Arthur Herbert Jackson 1851-1881

[giles.enders]

Arthur Herbert Jackson  Born 29 October 1851 London -  Died  27 September 1881 London

He was the third son* of Isaac Jackson, a piano tuner.  From 1872 he studied at The Royal Academy of Music under Sterndale-Bennett, subsequently becoming a professor there from 1878

Orchestral

Intermezzo for orchestra   pub. by J & W Chester
'The Bride of Abydos' overture
Piano Concerto in D minor 1879
Violin Concerto in E  1880

Piano  

Andante and Allegro Giocoso  1881
Toccata  1874
March and waltz  1878
'In a boat'  barcarolle  1879
'Elaine' idyll
Andante con variation   pinao 4 hands 1880
Capriccio, gavotte and musette
'Song of the Stream'  impromptu  1880
Humorous Sketches  piano four hands
Fugue in E  piano four hands
Three dances grotesques  1881
March Caprice

Song

'The Sirens's Song'  for female voices, harp, violin and piano
Lullaby  words by E L Pembroke
'Pretty little maid   words by H S Vince
'Who Knows ?. words by H S Vince
'I meet the love, again'  words by H S Vince 1879
'The Lost Boat'  words by H S Vince
'Twas when seas were roaring' four part song  words by John Gay
'O'Nightingale'  duet 

Choral

'In the Cornfields' - Autumn song  for four part chorus.
'Lord Ullin's Daughter  for four part chorus.  words by T Campbell  pub. by Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co.
Magnificat for chorus and orchestra
Two masses for male voice
'Jason and the Golden Fleece' Cantata


*
Alfred Jackson 1847
Clara Jackson 1848
Henry Jackson 1849
Arthur Jackson 1851
Frederick Jackson 1853
Horace Jackson 1855     (piano tuner)
Stanley Jackson 1857    (piano tuner)
Lleylewyer Jackson 1860
Eustace  Jackson1863    (piano tuner)
Ada Jackson 1865
Percy Jackson 1867

[cypressdome]

Since the question has to be asked I'll ask it.  I wonder if his nickname was "Two Sheds?"

[petershott@btinternet.com]

You excel, Giles, in digging out all sorts of things that arouse interest!

I can't find references to it, but is the Overture to The Bride of Abydos a free-standing overture, or one to a full oratorio, or what? (I wondered if the information is contained in your source.)

Always surprised that Byron's Bride of Abydos hasn't received (as far as I know) any other musical treatment. It was published at the height of Romanticism in literature, was once immensely popular, and as far as music is concerned all the ingredients are there - a text easily transformed into a libretto, the Orient, passion galore, murder, masculinity, doomed lovers..... Although written in English I guess the tale would have become known throughout Europe. I can see it now amongst all those operas recorded by, for example, Opera Rara. Or slightly later composers such as Gounod. Trouble is: no-one composed such an opera!

[thalbergmad]

For anyone that is interested (unlikely), the piano concerto is in D minor.

1st mvmt - Allegro agitato, ma moderato
2nd mvmt - Andante con moto
3rd mvmt - Allegro molto

Thal

[giles.enders]

Sadly, The Bride of Abydos is just a free standing overture. There are many pre 1914 British piano concertos which deserve exploration. and which are of more interest than some of the mainland European ones recorded during the last 15 years. Try Hinton or Potter.
And in reply to thalbergmad; I am always interested

[Gareth Vaughan]

Does the full score and/or parts of the PC exist - and does anyone know what it's like?

[thalbergmad]

It is not at the R A M as I did ask. Been unable to find it myself.

Thal

[Gareth Vaughan]

COPAC lists copies in Cambridge and at the BL. The Cambridge copy is a 2-piano score, as far as I can make out, but the cataloguing info, for the BL copy does not say whether it is a piano score or a partitur.

[thalbergmad]

Regretfully, the BL holding is for piano solo with orchestral "hints".

I wonder if the publishers (Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co) are still in business.

Thal

[eschiss1]

Hrm. Worldcat locates nothing more recent published by Stanley Lucas, Weber, Pitt & Hatzfeld than the 1920s or so, but...

[Gareth Vaughan]

Regretfully, the BL holding is for piano solo with orchestral "hints".

In that case I think the Cambridge holding will be the same.

[eschiss1]

well, one can always hope the ms is somewhere. Maybe the family??...

[Robert Johnson]

I have just joined this forum and was interested to note the references to Arthur Herbert Jackson. I am the librarian for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in New Zealand. We have a set of orchestral parts (but no score) for "Lord Ullin's Daughter" by Arthur H. Jackson, published by Stanley, Lucas, Weber & Co. I am puzzled because all references I have found for this work state that it is a choral work and I can't find any mention of an orchestral accompaniment. I've looked at some pages from a chorus score held by the Library of Congress, and it looks as though the orchestral parts definitely match the piano accompaniment on that score. Can anyone throw any further light on this?

[semloh]

Welcome to UC, Robert, and thank you for picking up this.
It's an intriguing matter, and I am sure that our experts will respond.

[Robert Johnson]

Since my first post five days ago I've been doing a bit of research into Arthur Herbert Jackson, hoping (among other things) to find a clue as to the whereabouts of the full score of the piano concerto. At the risk of repeating information that may already be known to members of this forum, I'll run through what I've discovered.

Six years after Jackson's death his widow, Kate, married Randal Thomas Mowbray Berkeley, 8th Earl of Berkeley, and was thus Lennox Berkeley's aunt by marriage. Unfortunately she died five years before Lennox was born, but the Berkeley family retained a number of Jackson's scores. Sometime after Lennox's death his collection of scores, including those by other composers, was deposited with the Britten-Pears Foundation, Ref. LB / 5, "Berkeley Family papers". The description of the contents includes the following sentence: "There is also printed and manuscript music by Nelly Berkeley and Arthur Jackson". So this might be worth investigating by those searching for the full score of the piano concerto.

Regarding "Lord Ullin's Daughter", I've found two references to the existence of the orchestral version in the "Musical Yearbook of the United States, Volume 10, 1892-1893".

On Page 88 (125/297 when searching the online version at http://www.mocavo.com/The-Musical-Yearbook-of-the-United-States-Volume-10/136214/125) there is a notice of a "Novelty Concert" at the Grand Opera House in Newark, New Jersey, on March 8 1893 which appears to have concluded with "Lord Ullin's Daughter". The choir was the Schubert Vocal Society, director Mr. Louis A. Russell, accompanied by an orchestra from the New York Philharmonic Society. On Page 282/297 an advertisement by G. Schirmer, New York, announces the publication of "Important New Chorus Works" including "Lord Ullin's Daughter" by A. H. Jackson. An asterisk beside the listing indicates that the work has orchestral accompaniment. "Parts are to be had from the publishers".

I've so far been unable to locate any set of orchestral parts for this work other than the one in the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's library. G. Schirmer has long since deleted this work from its listings, though they may have a set of parts archived somewhere. The original British publisher – Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co. – seems to have ceased business sometime in the early twentieth or late nineteenth century. If no other set can be located, I would be happy to scan our set of parts for the archives or practical use of anyone who wishes to have them.