Contents of E. Willis Fletcher's Manuscript
(1868)

Page
Title of excerpt as written by Mr. Fletcher.
1
"Faust". (Gounod) First played in England at Her Majesty's Theatre
Point for 1st Cor, Introduction to opera
Solo for Corno Primo. 1st Act while Mephistophiles is showing Faust the visionof Margurite - at the wheel.
Point. Solo for Primo 3rd Act. "The parlor scene". while Mephistophiles is bending over the flower beds.
Solo for 1st & 2nd Cors.  Act 4th.

2
(Faust) Solo for 1st  &  2nd Cor's Act. At the end of the Grand March
Soli & Solo for Eb cors in the Symphony by

3
"La Sonnambula". (Bellini) Solo Cor.
Solo - Introduction to the tenor song of "Still so Gently"
Solo ("The Gypsey's Warning".) (Jules Benedict. 

4
"Semiramide" (Rossini)
Solo-Quarttette, in Overture for Two Cors - here
Solo Overture

5
("Semiramide") Solo overture
Solo - 3rd & 4th Cors Act.
Lagazza Ladra
"Brigands" Offenbach

6
"La Gazza Ladra" (Rossini) Solo-Overture Primo Cor.
Solo 3rd Cor. Overture
Solo
Solo

7
"Preciosa". (Weber) Solo - Overture
"Maid Of Artois". (Balfe.)
"Fair Rosamond" (Balfe.)

8
"Joan of Arc." (Balfe.)
"Romeo & Juliet" Solo
"Barber di Seviglia". (Rossini.)
Solo -Commencement of Overture
Solo-Overture

9
"Martha". (Flotow) Overture. Solo in 2nd Movement.
10
"William Tell" (Rossini) Solo, for Corni in Overture
Solo- Echo's in the Mountains (on the Stage)
Solo - "Trancidi [sic]". (Rossini)

11
"Puritani". (Bellini.) Solo
"Hugenots". (Meyerbeer) Soli-Corni 1st&2nd
"La Dame Blanche". (Boildeau. [sic]) Solo - Introduction to Tenor Song

12
"Der Frieschutze [sic]" (Weber.) Soli Quartette Corni As Duett
13
"Seige of Corinthe [sic]" (Rossini.) Solo-Overture
"Mazeppa". (Played at Astleys Theatre, by Geo. Lawrence)

14
"Trovatore". (Verdi.) Solo-Introduction to Opera
"Nowjahad". (E. Loder.) Solo--
"Les Trois Fermiers". Solo---

15
"Othello". (Rossini.) Solo
"Italiana in Alegiere". (Rossini.) Solo
Solo ("Italiana".)

16
"Pastorale" Symphony". (Beethoven) Solo.
Same Symphony
"Pastoral Symphony"

17
 "Grand Septette". (Beethoven) Solo
Solo (Septette)
[a third excerpt]

18
"Anna Bollena". (Donnezetti. [sic]) Duet - corni
19
[continuation of above]
"Oberon". (Weber) Solo-- To begin the Overture
Solo. Scene 1st upon the rising of the curtain
From a Quintette by Danza for Piano, clarinet, bassoon & oboe

20
"Oberon" overture, change from D to E♮
"Oberon".

21
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22
Solo for Cor E♭ in No. 9 Symphony of Beothovens.
4 Cor solo

23
"La Siren". (Auber.) Soli Quartette. Overture
24
"Der Freyschutze". --- Huntsman's Chorus As Duet in D
25
[continuation of above] October 14, 1865 W. Handley
"Fidelio". (Beethoven) Overture -- Solo 2nd Corno

26
Valse - "Amelia". (Lumby) No 5. Solo
Valse - "Dream of the Ocean". (Gungl) Introduction
Solo Primo

26a
[continuation of above, page tipped in]
Valze No. 1
No. 5
Galop. "Jager's Lust." Soli Corni

27a
"Filla de Regimento" (Solo in a Military Selection)
"Oberon". Overture (Military Band.)
Solo in the Allegro

27
"Creation" (Haydn" Solo's corno [4 excerpts]
Terzetta -- Solo ("Creation".)

28
"Stabat Mater". (Rossini) In Introduction
No. 3 Duet. "Quis est Homo" Quartett Corni
No. 7 Cavatina "Fac ut Postem".

