Research Catalog

Les illuminations op. 18 : solo voices, string orchestra

Title: Les illuminations [microform] : op. 18 : solo voices, string orchestra / Arthur Rimbaud [paroles] ; Benjamin Britten [musique].
Author: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Publication: 1939.

Additional Authors

Description

1 ms. condensed score (39 p.)

Uniform Title

Illuminations (Sketches)

Alternative Title

Subject

Note

Holograph condensed score (composition sketch), signed (Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh).
For high voice and string orchestra.
Includes note on history of composition and on the two songs, Marine and Being beauteous (Frame 67).
On p. 39: October 15, 1939.
Part of Elizabeth Mayer collection.
Includes blank pages.
Accompanied by [6] p. of discarded sketches (2 endings of Being beauteous, and parts of Parade and Phrase) along with extra text. For details see frames 94 and 113.
Film no. A 20, no. 2.

Reproduction (note)

Contents

Contents: Fanfare -- Villes -- Phrase -- Antique -- Royautʹe -- Marine -- Interlude -- Being beauteous -- Parade -- Dʹepart.

Call Number

*ZBT-568 no. 2

OCLC

NYPG95-C537

Author

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.

Title

Les illuminations [microform] : op. 18 : solo voices, string orchestra / Arthur Rimbaud [paroles] ; Benjamin Britten [musique].

Imprint

1939.

Reproduction

Microfilm. Aldeburgh Britten-Pears Library, 1982, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Added Author

Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891.

Mayer, Elizabeth.

Britten-Pears Library. Manuscript.

Toscanini Memorial Archives.

Research Call Number

*ZBT-568 no. 2