Joseph Parry and 'The Maid of Cefn Ydfa',

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  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 17412D.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004437969
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1902-1906 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 10 ff. ; 333 x 209 mm. and less.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Two letters, dated 31 December 1902 and 10 January 1903, from Joseph Parry to T. W. David, his impresario, relating to the first performance of Parry's opera, 'The Maid of Cefn Ydfa', at the Grand Theatre, Westgate Street, Cardiff, on 15 December 1902 (ff. 1-4).
Also included is a typescript letter, dated 29 June 1906, from W. W. Jones of Evan Jones & Co., steamship owners and brokers, Cardiff to T. W. David (f. 5), enclosing a statement of accounts (ff. 6-10) relating to the 'private affairs' of the late Joseph Parry, and to his opera, 'The Maid of Cefn Ydfa'.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically at NLW.

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Acquisition Information

Mr H. Cyril David; Llandaff; Donation; November 1949

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 17412D.

Archivist's Note

May 2007.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans;

Conditions Governing Use

Usual copyright laws apply.

Related Material

For 'The Maid of Cefn Ydfa' see NLW MS 19787D (holograph piano score of Act II), NLW MS 19788E (vocal score with words), NLW MS 19789E (harmonium score), NLW MS 19790E (holograph notes sketching the plot of the story, with typescript libretto), and NLW MS 19791E (vocal parts).

Bibliography

For references to the first performance of 'The Maid of Cefn Ydfa' and to Parry's first letter to T. W. David, see Dulais Rhys: Joseph Parry: Bachgen Bach o Ferthyr (Cardiff, 1998), pp. 91, 116. For Parry's own observations on the completion and forthcoming performance of 'The Maid of Cefn Ydfa', see Joseph Parry: The Little Hero: The Autobiography of Joseph Parry/Yr Arwr Bach: Hunangofiant Joseph Parry (Aberystwyth, 2004), pp. 61, 63.

Additional Information

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