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Holst, Gustav.
Estimate
2,000 - 2,500 GBP
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Description
- Autograph working manuscript of the canon "If you love songs, cuckoo, then come again", signed ("Gustav Holst")
- ink on paper
the poem by Helen Waddell ("from Alcuin"), notated in black ink for two soprano and one alto voices, on six three-stave systems, with deletions, alterations and revisions, including one passage written by Holst on a slip of manuscript pasted over an earlier version, 1 page, folio (c.35.5 x 26.5cms), 24-stave paper, inscribed at the end by Holst "St Paul's Girls' School, Brook Green W6", [c.1932], creasing and some splitting at folds
Catalogue Note
Autograph music manuscripts by Holst are rare at auction, this one being unrecorded. "If you love songs" is the first of eight canons, all based on texts from Helen Waddell's Medieval English Lyrics (1929). Michael Short records autographs of only the canons 4, 5, 6 & 8 (Gustav Holst. A Centenary Documentation, 1974, M30).