Lot 130: QUILTER, ROGER.

Important collection of seventeen autograph manuscripts signed ("Roger Quilter"), together with scribal copies and first and early editions

Condition Note:

all signed and inscribed by Quilter to Alban Claughton ("for Bungey and Sally from Roger" etc.), most with autograph title pages, written in dark-blue, black and blue inks, a few in pencil, some with earlier pencil drafts still legible, the music generally notated on four systems per page, each of three staves, with erasures and alterations; together with eleven scribal copies of songs by Quilter, mainly by Quilter's copyist Leslie Woodgate, and over forty first and early editions inscribed by Quilter to "Bungey",

74 items in all, includig 67 pages of autograph music by Quilter, folio, 12-stave paper, 1913-1951

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CATALOGUE NOTE

Quilter is celebrated as a master of twentieth-century English song.

This is a fine collection of Quilter manuscripts and scribal copies, including important songs from throughout his career. They are working manuscripts in places, some written over an initial draft in pencil, and with alterations made through erasures rather than deletions. Some of the manuscripts were inscribed to "Bungey" (i.e. Mr Alban Claughton) in 1951, but in many cases they are considerabaly older ("copied by Leslie Woodgate years ago & published by Chappell's")

The autograph manuscripts are: 'Suite from "Where the Rainbow Ends" Op.2 (stamped: 17 Jul[y] 1919), 'Where be you going?' (Dec[ember] 1913), A Song at Parting' Op.32, (1951), 'Damask Roses', 'Drooping Wings' (1942), 'Foreign Children' Op.5 no.4, 'In the Bud of Morning-O' (1926), 'Music' (1951), 'Music and Moonlight' (Autumn 1951), 'My Heart adorned with Thee', 'Orpheus with his Lute' Op.32, 'Take, O Take those Lips Away', 'The Constant Lover' Op.28 no.5, (Aug[ust] 1951), 'To Electra' Op.28 no.3, 'Tulips', 'Why so Pale and Wan?', 'Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes' and 'Etude' (a scribal manusript with autograph title, inscribed by Quilter to "Bungey")