life, Vol. 1 (autograph full score) (1905)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/13/7

Creation Date 1905

Extent and Format 1 volume (48 folios)

Languages of Material German

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): A Mass of Life, Vol. 1 (autograph full score) (1905)

Physical Characteristics Volume dimensions: 460 x 350 mm.

Scope and Content The first of two volumes comprising the final full score (autograph, ink and ink over pencil). The second volume is MS Mus. 1745/2/13/8.

Threlfall, II/4.

• Title-page: '"Eine Messe des Lebens" / (mit Text zusammengestellt aus Zarathustra von Friedrich Nietzsche) / Frederick Delius / Grez sur Loing 1905 / (Seine & Marne)'. • At the foot of the title-page (in another hand, pencil): 'Die Auswahl und Zusammengestellung des Textes hat Herr / Fritz Cassirer besorgt'. • 23 bifolia and a single folio (pp. 78-79), all 36-stave 452 x 325 mm. • Marbled endpapers. • An un-numbered title-page followed by pp. 11-102 and a final un-numbered blank page. • (For the rejected introduction to the work, i.e. pp. 1-10, see MS Mus. 1745/2/13/3.) • The title-page is stiff-leaved to the first page of the score. • German text, with the names of the instruments in English. • [Movement] I (p. 11). • [Movement] II (p. 29). • [Movement] III (p. 38). • [Movement] IV (p. 80). • [Movement] V (p. 89). • The score is annotated by Delius on pp. 38, 39, 68. • Bold XX in pencil serve to draw attention to retouchings in the scoring, on pp. 61, 62, 82, 84, 85. 86, 87, 88, 89, 99, 100. However, these retouchings do not appear in either printed score or parts, suggesting that they postdate publication (1907, Verlag Harmonie, Berlin). • This manuscript in two volumes was used as the publisher's Stichvorlage. Numbers appearing at the foot of most pages throughout the manuscript (in pencil and underlined in blue crayon, e.g. '87' on p. 102), are the plate numbers.

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MS Mus. 1745/2/13/8 Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): A Mass of Life, Vol. 2 (autograph full score) (1905)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/2/13/8

Creation Date 1905

Extent and Format 1 volume (69 folios)

Languages of Material German

Title Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): A Mass of Life, Vol. 2 (autograph full score) (1905)

Physical Characteristics Volume dimensions: 460 x 365 mm.

Scope and Content The second of two volumes comprising the final full score (autograph, ink and ink over pencil). The first volume is MS Mus. 1745/2/13/7.

Threlfall, II/4.

• On the fly-leaf: '34 / BG / Mass of Life / Teil II' (pencil), and '88902' (blue crayon). • pp. [101]-234, with a blank un-numbered page following. A blank page follows p. 127, and the page facing (bearing the movement title 'III') is un-numbered. Also, a blank page follows p. 169. • Whereas the paper used for the first volume is uniform, the paper used for this volume shows some variation (full details are given by Threlfall). • Marbled endpapers. • Signed and dated by Delius on p. 234: 'Frederick Delius / Grez sur Loing / Seine & Marne / Autumn / 1905'. • [Prelude], p. [101]. 'Andante', with the heading 'Part II'. • [Movement] I (p. 103). At the head of the page (in Jelka Delius's hand, pencil): 'Eine Messe des Lebens II Teil / Frederick Delius'. • [Movement] II (p. 119). • [Movement] III (p. 128). • [Movement] IV (p. 170). • [Movement] V (p. 184). • [Movement] VI (p. 194). • Bold XX in pencil serve to draw attention to retouchings in the scoring (e.g. on pp. 122, 124, 125, 129, 130, 136). However, these retouchings do not appear in either printed score or parts, suggesting that they postdate publication (1907, Verlag Harmonie, Berlin). • This manuscript in two volumes was used as the publisher's Stichvorlage. Numbers appearing at the foot of most pages throughout the manuscript (in pencil and underlined in blue crayon, e.g. '94' on p. 107), are the plate numbers.

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Page 99 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3 Frederick Delius: Boosey & Hawkes Accessions to the Delius Trust (1893-1967)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3

Creation Date 1893-1967

Extent and Format 25 files

Languages of Material English; French; German

Title Frederick Delius: Boosey & Hawkes Accessions to the Delius Trust (1893-1967)

Scope and Content In 1976, Messrs Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited passed to the Delius Trust all the Delius manuscripts they held (with the exception of three items relating to the opera Koanga which were retained until 1980 in order to facilitate the publication of the orchestral score of that work).

The material received by the Delius Trust from Boosey & Hawkes in 1976 and in 1980 comprises, in the main, manuscripts relating to the early operas and dramatic works (particularly to Hassan), and a number of Stichvorlagen of the later works (most of which are in the hand of Eric Fenby).

The material was originally described in Robert Threlfall, A Supplementary Catalogue (1986). This publication includes descriptions of a few items that were not received by the British Library: a three-volume vocal score of Koanga in the hands of copyists (Threlfall, p. 226); Koanga: Selection for Orchestra arranged by Fenby (described pp. 227-8); A Village Romeo and Juliet, Suite arranged by Fenby (described p. 228); Brigg Fair, Cues for reduced orchestra, in the hand of a copyist (described p. 235); and Five Little Pieces, arranged for small orchestra by Fenby (described p. 237). In addition, as noted by Threlfall (p. 235) Fenby's full score of A Song of Summer was transferred to Jacksonville University (Swisher Library) in 1978.

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The manuscripts are described by Robert Threlfall, Frederick Delius: A Supplementary Catalogue (Delius Trust: London, 1986), pp. 223-37.

Page 100 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/1 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Irmelin (vocal score by Florent Schmitt) ([1893-1894])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/1

Creation Date [1893-1894]

Extent and Format 1 volume (145 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Irmelin (vocal score by Florent Schmitt) ([1893-1894])

Physical Characteristics Volume dimensions: 365 x 285 mm.

Scope and Content Bound vocal score (ink), with the piano part throughout in the hand of Florent Schmitt. The voice parts are in Delius's hand, as are the English words. With interlined German words (pencil) in another hand, which has also supplied the German directions (pencil and red ink).

• pp. 1-275 (no title-page). • 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. (pp. 1-145). • 18-stave 345 x 270 (pp. 146-259). • 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. (pp. 260-75). • Act I, p. 1. • Act II, p. 82. • Act III, p. 168. • a blank and un-numbered page follows p. 3 • p. 41 has a pasted-over 4-bar correction. • there is a p. 59b. • p. 73 has a pasted-over 2-bar correction. • p. 74 has a pasted-over 2-bar correction. • a blank un-numbered page follows p. 81. • p. 116 has two pasted-over corrections, of 3 bars and of 2 bars. • p. 234 has a pasted-over correction (upper 6 staves).

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Page 101 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/2 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): The Magic Fountain (vocal score by Florent Schmitt) (1893)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/2

Creation Date 1893

Extent and Format 1 volume (ii + 132 folios)

Languages of Material English; German; French

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): The Magic Fountain (vocal score by Florent Schmitt) (1893)

Physical Characteristics Volume dimensions: 350 x 270 mm.

Scope and 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.

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Custodial History Title-page stamped Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 150.

Page 102 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/3 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga (vocal score by Florent Schmitt) ([c 1897])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/3

Creation Date [c 1897]

Extent and Format 1 file (249 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga (vocal score by Florent Schmitt) ([c 1897])

Scope and Content Opera in three Acts. Threlfall, I/4.

Act I

• There is no title page or prelude. Jelka Delius has written at the head of the page: 'Koanga / Opera by Frederick Delius / Piano Score by Florent Schmitt'. • 24-stave 354 x 270 mm. • Piano part by Schmitt (mauve ink, occasionally black ink). • Voice parts and English words are mainly in Delius's hand (black ink). • German words in Jelka Delius's hand (red ink).

Act II

• Title-page (in JD's hand): 'Opera by Frederick Delius / Koanga Act II / Piano Score by Florent Schmitt / Klavierauszug'. • Piano part by Schmitt, and also the voice parts for the first half of the Act (mauve ink). • German words throughout by JD (red ink); English words throughout in another hand (black ink), which has also written the remaining voice parts. • Interpolated aria for Palmyra entirely in Delius's hand (black ink), German words only (2 gathered bifolia, 14-stave 340 x 268 mm.). • A further page in Delius's hand (black ink, 'Agitato Molto') sits between bifolia 17 and 18.

