irish singer composer (7 risultati)

Condizione: Good. - 18 words penned in black ink on a fragment of a sheet of paper mounted on a piece of slightly heavier paper 4-3/8 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Signed "T Cooke". There are tiny scraps of gray paper on the verso of the mount where it has been removed from an album. Good. Cooke informs his correspondent that he is away and will be unable to meet with him until later in the week. Though only a fragment of the note paper is present, the note itself is complete.Musician Thomas Cooke [1782-1848] was born in Dublin. He was appointed musical director of a Dublin theatre at a young age. At the termination of that engagement he sang in English operas and later, after retiring from the stage, he acted as director and composer at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. He was noted for his facility both in composition and singing. At an 1820 benefit, besides singing, he performed solos on nine different instruments. He was also successful as a teacher.

See the two men's entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Aged and a little worn, with short closed tear at head of the first leaf repaired with tape, and the second leaf having a discoloration at one edge from tape used in mount. Signed 'W. T. Moncrieff'. Casting interesting light on the production of melodramas in the 'Surrey-side' theatres. In an effort to induce him to collaborate with him on a production at the Victoria Theatre, he begins: 'My dear Cooke / Without wishing to interfere with any arrangement you may have made or may be contemplating to make - there can be no harm in my dropping a hint that the Proprietors here would be most happy to secure your Services at any time on your own terms - if at all within their means'. Such an arrangement would also please Moncrieff, 'as I have the idea of a Drama that I think very likely to prove quite as attractive as ever "My Poll and my Partner Joe" may prove.' (That play, by J. T. Haines and with music by Jolly, was a great success at the Royal Surrey Theatre in the same year.) He ends by asking Cooke to 'turn this over in hyour mind at your leisure and favor me with a line on the subject'.

Kleines Albumblatt in Tinte mit eigenhändigem Kurzbrief, Unterschrift signiert Sorry - I don t have any stamps JOHNNY LOGAN - mit Repro-Farbporträtfoto unter dunkelblaues Passepartout (4 to) gerahmt.

4pp., 4to. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed on the reverse of the second leaf to 'T: P: Cooke Esqre | Royal Coburg Theatre', with two postmarks. The two men do not appear to have been related. TSC requests TPC's 'friendly interference to endeavour at getting from Mr. Chilvers music copyist to the Coburg Theatre a Symphony which he got from me two months since under a promise to let me have it copied in six days.' TSC states 'I have been seriously injured (and am unlikely to be more so) in my profession for want of it, as it is a work of much labour and I have been compelled to repeatedly disappoint those to whom its perusal was to be submitted for their approval of my qualifications for a situation of considerable import to me-'. He has 'time after time allowed sufficient scope to avoid interference' with Chilvers' 'duty to the Theatre But in fact he trifles with me beyond all endurance, and what is worse has made me appear to do so with others who have it in their power much to serve me.' He continues to complain of Chilvers' 'shameful neglect', and requests from TPC 'all the convenient dispatch in this affair in your power'. Accompanying the letter is an original engraved portrait by Thomson from Burgess of 'MR. T. COOKE, AS CARLOS.', published in 1818 by Simpkin & Marshall. It is lightly spotted, but otherwise in good condition on a 12mo leaf.

8vo. 3½ pp on bifolium. To Madame Zimmermann: "I suppose that you will be surprised to receive a letter from me from this place, but here I am in the midst of my family, uncles, aunts, sisters, cousins, &c &c. whom I have not seen for years. I assure you that although I am in my birth place, my heart yearns for Paris and the good friends whose kindness I never can forget [.]".

Oblong 8vo. 1 p., mounted on backing paper. Eight bars for piano, "Allegretto", inscribed "To my dear Ida". On staved paper with decorative border, printed in red.

Eigenhändiger Brief (2 S. 8°), in Tinte mit Unterschrift signiert BEILAGE : Repro-Porträtfoto.