Plus d'Esclavage. Uncle Tom's Galop. Op. 7. Compose et Dedie a Ms. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
La Haye [The Hague]: Correspondence Musicale, [ca. 1852-1855]. [3]pp., on a single folded folio sheet, lithographic illustration on front cover. Minor toning, foxing, and edge wear. Very good. Item #5441
Stated second edition of rare Dutch sheet music for a piano piece inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The central illustration on the front cover depicts a scene from the novel, with Uncle Tom under threat of the whip by his master, likely representing the villain of the novel, Simon Legree. The subtitle reads, "Non maitre, dit Tom, mon ame nest pasa vous! [No, master, said Tom, my soul is not yours!]." The present musical score was written by Dutch composer Louis F. Revius (1833-1902), a cellist and sheet music publisher in The Hague. In 1852 he founded the Society for the Printing and Publishing of New Cheap Music with partner Achille Defossez. We locate a handful of copies in OCLC, mostly in the Netherlands, but otherwise at the British Library, the University of Chicago, and the University of Virginia.
Price: $550