(ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC) Harry Burleigh Manuscript of his orig

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(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Harry Burleigh. Manuscript of his original composition Nachtgang. 4 manuscript pages, 13½ x 10¾ inches, on one folding sheet of pre-printed musical staff, signed twice by Burleigh; minor edge wear. No place, circa 1890s?

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The American composer and singer Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) served as a bridge between the classical tradition and Black spiritual music. This composition, "Nachtgang" ("Night Walk") uses words written in 1886 by the German poet Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865-1910), set to music by Burleigh.

The German composer Richard Strauss published his own setting of these words to music in 1895, but this is an entirely different melody.

Provenance: from the library of Swedish-American tenor Berrick Schloss.

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