Rough sketches
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, short score, sketch, fragment]
A few pages of rough working including motives and harmonies for Paris.
Early material
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, short score, sketch, fragment]
Four folios of sketch material for Lebenstanz and Paris.
Pencil sketches
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, short score, sketch, fragment]
Two pages of short-score sketches headed 'Joyeuse nuit' and 'Carneval', thus associated with the sketched section 'Scènes Parisiennes'.
Sketches, full score
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, sketch, excerpt]
This manuscript represents the stage of the work when Delius was considering two sections entitled 'Scènes Parisiennes' and 'Episodes & Aventures'. It is in full score with short score overworkings and annotations in French. The continuation and completion of this sketch is in BL MS Mus. 1745/2/8.
Sketches, full score, continued
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, sketch, excerpt]
This manuscript contains the continuation of the sketches described under MS Mus. 1745/1/40.
Autograph score
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, fair copy, complete]
Title page: The flyleaf verso bears the following text:
"Paris"|Impressions de nuit|"Ein Nachtstück"|Frederick Delius|Oct. 1899 Feb 1900|
"Mysterious city!|Asleep while the crowds hurry bye|to their many pursuits and pleasures|Awakening as the twilight softly deepens|tinging all things with mystery|City of pleasure,|of strange sensations|of brazen music and dancing|of painted and beautiful women.|Secret city,|unveiling but to those|who ever shunning day|return home in the pale blue light|of scarcely breaking dawn|and fall asleep to the song of the awakening streets|and the rising dawn."|(Dieses Gedicht soll nur die Stimmung|angeben & soll durchaus nicht als Programme|aufgefasst werden). There follows a translation of the poem in German.
This score contains cue numbers and other conductors' markings, indicating its use in early performances.
Julius Buths' two-piano arrangement
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, piano score, fair copy, complete]
Arranger: Julius Buths
Title page: "Paris"|"Impressions de nuit"|Ein Nachtstück für|grosses Orchester|von|Frederick Delius|Für zwei Klavier übertragen von Julius Buths.
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This arrangement, made in 1903, is identical with the autograph score in MS Mus. 1745/2/13/1. Eric Fenby has added numerous taped-over corrections to make the score accord with the printed full score.
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Copy
An identical copy of Buths' score in the hand of a copyist, with a pasted over addition on f. 35v in Delius's hand, and corrections in pencil and blue crayon throughout in an unknown hand (possibly Delius's).
Delius Trust, London MS Mus. 1745/1/18B.
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Eric Fenby's revised copy
Photostat copy of Buths' arrangement in a copyist's hand, revised in 1977 by Eric Fenby and bearing his amendments in pencil.
Delius Trust, London.
Published score
[Classification: notated music, print, score, first edition, complete]
F.E.C. Leuckart, Leipzig 1909.
This edition represents a later stage of the work's completion than the autograph score (see RL, 74-5).
Thomas Beecham's copy
Beecham's own copy of the printed score contains detailed performance markings.
Delius Trust, London.
Published score, corrected
[Classification: notated music, print, score]
Editor: Thomas Beecham
Universal Edition, London 1965.
This re-engraved and corrected edition also incorporated details from a copy of the printed score, annotated by Beecham, now held by the Delius Trust. This edition, with minor corrections, was reissued as vol. 23B of the Collected Edition.
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