• There are pasted-over German words in various places throughout.

Act III

• Title-page (in JD's hand): 'Koanga / Act III / Piano Score by Florent Schmitt / Opera by / Frederick Delius'. • The Act is preceded by the original 'Prélude' (not as in the published score) - this has been struck-through in red crayon. • German words throughout (occasionally in English as well, in an unidentified hand), some of which are pasted-over. • Voice parts are in the same hand as in Act II. • The title-page is 24-stave 354 x 270 mm; the rest of Act III comprises 19 bifolia, 20-stave 354 x 270 mm.

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Custodial History Each Act is stamped Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 207/2.

Page 103 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/4 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga (vocal score by Eric Fenby), with English libretto

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/4

Creation Date 1935-1953

Extent and Format 1 file (186 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga (vocal score by Eric Fenby), with English libretto (1935-1953)

Scope and Content In the hand of Eric Fenby (with additions by others), a vocal score prepared for Sir Thomas Beecham's revival of the work in 1935. The file includes two typescripts of the English libretto, attached to the earliest of which is a brief internal Boosey & Hawkes memorandum (1953).

1. Libretto (folios 1-27)

• In a buff card Boosey & Hawkes folder (entitled: 'Koanga / Libretto'), libretto by C. F. Keary. Typescript in 3 Acts. Act 1 is headed (pencil) by Jelka Delius: 'Words by C. F. Keary Scenario amd music by Frederick Delius'. Act 1 (pp. 1-12). Act 2 (pp. 1-7). Act 3 (pp. 1-7). The typescript has gaps in the libretto for those elements which were altered in the 1904 production - in the gaps, a rough translation has been entered by JD in longhamd (pencil). The libretto is accompanied by an internal Boosey & Hawkes memorandum (5 February 1953) noting that 'it has been laying at Regent Street for a number of years' and should be placed with 'unpublished manuscripts'. • In blue card covers (with white label: 'Koanga'), a typescript of the revised English libretto, as used and published in 1935. With corrections by hand in red ink. Paginated as: Prologue (pp. [1]-2) followed by Acts I-III (pp. [1]-26).

2. Vocal score by Eric Fenby (folios 56-150)

• Prepared for Beecham's revival of the work: 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. London Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Beecham. • Title-page (verso blank) and 'Characters' (verso blank). 2 folios, 18-stave 368 x 273 mm. • Vocal score (ink): 12-stave 368 x 272 mm., paginated as pp. 1-184. With original English words in Fenby's hand, altered in places to the 1935 revised version by another hand.

3. Chorus parts by Eric Fenby (folios 151-186)

• 19 bifolia, 12-stave 300 x 240 mm. • Scored in black ink. • Together with the vocal score above, used as the publisher's Stichvorlagen. Copyright details (1935) written in red ink at the foot of the first page of the Chorus parts.

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Custodial History Stamped Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 150.

Page 104 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/5 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby) (1928-1929)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/5

Creation Date 1928-1929

Extent and Format 3 volumes

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby) (1928-1929)

Scope and Content In three volumes, the score from which Sir Thomas Beecham conducted, 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Beecham's markings in blue pencil throughout. Engraver's annotations are also visible (the score subsequently became the publisher's Stichvorl age).

On the title-page to Act I, Fenby has noted: 'This score was compiled from the parts by Eric Fenby at Grez-sur-Loing in 1928-29'. However, whilst this was Fenby's initial strategy, the autograph score was soon found: 'Fortunately, there was no need for me to continue in this arduous way for more than a fortnight, for Hadley now informed us that, by a stroke of luck, he had unearthed the score. A new score had to be made [for Beecham], so I completed my copy from the original MS.' Fenby, Delius As I Knew Him (1936), p. 96.

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Custodial History Volumes stamped Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 207/1 (i-iii).

MS Mus. 1745/3/5/1 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga, Act I (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/5/1

Creation Date 1928-1929

Extent and Format 1 volume (61 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga, Act I (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby) (1928-1929)

Physical Characteristics Volume dimensions: 445 x 315 mm.

Scope and Content Act I of the score from which Sir Thomas Beecham conducted, 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Beecham's markings in blue pencil throughout.

Title-page (un-numbered), with descriptive introduction in pencil to Scene I on the verso, and pp. [1]-69, followed by 1 blank page.

Note by Fenby at the foot of the title-page: 'This score was compiled from the parts by Eric Fenby at Grez-sur-Loing in 1928-29'.

Scored in black ink on 32-stave 444 x 310 mm.

English words were first pencilled-in from the original version, then altered and inked-in (for the most part) in accord with the revised libretto.

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• f. 8. Pasted-over correction of Viola and Cello parts (2 bars). • f. 11. Pasted-over corrections of Trombones I, II, III parts (3 rest bars). • f. 12. Pasted-down addition of Bass part (4 bars) as 33rd stave. • f. 19. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts, as 33rd and 34th staves. • f. 21. Pasted-over correction of the instrument names in the left margin. • f. 26. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (33rd and 34th staves). • f. 28. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (33rd and 34th staves). • f. 29. Pasted-down addition of Bass part (33rd stave) • f. 31. Pasted-over correction of three instrument names in the left margin. • f. 33. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (33rd and 34th staves). • f. 39. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (33rd and 34th staves). • f. 41. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (33rd and 34th staves). • f. 42. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (33rd and 34th staves). • f. 48. Pasted-down addition of Flutes I, II, III parts (as added 1st and 2nd staves) • f. 49. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (35th and 36th staves). • f. 51. Pasted-down addition of Flutes I, II, III parts (as added 1st and 2nd staves). • f. 52. Pasted-over correction of Palmyre voice part (4 bars). • f. 53. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (35th and 36th staves). • f. 54. Pasted-down addition of Flutes I, II, III parts (as added 1st and 2nd staves). • f. 55. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (35th and 36th staves). • f. 57. Pasted-down addition of Piccolo and Flutes I and II parts (as added 1st and 2nd staves). • f. 58. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (35th and 36th staves). • f. 59. Pasted-over correction of Bass Tuba part (1 bar).

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MS Mus. 1745/3/5/2 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga, Act II (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/5/2

Creation Date [1928-1929]

Extent and Format 1 volume (53 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga, Act II (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby) ([1928-1929])

Scope and Content Act II of the score from which Sir Thomas Beecham conducted, 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Beecham's markings in blue pencil throughout.

Title-page (un-numbered), verso blank, then pp. [1]-71, followed by 1 blank page.

Scored in black ink on 32-stave 444 x 310 mm.

• f. 10. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (as 33rd and 34th staves). • f. 12. Pasted-down addition of Cello part (as 33rd stave). • f. 13. Pasted-down addition of Cello part (as 33rd stave), and Bass part added by hand (3 bars, as 34th stave). • f. 15. Pasted-over correction of Oboe and English Horn parts (1 bar). • f. 16. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (as 33rd and 34th staves). • ff. 19v and 21r have been struck-through by Beecham in blue pencil (cut marked on f. 21r); • f. 20 is a loosely inserted page of Boosey & Hawkes printed score (p. 146). • f. 21v. Beecham's blue-pencil bracketing of 5 bars. • f. 23v. Signed pencil note by Jelka Delius: 'This ia an aria composed for the Elberfeld performance [1904]. There are no English words. I put a literal translation on top.' • f. 26. Pasted-over correction of Bass Tuba part (4 bars). • f. 32. Pasted-over correction of Flutes part (3 bars). • f. 34. Pasted-over correction to Oboe and Clarinet parts (6 bars, 1st and 2nd staves). • f. 35. Pasted-over corrections to Palmyre and Perez voice parts and to Violins I.

Page 106 2021-07-17 • ff. 37v and 38r. Struck-through by Beecham in blue pencil, continuing to 1st bar of next page.

• f. 39. Pasted-over correction of Harp part (1 bar). • f. 46. Pasted-over correction of Trombones III and Bass Tuba parts (2 bars).

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MS Mus. 1745/3/5/3 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga, Act III (full score in the hand of Eric Fenby)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/5/3

Creation Date [1928-1929]

Extent and Format 1 volume (119 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga, Act III (full score in the hand of Eric Fenby) ([1928-1929])

Physical Characteristics The score was removed from its original binding before the manuscript was received by the British Library.

