Lot 108: BRITTEN, BENJAMIN.

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF BRITTEN'S REALIZATION OF PURCELL'S "THE BLESSED VIRGIN'S EXPOSTULATION", FOR SOLO VOICE AND PIANO
notated in pencil on four three-stave systems per page, with the words and titles written in the hand of Peter Pears, the manuscript annotated with observations ("c in Novello"), queries, alterations to accidentals, and marked-up by Pears for performance (perhaps therefore to sing himself)

7 pages, folio (c.36.5 x 27.5cms), 16-stave paper, two successive bifolia, with a correction in another hand in red crayon, dated at the end ("Nov 9 1945"), hinges reinforced with adhesive tape

Enid Vandyk.