Draft manuscript score of the end of the Cello Concerto

Item author: Edward Elgar
Item date: 1917-19
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 17,207
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2003
Item institution: Royal College of Music
Town/City: London

This is the autograph draft of the last four pages, in full score, of Elgar's Cello Concerto, which the composer gave to Sir Edward Speyer. This concerto was Elgar's last major orchestral composition.

Item Provenance
Sir Edward Speyer; thence by descent until sold at Bonham's in June 2003.