Bridgetower: Two Quintets for Flute and Strings

Name: Bridgetower: Two Quintets for Flute and Strings
SKU: S056
Price: 75.00 USD

Series: A-R Special Publications Publisher: A-R Editions

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George Bridgetower

Two Quintets for Flute and Strings

Edited by Mark Ferraguto, Nicole Cherry

S056 Bridgetower: Two Quintets for Flute and Strings

978-1-9872-0926-6 Score + Part(s) (2025) 8.5x11, Score: xi + 34 pp.; 5 partbooks

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Abstract

George Bridgetower (1778–1860) composed Jubilee: Rule Britannia & God Save the King for the Golden Jubilee of King George III, who entered his fiftieth year as regent on 25 October 1809. Comprised of an introductory chorus of “Rule Britannia” and a theme and four variations on “God Save the King,” this little-known quintet for flute and strings is a brilliant and charming example of occasional music intended for private performance. It is also the most substantial surviving work by Bridgetower, the Afro-European violin virtuoso best known today as the original dedicatee of Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 47. This edition includes the Jubilee alongside another work written for the same forces, Bridgetower’s arrangement of the overture to Cherubini’s opera Lodoïska.

Contents

Jubilee: Rule Britannia and God Save the King

Cherubini’s Celebrated Overture to the Heroic Opera of “Lodoïska”

Bio

Mark Ferraguto is Professor of Musicology at The Pennsylvania State University. A specialist in the music of eighteenth and early nineteenth century Vienna, he has published widely on Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries. He is a recipient of the American Musicological Society's Noah Greenberg Award for outstanding contributions to historical performing practices.

Nicole Cherry is Assistant Professor of Violin at The University of Texas at San Antonio. She specializes in the music of George Bridgetower and the broader violin repertoire as it pertains to the African Diaspora. Through her lectures, workshops, concerts, and her commissioning project ForgewithGeorge, she is dedicated to honoring and preserving Bridgetower's enduring legacy.