Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses

Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses
Catalogued and surveyed by Dr Roger B. Williams MBE
Hon. Music Advisor to NTS



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Monday 6th October 2025

Mme Caroline de B*** – ? Mme de Barrau de Muratel 1828-1848, née Caroline-Françoise Coulomb

Je ne sais plus ce que je veux : romance / Antoine Romagnesi  > Drum Dr 34/25

Miss Bacon – prof. singer

The favourite airs in Meyerbeer's Il Crociato in Egitto, Bks 1-3 : for piano with flute / T Latour  > Newhailes NH 68/1

Princess Marie of Baden, Marchioness of Douglas – 1817-1888

Prince Charles' lament : song / Anon.  > Newhailes NH 42/34

Miss Sophia Baker

Second divertimento Op.15 : for piano / Louis van Esch  > Newhailes NH 53/10

Countess of Balcarres – ? Elizabeth Lindsay Dalrymple, m. 6th Earl

A selection of Scots songs harmonized [and] improved, Bk 1 / Pietro Urbani  > Fraser B03/5

A selection of Scots songs harmonized [and] improved, Bk 1 / Pietro Urbani  > Newhailes NH 35/1

A selection of Scots songs harmonized [and] improved, Bk 1 / Pietro Urbani  > Leith Hall LHM 05-6/1

Miss Emily Mary Barber

Fading away : song / Anne Fricker  > Fraser L04/26

Miss Barham

Les menus plaisirs : divertimento for piano / J B Cramer  > Newhailes NH 61/3

Miss Ann Baring

Duet on 'Ye Banks and Braes' : for harp & piano / François-Joseph Naderman  > Newhailes NH 69/10

Miss Harriet Baring

Duet on 'Ye Banks and Braes' : for harp & piano / François-Joseph Naderman  > Newhailes NH 69/10

Miss Barnes, (Rectory) Castleford Yorks.

Annie Laurie : piano variations / Carl Czerny  > Newhailes NH 55/4

O Bothwell Bank (Six National Scotch Airs no. 3) : piano variations / Carl Czerny  > Newhailes NH 55/5

Mrs E. Barron

Kathleen is gone : Irish ballad / Walter Maynard  > Fraser L05/14

Mr Bartleman – James Bartleman 1769-1821, prof. bass

Garvan : glee for 3 voices / J W Callcott  > Fraser K01/4

Mrs Bartolozzi – Therese Bartolozzi née Jansen c1770-1843, prof. pianist

Three sonatas [ie trios] Op. 75 : [kbd] / Joseph Haydn  > Newhailes NH 57/4

Three sonatas for the pianoforte Op. 75 : [vn] / Joseph Haydn  > Newhailes NH 78/7

King of Bavaria – Maximilian? Joseph 1756-1825, King from 1806 until his death

Fantasia and variations on 'My Lodging is on the cold ground' Op. 70 : for piano / Friedrich Kalkbrenner  > Newhailes NH 54/3

Duchess of Bedford – Anna Maria Russel 1783-1857, Lady of the Bedchamber

Here's the bower : ballad for (medium) voice & piano / Thomas Moore  > Newhailes NH 61/22

Mr Paul Bedford – prof. singer/comic actor

A norrible tale of the suicidial family : song / Unidentified Composers   > Fraser L39/26

Charlotte Georgiana, Dowager Lady Bedingfeld – dec.1854

Josephine to Napoleon : ballad / Mrs Onslow  > Newhailes NH 42/17

Princesse de Belgiojoso – Princess Cristina Trivulzio 1808-1871

Nocturne Op. 24 : for piano / Theodor Döhler  > Fraser L09/1

Miss Bell

O my love is like the red, red rose : piano variations / Charles Chaulieu  > Drum Dr 27/14

Francis Bennock Esq.

