“Why Are You Wand’ring Here I Pray?”
c1820s. Sheet music in letterpress, eight pages, signed “Henrietta Ringer” in ink upper left and Nathan’s facsimile signature lower right on front page, 32.9 x 24.4cm (paper). Foxing and slight soiling overall, holes and glue remnants to spine, minor creases and tape to edges of some pages.
Text includes “Sung by Madame Vestris at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in the highly popular operatic comedy of Sweethearts And Wives. Written by James Kenney, Esq. The music by I. Nathan. Fifteenth edition. London: published... by Goulding, Dalmaine & Co., Soho Square.” This work was composed in England, prior to Nathan’s arrival in Australia. Isaac Nathan was the first person to compose an opera in Australia though not using an Australian theme; it was titled Don John of Austria.
Item #CL161-5
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