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\"British Musicologist\" William Barclay Squire Cut Signature:
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Up for sale a RARE! "British Musicologist" William Barclay Squire Clipped Signature. 

October 1855 – 13 January 1927) was a British musicologist, librarian and

librettist. William

Barclay Squire was a devoted music enthusiast. He spent 35 years of his life

(1885-1920) working for the British Museum, where he took charge of the collections of the

music department and added many antiquarian publications to it. Squire prepared

the publishing of the Catalogue of Printed Music before 1801 (edited

in 1912) and negotiated the deposit of the Royal Music Collection, for which he

prepared the catalogue. He contributed numerous articles to the Encyclopædia

Britannica of 1911, to the Dictionary of National

Biography and to the Dictionary

of Music and Musicians. Occasionally,

Squire acted as a librettist. His main work was the libretto for The Veiled Prophet, a Romantic

Opera in 3 acts composed by Charles Villiers Stanford,

adapted from the homonymous ballad in Thomas Moore's oriental romance Lalla Rookh, published 1890. 

"British Musicologist" William Barclay Squire Cut Signature

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