29
[continuation of above]
"Mass - No 12". (Mozart.) No. 10 Benedictus 

30
"Judas Maccabaeus". (Handel) No. 50 "Wise Men Flattering"
31
No. 58 "See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes."
[also masthead from Sunday Times, November 3, 1867 pasted in, article has been cut from page]

32
Solo in Carafa's Overture to "Masaniello".
33
"Nozze di Figaro". (Mozart) Solo (to Soprano Song)
"Le Colporteur" (Onslow) Solo Cor - Overture
Sinfonia "The Jupiter". op 38 (Mozart)

34
"Preciosa". Soli Corni Overture ["Wrong" - 10 measures left out, page crossed out, excerpt rewritten on next page]
34
"Preciosa". Overture "Zigeuner Marsch (nach einer ächten Zigeuner melodie)
35
"Marie". (Herold) Solo corno Overture
36
"Au Jeune Henry Chasse" (Mehul.) Soii Corni Overture
37
(Same overture - Finale.)
"Le Cheval De Bronze. (Auber) Solo Overture

38
"D'Anacréon". (Cherubini) Corni Soli Ovetrure"
"Joseph" (Mehul) Overture -Soli Corni

39
"Traviata". (Verdi) Corno Solo. In a selection arranged by Walertstein
40
Duet Corni. Andante
"Dinorah" (Myerbeer) Solo Corno 3rd Overture
It occurs again in the Overture

41
Solo Corno (or Exercise)  No. 1
Exercise No. 2

42
Solo Corno. "Scenes Of My Youth" Ballad from the ("Gipsey's  Warning) Opera - Jules Benedict) Played as a Horn Solo by Vivier.
43
Exercise. No. 3
44
Corni Duet
45
Corni Duet (Mozart) "La, ci Davem". (Don Giovanni)

[pages 46 & 47 missing]
48
[unidentified continuation from page 47]
"Hamlet (A. Thomas) Solo Cor 3rd
No.4 Symphony (Beethoven.) Solo Cor  2nd
Soli (Same Symphony)

49
"Euyanthe [sic]". (Weber) Soli Corni Quartette From A Military Selection from the Opera
50
[continuation of above]
51
"Les Huguenotts" (Myerbeer)
Overture-Danse Macabre" (Saint -Saens) [in a different pen and hand; composed 1874]

52
Horn Solo F. Schubert "Ellen's Hymn - "Ave Maria"
[also child's notation, irregular meter, in pencil]

53
Song's For French Horn
"Scenes that are brightest." (Mariana) Vincent-Wallace
Solo for Cor in G in "Genvieve de Brabant"

54
Wanderlied
[and another unidentified tune]

55
"Then You'll Remember Me". (Bohemian Girl) Balfe
"The Light of Other Days". (Maid of Artois) Jules Benedict

56
"My Pretty Jane.") (Henry Bishop)
"Eveleen's Bower". (Old Irish Melody)

57
 "The Thorn". (Shield)
"Sally in Our Alley". (Henry Carey)

58
"There Is A Flower That Bloometh". (Maritana) Wallace
"My Sister Dear". (Maseniello) Auber

59
"O Rest In The Lord". (Elijah) Mendelsshon [sic]
60
"Happy Moments Day By Day". (Maritana.) Wallace
"Donald" (Old Scotch Air)

61
Tenor Song from "Martha". (Flotow)
Overture. "Ambandieves [L'Ambassadrice?]" Auber

62
"My Beautiful Rhine" Sung by Madam Vestris
"Comin' Thro' The Rye". (Old Scotch Song)

63
"The Love Spell".  (Donnezetti) Three Songs from Opera
"Ah! how lovely." "Quanti e bella"

64
"Quandom  Amore"
"Prendi, par, me sei libres" (Take these books)

65
Meditation. (arranged by Gounod) S. Bach
66
"Tis Sweet Upon The Close Of Day".
"The Pilgrim Of Love"

67
Soli Corni in a Waltz, in the comedy of "Play".Prince of Wales Theatre (Robertson)  (By I. H. Haines)
68
Sinfonia (C. Potter) Cor solo-primo in D
69
Mermaid's Song ("Oberon".) Obligato for Cor in E♮ with Voice.)
70
Cavatino (Chehe fosse)
"Messe Solennelle" Ch. Gounod

71
March "Joshua" Handel
Chorus "Glory to God". (Joshua)

72
"Eroica" Symphony. Beethoven. No 3rd E♭ Cors Solo in Trio
73
"Die Weihe Der Töne" L. Spohr
74
[continuation of above?]
75
Duet for Corni. - Pollanaise - (Puzzi) Corno Primo
76
Duet for Corni. - Pollanaise - (Puzzi) Corno Secundo
77
Overture No.60 (Romberg.) Soli
"Fidelio" (Beethoven) Corni Soli: Overture
"La Gazza Ladra". Soli Corni
"Symphony". No. 7 (Haydn)

78
"Il Straniero [sic]". (Bellini) La Chasse
"Keolanthe". (Balfe) Solo E♮ Overture

79
"Norma"
"Anna Boleyna" Cor Solo Overture

80
"William Tell" Cor Solo in Opera
"The Irish Girl"

81
"The Bravo of Venice" (Marliani) Solo in Scena
"The Siege of Corinth". Solo in Scena

82
"L'Anneau Magique" - pas de deux - Ballet (Sarneugs?)
"Lestock, or the Faete [sic] of the Hermitage". (Auber)

83
"The Dead Guest". (A Lee.) Overture
Solo in An Overture - (Romberg)
Solo Cor (Introduced in "Massanielo", by Cook
Solo in An Overture - (Kuhlau)