I cannot mind my wheel, Mother : ballad / George Linley  > Fraser L40/16

Lady Frances Bentinck – ? Frances Augusta Eliza née Medows/Pierrepont c1781-1847

Six ariettes Op. 11 / Bonifazio Asioli  > Fraser K01/16

Lady Sarah Beresford – ? Sarah Elizabeth Chetwynd-Talbot née Beresford 1807-1884

Hart's eleventh set of quadrilles : for piano or harp / Joseph Binns Hart  > Drum Dr 31/8

Lady Charlotte Bertie – ? Charlotte Susannah Elizabeth Bertie aftwds Pegus née Layard 1780-1858

Six original canzonettas for the voice. 2nd set : with piano / Joseph Haydn  > Fraser C17/2

Hon. Miss Bertie

Six concertos for the pianoforte or harpsichord / Tommaso Giordani  > Fraser B01/3

Miss E. Bewicke

A first dramatic divertimento from favourite airs by Rossini : for piano / David Bruguier  > Newhailes NH 62/18

A first dramatic divertimento from favourite airs by Rossini : for piano / David Bruguier  > Newhailes NH 61/12

Mr Bianchi, Ipswich

Benedetta : fantasie pour le piano / J F Burgmüller  > Newhailes NH 77/7

Miss Billing

Agnes polka : piano solo / T Browne  > Drum Dr 36/11

Mrs Billington – Elizabeth Billington née Weichsel 1765?-1818, prof. singer

Lochinvar : Lady Heron's song : with piano or harp / Thomas Attwood  > Drum Dr 03/34

Six favourite Italian songs, Three from Metastasio, three from Anacreonte / Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari  > Fraser C21/5

Miss Mary Birch

The camelia polka : piano solo / Louis-Antoine Jullien  > Drum Dr 36/22

The Immergrün (or Evergreen) galops : for piano / Joseph Labitzky  > Drum Dr 36/2

Miss Anna Maria Carolina Blake

Three sonatas [ie trios] for the pianoforte or harpsichord Op. 22 : [flt] / Muzio Clementi  > Newhailes NH 75/1

Mrs Bland – Maria Theresa Bland née Romanzini 1769-1838, prof. singer

Johnny came a courting me : song / William Thomas Parke  > Drum Dr 03/41

General Sir Benjamin Bloomfield – 1768-1846, 1st Baron Bloomfield, Private Secretary to George IV

Sul margine d'un rio (air with variations) : for piano with flute ad lib. / T Latour  > Newhailes NH 65/3

Hon. Georgiana Bloomfield – Georgiana Bloomfield née Liddell 1822-1905, m. 2nd Baron Bloomfield and friend of Queen Victoria

Ruth : song / Eliza Davis  > Newhailes NH 41/16

Miss Blosset – ? Elizabeth ('Bella') Blosset of Dublin? Meath, later Mrs Henry Peckwell

Six sonatas for the harpsichord [1st set] : [score] / Mattia Vento   > Newhailes NH 45/1

Mlle Sophie Bodin – 1819-1874, soprano and (as Mme Pierson-Bodin) prof. pianist

30 études pour piano Op. 26 : 'dans tous les tons majeurs & mineurs' / Louise Farrenc  > Fraser L38/18

Miss C. Borough

Rondo on the barcarolla in (Paganini's) Carnival of Venice : for piano / Ignaz Moscheles  > Newhailes NH 68/5

Mrs William Bosanquet of East Cliff Lodge

Hart's tenth set of quadrilles : for piano or harp / Joseph Binns Hart  > Drum Dr 31/7

HM Maria Teresa de Bourbon – 1717-1780, Holy Roman Empress 1745-65, Queen of Bohemia &c 1740-80

La ritrovata figlia di Ottone II Op. 39 : for harpsichord or piano / Leopold Kozeluch  > Fraser C09/2