Scope and Content Act III of the score from which Sir Thomas Beecham conducted, 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Beecham's markings in blue pencil throughout.

Title-page ('Koanga - Act 3'), verso blank, and pp. 1-117 (verso blank).

Scored in black ink on 32-stave 444 x 310 mm.

• f. 6. Pasted-over correction of final three bars (all parts). • f. 15. Pasted-over correction in chorus (6th bar only). • f. 19. Pasted-over correction in English Horn part (4 rest bars). • f. 21. Pasted-over correction in Violins I part (2 rest bars). • ff. 20v and 22r. Stage directions (pencil) by Jelka Delius. • f. 23. Pasted-over corrections to Piccolo and Flutes I parts (2 bars). • f. 25. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (as 33rd and 34th staves). • ff. 26 and 27. Pasted-over corrections to Double Bassoon part (3 bars). • f. 28. Pasted-over correction to Harp I part (half-bar). • f. 29. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (as 33rd and 34th staves). • f. 31. Pasted-over correction to Piccolo part (3 bars, 'Somewhat quicker, but not hurried').

• ff. 32 and 33. Pasted-over corrections to Double Bassoon part (3 bars). • f. 34. Pasted-over correction to Rangwan voice part (and to Koanga's words immediately above).

• f. 35. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (as 33rd and 34th staves). • f. 36. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (as 33rd and 34th staves). • f. 38. Pasted-down addition of Cello and Bass parts (as 33rd and 34th staves). • ff. 62v-69r. Beecham cut (blue pencil). • f. 67. Pasted-over correction to English Horn part (3 bars). • f. 72r-v. Beecham cut (blue pencil). • f. 78. Pasted-over correction to Clarinets I and II parts (2 bars). • f. 89. Pasted-over correction to Violins I part (3 rest bars). • f. 91. Pasted-over correction to English Horn part (3 bars). • ff. 98 and 99. Vertical 1-bar pasted-over corrections to Oboes, English Horn, and Bassoon parts. • f. 107. Pasted-over correction to English Horn part (1 bar). • f. 110. Pasted-over correction to French Horn part (3 bars).

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MS Mus. 1745/3/6 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): 'La Calinda' from Koanga, and the Intermezzo from Fennimore and

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/6

Creation Date [1938]-[1945]

Extent and Format 1 file (62 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): 'La Calinda' from Koanga, and the Intermezzo from Fennimore and Gerda ([1938]-[1945])

Scope and Content Two full score versions of 'La Calinda', the dance from the opera Koanga. Both scores are in the hand of Eric Fenby. With the second score, a piano conductor's part, also in Fenby's hand.

Also, the Intermezzo from the opera Fennimore and Gerda (full score in Fenby's hand, arranged Fenby).

(1). ff. 1-12. 'La Calinda / Danse Créole / from the Opera Koanga / Frederick Delius'

• Full score (black ink) in the hand of Eric Fenby. • An outer bifolium of 18-stave paper (title-page and p. 21 of the score) enclosing the score pp. [1]-20 on 20-stave paper 340 x 265 mm. Instrument names are printed (Trombones amended by hand to Harp). • Sewn into a buff board cover stamped Boosey & Hawkes, on which is written: the above title (in pencil); 'La Calinda / Frederick Delius' (ink); and 'Fenby Strong Room' (pencil). • Title-page (ink): 'La Calinda / Frederick Delius / 1887' • Threlfall (1986), p. 228: 'This excerpt follows the Florida Suite rather than the somewhat later opera, as the date indicates; it consists of the first movement of Florida, cues 6 to 8 after 11 and from 6 after 14 to the end of the movement.'

(2). ff. 13-58. 'La Calinda / Dance / from the opera / Koanga / by / Frederick Delius / arranged by / Eric Fenby'

• ff. 13-54. Full score (black ink) in Fenby's hand. • Title-page and pp. 1-21 followed by a blank page. • 20-stave 344 x 270 mm. Instrument names printed (amended by hand as required). • This manuscript was the publisher's Stichvorlage (title-page: 'Copyright 1938' and 'B&H 8061'). • The orchestra is noted on the verso of the title-page. • Paste-overs occur on pp. 3-4 (Violino I), pp. 8-17, 20 (Arpa), pp. 10-12, 17-18 (horns), pp. 11-12 (bassoons, trumpets, basses). • With red pencil amendments, and some blue pencil deletions. • Threlfall (1986), p. 228: 'This version of La Calinda was recomposed (for a slightly reduced orchestra) from the relevant section of Act 2 of the opera, cutting 21 bars at cue 14 and ending with the andante bars from the end of Florida/I.

(3). ff. 55-58. 'La Calinda Dance' - piano-conductor part in Fenby's hand (black ink), with engraver's marks in blue crayon and cue numbers in red crayon (4 ff, pp. [1]-8). 12-stave 300 x 240 mm.

(4). ff. 59-62. 'Intermezzo' from Fennimore and Gerda

• Full score (black ink) in Fenby's hand. • Arranged by Fenby from the preludes to scenes 10-11. • 24-stave paper 350 x 270 mm. • Title-page with orchestra layout (in pencil) for the engraver on the verso, then pp. 1-5 and 1 blank page. • This manuscript was the publisher's Stichvorlage ('Copyright 1945 Hawkes & Son' and 'B&H 9000' in blue crayon on the title-page).

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Custodial History Each manuscript stamped Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 153.

MS Mus. 1745/3/7 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Hassan ([1923]-1940)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/7

Creation Date [1923]-1940

Extent and Format 4 files

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Hassan ([1923]-1940)

Scope and Content • Full score (original version, prepared by Philip Heseltine and including inked-in pages from Delius's original pencil score). • Full score (by copyists). • Full score (by copyists, formerly owned by Basil Dean). • Full scores by copyists of the Serenade (arranged by Eric Fenby) and of the Intermezzo and Serenade (arranged by Sir Thomas Beecham).

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MS Mus. 1745/3/7/1 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Hassan (original full score) ([1923])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/7/1

Creation Date [1923]

Extent and Format 1 file (folios i-ii, and 1-66)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Hassan (original full score) ([1923])

Physical Characteristics Buff covers, front cover marked 'Universal Edition'.

Scope and Content A hybrid full score, the majority of which is in the hand (black ink) of Philip Heseltine, here combined with elements from Delius's original pencil full score which were subsequently inked-in by another hand (possibly by Heseltine). The original pages by Delius is this score, noted below, are the 'Prelude to Act I', the 'Divertissement', and the 'Act 4 Prelude'. (Most of Delius's original pencil full score can be found in MS Mus. 1745/2/4.)

The present score was used by Universal Edition (as indicated on front buff cover, f. ii) to raise the orchestral material for the first performance (1 June 1923, Darmstadt), from whom it subsequently passed to Boosey & Hawkes.

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German translation of the words, stage directions, and tempo indications have been added throughout by Jelka Delius.

• f. 1r. Title-page, in Heseltine's hand (black ink): 'Hassan / or the Golden Journey to Samarkand / Incidental music to James Elroy Flecker's play, by Frederick Delius / Full score.'

• f. 1v. Title-page verso: a list of instruments, in Jelka Delius's hand. (Throughout the manuscript, JD has added German translations, stage directions and tempo indications.) • ff. 2-6v. 'Prelude to Act I'. Delius's original pencil pages subsequently inked-in (mauve). 24-stave 360 x 268 mm. • ff. 7r-8v. Original pagination pp. [1]-4 still visible. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm. • ff. 9r-11v. 'Prelude to Act II'. Original pagination harmonised on p. 16 by the addition of a digit (originally p. 6). Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm. • ff. 12r-19v. 'Act II'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm. • ff. 20r-27v. 'Divertissement'. Delius's original pages subsequently inked-in (mauve). Pages 41-42 are two folios pasted together as one. 20-stave 355 x 270 mm. • f. 28r. 'Paradox in Paradise'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm.

• f. 28v. 'Act II Scene 2'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm. • ff. 29r-30v. 'Prelude to Act III'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm. • ff. 31r-32r. 57-59. 'Act III Scene I'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm. • ff. 32v-38r. [Act III] 'Scene II'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm. • f. 38v. 'Fanfare to be played before announcing each personage'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm. • ff. 39r-v. 73-74. 'Entry of the Caliph'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm. • ff. 40r-44v. 'Act 4 Prelude'. Delius's original pages subsequently inked-in (mauve). 20-stave 355 x 270 mm. • ff. 45r-49r. 'Prelude to Act V'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm.

