Blair Fairchild Music Collection

Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections, Lila Acheson Wallace Library, The Juilliard School

 

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Lila Acheson Wallace Library

The Juilliard School

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David Snow

Date completed:

September 7, 2016

Encoded by:

David Snow

©2016

Table of Contents

Titlepage

Descriptive summary

Organization

Scope and content

Administrative Information

Provenance
Access

Biographical Note

Index terms

Personal names
Subjects

Box List

 

Descriptive summary

Origination:

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933.

Title:

Blair Fairchild Music Collection, approximately 1896-1922.

Extent:

0.31 cubic feet (1 box).

Repository:

Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections, Lila Acheson Wallace Library, The Juilliard School.

Organization

Organized in two series of music scores: I. Works by Blair Fairchild  – II. Works without attribution.

Scope and content

Instrumental music and songs composed by Blair Fairchild, and an orchestral score arranged by Fairchild. Includes 3 manuscript songs without attribution, possibly by Fairchild.

Administrative Information

Provenance

Gift.

Access

Restricted access to rare materials: apply; Library Director.

Biographical Note

American composer Blair Fairchild studied music with John Knowles Paine and Walter Spalding at Harvard University, and piano with Giuseppe Buonamici in Florence. After a career in business, and assignments with the American diplomatic corps in Turkey and Persia, he settled in Paris where he renewed his music studies with Charles-Marie Widor. Fairchild’s compositional style was influenced by the music of the Near East and the innovations of contemporaries Debussy, Ravel, and Stravinsky. In 1921 his ballet-pantomime Dame Libellule became the first work by an American composer to be presented at the Paris Opéra.

Index terms

Personal names

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933.

Subjects

Composers -- United States.

Instrumental music – Scores.

Songs with piano.

Box List

Series I: Works by Blair Fairchild

39 F16ba m Bratti
FairchildBxC01f17

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      Il bacio / paroles de Paul Verlaine ; musique de Blair Fairchild
      Firenze : Bratti, La Villa & C., [19--?]
      1 score (6 pages) ; 35 cm
      For medium voice and piano. French words. "Respectueusement dediée à Sa Majesté la Reine Natalie de Serbie." Engraved. Inscription in manuscript black ink on title page by Blair Fairchild

31 F16ea Hayet
FairchildBxC01f05

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      East and west : poème pour orchestre, op. 17 / par Blair Fairchild
      Paris : F. Durdilly : Ch. Hayet, ©1908
      1 score (30 pages) ; 35 cm
      "À Ch. M. Widor." Excerpt from the poem The feet of the young men by Rudyard Kipling printed as text on preliminary page. Plate number: C.5921.H. Inscription on cover in manuscript black ink: L.N. Fairchild, Sept. 1909

39 F16hy m Bratti
FairchildBxC01f16

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      Hymne / paroles de Ch. Beaudelaire ; musique de Blair Fairchild
      Firenze : Bratti, La Villa & C., [19--?]
      1 score (6 pages) ; 35 cm
      For medium voice and piano. French words, also printed as text on page 3. Words by Charles Baudelaire. "À M. le Prince Georges G. Ghika." Engraved.

39 F16ℓo m Thompson
FairchildBxC01f13

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      Look not in my eyes / Blair Fairchild ; A.E. Housman
      Boston : C.W. Thompson, ©1905
      1 score (5 pages) ; 35 cm
      For medium voice and piano. Words by A. E. Housman. Caption title. "To Charles W. Clark." Plate number: T.&Co. 1208-4

18 F16noa Hayet
FairchildBxC01f07

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      Deux novelettes : pour quatuor à cordes (deux violons, alto et violoncelle), op. 10. 2, Andante pour violoncelle et piano / Blair Fairchild ; arrangements par Emile Roux
      Paris : F. Durdlly ; Ch. Hayet, ©1910
      1 score (5 pages) ; 36 cm
      Excerpt from a work originally for string quartet, arranged for cello and piano. "À Edgar Sydney Stowell." Plate number: C. 6194. H

39 F16og m Schirm
FairchildBxC01f11

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      O giovinezza = Youth : for medium voice with piano accompaniment / Blair Fairchild ; words by Renato Fucini.
      New York : G. Schirmer, ©1904
      1 score (5 pages) ; 35 cm
      Italian and English words; Italian words printed also as text. Plate number: 17561

38 F16po m M&T
FairchildBxC01f19

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      Poems / set to music by Blair Fairchild.
      Boston : Miles & Thompson, ©1896
      1 score (8 pages) ; 30 cm
      For medium voice and piano. Engish words (songs 1-2), English and French words (song 3). Contents: Sudden light ; From the Old French / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- À une demoiselle qui va voyager!

