Autograph letter signed ("Georg Henschel") incorporating a 2-measure autograph musical quotation. Addressed to Howard M. Ticknor, narrator of a performance of Schumann's Manfred with Henschel conducting
2 pp. Octavo. Dated "Music Hall Mar. 4, [18]84." On letterhead with "Boston Symphony Orchestra, Georg Henschel, Conductor" printed at head. With autograph envelope addressed to Ticknor at "Evans House, Tremont Street, City."
A detailed letter in which Henschel writes regarding the integration of text and music in a forthcoming performance of Robert Schumann's Manfred in which Ticknor appeared as narrator in the final concert of the BSO's third season. with integral autograph musical quotation.
"I am much obliged for what you sent me yesterday of the poem." Henschel goes on to request a meeting with Ticknor "in order to write down in my copy [of the score] the exact words you recite in Nos. 10, 11, 12, and 13 that I may know before how to come in with the orchestra."
Slightly creased at folds; envelope worn and browned with small tears to left margin, not affecting address panel.
Henschel was an English composer, conductor, and baritone of German birth. " ... In March 1881, [he] led the Harvard Musical Association orchestra in an overture of his own composition, and his conducting attracted considerable attention. Henry Lee Higginson, who wished to establish a permanent symphony orchestra for Boston and was looking for a conductor, engaged him immediately ... After three seasons in Boston, Henschel moved to England, though he returned to Boston as a singer and conductor on several occasions." Steven Ledbetter, revised by Brian Bell in Grove Music Online
Schumann's Manfred (incidental music consisting of an entracte, melodramas, and several solos and choruses based on Lord Byron's 1817 eponymous poem) was composed in 1848-1849 and first performed in Weimar on 14 March 1852.
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