Manuscript scores, 1933-1959

Containers:

Folio-Box 12

Component identifier:

File Packet 4

Content Summary:

Photocopies of the following musical scores: 'Adelaide Overture' - full score (original score written in 1936, full score in 1977); 'The Cedar Tree' - full score, 1944; 'Concerto No. 2 in C# Minor for Piano and Orchestra' - full score, 1934-1935; 'Dreamland': song for soprano with orchestral accompaniment - full score, with words by Rossetti, 1933; 'Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda' - full score, 1936; 'Kelso Overture' (dedicated to Rudolf Pekarek), 1959; 'Lyric for Small Orchestra' - full score, nd; 'Mineral' section for the 'Heritage' pageant, 1936; 'Orange Growing' leading into 'Wine Waltz - full score, 1936; 'Pianoforte Concerto No. 1 in E♭ Minor' - full score 'Pioneers and Bushfires', 1936; Prelude and Dance for small orchestra - full score; 'Theme and Variations in F Minor' - full score; 'Village Fair' - full score, 1943; 'Wheatfield', 1936; and 'The Wind in the Sedges' - full score.

'Fantasy Romantic for Pianoforte and Orchestra: full score. First performance conducted by Professor Bernard Heinze, Sydney Town Hall, 1942.

'Heroic Elegy' - full score, c1939 (first performed in Sydney, October 1940, conducted by Edgar Bainton).

'Happy Occasion Overture' (played at the official opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government in Wellington, New Zealand, 1995).

'Symphonic Overture in F# minor'. First public performance at the Australian Composers Concert, 1942.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was donated to the Library by Miriam Hyde in a number of instalments from 1976 to 1996. A further instalment was donated to the Library by Hyde's daughter Christine Edwards in 2021.

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