Music at Fyvie Castle

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



Dedicatees  –  Fyvie Castle
(Forbes Leith Collection)

Monday 6th October 2025

Mrs Alison

Lai d'amore : arietta / Aristide Verri   Fyv FLC-17/38

Thomas Attwood Esq. – ? the composer and organist 1765-1838

What holy calm : duet / Ludwig van Beethoven   Fyv FLC-26/29

Duchess of Canizzaro – Sophia Johnstone 1785-1841, m. Francis Platamone, Duke of Cannizzaro. See Contessa di St. Antonio

Accusa i tuoi bei rai : duettino / Vincenzo Gabussi   Fyv FLC-16/14

Lady Charlotte Cholmondeley – ? Georgiana Charlotte Cholmondeley née Bertie 1764-1838

Bavarian air (with variations) : for piano with flute / Joseph Mazzinghi   Fyv FLC-05/14

Duchess of Cumberland – Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn née Anne Luttrell, later Horton 1743-1808

The favourite overture &c in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Bks 1-6 : for piano, flute & cello / Joseph Mazzinghi   Fyv FLC-05/1

Mlle Jenny Dacquin – ? Prosper Mérimée's 'Inconnue', Jeanne-Françoise Dacquin (1811-1895)

L'Infidélité au bal : scène de salon / Wilhelm Neuland   Fyv FLC-17/21

Miss De la Torre

Vanne, pietosa Vergine : romanza / Aristide Verri   Fyv FLC-17/41

Princess Esterhazy – Maria Josepha 1768-1845, Princess von und zu Liechtenstein

The Tyrolese melodies : for 1 or 4 voices with piano / Ignaz Moscheles   Fyv FLC-13/1

Miss F.F. Forbes – ? younger sister of Miss Forbes, West Coates House

Qui tollis peccata mundi : [prayer] / Aristide Verri   Fyv FLC-16/30

Miss Forbes, West Coates House – ? eldest sister of Miss F.F. Forbes

La mammola : romanzetta / Aristide Verri   Fyv FLC-17/39

Dr William Gregory

Cedi, ah! cedi : aria / Aristide Verri   Fyv FLC-17/43

Miss Catherine Jameson

Ah, ritorna : arietta / Signor Emiliani (violinist)   Fyv FLC-17/37

Miss Mackenzie of Belmont – presented to Queen Victoria in Dalkeith 1842 by Duchess of Roxburgh q.v.

Ricordati di me : for voice & piano / Aristide Verri   Fyv FLC-17/40

Mr Mainzer and his pupils – ie Joseph Mainzer 1801-1851, German composer, teacher and author of "Singing for the Million"

A selection of psalms and hymns : for 1 or 2 treble voices with a bass / Sigismund Neukomm   Fyv FLC-26/2

Miss Marshall, Edinburgh

Son geloso del zefiro errante : nocturne / Aristide Verri   Fyv FLC-16/12

Miss Charlotte Monro of Craiglockhart House – 1821-1908, sister of Georgiana q.v. or Georgiana's paternal aunt Charlotte (1782–1822)?

Extase (French melody) / Aristide Verri   Fyv FLC-17/20

Mrs Murray Gartshore – Mary Murray-Gartshore d.1851, Scottish singer and composer

The 'outward bound' song / Miss C M, of Edinburgh   Fyv FLC-17/2

Mr Noble de Liebenberg – Carl Emanuel von Liebenberg 1796-1856, Ritter von Zsittin, pupil of Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Concerto in b minor for pianoforte Op. 89 / J N Hummel   Fyv FLC-02/1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mrs Squire

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

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   Fyv FLC-16/29

HRH Prince of Wales – George Augustus Frederick aftwds George IV 1762-1830

Musical relics of the Welsh Bards, pt 2 (2nd ed.) : variations for harp, harpsichord, violin or flute / Edward Jones   Fyv FLC-01/1

Lady Whitmore – ? Cordelia Ainslie 1780-1857 m. Col. Sir George Whitmore 1775-1862

Oh! The merry days : ballad / C M Sola   Fyv FLC-26/28

Duchess of York – Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia 1767-1820, m. Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany q.v.

Three sonatas for the pianoforte Op. 34 : [flt] / Leopold Kozeluch   Fyv FLC-05/15

27 works inscribed to 26 dedicatees at Fyvie Castle