Violin.

Sammons, Albert. Introduction, Tema and Danse Hongroise, Op.19 (Stichvorlage score and violin part), 21 pages, with some added autograph corrections and additions, no place or date; Lucas, Leighton. Serenade for solo violin and small orchestra (short score and violin part), 31 pages, no place, 1933; Armstrong Gibbs, Cecil. Suite in A, Op.101 (score and violin part), 24 pages, added pencil fingerings to violin part, Windermere, January 1942; Somervell, Arthur. Concertstück in D minor for solo violin and orchestra (score fragment), 3 pages, September 1912, title and last three pages only; Sherrin, James. Jig (score), 14 pages, no place or date; Petit, Raymond. A Young Aunt's Lullaby for solo violin (solo violin part), 6 pages, 6-12 August 1925; with another slightly different version entitled "Berceuse" (solo violin part), 4 pages, no place or date; O'Dwyer, Robert. Derry Air (score and solo part), 10 pages, no place or date; Rose, Bernard. Une Caprice d'une Minute (score and solo part), 4 pages, Salisbury, 11 April 1935; Mortari, Virgilio. Sonata in D minor (violin part), 16 pages, with extensive additional markings, and some revisions to the music, Milano-Levanto, 1928; Walker, Ernest. Variations on a theme of Joachim, Op.40 (score and violin part), 19 pages, Oxford, August 1918; Meulemans, Arthur. Deux Movimenti pour violon et orchestre (autograph piano score and scribal violin part, with autograph title and some autograph annotations), 29 pages, the two movements dated Tongeren, 13-14 June and 2 June 1927, respectively     



over 160 pages in all, various sizes, notated in ink, many manuscripts marked up in by pencil by the performer, some leaves detached, last leaf of the Walker score torn and detached, some fraying at edges, some staining and browning

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing where appropriate.
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The dedicatees of the music in this collection were two of the finest violinists of the first half of the twentieth century, the sisters - and great-nieces of Joseph Joachim - Jelly d'Aranyi (1893-1966) and Adila Fachiri (1886-1962).