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The Music of Robert Louis Stevenson

Bloom is on the Rye

By J.F.M. Russell ©2019

Robert Louis Stevenson began studying the piano and composition at age 36 and learned the penny whistle two years later. He played the flageolet, a version of the whistle equipped with keys, almost until the end of his life. His arrangements and compositions include more than 120 pieces. This site describes his complete works through facsimiles, transcriptions, recordings, quotations and commentary.

"An interesting chapter in his life will be written when all his scattered pieces are brought together, and the musical side of his character unexpectedly revealed to the vast public that knows him now only as the winsome versifier and the accomplished romancer."

Robert Murrell Stevenson in Robert Louis Stevenson's Musical Interests, 1957.

Facsimile:

Transcription:

Manuscript Location:

Library of Congress

ML96 .S895 Case

Source:

Treasury of Song for the Home Circle. D. H. Morrison.

Significant References in Works of R.L.S.:

None.

Comments:

Apparently this is only a copy in Stevenson's hand of a duet arrangement by Albert Graff of Bishop's song. The only surviving works by Graff are some editions of violin scales and arpeggios.