Autograph Score of Frederic Clay's song 'Let Courtiers Toss On Beds Of Down' from his opera 'Court and Cottage', signed 'Frederic Clay. / Tenor Ballad from "Court & Cottage."
Author:
Frederic Clay [Frederic Emes Clay] (1838-1889), English composer [Hon. Henry Wodehouse (1834-1873); Tom Taylor (1870-1880), English dramatist; Theatre Royal, Covent Garden]
Publication details:
With ownership inscription of Hon. Henry Wodehouse, 24 Upper Brook St, London. Undated, but from between the piece's composition, c.1862, and Wodehouse's death in 1873.
£450.00
SKU: 11693
Scored on two facing pages, on two 25 x 34 cm leaves of music paper attached to one another along one edge with a thin strip of glue. Good, on lightly-aged paper, in red card folder with white label. Scored for voice and piano, with the two verses of libretto by Tom Taylor. Signed at end 'Frederic Clay. / Tenor Ballad from "Court & Cottage".', with ownership inscription alongside: 'Henry Wodehouse / 24 Upp. Brook St.' (According to the Survey of London, Hon. Henry Wodehouse, great-grandson of the 1st Baron Wodehouse, lived with his mother in Upper Brook Street between 1851 and his death in 1873.) 'Court and Cottage', with libretto by Tom Taylor, was Clay's first professionally-produced at Covent Garden in 1862.