Bush, Alan Series of thirty-five late letters signed ("Alan Bush"; "Alan"), to the organist Robert Crowley comprising thirty-two typed letters signed and three autograph letters signed, ABOUT THE COMMISSIONING AND COMPOSITION OF THE PRELUDE AND CONCERT PIECE FOR ORGAN, OP. 116, THE SUITE FOR ORGAN, OP. 117 AND THE SONATA FOR ORGAN, OP. 118, discussing his earlier works for organ, the Three English Song Preludes, Op. 40, and Two Occasional Pieces, Op. 56, his organ-playing days and time as a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music, technical features of the organ, including registration, his fee for the commission ("You must keep the fee dark, as otherwise I could be accused of black-legging..."), the tonal modes of Op. 117, the performance of the works, describing the effect on him of the performance of one of the pieces ("...it seemed remote and almost mysterious..."), referring to other compositions he is working on, also mentioning Tippett and "A Child of our Time", John Ireland, Arnold Cooke, his eyesight ("rather complicated...but I manage to compose more or less every day"), the significance of these latest commissions for him ("Your existence in Radlett has greatly enriched my creative life..."), the German Democratic Republic and the U.S.S.R. ...The kind of inconclusive effect it made on both occasions was something which I have never previously experienced with any other of my one hundred and fourteen previous compositions! Was it the instrument, my treatment of it or your performance? Certainly not the last... 35 pages, various sizes, mostly oblong 8vo, one letter on a filing card, the majority of the rest on headed stationery of the composer, with two typed envelopes and one autograph envelope, and two typed concert programmes for Op. 116, annotated by the composer, and one photocopied document, Radlett, 1987-1995, where indicated The late organ works Op. 116, 117 and 118, among the very last compositions of the composer, form the subject of these letters and represent a remarkable coda in the creative output of Alan Bush, who died at the age of 94 in 1995. The autograph manuscripts of Op. 116-118 were sold in these rooms on 21 May 2004 (lot 40).
Bush, Alan Series of thirty-five late letters signed ("Alan Bush"; "Alan"), to the organist Robert Crowley comprising thirty-two typed letters signed and three autograph letters signed, ABOUT THE COMMISSIONING AND COMPOSITION OF THE PRELUDE AND CONCERT PIECE FOR ORGAN, OP. 116, THE SUITE FOR ORGAN, OP. 117 AND THE SONATA FOR ORGAN, OP. 118, discussing his earlier works for organ, the Three English Song Preludes, Op. 40, and Two Occasional Pieces, Op. 56, his organ-playing days and time as a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music, technical features of the organ, including registration, his fee for the commission ("You must keep the fee dark, as otherwise I could be accused of black-legging..."), the tonal modes of Op. 117, the performance of the works, describing the effect on him of the performance of one of the pieces ("...it seemed remote and almost mysterious..."), referring to other compositions he is working on, also mentioning Tippett and "A Child of our Time", John Ireland, Arnold Cooke, his eyesight ("rather complicated...but I manage to compose more or less every day"), the significance of these latest commissions for him ("Your existence in Radlett has greatly enriched my creative life..."), the German Democratic Republic and the U.S.S.R. ...The kind of inconclusive effect it made on both occasions was something which I have never previously experienced with any other of my one hundred and fourteen previous compositions! Was it the instrument, my treatment of it or your performance? Certainly not the last... 35 pages, various sizes, mostly oblong 8vo, one letter on a filing card, the majority of the rest on headed stationery of the composer, with two typed envelopes and one autograph envelope, and two typed concert programmes for Op. 116, annotated by the composer, and one photocopied document, Radlett, 1987-1995, where indicated The late organ works Op. 116, 117 and 118, among the very last compositions of the composer, form the subject of these letters and represent a remarkable coda in the creative output of Alan Bush, who died at the age of 94 in 1995. The autograph manuscripts of Op. 116-118 were sold in these rooms on 21 May 2004 (lot 40).
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