Lot 204
TREVELYAN (R C)
The bride of Dionysus a music drama and other poems
Auction: 24 November 2001 at 11:00 GMT
£483
Description
quarter vellum, cloth boards, the original printed wrappers bound in, fore and bottom edges uncut, small 4to., London, 1912
Footnote
Note: With a presentation inscription from the composer Donald Tovey on the title page. With numerous pencilled annotations probably in Tovey's hand. Sir Donald Tovey, distinguished musical scholar and composer and Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh, composed prolifically during his first Oxford days and in the following years, but after 1918, his only major works were the 1935 Cello concerto composed for Pablo Cassalls and his opera The Bride of Dionysius upon which he had been working since 1907 and which was eventually first performed in 1929