Piano solos, 1929-1998

Containers:

Folio-Box 18

Component identifier:

File 83

Content Summary:

Pauline (1929. Rev. copy 1983. Photocopy) ; To a Skylark (1929. Rev. copy 1987. Photocopy); Elegy (1929. Rev. copy. Photocopy); Breakers (Composed 1932, written down 1938. Not for publication); manuscript book containing: Slow movement Concert in E flat minor (solo version, 1933), Rhapsody in F sharp minor (1933), Burlesque (1933), Prelude in F sharp minor (1929), Prelude in F minor (1928); Piano Concerto No. 2, Andante tranquillo (solo piano, 1934-35. Photocopy); Meditation (circa 1934); Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda (1936. Rev. copy. 1965); Piano version of "Village Fair" – a ballet for orchestra (1943); Lullaby for Christine (1950. Photocopy, with rough working and related notes); Happy occasion overture (1957, solo transcription made 1964, copied 1987); Drought-stricken grasses (1964. Rev. copy 1990); Strings (1966. Photocopy); Divertimento (1968); Family at War (1972. Transcription of Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 6 in E minor arranged for piano. Not for publication); Lengthening shadows (1974); Pigeons in the studio (1974, with rev. copy 1984); Study in E minor (1974); Study in A minor (1975); Sonatina (1975. With rough working); A short cadenza for the first movement of Concerto in C minor K491 [by] Mozart (1975); Celebration waltz (1976); Waltz in E flat : a concert piece (1977); Story of a budgerigar (1977. Photocopy); Shady branches (1985. Photocopy); Passacaglia (1985. Photocopy, with rough working); Variation on a theme by Liszt (1986); Scherzo fantastic for piano (1986. With rough working); Returning tide at sunset (1987); Ballerina (1987); Evening in Cordoba (1987. With rough working); The vine trellis (1988. With rough working); Blackbird's song (1988. Photocopy); Fog in the valley (1988. Photocopy); Insistent bird (1992. Photocopy); Cadenza for 1st m. Mozart Concerto in D major (K537) (1945. Rev. copy 1998).

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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