Record ID:
115808
Accession number:
MA 2503
Creator:
Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.
Biographical Data:
British composer.
Title:
The pirates of Penzance : copyist's manuscript, 1879.
Uniform title:
Pirates of Penzance
Date:
1879.
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
Inscription/Markings:
"Overture (Pirates of Penzance.) Arthur Sullivan."
Notes:
Copyist's manuscript of the full score of the complete opera.
Libretto by W.S. Gilbert.
Last numbered page is 594. Pagination skips from p. 340 to p. 401.
This copyist's manuscript was purchased along with the autograph manuscript and another copyist's manuscript, cataloged separately.
Provenance:
Herbert Sullivan; Mrs. Elena Margarita Bashford.
Associated names:
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911, librettist.
Sullivan, Herbert, former owner.
Bashford, Elena, 1890-1957, former owner.
Department:
Music Collection: