Tag: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Title page from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "Nourmahl's Song". Written on manuscript paper, the title page reads: Nourmahl's Song scena for contralto and piano or orchestra. Orchestrated from the original unpublished piano manuscript in his possession by L. Kirkby Lunn Pearson. Text from the poem "Lalla Rookh" by Thomas Moore.

New discovery at the Royal College of Music Library

The Royal College of Music Library is delighted to announce the discovery of a previously unknown composition by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nourmahal’s song. This short, unpublished, song by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor has long been assumed to be related to his two-movement piano work, Nourmahal’s song and dance, op. 41. Although the names are similar, comparison of the…