Sir J. Barbirolli. Autograph score of "Shenandoah", arranged for strings, harp and celesta, signed, 1944

Sir John Barbirolli

Autograph score of Shenandoah, arranged for strings, celesta and harp, signed ("John Barbirolli")

a working manuscript of the complete piece, notated in pencil on systems of varying length, with a few markings in blue crayon, with two boldly inscribed autograph title-pages ("...Shenandoah...set for String orchestra Harp & celesta. John Barbirolli."), and containing a few erasures and corrections

6 pages, plus blanks, 4to (30.8 x 23.2cm), 16-stave paper, manuscript label to first title ("FS / BA 75"), loose brown-paper wrapper, London, 16 July 1944, light dust-staining, a few tiny stains; together with a set of manuscript parts for the work, in various hands, c.36 pages in all (violin I: 7 parts; violin II: 6 parts; viola: 5 parts; violoncello: 4 parts; bass: 4 parts; harp) 

RARE.

This setting of the traditional American folk song dates from the summer of 1944, a year after Barbirolli became permanent conductor of the Hallé Orchestra.