Signed Manuscript Composition Sketchbooks [3 vols.]

Legge (Robin Humprey))

Publication details: Leipzig: 1888, 1889,

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Robin Legge was a major figure on the London music scene in the early 20th century, highly active member of The Savile and The Arts Clubs, and as chief music critic of the Daily Telegraph, was an independent advocate of both new music and old, notably recognising the brilliance of Elgar, and the power of Puccini when he was largely unfashionable. This was in no small part due to his considerable music education in Leipzig and Frankfurt, and his own talent as a composer, exhibited here. In addition to the Rossetti, his completed works include a setting of Byron's 'She walks in beauty', a piano Waltz, Polonaise, Minuet & Trio and a sketch for a Benedictus. Despite his early promise, Legge published only one piece, 'Romance' for cello and piano.

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first volume with harmonized composition exercises & analysis, and several fully realized short pieces for the piano and accompanied songs including Rossetti's 'Three Shadows', written in ink with few amendments, pastedown inscribed 'Leipzig' with date and composer's signature; second volume with compositional sketches in pencil, hastily annotated themes, some partially or fully harmonized with many corrections; third volume, further exercises in pen and pencil, 'cadences' etc., pp. 102 (numbered by hand), [v]; [86], [24], folio, original black pebbled cloth with tape spines and labels (first two volumes) annotated with the dates, 1888 and 1889, 'Composition Sketches' and 'Scribbling Book' signed by the composer and with his stamp, edges rubbed; third volume with printed wrapper (Augener's Manuscript Music Book), cover detached, good overall,

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