• f. 49v. 'The Song of the Muezzin'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm. • ff. 50r-54r. 'The Procession of protracted death'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm. • ff. 54v-60v. 'Prelude to Scene 2. Act V'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm. • ff. 61r-66r. [Act V] 'Scene 2'. Heseltine's transcription (black ink). 18-stave 360 x 260 mm.

• f. 66v (inverted). Contains a fragment in black ink (1 bar and an incomplete second bar).

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Custodial History Stamped Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 150.

Page 110 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/7/2 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Hassan (full score, copyists' hands) ([1923])

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/7/2

Creation Date [1923]

Extent and Format 1 volume (101 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Hassan (full score, copyists' hands) ([1923])

Scope and Content Full score in the hands of two copyists, comprising an initial copy score based upon the original version prepared by Philip Heseltine (MS Mus. 1745/3/7/1) supplemented by additional pages in the hand of a second copyist prepared for the London production (20 September 1923, His Majesty's Theatre, produced by Basil Dean). The additional pages supplied by the second copyist derive from material in the hand of Jelka Delius, for which see MS Mus. 1745/2/4.

• f. i. Buff covers, front cover stamped Boosey & Hawkes Hire Library. • Black ink, pp. 1-189 followed by a blank page. Pages 20, 84, 90, and 116 are also blank. • f. 68 is a replacement page adhered to the original page beneath. • The original pagination of the score (pp. 1-171, pencil) before it was supplemented is also visible. • Mostly, 20-stave 340 x 265 mm, supplemented by 30-stave 340 x 265 mm, but other-sized paper also used. • Words are in German and in English. • The 'Chorus behind the scenes' (ff. 13r-v) is scored on 12-stave paper and includes Beecham's blue crayon hairpins, which also appear on the 'Chorus of Women' (ff. 25-29v) and on the chorus of soldiers (ff. 58-61r). • The 'Chorus of Beggars and Dancing girls' (ff. 44r-v) is also scored on 12-stave paper (beginning with pasted-over bars scored on a different paper). • Various passages have been crossed-out in red pencil (ff. 12, 17r-v, 20v, 24-25r, 46, 52r, 65r and 89v).

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Custodial History Stamped Boosey & Hawkes Hire Library, and stamped Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 153.

Page 111 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/7/3 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Hassan (copyists' full score, formerly belonging to Basil Dean)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/7/3

Creation Date [1923]

Extent and Format 1 volume (160 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Hassan (copyists' full score, formerly belonging to Basil Dean) ([1923])

Physical Characteristics Volume dimensions: 350 x 270 mm.

Scope and Content Formerly owned by Basil Dean, this score was used for the first performance under his direction (20 September 1923, His Majesty's Theatre, London).

• Full score (black ink), in the hands of several copyists. • English words. • Originally bound in mauve cloth, by Goodwin and Tabb, Ltd., London (small square label on inside front cover). • The score is paginated pp. 1-239, followed by 'March' (p. 240) and two deleted bars of full score (p. 241, the verso of which is blank). • The main portion of the work is scored on 20-stave 340 x 270 mm. paper. However, Dean's production, which was more lavish than the first production (Darmstadt, also 1923), called for additional music. Consequently, the main portion of the score was supplemented by the hands of other copyists using a variety of other paper sizes. Threlfall (1986, p. 230) supplies full details, and has identified the hands of five copyists. • Beecham's blue pencilling is evident at various points in the score.

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Custodial History Stamped Boosey & Hawkes Hire Library, and Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 150.

Dawn Redwood, Flecker and Delius - The Making of 'Hassan' (London, 1978), particularly 'A Note on the Music' (pp. 74-82) by Christopher Redwood.

Page 112 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/7/4 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Hassan (Intermezzo and Serenade arranged by Eric Fenby and by

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/7/4

Creation Date [1931]-1940

Extent and Format 1 file (15 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Hassan (Intermezzo and Serenade arranged by Eric Fenby and by Sir Thomas Beecham) ([1931]-1940)

Scope and Content (1). ff. 1-5. Arranged by Eric Fenby, 'Serenade' from the 'Suite for Orchestra' (1931)

• Full score (black ink) prepared by a copyist for Universal Edition. • Title-page and pp. 1-9 (30-stave 356 x 260 mm.). • Scored for 1. 1. CA. 2. 1-2 Horns - Cello solo - normal strings. • Title-page: 'Hassan Suite / Frederick Delius / III / Serenade / Full score'. The title-page is stamped 'Univeral Edition', copyright assigned to Hawkes & Son (London), date stamp indistinct. • Cf. the differently-orchestrated version of the 'Serenade' that Fenby made earlier (1929) for Beatrice Harrison (in MS Mus. 1745/2/4).

(2). ff. 6-11. Arranged by Sir Thomas Beecham, 'Intermezzo and Serenade from Hassan' (1940)

• Full score (black ink) prepared by a copyist. • 18-stave 364 x 270 mm. • Title-page and pp. 1-5 (Intermezzo) and 6-10 (Serenade), followed by 3 blank pages. • This score was the publisher's Stichvorlage. Copyright notice in red ink on the title-page: 'Copyright 1940 in the U.S.A. by Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd.'

(3). ff. 12-15. Also, a MS piano-conductor part (12-stave 364 x 270 mm), comprising title-page and pp. 1-5 followed by 2 blank pages.

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Page 113 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/8 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Settings of Walt Whitman (1930-1967)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/8

Creation Date 1930-1967

Extent and Format 4 files

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Settings of Walt Whitman (1930-1967)

Scope and Content • 'Songs of Farewell' (vocal score, in Eric Fenby's hand). • 'Songs of Farewell' (bound full score, in Fenby's hand). • 'Idyll' (piano and vocal score, in Fenby's hand). • 'Idyll' (full score, in Fenby's hand).

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MS Mus. 1745/3/8/1 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Songs of Farewell (vocal score, by Eric Fenby) (1930-1931)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/8/1

Creation Date 1930-1931

Extent and Format 1 file (22 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Songs of Farewell (vocal score, by Eric Fenby) (1930-1931)

Scope and Content Vocal score by Eric Fenby.

Threlfall, II/9.

• Music and English text in Fenby's hand (black ink). • German translation (beneath English words) by Jelka Delius in red ink, partly in JD's hand and partly in Fenby's hand. • English words adapted from several poems by Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass). • 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. Originally paginated 1-33. • Two outer bifolia (title-page and dedication 'To my wife') enclosing 9 bifolia. • The title-page bears a copyright notice (1931) in red ink. Score used as the publisher's Stichvorlage . • ff. 3-8r. Movement I (followed by a blank un-numbered page). • ff. 9-12r. Movement II. • ff. 12v-15r. Movement III. • ff. 15v-17v. Movement IV. • ff. 18r-22v. Movement V.

Page 114 2021-07-17 Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Stamped Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 153.

MS Mus. 1745/3/8/2 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Songs of Farewell (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby) (1930)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/8/2

Creation Date 1930

Extent and Format 1 volume (20 folios, plus pages 1-36)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Songs of Farewell (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby) (1930)

Physical Characteristics Volume dimensions: 450 x 315 mm.

Scope and Content (1). Bound full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby.

Threlfall, II/9.

• 32-stave 444 x 310. Originally paginated 1-36. • f. 1. Title-page (verso blank) • f. 2r. Dedication ('To my wife'), with list of instruments on the verso. • ff. 3-6v. Movement I. • ff. 7r-9v. Movement II. • ff. 10r-14v. Movement III (followed by 2 blank un-numbered pages). • ff. 15r-16v. Movment IV. On f. 16v, dynamics (green ink) added by Fenby in 1981 at the time of his recording of the work. • ff. 17r-20v. Movement V (followed by 2 blank un-numbered pages). • English words adapted from several poems by Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass). • German translation by Jelka Delius appears in red ink (in Fenby's hand). • Score used as the publisher's Stichvorlage.

(2). Photocopy of full score as published by Winthrop Rogers Ltd, with a copyright date in the USA of 1931. Originally stamped at the top 'Sir Thomas Beecham'. Not annotated. Pages 1-36.

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Page 115 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/8/3 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Idyll (piano and vocal score by Eric Fenby) (1933)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/8/3

Creation Date 1933

Extent and Format 1 file (34 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Idyll (piano and vocal score by Eric Fenby) (1933)

Scope and Content (1). ff. 1-5. English and German words

• ff. 1-3 are the English words and ff. 4-5 are the German words (translation by Jelka Delius), both typed but with amendments by hand. • Words adapted from several poems by Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.

(2). ff. 6-21. Piano and vocal score (soprano and baritone) by Eric Fenby

• In Fenby's hand (black ink). • 12-stave 368 x 274 mm. • Title-page (verso blank) and pp. 1-25, followed by a blank un-numbered page. • ff. 9 and 13 are pasted-down corrections. • German words added in red ink by Jelka Delius. • The work is entitled 'Idyl' [sic], a spelling that persists in the typed English words. • Score used as the publisher's Stichvorlage. 'Winthrop Rogers Edition / Copyright 1933, Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd.' written at the foot of p. 1.

(3). ff. 22-34. Piano and vocal score (soprano and baritone) by Eric Fenby, lacking the Prelude to the work

• In Fenby's hand (black ink). • 12-stave 368 x 274 mm. • Title-page (verso blank) and pp. 1-21, followed by a blank un-numbered page. • f. 27 is a pasted-down correction. • German words added in red ink by Jelka Delius. • The work is entitled 'Idyll', although the first letter 'l' is struck-through in pencil.

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Page 116 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/8/4 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Acccessions): Idyll (full score in the hand of Eric Fenby) ([1932]-1967)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/8/4

Creation Date [1932]-1967

Extent and Format 1 file (26 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Acccessions): Idyll (full score in the hand of Eric Fenby) ([1932]-1967)

Physical Characteristics Volume dimensions: 444 x 320 mm.

Scope and Content Full score (black ink) in the hand of Eric Fenby, within Boosey & Hawkes buff paper covers.

• Main score: 32-stave 444 x 310 mm. • Prelude: 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. • f. 1. Title-page (verso blank), followed by Prelude (ff. 2-7), then main score (ff. 8-26) with a blank page following. • The score was used as the publisher's Stichvorlage. • Marked by Beecham throughout in blue pencil (confirmed by Fenby's note on p. 9). • f. 3r. The first page of the Prelude bears the date '1901', reflecting its origin as the Prelude to Margot la Rouge rather than the date of the manuscript. • f. 7. A note by Fenby (dated 'Dec. 1967'): Delius decided to open the Idyll with the original prelude to the opera, Margot-la-Rouge, from which the music is derived. This was an after-thought; hence the bars which he asked me to delete on page 10, which were part of the earlier orchestral lead-in to the voices, now, of course, rejected.' Fenby then confirms that the blue pencil markings are by Beecham. • A photocopy of this full score exhibiting passages occluded in the copying (i.e. 'deleted' by Beecham for performance purposes) can be found in MS Mus. 1745/1/33 (ff. 44-63).

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Custodial History Front cover stamped Boosey & Hawkes Hire Library. Manuscripts stamped Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 150.

Page 117 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/9 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Cynara (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby) ([1929]-1931)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/9

Creation Date [1929]-1931

Extent and Format 1 file (11 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Cynara (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby) ([1929]-1931)

Scope and Content Full score (black ink) in the hand of Eric Fenby.

For baritone voice and orchestra. First drafted in 1907 (noted on p. 1 of the score) and originally intended for inclusion in Songs of Sunset. Completed in 1929, with the assistance of Eric Fenby.

Threlfall, III/5.

• 32-stave 448 x 310 mm. • Title-page, verso blank (except for very brief engraver's notes in pencil), and pp. 1-20, followed by 6 blank un-numbered pages. • This score was the publisher's Stichvorlage. Copyright notice (1931) in red ink on the title-page. • f. 2r. Added by Jelka Delius at the head of the page: 'Dedicated to the memory of Philip Heseltine'. • English words by Ernest Dowson ('Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno'), with German words by Jelka Delius, and in her hand, in red ink beneath. • f. 11r shows evidence of the original ending having been scratched-out and over-written. Rachel Lowe (1986, p. 104): '[Cynara] was performed at the 1929 [Delius] Festival but in a version eight bars shorter than the present one. On returning to Grez after the Festival, Delius, at Eric Fenby's instigation added the present eight-bar ending.' • For a fair copy also in Fenby's hand, and with Sir Thomas Beecham's blue pencil markings throughout, see MS Mus. 1745/1/33. Beecham's editing has been incorporated by Fenby into this score in preparation for engraving.

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Page 118 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/10 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Cynara (piano score by Philip Heseltine) ([1929]-1931)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/10

Creation Date [1929]-1931

Extent and Format 1 file (9 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Cynara (piano score by Philip Heseltine) ([1929]-1931)

Scope and Content Piano score by Philip Heseltine, and in his hand (ff. 1-7). Together with typed English words and typed German words translated by Jelka Delius (ff. 8-9).

• 16-stave 356 x 264 mm. • Scored in black ink. Instrumentation indicated within the score in red ink (small hand). • Title-page (verso blank) and pp. 1-[12], followed by 2 blank un-numbered pages. • f. 7r. The final bar (Delius's original ending) has been crossed-out in blue pencil. Delius's revised 8-bar ending [1929] appears on f. 7v. • German words have been added by Jelka Delius, in red ink, underneath the English words. • JD has also added a dedication at the head of f. 2r: 'Dedicated to the memory of Philip Heseltine'. • This score was the publisher's Stichvorlage - copyright notice (1931) in red ink on the title-page. • The typed English words by Ernest Dowson (the poem 'Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae') include an amendment by pencil of Dowson's 'mine arms' to 'my arms' (second stanza).

• The typed German words are signed by Jelka Delius.

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Page 119 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/11 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): A Late Lark (full score in the hand of Eric Fenby) (1931)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/11

Creation Date 1931

Extent and Format 1 file (5 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): A Late Lark (full score in the hand of Eric Fenby) (1931)

Scope and Content Full score (black ink) in the hand of Eric Fenby, with German words added by Jelka Delius.

For tenor solo and orchestra. Thelfall, III/6.

• 34-stave 402 x 300 mm. (2 bifolia). • Title-page (verso blank), followed by 5 un-numbered pages, and 1 blank page. • The date of composition by Delius is given as 1925 at the head of f. 2r. • German words appear (red ink) in the hand of Jelka Delius underneath the English words. • English words by William Ernest Henley. • Score used as the publisher's Stichvorlage. Copyright notice (1931) in red ink on the title-page. • Sir Thomas Beecham's performance markings have been added in blue pencil. These appear in the publication (1931) of the full score (6963) by Boosey & Hawkes. • The original manuscript in Fenby's hand (and including Beecham's editing) on which this fair copy is based is in MS Mus. 1745/1/33 (ff. 40-43). • Performance: 12 October 1929, London, Queen's Hall, Heddle Nash, cond. Sir Thomas Beecham.

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Page 120 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/12 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): A Late Lark (piano score by Eric Fenby) (1931)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/12

Creation Date 1931

Extent and Format 1 file (8 folios)

Languages of Material English; German

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): A Late Lark (piano score by Eric Fenby) (1931)

Scope and Content Piano score (black ink) 'for voice and orchestra' by Eric Fenby (ff. 1-6). English words, with German words by Jelka Delius (ff. 7-8).

Threlfall, III/6.

• 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. An outer bifolium containing 6 leaves pasted together and paginated 1/2, 3/4 and 5/blank. • English words by W. E. Henley. • In red ink, beneath the English words, German words by Jelka Delius in her hand. • Date of composition (1925) noted on the title-page. • This score was used as the publisher's Stichvorlage, Copyright notice (1931) in red ink on the title-page. • 1931, Boosey & Hawkes, piano score by Eric Fenby, 6960, pp. 7, English and German. • With typed English words and typed German words (title amended by Jelka Delius by hand).

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Page 121 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/13 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): 'Two Unaccompanied Part Songs' (scored for string orchestra by

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/13

Creation Date [1932]

Extent and Format 1 file (7 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): 'Two Unaccompanied Part Songs' (scored for string orchestra by Herbert Withers) ([1932])

Scope and Content Manuscript full score (black ink) for string orchestra, believed to be in the hand of Herbert Withers.

Threlfall, IV/5.

