Piano - Digital Download SKU: LV.13364 Campaigns & battles. Lester S. Levy Collection. 13 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.13364). The Battle of Waterloo, A Grand Descriptive Sonata for the Piano Forte, Composed in Commemoration of the glorious & decisive Victory obtained by the Allied Army, on the 18th of June 1815 Under the Command of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, aided by Prince Genl. Blucher. (Blewitt. Published [n.d.] by G.E. Blake, No. 13 S. 5th Street in Philadelphia. Composition of Multimovement, sectional programmatic piece, with descriptive headings (e.g., The commander in Chief gives orders to his Generals, Cries of the Wounded and Dying, etc.) with piano instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Campaigns & battles. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
