PROUT, EBENEZER 1835 1909 (12 Ergebnisse)

First edition. Size: 8vo. xiv, 191pp. Publisher's embossed cloth. First produced at the Jubilee Concert of The Huddersfield Choral Society, October 7, 1887. The music composed for and dedicated to The Huddersfield Choral Society.

See the entries for Prout and Cummings in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. The second leaf of a bifolum, the first presumably carrying the commencement of the letter. The present fragment, in a good firm hand, reads: 'in the way he desires but if you can do so, you will not only be assisting a most deserving young man, but I shall regard it as a personal kindness. / I am, my dear Cummings, / Yours very cordially, / Ebenezer Prout. / Dr. W. H. Cummings.'.

Cloth. Bar numbers in pencil. Size: Folio. 27pp.

Size: 8vo. iv, 45pp. Plain cloth (backstrip missing). Bound with four cantatas for female voices by Franz Abt: The Golden City; The Water-Fairies; The Fays' Frolic; [and] Minster Bells.

Zustand: New.

Reprint. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine and panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : music ; 21.9 cm. Subjects; Harmony. Music theory. Music; instruction. Musical theory. 1 Kg.

Size: 2ff. 181 x 114mm. White paper (slight foxing), folded where previously enveloped. Autograph letter, in ink, signed, concerning a concerto, the score being at Goodwin's [publisher] for copying out into parts and referring to performances in Birmingham and Brighton (which the composer was ?conducting). Short note about Prout at the end of the letter, in purple crayon, in another hand.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded three times for postage. The letter concerns the Hackney Choral Association. Begins: 'My dear Sir, / I am much obliged by the kind note just received, though I am sorry we shall not have the pleasure of your company on Monday. As you are kind enough to offer us your assistance on future occasions, I write to say that the remaining concerts of the season take place on March 4, and May 6, when we shall be very glad to see you.' He is enclosing a copy of 'our prospectus', as the recipient 'may be interested to know what the programmes will be on those occasions'. Postscript: 'Our rehearsals are always held on the morning of the concerts at 9.30 in Shoreditch Town Hall.'.

Large octavo. Full dark brown flexible leather boards, "D. Swindells" and decorative gilt stamping to edges gilt. 1f. (title), 1f. 1f. (cast list, scenes, argument and preface), 167, [i] (blank) pp. Minor markings in pencil and red crayon. First Edition. Bound with: HODSON, Henry Edward. The Golden Legend. A Dramatic Cantata Words from the poem of H.W. Longfellow. London: Novello, Ewer & Co. [PN 6036], [1881]. 1f. (title), [iii]-[vii] (composer's note, index, cast), [8]-15 (libretto, [16] (blank), 131 pp. First Edition. Boards somewhat worn and rubbed. Slightly worn; occasional minor foxing.

Stated First Edition. Uninked, impressed institutional stamp to the title. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 416 pages; Physical desc. : viii, 416 p. : ill. , port. (frontis. ) ; 24 cm. Subjects; London Missionary Society - Missions - Polynesia - Persecurion - Christian martyrs - Vanuatu. 1 Kg.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 12mo. Forty-nine lines. Bifolium. On aged and worn paper, with the reverse of the second leaf laid down on cut-down remains of leaf of autograph album, with a number of autographs on slips laid down on the reverse, including that of Charles Hallé, cut from a letter. Prout's letter is signed 'Ebenezer Prout', but the recipient is not named. He apologizes for not having written sooner about 'Christophorus': 'The truth is that our programme was settled just as I was leaving town for Norway; and since my return I have been so busy, first with the Birmingham Festival, and this week with the Choral Competitions at the Albert Hall, where I have been one of the judges, that the matter quite slipped my memory.' He states that he recommended the piece to 'the Committee of the B. H. C. A., but after discussion, it was (to my own regret) negatived in favour of Handel's 'Te Deum'. I make it a rule to yield to the wishes of my committee - except in matters of principle - so I did not press it.' He offers to either purchase or return the two scores he has been sent. 'I have lent one of them to the librarian of our society, who, I should add, warmly supported my proposal to do it'. If they are to be returned there will be a delay, as he is going down to the Hereford Festival on the Monday. He ends: 'Thanking you for your willingness to assist us, and regretting that my efforts to do 'Christophorus' have at present been unsuccessful'.

Oblong 8vo. ¾ page. With autograph envelope. To the musician Frederick Allan Wilshire (1868-1944) in Bristol: "I have only just returned home to find your letter awaiting me. I beg to enclose my autograph [.]". - With collector's note to envelope in ink, the envelope somewhat foxing.