• 24-stave 368 x 270 mm. • Sewn into stiff buff card covers bearing a Boosey & Hawkes label and stamp. • Title-page (verso blank), pp. 1-12, and two blank un-numbered pages. • ff. 2-4r. Part Song I. 'Frederick Delius (late Spring 1917)'. • ff. 4v-7v. Part Song II. • Title-page: 'Two Unaccompanied Part-Songs / "To be sung on a Summer night on the water" / Scored for / String Orchestra / Frederick Delius'. Stamped Property of Boosey & Hawkes Limited, and stamped Delius Trust Archives. • This arrangement by Withers did not meet with Delius's approval, who subsequently made an arrangement himself (see MS Mus. 1745/3/14). Withers' score is not dated, but an indication of its date can be inferred from the date of Delius's rejection of it, in his letter (22 September 1932) to Universal Edition (see Threlfall).

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Page 122 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/14 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Two Aquarelles, arranged for string orchestra by Eric Fenby

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/14

Creation Date [1932]

Extent and Format 1 file (9 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Two Aquarelles, arranged for string orchestra by Eric Fenby ([1932])

Scope and Content Full score for string orchestra by Eric Fenby (ff. 1-5), together with a piano-conductor part in Fenby's hand (ff. 6-9), based upon two unaccompanied part songs (originally 1917).

(1). ff. 1-5. Full score (black ink), in Fenby's hand

• 16-stave oblong 270 x 340 mm. 1 bifolium enclosing 2 bifolia. • Title-page: 'Frederick Delius / Two Aquarelles / An Arrangement / of / Two unaccompanied part songs "To be sung of a summer night on the water" / for / String Orchestra / by / Eric Fenby'. Stamped Boosey & Hawkes Hire Library and stamped Delius Trust Archives. • Title-page verso is blank. • ff. 2-3r. Part song I. • ff. 3v5r. Part song II, followed by three blank un-numbered pages. • This score was the publisher's Stichvorlage (blue pencil note on p. 1: 'Rayner - Engrave just as you see it').

(2). ff. 6-9. Piano-conductor part

• 16-stave 360 x 272 mm. 1 bifolium enclosing a single leaf. • Title-page (verso blank) and 4 pages of music. • Scored in black and red ink, in Fenby's hand. • f. 9 is a paste-over on the last 2 bars of p. [3]. • With publisher's remarks (dated '10/10/37') on the title-page in blue pencil: 'B&H 8021'

Publication: 1938, Hawkes Concert Edition, full score 8021.

For the arrangement of the same two part songs by Herbert Withers, see MS Mus. 1745/3/13.

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Page 123 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/15 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Caprice and Elegy (full scores, and arrangements for cello and

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/15

Creation Date 1930-1931

Extent and Format 1 file (10 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Caprice and Elegy (full scores, and arrangements for cello and piano, in the hand of Eric Fenby) (1930-1931)

Scope and Content Two full scores, for solo cello and orchestra, in the hand of Eric Fenby. Also, Caprice and Elegy arranged by Fenby for cello and piano.

• Threlfall, VII/8. • Performance: 1930 by Beatrice Harrison on tour in the U.S.A. Also, Harrison (with piano), London, 23 April 1931, Wigmore Hall. • Publication: 1931, Boosey & Hawkes (Hawkes Concert Edition), full score, 6930. Collected Edition Vol. 31c (1986).

f. 1. A single title-page (32-stave 450 x 312 mm.): 'Caprice / and / Elegy / Frederick Delius'. Beneath this title, an amended subtitle: 'Also / Arranged for Cello Solo and Piano / by / Eric Fenby'. The subtitle was amended by Fenby in 1985 (see Threlfall) from 'Cello Solo and Chamber Orchestra'. The title-page also has a copyright notice in red ink (1931), indicating that the scores were used as the publisher's Stichvorlagen. The orchestra is noted on the verso of the single title-page.

(1). ff. 2-3r. Caprice (full score)

• 32-stave 450 x 312 mm. 1 bifolium. • pp. [1]-3, including some markings of dynamics in red pencil. A blank un-numbered page follows.

(2). ff. 4-5r. Elegy (full score)

• 32-stave 450 x 312 mm. 1 bifolium. • pp. [1]-[3] followed by a blank page. • Dated 1930.

(3). ff. 6-7. Caprice (for Cello and Piano)

• 12-stave 346 x 272 mm. 1 bifolium. • Title-page and 2 pages of music. 'Arranged from 'cello solo and chamber orchestra by Eric Fenby'. • Copyright notice (1931) in red ink on the title-page, with '6932' circled in blue pencil. Publisher's Stichvorlage. • Published 1931 by Boosey & Hawkes (6932).

(4). ff. 8-10. Elegy (for Cello and Piano)

• 12-stave 346 x 272 mm. 2 bifolia gathered. • Title-page followed by blank page, 4 pages of music, and 2 blank pages. • Copyright notice (1931) in red ink on the title-page, with '6933' circled in blue pencil. Publisher's Stichvorlage. • Published 1931 by Boosey & Hawkes (6933).

Page 124 2021-07-17 Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Full scores stamped Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 150. Both arrangements stamped Acc. No. 153.

MS Mus. 1745/3/16 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Fantastic Dance (full score and piano-conductor part in Eric

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/16

Creation Date 1933

Extent and Format 1 file (14 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Fantastic Dance (full score and piano-conductor part in Eric Fenby's hand) (1933)

Physical Characteristics Volume (full score) dimensions: 352 x 272 mm.

Scope and Content For orchestra, full score and piano-conductor part, both in the hand of Eric Fenby.

Threlfall, VI/28.

• Performance: 12 January 1934, London, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Adrian C. Boult. • Publication of parts and piano-conductor only: 1933, Hawkes Concert Edition 7268. • Publication of full score: 1987, Collected Edition, Vol. 27b. • For the incomplete autograph pencil draft full score (bars 1-20 only), see MS Mus. 1745/2/9.

(1). ff. 1-10. Full score, in Fenby's hand.

• Original binding, in blue-green cloth, with title gold-blocked on front board: 'Fantastic Dance / Frederick Delius / Full Score'. • Fly-leaf stamped 'Property of Boosey & Hawkes'. • Scored on 24-stave 345 x 266 mm. paper. • Title-page (with dedication 'To / Eric Fenby' on the verso), and pp. 1-17 followed by 1 blank un-numbered page. • Title-page includes copyright notice (1933) in red ink, and the title 'Fantastic Dance' in red crayon (dated '16/1/33'). • At the head of p. 1: 'Frederick Delius (1931)'. • Scored in black ink with occasional additions in red ink. • The sarrusophone part has been erased throughout by knife.

(2). ff. 11-14. Piano-conductor part, in Fenby's hand.

• 12-stave 366 x 272 mm. 2 gathered bifolia. • Title-page (verso blank), and pp. [1]-5, followed by a blank un-numbered page. • Scored in black ink and in red ink.

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Custodial History Full score stamped Delius Trust Archives Acc. No. 153. Piano-conductor part stamped Acc. No. 150.

Page 125 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/3/17 Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Various Scores (1924-1938)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/3/17

Creation Date 1924-1938

Extent and Format 1 file (54 folios)

Languages of Material French

Title Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Various Scores (1924-1938)

Scope and Content (1). ff. 1-4. 'Avant que tu ne t'en ailles':

• Threlfall, V/31. • Setting of a poem by Paul Verlaine, for voice and piano. • 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. 2 gathered bifolia. • Title-page (outer bifolium), with date (pencil): '29/2/32'. • Scored by Eric Fenby (black ink) on the inner bifolium only (4 pages), with French words in the hand of Jelka Delius. • With typed French words on a separate sheet, bearing annotations in pencil concerning the copyright of the poem. • The publisher's Stichvorlage. At the foot of the first page of the score: 'Copyright 1932 in the U.S.A. by Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd. B.& H. 7101.' • Delius Trust Accession No. 150. • A copy in the hand of Jelka Delius (including her German translation of Verlaine) is in MS Mus. 1745/2/6.

(2). ff. 5-8. Air and Dance, for string orchestra:

• Threlfall, VI/21. • Full score (black ink) in the hand of Fenby. • 18-stave 350 x 270 mm. 2 bifolia, not paginated, final page blank. • Dedication (red ink) at the head of the score: 'Dedicated to the National Institute for the Blind'. • Pencil note in the hand of Jelka Delius in the left margin of the first page: ' 'Please copy dynamic markings in here from the score belonging to Sir Thomas Beecham' (for which, see MS Mus. 1745/1/25). Consequently, this score includes additional dynamics in blue pencil. • The publisher's Stichvorlage. Copyright notice (1931) in red ink at the foot of the first page, which also includes in blue crayon at the right margin the number of the Boosey & Hawkes full score (6924). • Delius Trust Accession No. 150.

