Lot 105: BRITTEN, BENJAMIN.

AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF THE MUSIC TO THE FILM "INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA" ["THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA" OP.34], SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE ("BENJAMIN BRITTEN")
the complete composition draft, in short score, including the final fugue, here originally titled by Britten "Orchestral Film", written in pencil, on up to twenty-four staves per page (on systems of up to five staves each), a working manuscript with many revisions, alterations and deletions, a few phrases on hand-drawn staves in the margins, with many instrumental and orchestral markings throughout, containing several differences from the final version, and with Britten's own autograph commentary for the original film, written between the staves and highlighted in orange crayon, introducing each part of the orchestra, also including sketches for the fugue and the timpani theme on an otherwise blank lower wrapper, this manuscript lacking the later numbering of the variations

29 pages, large folio (c.36 x 26cms), 24-stave paper, on 6 successive bifolia and a final single leaf, [December 1945], some minor browning and tears to margins