DVORÁK, ANTONÍN. FINE, UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH LETTER WITH MUSIC

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Fine, unpublished autograph letter with music, written in idiosyncratic English, signed (“A.Dvorák”), [to his English publisher Alfred Littleton of Novello and Company], about the casting of his oratorio Saint Ludmila

graciously declining to alter the oratorio as suggested by the singer Janet Patey and Littleton, explaining his original ideas for the roles of Ludmila, Ivan and Svatava, urging him to transpose Svatava’s aria to D flat major (supplying the key signature for clarification) with relevant changes made to the previous recitative, promises to return the proof of the score and giving details of his travel plans to England for the premiere ...I never thought the part of Ludmila should be song by an Contralto and the Part of Ivan by a Baryton. The first one is written for Mezzo-Soprano and the other for Bass...I would advise you to let it so as it is now till I am there...I leave Prague on October 1. or 2...and will reach London Monday or Tuesday (Victoria Station or Charing Cross)?... 3 pages, 8vo, Vysoká, 18 September 1886, creased at folds