Full score with rehearsal marks, paste overs and patches, crossings out and notes to the engraver. Britten has included a contents page with a list of movements and their durations and a list of the instruments of the orchestra; he has underlined in red those instruments which are obligato.
1 manuscript; 36 pages [1v-6r, 7v-12r, 13v-21v, 22v-27r, 28v-36v]
Bound volume; blue and red ink, pencil, red and blue crayon; 26.2 x 36.4 cm; title page stamped with 'Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd Hire Library' stamp. See Title Page of Collected Volume.
'SOIRÉES MUSICALES / SUITE OF / MOVEMENTS FROM ROSSINI / ARR. / [signature] / FOR SMALL OR LARGE ORCHESTRA [underlined] / BOOSEY & HAWKES, LTD. [stamped]'.
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