(Sir Edward, composer, 1857-1934) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, musical score, signed by Elgar and dated 1932 on title, a few pencil markings, original printed wrappers, soiled, spine defective, 1910 § Programme and General Arangements fo the Norfolk and Norwich Twenty-Sixth Triennial Musical Festival, signed by Edward Elgar, C.Hubert Parry, Clara Butt, S.Coleridge-Taylor and several others on front free endpaper, original limp roan, spine defective, 1899 § Coleridge-Taylor (Samuel) Scenes from Hiawatha..., musical score, signed and dated by the composer and others including his wife Jessie, son Hiawatha and daughter Gwendolen on title (with various dates, presumably signatures corresponding to performances), browned, original cloth, spine faded, 1900 § Sayers (W.C. Berwick) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Musician: His Life and Letters, signed and inscribed "To Mr.W.W.Cobbett with sincere gratitude from Jessie F.Coleridge-Taylor for the 'disocvery' of her husband's Violin sonata op.28, & the Prize awarded her for the same on March 23. 1916" on front free endpaper, light foxing, plates, original cloth, 1915, all rubbed; and 4 others, music, 8vo & 4to (8) *** Interesting group connecting Elgar with the early black English composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), who was of Creole descent and became known as "the African Mahler". He studied at the Royal College of Music under Charles Villiers Stanford who conducted the young composer's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast at its premiere in 1898. This became one of the most popular and frequently performed choral pieces of the time. Sir Edward Elgar recommended him to the committee of the Three Choirs Festival, "I wish, wish, wish you would ask Coleridge-Taylor to do it. He still wants recognition, and he is far and away the cleverest fellow going amongst the young men. Please don't let your committee throw away the chance of doing a good act. Edward Elgar" (quoted in Berwick Sayers's biography p.52). The result was Ballade in A minor and received an overwhelming ovation. Later The Song of Hiawatha was performed at the Birmingham Festival in 1903, on the same day as Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, Coleridge-Taylor's work gaining a far more enthusiastic reception.
(Sir Edward, composer, 1857-1934) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, musical score, signed by Elgar and dated 1932 on title, a few pencil markings, original printed wrappers, soiled, spine defective, 1910 § Programme and General Arangements fo the Norfolk and Norwich Twenty-Sixth Triennial Musical Festival, signed by Edward Elgar, C.Hubert Parry, Clara Butt, S.Coleridge-Taylor and several others on front free endpaper, original limp roan, spine defective, 1899 § Coleridge-Taylor (Samuel) Scenes from Hiawatha..., musical score, signed and dated by the composer and others including his wife Jessie, son Hiawatha and daughter Gwendolen on title (with various dates, presumably signatures corresponding to performances), browned, original cloth, spine faded, 1900 § Sayers (W.C. Berwick) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Musician: His Life and Letters, signed and inscribed "To Mr.W.W.Cobbett with sincere gratitude from Jessie F.Coleridge-Taylor for the 'disocvery' of her husband's Violin sonata op.28, & the Prize awarded her for the same on March 23. 1916" on front free endpaper, light foxing, plates, original cloth, 1915, all rubbed; and 4 others, music, 8vo & 4to (8) *** Interesting group connecting Elgar with the early black English composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), who was of Creole descent and became known as "the African Mahler". He studied at the Royal College of Music under Charles Villiers Stanford who conducted the young composer's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast at its premiere in 1898. This became one of the most popular and frequently performed choral pieces of the time. Sir Edward Elgar recommended him to the committee of the Three Choirs Festival, "I wish, wish, wish you would ask Coleridge-Taylor to do it. He still wants recognition, and he is far and away the cleverest fellow going amongst the young men. Please don't let your committee throw away the chance of doing a good act. Edward Elgar" (quoted in Berwick Sayers's biography p.52). The result was Ballade in A minor and received an overwhelming ovation. Later The Song of Hiawatha was performed at the Birmingham Festival in 1903, on the same day as Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, Coleridge-Taylor's work gaining a far more enthusiastic reception.
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