84
Devil's Opera. (Macfarren) Cor Solo. Overture
"The Pilot"
"Devil's Opera. Overture
"La Fille du Danube"- Ballet
Haydn's No 10 Symphony

85
"Der Vampyr" (Marschner.) Solo in Overture
"The Storm; or the Isle of the Genii". Ballet
""Flying Dutchman". Solo
"Die deri Wünsche". (Von Loewe)

86
"Lord Of The Isles". (Rodwell)
"Sleeping Beauty" - Ballet
"Storm; or the Isle of The Genii" - Ballet

87
"Elise di Amour [sic] " (Donizetti) Solo- "Una Fortiva Loquima [sic]"
Cor Solo "Semiramide"

88
"Valsha". (Pilati.) Drama. Solo
"Olympic Revels". Soli Corni

89
"Commis et la Grisette." Cor solo
"Jessonda". (Louis Spohr.) Cor Solo in Overture

90
"Daughter Of The Danube" - Ballet
"Sinbad". Solo in Overture
"Le Chalet". Solo in Overture
"Lucille". (Drama) Waltz - Soli Corni

91
"Swill Swains".
"The Master Rivals". (Swiss Melody)
"Semiramide". Cor Solo
"La Sonnambula" Cor Solo - Introduction to Tenor Song
"Flying Dutchman". Solo

92
"Bottle Imp". Cor Solo
"Gustaveus The 3rd" (Auber)
"Gustavus". Cor. Solo

93
"Gustavus". Soli Corni.
"Symphony" No. 9 (Beethoven)
 
94
"The Castle Of Aymon". Cor Solo
"La Juive". (Halevy.) Cor Solo Overture

95
Quartette for Corni in Hummel's Concerto for Piano & Orchestra Op. 89
96
"Jessonda"
97
"Mazeppa" Corno Solo
"Valentin & Orson". Bugle Solo
"Filla de Tegimento". Cor Solo Begin's Overture
Sphor's [sic] No 6 Symphony

98
"Symphony" No. 8 (Beethoven)
99
"Gustavus". Corni Soli Overture
"Castle of Ayman". (Balfe) Comic Opera
Corno Solo in F Sphor's[sic] No 6 Sy.

100
"La Donna Del Largo. (Rossini) Corni Soli Ovetture
"Le Quatre Fills de Aymon". (Balfe)  Comic Opera  Cor Solo

101
"Mountain Sylph". (John Barnett) Cor Solo Duet
"The Alpine Call". Swiss Herdsmen in "William Tell"

102
"Minuett" (Mozart) Corni Soli G minor Symphony
'Un Village du Serail". Overture cor Solo (Cimarosa.)
"Keolanther". (Balfe) Cor solo

103
"Der Freischutze" Corni Soli
104
"Der Freischutze". Cor Soli
"Zerlina". (Feron) Cor Soli Overture

105
"Fra Diavolo". (Auber) Corni Soli Overture Second time it occurs in Ovetture in A
"The Cornish Miners". (Rodwell) Solo Cor

106
"Symphony". (Beethoven.) No 9 Cor Solo
"Norma". Cor Solo
"Fra Diavolo".

107
"Cenerentola" (Rossini) Cor Soli
108
[continuation of above]
"Keolanthe" Cor Solo
"La Favorite". Donizetti.) "O Mon Fernando".

109
"Les Diamens De La Corvume". (Auber) Soli Overture
From the same - Overture
""The Ruler Of The Spirits". (Weber) Solo Overture

110
"La Donna del Lago" (Cor obligato E♭ & Clarinet E♭)
111
Solo in a Sextette of Haydn's for Wind. Horn in F. (2 Clarinets; 2 Fagotto's : 2 Cornos. Played with Mr Lazurus [sic] , Beddow, Hutchins Dr Stone, & Mr. Havart and  Fletcher. Dec 1873 in Dean's Yard Westminster at Dr. Stone's house.
Prelude

112
[in a different hand and pen] Echo's in "William Tell". Arranged for 1 horn in A♮ alt.
[original hand and pen] Solo Cor. Sphor's [sic] Sy  No 6 transposed for G cor instead of F
[in a different hand and pen] Solo Cor "Will 'o the wisp (Tableau Vivnants) Palace Theatre 1895 by Alfd. Plumpton

113
[in a different hand and pen] Tyrolian Air
[original hand and pen] Solo Cor. No 6  Sphor's [sic] Sy

114
Reicha's Quintette's . Solos for Cor
No. 1.
No 2.
No 3.

115
"Reicha".
No 4
No 5
No 6

116
[continued from above]
[in a different hand, pencil] Sign of the Cross  E. Jones[?]

117
Corni E♭ Beethoven No 3 Trio
118
No 3 Beethoven
Beethoven No 4
Beethoven C minor No. 5
Same C cor
Cor E♭
[in a different hand, pencil] Overture "Light Cavealry" (Suppe)

119
[in a different hand, pencil]
Romance by Gerard Cobb Played at Droonshire Park Eastbourne, First time, August 1897
Siegfried Idyll 2nd Horn

120
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121
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