Autograph Letter Signed ('John Hullah') from the English composer John Pyke Hullah to T. V. Lister.
Author:
John Hullah [John Pyke Hulla] (1812-1884), English composer for one of whose operas Charles Dickens wrote the libretto [St Martin's Hall, Long Acre]
Publication details:
28 March 1862; on letterhead of 11 Devonshire Place, W., London.
£35.00
SKU: 10147
12mo, 2 pp. 15 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Having failed to 'catch' lister after 'our practice', Hullah asks if he would be willing to 'take part in a private performance here of Haydn's Stabat Mater'. Gives details of dates of proposed performance, and rehearsal.