Page "Arthur Sullivan" Paragraph 17

In the autumn of 1867, Sullivan travelled with George Grove to Vienna, in search of neglected manuscript scores by Schubert.

They found and copied several and were particularly excited about their final discovery, which Grove described thus: " I found, at the bottom of the cupboard and in its farthest corner, a bundle of music books two feet high, carefully tied round, and black with the undisturbed dust of nearly half-a-century.

… There were the part books of the whole of the music in Rosamunde, tied up after the second performance, in December 1823, and probably never disturbed since.

Dr. Schneider must have been amused at our excitement ... at any rate, he kindly overlooked it, and gave us permission to ... copy what we wanted.