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Work Title | The Weymouth Railway Polka |
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Composer | Rolls, Daniel |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IDR 2 |
Key | G major |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1857 |
First Performance. | 1857/01/27 at a ball in the Assembly Rooms of the Victoria Hotel, Weymouth |
First Publication. | 1857 |
Dedication | Mrs. Butt |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Classical |
Instrumentation | piano |
Extra Information | The dedicatee, Mrs. Butt, was the wife of George Medd Butt, MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Composed for a ball at Weymouth to celebrate the opening of the Great Western Railway between Weymouth and London. |