CW Rare & Antiquarian Music

CW Rare & Antiquarian Music Specialising in rare music literature, sheet music and ephemera. General stock listed on AbeBooks, with regular updates.

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A few details from my latest Occasional List: Children, Animals & Musical Games! See link for full listings and prices (...
09/04/2026

A few details from my latest Occasional List: Children, Animals & Musical Games! See link for full listings and prices (subject to prior sale): https://mailchi.mp/038ed751dab2/hello-53626?e=e9c4fc45fa

1. Artist’s copy of a print from Grandville’s ‘Métamorphoses’, dancing master as deer teaches two girls as grasshoppers, ca. 1850.
2. Manuscript piano work ‘Allô Allô? Mazurka des Telefonistes’, ca. 1900.
3. ‘The enraged musician’ engraving by T. Cook after Hogarth, 1806.
4. ‘What is Klavarskribo?’, 1947.
5. ‘A Musical Zoo’, 1914.
6. Crotch - Specimens of Various Styles of Music, 1838.
7. Lindner - Musikalischer Jugendfreund, 1812/1814.

Catalogue No. 3: Church is now online!Featuring a 1572 Pontifical, early editions of Purcell and Handel, manuscript part...
06/03/2026

Catalogue No. 3: Church is now online!

Featuring a 1572 Pontifical, early editions of Purcell and Handel, manuscript part-books and more. Available on my website here, please contact via messenger or email to order:https://charleswarrenmusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/catalogue-no-3-church-2.pdf

Pictured are:
#672 Pontificale Romanum, 1572.
#666 Purcell - Te Deum & Jubilate, ca. 1720.
#677 Manuscript part-books of church music for SATB, ca. 1800, and instructions for the organist and singers of Sheffield Parish Church.
#645 The Parish Choir or Church Music Book, 1846.
#616 Dom Bedos - 'The Organ-Builder' in facsimile, 1977.
#651 William Crotch's etchings of the ruins of the fire at Christ Church, Oxford, 1809.

A few recent acquisitions added to our AbeBooks stock today! First edition Lili Boulanger and William Walton scores, and...
09/02/2026

A few recent acquisitions added to our AbeBooks stock today! First edition Lili Boulanger and William Walton scores, and a rare vocal score of ’Le juré’ by Henri Thiébaut and Edmond Picard from 1910. See link in bio for these and other stock.

“Action first”! An illustration from a 1960 vocal score of Musorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina. Up on AbeBooks today, and on...
24/09/2025

“Action first”! An illustration from a 1960 vocal score of Musorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina. Up on AbeBooks today, and one of many Soviet era scores from the Russian state publishing house in stock.

Freshly catalogued today: Otto Klemperer songs in Enid Marx wrappers; a signed song by C.W. Orr, and a copy of an unpubl...
12/08/2025

Freshly catalogued today: Otto Klemperer songs in Enid Marx wrappers; a signed song by C.W. Orr, and a copy of an unpublished vocal score for Thomas Wilson’s 1975 opera ‘Confessions of a Justified Sinner’, adapting James Hogg’s multifarious and uncategorisable 1824 novel.

You can find them all on my AbeBooks page now, link in Instagram bio!

Our second catalogue has landed! Pictured here are the first page of Monteclair's 'Jephté' in full score, a notecard sig...
05/08/2025

Our second catalogue has landed! Pictured here are the first page of Monteclair's 'Jephté' in full score, a notecard signed by Richard Strauss, a letter with musical quotation signed by Massenet, photograph of Maria Callas, set design by Benito Montresor, and self-caricature by Enrico Caruso. See catalogue in link for full details!https://charleswarrenmusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/catalogue-2-final_compressed-1.pdf

Something unusual today! An early twentieth century wind band arrangement of the opening few scenes of an opera. Its pre...
08/07/2025

Something unusual today! An early twentieth century wind band arrangement of the opening few scenes of an opera. Its premiere in Rome was disastrous, and it was the first opera performed in Italian in New York. Any guesses?

This set and more will appear in my forthcoming opera catalogue!

I spotted while cataloguing these scores that today is the 128th anniversary of Johannes Brahms' death, a particularly f...
03/04/2025

I spotted while cataloguing these scores that today is the 128th anniversary of Johannes Brahms' death, a particularly fitting link to these final, elegiac compositions, the Eleven Chorale Preludes, Op. 122 (Posth.).

Written shortly after the loss of his friend Clara Schumann, they are pre-occupied with endings, including two settings of ‘O Welt, ich muss dich lassen’, ‘O world, I must leave thee’, and hearken back to the older baroque lineage of organ chorale preludes, J.S. Bach and beyond.

This is the 1902 first edition, just listed on the Abebooks page along with various c19th opera vocal scores today!

(Final photo is Brahms with the singer Alice Barbi, taken in 1891 on the Ringstrasse in Vienna, as discussed in Hugh Wood's fine essay, 'A Photograph of Brahms'.)

We are pleased to present our second occasional list, of domestic music from 1790-1850.https://charleswarrenmusic.wordpr...
12/03/2025

We are pleased to present our second occasional list, of domestic music from 1790-1850.

https://charleswarrenmusic.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/occasional-list-no.-2-final_compressed.pdf

The list covers the English quadrille craze of the 1810s and 20s, alongside works for flute, voice and piano, and a first edition piano trio arrangement of ‘Wellington’s Victory’ by Beethoven (item 242, see cover). The Duke of Wellington is pictured on the title illustration of Barnett’s ‘Here’s a health to merry England’ (227, see cover), as is the famed nineteenth century tenor John Braham, listed here in two signed works (222 and 223).

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