(3). ff. 9-14. Air and Dance, arranged for piano by Fenby:

• Threlfall, VI/21. • 12-stave 350 x 270 mm. • 6 leaves pasted together, pp. 1-5, followed by blank un-numbered page. • In Fenby's hand, black ink with some additions in red ink ('The notes in red ink to be in small type'). • The publisher's Stichvorlage. Copyright notice (1931) in red ink on p. 1, and '6939 Quarto' in blue crayon. • Delius Trust Accession No. 153.

(4). ff. 15-24. 'Sonata for Violin and Piano (No. 2)':

• Threlfall, VIII/9. • Fair copy (black ink) in the hand of Jelka Delius. • Scored on 5 bifolia of vocal paper, 12-stave with words lines 362 x 276 mm. • Title-page and pp. 1-18, followed by 1 blank un-numbered page. • The publisher's Stichvorlage. Copyright notice (1924) in red ink on title-page, and '6260' in blue crayon. • Delius Trust Accession No. 150. • Autograph draft material for this Sonata is in MS Mus. 1745/2/5.

Page 126 2021-07-17 (5). ff. 25-35. 'Sonata No. 3' (for violin and piano), in Fenby's hand (1930):

• Threlfall, VIII/10. • 12-stave 370 x 276 mm, pp. [1]-20. • 'Phrased and Edited by May Harrison and Eric Fenby' (p. [1]). • In black ink, with red ink editing of the violin part. Bar numbers in red crayon. • The publisher's Stichvorlage. Copyright notice (1931) in red ink at the foot of p. [1], and '6929' in blue crayon. • Delius Trust Accession No. 153. • For the date of composition (Spring 1930), see Fenby (1936), pp. 91-2. See also, pp. 31-3. • A fair manuscript copy by Fenby, also dated 1930, is in MS Mus. 1745/1/34 (ff. 78-88). • Draft material is in MS Mus. 1745/2/5. • First performance: 6 November 1930, London, Wigmore Hall, May Harrison and Arnold Bax.

(6). ff. 36-43. 'Intermezzo from A Village Romeo & Juliet' (copyist's full score):

• Threlfall, I/6. • 'The Walk to the Paradise Garden'. • 24-stave 365 x 270 mm. • Title-page and pp. 1-14, followed by 1 blank un-numbered page. • In the hand (black ink) of a copyist. • The title-page states: 'Composer's original full scoring, as in the opera. / Edited by Sir Thomas Beecham.' • Title-page stamped Boosey & Hawkes Hire Library. • Delius Trust Accession No. 150.

(7). ff. 44-50. Irmelin (Prelude, for Small Orchestra) - full score and piano-conductor part:

• Threlfall, VI/27. • ff. 44-48. Full score, in Fenby's hand. • 14-stave oblong 266 x 362 mm. • Title-page (verso blank) and pp. 1-8, followed by 2 blank un-numbered pages. • In buff card covers with title and publication information on the front. • The publisher's Stichvorlage. Copyright notice (1937) in blue crayon on front cover. Also: 'B&H 8000'. • ff. 49-50. Piano-conductor part, also in Fenby's hand (1 bifolium, 16-stave 366 x 272 mm.) - title-page and pp. 1-3, in black and red ink. • Delius Trust Accession Nos. 150 (full score) and 153 (piano-conductor part).

(8). ff. 51-52. Irmelin (Prelude, arranged for piano solo by Eric Fenby, in his hand):

• Threlfall, VI/27. • 12-stave 302 x 240 mm. 1 bifolium. • Title-page, 2 pages of music (black ink), blank page. • The publisher's Stichvorlage. Copyright notice (1937), Hawkes & Son (H14791) written at the foot of the first page of music. • Delius Trust Accession No. 153.

(9). ff. 53-54. Irmelin (Prelude, arranged for organ by Eric Fenby, in his hand):

• Threlfall, VI/27. • 12-stave 302 x 240 mm. 1 bifolium. • 4 pages of music, in black ink with some additional notes in red crayon. 'The registration is left to the discretion of the player.' • The publisher's Stichvorlage. Copyright 1938 noted in pencil at the foot of the first page, with '8063' in red crayon at the right margin. • Delius Trust Accession 153.

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Custodial History All manuscripts stamped Delius Trust Archives, either Acc. No. 150 or 153.

Page 127 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/4 Frederick Delius: Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust ([1895]-1984)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/4

Creation Date [1895]-1984

Extent and Format 6 files

Languages of Material English; French; German

Title Frederick Delius: Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust ([1895]-1984)

Scope and Content Various manuscripts acquired by the Delius Trust at different times as separate accessions.

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MS Mus. 1745/4/1 Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): 'Irmelin Rose' and 'Mélodie sur des vers de Paul

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/4/1

Creation Date [1895]-[1897]

Extent and Format 1 file (6 folios)

Languages of Material English; French

Title Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): 'Irmelin Rose' and 'Mélodie sur des vers de Paul Verlaine' ([1895]-[1897])

Scope and Content Two manuscripts (Delius Trust Accession 119).

1. ff.1-2, 'Irmelin Rose'

• 12-stave oblong 270 x 350 mm. 1 bifolium. • Copyist's hand (black ink). 3 pages of music, final page blank. • Lacking the 2½ bars subsequently added to the end of the first verse, this copy agrees with the first orchestral score (see MS Mus. 1745/1/12, ff. 6-8). • Stamped Delius Trust Accession No. 119/1. • Threlfall, III/4.

2. ff. 3-6, 'Melodie sur des vers de Paul Verlaine'

• The song published as 'Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit'. Pencilled numberings on the manuscript suggest that this may have been Tischer's Stichvorlage. • 12-stave oblong 270 x 350 mm. 2 bifolia glued together to form 6 pages. • 5 pages of music (black ink), all in Delius's hand. However, the 4th page was re-written by Delius when the second bifolia was pasted onto the first bifolia, and at that time a revised 5th page was written. The original 5th page of this manuscript is bound in MS Mus. 1745/1/36, as f. 47r. (See Rachel Lowe: 1986, p. 130.) • Signed 'Fritz Delius' at the head of the first page. • Stamped Delius Trust Accession No. 119/2. • Threlfall, V/16.

Page 128 2021-07-17 Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Delius Trust Accessions Nos. 119/1 and 119/2.

Both manuscripts are described in Rachel Lowe, A Catalogue of the Music Archive of the Delius Trust (1986), p. 130.

MS Mus. 1745/4/2 Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): 'Deux Mélodies' / 'Poésies de Paul Verlaine'

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/4/2

Creation Date [1910]

Extent and Format 1 file (4 folios)

Languages of Material French; German

Title Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): 'Deux Mélodies' / 'Poésies de Paul Verlaine' ([1910])

Physical Characteristics The top right corner of the final page of the manuscript is missing, and with it a small portion of the uppermost stave.

Scope and Content ff. 1-4, copyist's manuscript used as the Stichvorlage for the republication (1910) by Tischer & Jagenberg. Delius Trust Accession No. 141.

• 12-stave with word lines 350 x 270 mm. 2 bifolia. • Title-page (verso blank), and 6 pages of music (2 settings of Verlaine, 3pp. + 3 pp.) • Title-page: 'Fritz' altered to 'Frederick'. Title in French and German. Plate number '9966' is written in pencil at the foot of the page. • ff. 1-3r, 'Il pleure dans mon coeur' (3 pages, black ink), French words by Verlaine with German words (in Tischer's hand) beneath. Dynamics added in pencil, and plate number appears again. Delius's autograph manuscript of this setting (the Stichvorlage for L. Grus) is in MS Mus. 1745/2/6 (under 'Various songs in Delius's autograph'). • ff. 3v-4 'Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit' (3 pages, black ink). French words by Verlaine with German words (in Tischer's hand) beneath. Plate number appears again, together with other engraver's markings in pencil.

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Custodial History Given to the Delius Trust in 1975 by Albi Rosenthal. Delius Trust Accession No. 141.

