HAYDN Joseph VI original canzonettas for the voice with an accompaniment for the piano-forte, dedicated to Mr. John Hunter ... 1st edition, 31 engraved pages (including an engraved titlepage), folio, London: for the author, [1794] [Bound with] Second set of Dr. Haydn's VI original canzonettas for the voice with an accompaniment for the piano forte dedicated to the Right. Hon.ble. Lady Chalotte Bertie ... 1st edition, [ii], 23 engraved pages (including an engraved titlepage and Catalogue of new music 1795), folio, London: Corri Dussek, [1795] Note: Hoboken. Gruppe XXVIa Nr 25-30 and ibid. Gruppe XXVIa Nr. 31-36; Landon Haydn in England 1791-95 pp. 257-8 & 324-315 In 1794, Haydn returned to the composition of solo songs under the muse of Anne Hunter, widow of the surgeon John Hunter who had supplied the texts for the twelve songs published in the present works and to whom the first volume is dedicated. The first volume is signed by Haydn at the foot of the titlepage and the titlepages of both volumes have the signature of the Revd. Osborne Wight. Wight, graduated BA from New College Oxford in 1776, was one of the circle of Haydn's English friends and admirers and a member of the Musical Graduates Club which Haydn joined after he received his DMus at Oxford in July 1791. More specifically Wight was one of the people with whom Haydn appears to have co-operated in contributing to the Revd. William Tattersall's Improved psalmody which set out to reform English parish church music. Wight's bequest of English music manuscripts and printed sheet music of the 17th and 18th centuries laid the foundation of the Bodleian's music ms. collections. The volume also contains: William Tindal's Six vocal pieces , London, [ c. 1790], signed by Tindal; Graeff's Six songs Op. 6, London, [ c. 1790], signed by Graeff; Hindle's Collection of songs for one and two voices, London, [ c. 1790] , initialled by the composer with his control number at the foot of the titlepage, signed and dated 1792 by Osborne Wight; Callcott's Collection of five songs, four duets & three glees, London, [ c. 1790], signed by Wight on the verso of the last page. Bound together in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rubbed and worn, lower cover detached.
HAYDN Joseph VI original canzonettas for the voice with an accompaniment for the piano-forte, dedicated to Mr. John Hunter ... 1st edition, 31 engraved pages (including an engraved titlepage), folio, London: for the author, [1794] [Bound with] Second set of Dr. Haydn's VI original canzonettas for the voice with an accompaniment for the piano forte dedicated to the Right. Hon.ble. Lady Chalotte Bertie ... 1st edition, [ii], 23 engraved pages (including an engraved titlepage and Catalogue of new music 1795), folio, London: Corri Dussek, [1795] Note: Hoboken. Gruppe XXVIa Nr 25-30 and ibid. Gruppe XXVIa Nr. 31-36; Landon Haydn in England 1791-95 pp. 257-8 & 324-315 In 1794, Haydn returned to the composition of solo songs under the muse of Anne Hunter, widow of the surgeon John Hunter who had supplied the texts for the twelve songs published in the present works and to whom the first volume is dedicated. The first volume is signed by Haydn at the foot of the titlepage and the titlepages of both volumes have the signature of the Revd. Osborne Wight. Wight, graduated BA from New College Oxford in 1776, was one of the circle of Haydn's English friends and admirers and a member of the Musical Graduates Club which Haydn joined after he received his DMus at Oxford in July 1791. More specifically Wight was one of the people with whom Haydn appears to have co-operated in contributing to the Revd. William Tattersall's Improved psalmody which set out to reform English parish church music. Wight's bequest of English music manuscripts and printed sheet music of the 17th and 18th centuries laid the foundation of the Bodleian's music ms. collections. The volume also contains: William Tindal's Six vocal pieces , London, [ c. 1790], signed by Tindal; Graeff's Six songs Op. 6, London, [ c. 1790], signed by Graeff; Hindle's Collection of songs for one and two voices, London, [ c. 1790] , initialled by the composer with his control number at the foot of the titlepage, signed and dated 1792 by Osborne Wight; Callcott's Collection of five songs, four duets & three glees, London, [ c. 1790], signed by Wight on the verso of the last page. Bound together in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rubbed and worn, lower cover detached.
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