A NEW SOURCE OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY KEYBOARD MUSIC

1969 ◽  
Vol L (2) ◽  
pp. 278-289
Author(s):  
GWILYM BEECHEY
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Keyboard Music

Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Music. Vol. 2: London, British Library MS Add. 40080

Notes ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1288
Author(s):  
Lionel Party ◽  
Alexander Silbiger ◽  
Bruce Gustafson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
British Library ◽  
Keyboard Music

Sweelinck's Keyboard Music: A Study of English Elements in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Composition

Notes ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Erich Schwandt ◽  
Alan Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Keyboard Music

Newly Discovered Autograph Keyboard Music of Purcell and Draghi

1995 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-111
Author(s):  
Curtis Price
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
British Library ◽  
Keyboard Music ◽  
British Music ◽  
Henry Purcell ◽  
Music Manuscript

A manuscript of late seventeenth-century English harpsichord music was sold to an anonymous private collector at Sotheby's in London on 26 May 1994 for £276,500, a record price paid for any British music manuscript. The 85-page oblong quarto, in its original covers, includes 21 pieces in the hand of Henry Purcell (1659–95), five of which were previously unknown, and a further 17 works by Giovanni Battista Draghi (c.1640–1708), also probably autograph, four of which were previously unknown. The manuscript is important because of the rarity of Purcell autographs: this is the first to be sold at public auction since the great collection of fantazias and sonatas (now British Library, Add. MS 30,930) was offered in 1826, and the only major source to surface this century.

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