British composers Collection of manuscript music scores comprising: Henschel, Sir Isidore Georg (1850-1934). [Psalm CXXX for five-part chorus, solo voices and orchestra], c.1878. 97 pp., probably secretarial, with Henschel's autograph title and presentation inscription, 'Der Hundert und Dreissigste Psalm Davids, für fünfstimmigen Chor, Solostimmen und Orchester ... gesetzt von Georg Henschel. Frau Amelia Lehmann, zum Andenken, London am 29 Juni 1877, 10. July [sic] 1878' to front free endpaper and pastedown, 33 x 26cm, contemporary quarter cloth binding; Beale, William George Frederick (fl. c.1855-75). 'Symphony in F Minor', 1872. 66 ff., autograph, 23.2 x 29.2cm, contemporary cloth; Turpin, Edmund Hart (1835-1917). 'Grand Mass in D Minor' [and:] 'Mass in Ab', c.1865. 2 works, 122 ff. and 188 pp., both probably autograph, in purple ink, Grand Mass with penciled annotation ('Grand Mass in D Minor (Unpublished). Composed for the use of St Barnabas Cathedral Nottingham by E. H. Turpin, late organist and choirmaster there (about 1865), with instrumental accompaniments') to initial blank, both 28 x 23cm, in contemporary half roan (worn); together with: volume of manuscript scores for guitar (spine dated 1831, 74 ff. + blanks, songs with guitar accompaniment, including 'The Muleteer', 'Flow on thou Shining River, Portuguese Romance', 'Auld Lang Syne', Weber's 'Choeur des chasseurs de Robin des bois', etc., in the same hand); volume of manuscript scores in different hands, mounted on stubs; a collection of some 40 autograph letters signed from Edinburgh organist Thomas H. Collinson (1865-1928) to 'My dear precentor', c.1907-12; and a collection of engraved music (not collated): Beethoven, Air with Variations for the Piano Forte, London: Broderip & Wilkinson, c.1805, and VIII Variations on a Celebrated Air in the Opera of "Richard Coeur de Lion" for the Piano Forte, London: Goulding, Phipps, D'Almaine & Co., c.1805 (2 works, original wrappers); Nathaniel Gow, The Vocal Melodies of Scotland, Edinburgh: Nathaniel Gow, c.1820 (2 parts in 1 volume, other pieces bound in at rear); Niel Gow & Son's [sic], Part First [Fourth] of the Complete Repository of Original Scots Slow Strathspeys and Dances, Edinburgh: Robert Purdie, c.1820 (third edition, 'corrected and improved'); John Parry, The London Collection of Glees, Duetts and Catches, c.1829 (2 volumes); A Select Collection of Scottish Airs for the Voice ... by Pleyel, Kozeluch and Haydn, Edinburgh: G. Thomson, 1801-3 (3 volumes) (15 volumes + folder of letters)

Note: The recipient of this manuscript copy of Henschel's setting of Psalm CXXX was apparently fellow composer Amelia Lehmann (née Chambers, 1838-1903). William George Frederick Beale appears in a notice in the London Gazette (7 April 1857, p. 1292) as a 'Professor of Music' also known under the names of William Morgan Smith and William Horatio Smith.