22.52 F16rp Hayet
FairchildBxC01f08

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      Quintette pour deux violons, alto, violoncelle et piano, op. 20 / par Blair Fairchild
      Paris : Durdilly ; Ch. Hayet, ©1909
      1 score (48 pages) + 4 parts ; 34 cm
      At head of title: A Monsieur David Mannes. Plate number: C.6125H

39 F16re h Thompson
FairchildBxC01f15

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      Requiem : song / words by R.L. Stevenson ; music by Blair Fairchild
      Boston : C.W. Thompson, ©1907
      1 score (3 pages) ; 35 cm
      Edition: G♭. For high voice and piano. English words. "To the happy memory of Neil Fairchild." Plate number: T.&Co.546-2

38 F16soch m Dur
FairchildBxC01f04

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      Songs from the Chinese = Poèmes chinois : pour chant et piano / Blair Fairchild ; traduits du chinois en anglais par M. Waley; version française de G. Lemierre.
      Paris : A. Durand & Fils, ©1922
      1 score (22 pages) ; 35 cm
      For medium voice and piano. English and French words. "À Madame Robert Bliss"--Caption. Contents: Sailing homeward = Invocation / Chan Fang Scheng -- The red cockatoo = Le perroquet rouge / Po Chu I -- Night = La nuit / Meï Scheng(?) -- Old poem = Vie

39 F16so op.22ℓ m Thompson
FairchildBxC01f12

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      Three songs with pianoforte accompaniment. The lake isle of Innisfree / by Blair Fairchild.
      Boston : C.W. Thompson, [1909?]
      1 score (5 pages) ; 31 cm
      For medium voice and piano. Words by Y.B. Yeats. "To P.W."--Caption. Plate number: T.&Co. 1464-4

38 F16sov m Bratti
FairchildBxC01f06

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      Soleils couchants ; Sommeil noir / paroles de Paul Verlaine ; musique de Blair Fairchild.
      Firenze : Bratti, La Villa & Co., [19--?]
      1 score (4 pages) ; 35 cm
      For medium voice and piano. French words. Engraved. "A Mlle. Florence Blood." Contents: Soleils couchants -- Sommeil noir

38 F16so AAm Thompson
FairchildBxC01f10

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      Twenty songs for medium voice / Blair Fairchild.
      Boston : C. W. Thompson Co., ©1904
      1 score (72 pages) ; 33 cm
      Primarily for medium voice and piano; Brotherhood scored for soprano, contralto, and piano. English and French words. Contents: A love symphony / A. O'Shaughnessy -- Soleils couchants ; Sommeil noir / Paul Verlaine -- Look not in my eyes ; Music when so

38 F16st op.23 m
FairchildBxC01f18

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      Six stornelli toscani / musique de Blair Fairchild
      [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], [19--]
      1 score (21 pages) ; 36 cm
      Manuscript in black ink. For medium voice and piano. Italian words. Cover title. Contents: Nacque bellezza -- Bella bellina -- O sol che te ne vai -- O rondinella -- Chi v'amerà -- Beppino

39 F16wh m Thompson
FairchildBxC01f14

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
      When I was one and twenty / Blair Fairchild ; A.E. Housman
      Boston : C.W. Thompson, ©1905
      1 score (5 pages) ; 35 cm
      For medium voice and piano. Caption title. "To Charles W. Clark." Plate number: T.&Co. 1209-3

31 Sch86ad op.70 Aug
FairchildBxC01f09

Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856
      Adagio e allegro pour violoncelle et piano, op. 70 / Robert Schumann ; orchestré par Blair Fairchild.
      London : Augener Ltd., ©1914
      1 score (21 pages) ; 34 cm
      Arranged for cello with orchestral accompaniment. Plate number: 1470A

 

 

Series II: Works without attribution

FairchildBxC01f01

Coucher du soleil romantique / Baudelaire
      [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], [19--]
      1 score (5 pages) ; 35 cm
      Manuscript in black and red ink. For medium voice and piano. French words. Cover title.

FairchildBxC01f02

Hàfez / traduction Nicolas
      [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], [19--]
      1 score (4 pages) ; 36 cm
      Manuscript in black ink. For medium voice and piano. French words.

FairchildBxC01f03

Soleil si doux / Béranger
      [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], [19--]
      1 score (6 pages) ; 36 cm
      Manuscript in black and red ink. For medium voice and piano. French words.