"The Dream of Gerontius" - INSCRIBED SCORE WITH Autograph Musical Quotation

London: Novello and Company. 1900. Novello's Original Octavo Edition. Rebound hardcover in green linen, 7 x 10, 177 pages. Signed on the title page in bold fountain pen, “Edward Elgar, Worcester 1926,” with the addition of four bars from the work. In fine condition. Accompanied by a matching custom half-leather clamshell box.


The Dream of Gerontius is an oratorio (Opus 38) in two parts composed in 1900, to text from the poem by Cardinal Newman, relating the journey of a pious man's soul from his deathbed to his judgment before God and settling into Purgatory. It is widely regarded as Elgar's finest choral work, and by some to be his magnum opus. It was composed for the Birmingham Music Festival of 1900 and the first performance took place on 3 October 1900, in Birmingham Town Hall. (12561)

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