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



Dedicatees  –  All Collections

Search limited to letter 'S'

Monday 6th October 2025

Mme Sabatier – Apollonie Sabatier 1822-1890, French courtesan, salonnière and artists' model

Deux langages : chansonnette / Paul Henrion  > Fraser L04/3

Contessa di St. Antonio – Sophia Johnstone 1785-1841, aftwds Duchess of Canizzaro q.v.

Una candida colomba : duettino pastorale / Vincenzo Gabussi  > Fyvie FLC-16/15

Mia cara, mio bene : duettino / Francesco Bennati  > Fyvie FLC-16/10

Mrs Sartoris – Adelaide Kemble 1815-1879, opera singer, writer and socialite (m. Edward John Sartoris, 1814-1888)

Like a tree beside the river : song / Hamilton Aidé  > Fraser L08/14

Princesse Louise de Saxe nee Princesse de Lucques – ? Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg 1800-1831 - but no apparent connection to Lucca?

Fantaisie sur un thême de Bellini Op. 122 : for piano / Friedrich Kalkbrenner  > Drum Dr 23/19

Alfred Scanlon Esq.

Give me thy blessing, dear Mother, pray : ballad / J W Cherry  > Drum Dr 38/6

Mme Schroder-Devrient – Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient 1804-1860, German soprano

Rose, in the charms (Rose, wie bist du reizend und mild) : aria / Louis Spohr  > Drum Dr 38/13

Mme Schroeter – Rebecca Scott 1751-1826, amateur musician (m. pianist/composer Johann Samuel Schroeter, 1753-1788)

Trois sonates [ie trios] pour le pianoforte Op. 73 : [kbd] / Joseph Haydn  > Newhailes NH 53/1

Trois sonates [ie trios] pour le pianoforte Op. 73 : [vc] / Joseph Haydn  > Fraser E04/4

Miss Scott – not one of the Abbotsford Scotts, but possibly an older relation

Six sonatas for the pianoforte or harpsichord Op. 4 [flt] : [flt] / Johann Samuel Schroeter  > Newhailes NH 72/2

Miss Scott of Abbotsford – Charlotte Sophia 1799-1837, accomplished singer and harpist, eldest child of Sir Walter Scott q.v.

Kenmure's on and awa' : Scottish ballad / Miss Scott  > Newhailes NH 65/18

Sir Walter Scott – 1771-1832, novelist, poet, playwright and historian

The captive knight : ballad / Harriet Browne  > Fraser G12/14

The captive knight : ballad / Harriet Browne  > Fyvie FLC-17/8

The captive knight : ballad / Harriet Browne  > Drum Dr 29/29

The captive knight : ballad / Harriet Browne  > Fraser G13/2

Summer eve is gone and past : song / G F Graham  > Drum Dr 05/5

Mme H. Serre

Hermilie or the Bridal Waltz : piano solo / Louis-Antoine Jullien  > Newhailes NH 66/19

Miss Shaw Stewart – ? Margaret Shaw-Stewart 1821-1880, eldest dau. Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart (1766-1825)

Reminiscences of Scotland : fantasia on 'Scots wha hae' etc [keybd] / J B Cramer  > Newhailes NH 54/2

Miss Louisa Sheldon

God save the King : piano variations &c / William Dance  > Leith Hall LHM 08/2

W.F. Skene, Esqr. – ? William Forbes Skene 1809-1892, Scottish lawyer, historian and antiquary

L'amore è la bottiglia baccata / Aristide Verri  > Fyvie FLC-17/42

Miss Smee

Le garçon volage : air with variations for piano / Joseph McMurdie  > Drum Dr 33/19

Miss Horace Smith – ? Miss Eliza Horace Smith, dau. Horatio Smith (1779-1849), poet and novelist

Farewell : song / Virginia Gabriel  > Fraser L39/8

Mrs Smyth of Exeter

Five quadrilles : for piano / David Bruguier  > Drum Dr 31/10

Mme Henriette Sontag – aka Countess Rossi, German operatic soprano 1806-1854

Air et variations de Rode ('fantaisie gracieuse') Op. 118 no. 2 : piano solo / Ferdinand Beyer  > Fraser L38/8

Miss Ann Sorsbie of Newcastle

The hawthorn, or The disconsolate tar : song / John Munro  > Drum Dr 03/21

Miss Eliza Sotheby

Una paloma [a melody by Yradier] : air for 1 or 2 voices / C M Sola  > Drum Dr 30/8

Mrs Southey – Caroline Anne Bowles 1786-1854, 2nd m. Robert Southey, also a poet

River! River! : song / Mrs Murray Gartshore  > Fraser L04/20

Mrs Squire

Blow light, thou balmy air (serenade) / John Thomson  > Fyvie FLC-17/11

Miss Horatia Stanford

La notte è bella : barcarole / P D Guglielmo  > Newhailes NH 77/67

Hon. Mrs Leicester Stanhope – Elizabeth Green m. Leicester Fitzgerald Charles Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington (1784-1862)

The blind man's bride : ballad / Augusta Cowell  > Drum Dr 41/15

The blind man's bride : ballad / Augusta Cowell  > Newhailes NH 42/14

The blind man's bride : ballad / Augusta Cowell  > Fraser L04/23

Lady Staples – ? Catherine Hawkins d.1872, m. 9th Baronet Sir Thomas (1775-1865), Queen's Advocate in Ireland

Weep not for me : sacred song / George Barker  > Drum Dr 35/21

Miss Louisa Steele

The Osborne polka : piano solo / Theodore Treakell  > Newhailes NH 66/9

Mme Constance Stifelius

The flowers of the wild-wood : voice & piano / Richard Carte  > Drum Dr 25/13

Mrs General Stirling of Eskbank – ? m. Major General James Stirling of Eskbank Musselburgh, Mid Lothian (d. 1834)

The heather bell, or I love to tread the mountains : ballad / J S Allan  > Drum Dr 22/15

Gibson Stott Esqr.

I've been roaming : cavatina / Charles Edward Horn  > Drum Dr 32/18

Lady Strachan – ? Louisa Dillon d.1868, m. Admiral Sir Richard John Strachan, 4th Baronet (1760-1828)

Farewell if ever fondest prayer : song / André Schulz  > Newhailes NH 41/28

Miss Stringer – fl.1869, accomplished pianist from family of prof. musicians

Military rondo : for piano / Ignaz Moscheles  > Drum Dr 24/4

Lady Stuart, of Allanbank – ? Elizabeth Woodcock d.1828 m. Sir John James Stuart, 5th Bart. (1779-1849)

Quanto costa il tuo delitto : coro sacro / Aristide Verri  > Fyvie FLC-16/29

Mrs W.V. Stuart

O, Let me hear that voice again : ballad / G O'Callaghan  > Newhailes NH 41/25

Revd. C. Symmons, D.D. – 1749-1826, Welsh poet and priest.

Poor Rose, the rower girls cry : song / James B Adams  > Fraser E03/5

42 works from all Collections inscribed to 34 dedicatees with surname beginning 'S'