Tragic composer Peter Warlock’S hand- written score for masterwork for sale at Bonnhams autograph manuscript of the curlew
Last Updated on Friday, 3 February 2012 06:05 Written by External Post Friday, 3 February 2012 06:05
The autograph manuscript of Peter Warlock’s masterpiece The Curlew is to be auctioned at Bonhams Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale in London on March 27th.It is estimated at £4,000-6,000.
The Curlew, a setting of four poems by W B Yeats, is seen as his best work, a view shared by the composer “for the first time in my life I really felt pleased with something I had written” as he told a friend after the premiere.
Warlock had toyed with the composition for a number of…
