The Robert Helps Trust at the University of South Florida has offered its verdict: Cortège is a not simply a post-dated name for Adagio for orchestra (as we have previously believed) — it is a separate composition!
American Composer’s Alliance offers the (undated) score and USF Digital Collections propose the date 1955 — much later than what one would call juvenilia.
More than two decades after his disappearance, Helps keeps the detective novel going…View the manuscript score scanned by
Digital Commons @ University of South Florida