Page 129 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/4/3 Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): 'Two Songs for Children' and 'The Splendour Falls

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/4/3

Creation Date [1923]

Extent and Format 1 file (7 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): 'Two Songs for Children' and 'The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls' ([1923])

Scope and Content Manuscript fair copies, in the hand of Jelka Delius, prepared in 1923 for publication in the Oxford Choral Song series (1924).

1. f. 1, 'Two Songs for Children': 'I. Little Birdie'

• 14-stave 340 x 270 mm. 1 bifolium: 2 pages of music, and 2 blank pages. • For voice with pianoforte accompaniment. • Scored in black ink, words in pencil, with Tonic Sol-fa (black ink) added by the publisher.

• Words by Alfred Tennyson ('What does little birdie say / In her nest at peep of day?') from Sea Dreams (1860).

• With 'Note to Engraver' (red ink) along the right margin of the first page regarding the layout. • Delius Trust Accession No. 158/1. • For the composer's autograph draft of this song, see MS Mus. 1745/1/39 (f. 82r). • Threlfall, V/29.

2. ff. 2-3, 'Two Songs for Children': 'II. The Streamlet's Slumber Song'

• 14-stave 340 x 270 mm. 1 bifolium: 3 pages of music, and 1 blank page. • For voice with pianoforte accompaniment. • Scored in black ink, words in pencil, with Tonic Sol-fa (black ink ) added by the publisher.

• The words are unattributed. • Delius Trust Accession No. 158/2. • For the composer's autograph draft of this song, see MS Mus. 1745/1/39 (f. 81v). • Threlfall, V/29.

3. ff. 4-7, 'The Splendour falls on Castle Walls'

• 14-stave 340 x 270 mm. 2 bifolia, pp. 1-7, and 1 blank page. • For unaccompanied mixed voices (S.C.T.B.). • Words and music in black ink. • Words by Alfred Tennyson: The Princess (1847), Canto 4. • Delius Trust Accession No. 158/3. • For the original dictation of this song to JD (including 12 bars short-score sketch in Delius's late hand), see MS Mus. 1745/2/5 ('Various Dictations to Jelka Delius'). • Threlfall, IV/6. • Performance: 17 June 1924, London, Aeolian Hall, Oriana Madrigal Society, cond. Charles Kennedy Scott.

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Custodial History Manuscripts given to the Delius Trust in 1978 by Mrs D. Sparkles, née Foss. Delius Trust Accession Nos. 158/1-3.

Page 130 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/4/4 Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): Margot la Rouge, orchestrated by Eric Fenby (1979)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/4/4

Creation Date 1979

Extent and Format 1 file (99 folios)

Languages of Material French

Title Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): Margot la Rouge, orchestrated by Eric Fenby (1979)

Scope and Content ff. 1-99, full score (black ink), orchestrated by Eric Fenby and in his hand. Signed and dated (December 1979) on p. 193. Score commissioned by the Delius Trust.

• French libretto, by Roseval [Berthe Gaston-Danville]. • 24-stave 380 x 270 mm. 50 bifolia. • Title-page (verso blank), 'Personnages' with 'Orchestre' on the verso. Followed by pp. [1]-193, and 3 blank pages. • Title: 'Partition d'Orchestre / Margot-la-Rouge / Drame Lyrique en 1 Acte / Paroles de Rosenval / Musique de Frederick Delius'. • pp. [1]-8. Prelude. • pp. 9-24. Scène I. • pp. 25-41. Scène II. There is a small paste-over in the final bar (p. 41) of the Clarinet and Bassoon parts. • pp. 41-67. Scène III. • pp. 67-103. Scène IV. • pp. 104-124. Scène V. • pp. 124-147. Scène VI. • pp. 148-193. Scène VII. • Delius Trust Accession No. 206. • Threlfall, I/7.

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Custodial History The score was passed to the Delius Trust by Eric Fenby in 1980. Delius Trust Accession No. 206.

Page 131 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/4/5 Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): [Five Songs] (Stichvorlagen for Tischer &

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/4/5

Creation Date 1910-1984

Extent and Format 1 file (16 folios)

Languages of Material English; German; French

Title Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): [Five Songs] (Stichvorlagen for Tischer & Jagenberg) (1910-1984)

Scope and Content Five songs published in Fünf Gesänge (Köln: Tischer & Jagenberg, 1915), reprinted Oxford University Press (1930). The German publisher's plate numbers are pencilled on each manuscript. In 1984, the manuscripts were passed to the Delius Trust by Oxford University Press.

• ff. 1-4, correspondence between Oxford University Press and the Delius Trust. Four letters (1984), in which OUP agrees to present the manuscripts to the Delius Trust (rather than place them on loan). • f. 5, Oxford University Press Music Dept. file label (dated '26/8/47'), listing the five manuscripts. 'Composer's own handwriting' is recorded, although only 3 of the 5 songs are in Delius's autograph. • ff. 6-7, 'Frühlingslied / (J. P. Jacobsen) / Frederick Delius'. 1 bifolium, 20-stave 340 x 270 mm. 3 pages of music and 1 blank page. In Jelka Delius's hand (black ink). German words only. Publisher's plate number (pencil): 15279. Threlfall, III/4 (the 7th song of 'Seven Danish Songs': 'Den Lenz lass kommen' or 'Let Springtime come'). Delius Trust Accession No. 229/1.

• ff. 8-9, 'The nightingale has a lyre of gold / W. E. Henley / Frederick Delius / 1910'. 1 bifolium, 12-stave (with words lines) 350 x 270 mm. 4 pages of music. In Delius's autograph throughout (black ink). English words only. Publisher's plate number (pencil): 15280. Threlfall, V/25. Delius Trust Accession No. 229/2. • ff. 10-12, 'I Brasîl / (Fiona Macleod) / Frederick Delius / Feb. [month struck-through in pencil] 1913'. 1 bifolium 20-stave 340 x 270 mm. 3 pages of music and 1 blank page. The lower half of the second page is a pasted-over correction. In JD's hand (black ink). English words only. Publisher's plate number (pencil): 15281. Threlfall, V/28. Delius Trust Accession No. 229/3. • ff. 13-14, 'Schwarze rosen (Josephson)', and 'Frederick Delius' added in pencil. 1 bifolium 12-stave (with words lines) 350 x 270 mm. 4 pages of music. In Delius's autograph (although from the second page the words appear to be in JD's hand). German words only. Publisher's plate number (pencil): 15282. Threlfall, V/22. Delius Trust Accession No. 229/4.

• ff. 15-16, 'Chanson d'Automne (Paul Verlaine) / Frederick Delius 1911'. 1 bifolium 12-stave (with words lines) 350 x 270 mm. 3 pages of music and 1 blank page. In Delius' autograph (ink over pencil), title in JD's hand. French words only (traces of JD's erased German translation can still be seen in pencil). Publisher's plate number (pencil): 15283. Threlfall, V/27. Delius Trust Accession No. 229/5.

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Custodial History Delius Trust Accession Nos. 229/1-5.

Page 132 2021-07-17 MS Mus. 1745/4/6 Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): 'Twilight Fancies' (1949)

Collection Area British Library: Music Collections

Reference MS Mus. 1745/4/6

Creation Date 1949

Extent and Format 1 file (5 folios)

Title Frederick Delius (Individual Accessions to the Delius Trust): 'Twilight Fancies' (1949)

Scope and Content Full score arrangement by Vaughan Allin of the song 'Twilight Fancies' (originally entitled 'Abendstimmung' or 'Evening Voices'). Threlfall, V/9: '7 Lieder (aus dem Norwegischen)'.

• 2 gathered bifolia, 20-stave 360 x 265 mm. • ff. 1v-4, full score in black ink. With English words only (red ink). • f. 1r, first page blank (save for instruments in pencil), and 7 pages of music. • Scoring: Voice, 2 Flutes, Oboe, 2 Clarinets, Bassoon, 2 Horns, 2 Trombones, Strings. • Placed within a buff card cover for hire purposes (Oxford University Press Music Dept.). • f. 5, typed OUP record (1949) including the following remarks: 'This song was scored by Mr. Vaughan Allin in error and was sent to us. This entry is for reference only, as the song may not be hired out.' • Delius Trust Accession No. 230. • In MS Mus. 1745/2/6 can be found for this song both Delius's autograph Stichvorlage supplied to Augener Limited (London, 1892) and also Delius's autograph original orchestration (1908, at the request of Olga Wood).

Legal Status Not Public Record(s)

Custodial History Delius Trust Accession No. 230 (from Oxford University Press).

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