Miss Bowes – almost certainly Mary Eleanor Bowes 1749-1800

Six sonatas for the harpsichord Op. 8 : [vc] / Charles Avison  > Fraser E04/18

Sigra Grazia Boyle – Grace Sackville née Boyle 1723-1763, Countess of Middlesex

Sonate per gravicembalo / Giovanni Battista Pescetti  > Newhailes NH 18/1

Countess of Breadalbane – Mary Campbell née Gavin 1762-1834, m. 1st Marquess of Breadalbane

A fourth collection of strathspey reels &c with a bass for the cello or harpsichord / Malcolm McDonald  > Fraser C12/5

Lady Bridgement

Six sonatas for the harpsichord [5th set] : [keybd] / Mattia Vento   > Newhailes NH 46/4

British Army

The British Army quadrille : piano duet / Louis-Antoine Jullien  > Drum Dr 36/19

Thos. Broadwood Esq. – 1786-1861, well-known piano manufacturer?

A concise treatise on Italian singing, pt 1 / Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari  > Newhailes NH 19/1

J. Brookes Esq.

Eighth dramatic divertimento from favourite airs by Rossini : for piano / David Bruguier  > Newhailes NH 54/10

Miss Brooks

A sixth dramatic divertimento from favourite airs by Rossini : for piano / David Bruguier  > Newhailes NH 62/21

Miss Brown

Rossini's overture to Il Barbiere di Seviglia : piano duet / David Bruguier  > Fraser G14/7

Miss Anne Browne

The last links are broken (a subject from Mozart) : piano duet / Fanny Steers  > Drum Dr 25/8

Lady Bruce – Mary Elizabeth 1790-1875, m. Charles Lennox Cumming-Bruce, MP

My own romantic land : song / Zeta (pseud.)  > Drum Dr 45/25

Lady Matilda Bruce – 1802-1857, m. Sir John Maxwell of Pollok 1791-1865

Lady Matilda Bruce's reel, [etc.] : keyboard / Nathaniel Gow  > Drum Dr 10/27

Baroness Brunow

The bird of paradise waltz Op. 2 / Hermann Koenig  > Drum Dr 36/17

(Charles) Hereditary Prince of Brunswick Lunebourg &c. – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1713-1780

Six sonatas for the harpsichord [3rd set] : [keybd] / Mattia Vento   > Newhailes NH 46/2

Six symphonies à deux violons, etc. Op. 11 / C E Graaf  > Fraser M1/1

Duchess of Buccleuch & Queensberry – Charlotte Anne Montagu Douglas Scott née Thynne 1811-1895

The gude Buccleugh : ballad / Anon.  > Drum Dr 35/29

Duchess of Buccleuch – Elizabeth Scott née Montagu, 3rd Duchess of Buccleuch 1743-1827

Complete repository of original Scots slow strathspeys and dances Part 2 (3rd ed.) : for harp or piano &c / Niel Gow  > Brodie Br 12/2

Zechariah Buck Esq. – Organist of Norwich Cathedral

Rondo polacca Op. 70 : for piano / Charles Chaulieu  > Newhailes NH 77/9

Miss Bucknall Estcourt

Tyrolese air, with variations Op. 118 : for piano / J N Hummel  > Drum Dr 39/6

Miss E. Montague Burgoyne – ? dau. Montagu 1750-1836 (and Elizabeth 1761-c1842) Burgoyne

A second original air with ten variations : for piano / J B Cramer  > Fraser D05/8

Hon. Miss Burrell

Three sonatas for the pianoforte Op. 52 : [vc] / Leopold Kozeluch  > Fraser D07 C/5

Hon. Miss Emily Byng – 1779-1824 dau. George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington 1740-1812 and Lady Lucy Boyle 1744–1792

Three sonatas for the pianoforte Op. 11 / J B Cramer  > Fraser E04/7

Miss Byrne

Little bird : piano variations / Henrico de Monti  > Drum Dr 33/15

68 works from all Collections inscribed to 60 dedicatees with surname beginning 'B'