A lengthy autograph musical quotation signed by Italian composer G[ioachino] Rossini, Paris, 14 April 1863, and dedicated to Welsh pianist and composer [Henry] Brinley Richards.
The quotation consists of nine bars from an unidentified piece for piano in E-flat major, in 3/4 time with the time signature 'Mod[era]to'.
Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868
Letters of Brinley Richards, &c.
Letters, 1872-1875, relating to musical matters from Brinley Richards (1819-1885), and from his wife, on his behalf, to C. Hughes, Dorking and London and to D. Emlyn Evans (1843-1913); letters from Lewis Thomas, on behalf of Edith Wynne, to John Jones (Ivon) (1820-1898), Aberystwyth; etc.
Richards, Brinley, 1819-1885
Miscellaneous autograph letters, the correspondents including John Barrow (Prince Edward Island), Francis Buckland, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Philip Burne-Jones, John 3rd Marquis of Bute, William Benjamin Carpenter, David Charles (the younger, Carmarthen), Frances Power Cobbe, Griffith Davies, F.R.S., John Cadvan Davies (Cadvan), W. Cadwaladr Davies, G. A. Denison (archdeacon of Taunton), J. P. Earwaker, Edward Edwards (Llanuwchllyn), Sir Owen M. Edwards, John Gwenogvryn Evans, Lewis Edwards, Thomas Charles Edwards, Robert Ellis (Cynddelw), Thomas Edward Ellis, Max Förster (Munich), Thomas Frewen, W. E. Gladstone, Laurence Housman, Father Ignatius (Llanthony), John Banks Jenkinson (bishop of St. Davids), L. D. Jones (Llew Tegid), W. Basil Jones (bishop of St. Davids), Joseph Loth (Rennes), H. E. Manning, Sir Lewis Morris, J. H. Newman, Kate Norgate, James Gordon Oswald, C. T. Owen (Hampstead), Sir Richard Owen, Alfred Neobard Palmer, Joseph Parry, John Cowper Powys, J. Roland Phillips, Evan Rees (Dyfed), William Rees (Llandovery), Henry Richard, Brinley Richards, Sir John Rhys, Jeremy Taylor (a modern transcript), Connop Thirlwall (bishop of St. Davids), Brandon Thomas, William Thomas (Islwyn), Sir John Williams (first President of the National Library of Wales), Samuel Wilberforce (bishop of Oxford), and E. Llywelyn Williams (New York).
Buckland, Francis T. (Francis Trevelyan), 1826-1880
Over thirty autograph letters, 1884-1885, from Brinley Richards (1819-1885) to J. P. Davies, Baptist minister of ?Caerphilly, mainly relating to Welsh music.
Richards, Brinley, 1819-1885
An autograph copy by Brinley Richards of the music and words of 'God Bless the Prince of Wales', music by Brinley Richards ('Cerddor Towi'), Welsh words by J[ohn] Ceiriog Hughes ['Ceiriog'] and English words by George Linley; and a sheet containing English words in the autograph of George Linley, endorsed with a note by Brinley Richards relating to their composition.
Richards, Brinley, 1819-1885