MUSIC - YORKSHIRE FESTIVAL 1823-1825

A bound volume of printed programmes, tickets, Festival Regulations for 1823 and other printed ephemera [1823-1825]

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A bound volume of rare daily programmes (listing all the soloists, musicians etc.), tickets, printed ephemera, and views of the Yorkshire Grand Music Festivals of 1823 and 1825. Includes

Programmes: Yorkshire Grand Musical Festival, 1823. First Day, 4pp. [25 Sept. 1823]; "Scheme of the Evening's Performances, broadside, 23 September 1823, both printed by W. Storey, York; Yorkshire... Festival 1823, for the Benefit of the York County Hospital, and of the General Infirmaries of Leeds, Sheffield, and Hull. Grand Selection of Music to Be Performed... Tuesday, September 23, [1823];... Miscellaneous Selection, for the First Grand Concert... with errata slip, [1823];... The Messiah, a Sacred Oratorio, Composed by Handel, and to Be Performed in York Minster, on Wednesday, September 24, [1823]; ... Miscellaneous Selection, for the Second Grand Concert... On Thursday, September 23 [1823]; Grand Selection of Sacred Music.. in York Minster, on Thursday, September 25, [1823]; idem... on Friday, September 24, [1823], various York printers; The Second Yorkshire Musical Festival, Held on the 13th... and 16th of September, 1825, in York Minster, 7 programmes, York, Printed by W. Blanchard [-W. Storry]-[J. Wolstenholme], [1825].

Festival tickets include: "Single Ticket. Tuesday. Aisle" for J.L. Raper, [1823]; "Creation. Thursday 15. September 1825", and "Fancy Dress Ball. Friday. September 16th 1825".

Printed ephemera: "Yorkshire Musical Festival, 1813. Regulations", broadside, York, J. Wolstenholme, [1823]; "The Messiah; A Sacred Oratorio: As Performed in the Cathedral of York, Wednesday, August 17, 1791. Set to Music by Mr. Handel", title only (with "List of Patrons" on verso, annotated in pencil), York, Wilson, Spence and Mawman, 1791; newspaper cuttings and reviews.

Illustrations: Madame Catalani, hand-coloured engraving after Buck, cut down 1807, with accompanying manuscript note on her performing history, which included the 1823 Yorkshire Festival; Two hand-coloured lithographed views of the interior of York Minster as it appeared for the musical festival of 1823, both by T.M. Baynes after J. Brown of York, one dedicated to J.L. Raper (see provenance note), and one to Jonathan Gray, sheet size 305 x 330mm., folded, John Wolstenholme, 24 September 1823[-1824]; 5 earlier folded engraved views of Cathedral interiors arranged for performances by Handel.

Provenance: ?John Lamplugh Raper, Chairman of the Committee of Management for the Yorkshire Musical Festivals, his name on the ticket ("Tuesday. Aisle") pasted on the front free endpaper, and a lithographed view the interior of York Minster dedicated to him in his role as Chairman bound in; Sold on behalf of Oxfam.