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Disgrifiad archifol
Disgrifiadau lefel uchaf yn unig Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849.
Rhagolwg argraffu Gweld:

Music,

  • NLW MS 10932D.
  • Ffeil
  • 1871-1875 /

A volume of vocal and instrumental music composed by, and partly in the hand of, Norman Grosvenor, Moor Park, etc. The compositions belong to the period 1871-1875 and include a composition inspired by William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience', rondos, quartets, minuets, a rondo to words by A. C. Swinburne, 'Daffodils' to words by William Wordsworth, nocturnes, a dirge to words by P. B. Shelley, carols, works influenced by Chopin, part songs, a composition to words by Alfred Lord Tennyson, etc.

Grosvenor, Norman, organist and composer

Diary

  • NLW MS 21688A.
  • Ffeil
  • 1839-1841, [1858]

The diary, 1839-1841, of Sarah Pahud (née Walker), daughter of a Dolgellau family and wife of Henri Pahud, a Swiss born Paris businessman. The diary is written in English and French.
Pahud describes her honeymoon tour with her husband through France (English, pp. 1-8), Italy (French, pp. 8-30), Switzerland (French, pp. 31-46) and Germany (French, pp. 46-51), April-June 1839; a journey from Paris to Manchester via Dover and London, October 1839 (French, pp. 52-56); and a visit to her family in Dolgellau, travelling via Paris, London and Chester and returning via Birmingham and London, June-September 1841 (English, pp. 56-96). She also visits friends in Barmouth (pp. 75-79) and Ruthin (pp. 80-87) and describes the consecration service of St David's Chapel, Denbigh, 27 August 1841 (pp. 84-85). There are references to Frédéric Chopin and George Sand, with an eyewitness account of Chopin's perceived state of health, 3 May 1839 (pp. 7-8). There are also a few further miscellaneous memoranda, [1858] (ff. 114, 184).

Pahud, Sarah, 1815-