The Sperling Notebooks: notebooks of John Hanson Sperling (1825-1894)
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The Sperling Notebooks: notebooks of John Hanson Sperling (1825-1894). Music Loan 79.9/1-3. Notes principally relating to church organs, giving detailed specifications of the instruments, arranged by place: Music Loan 79.9/1. London and surrounding parishes; Music Loan 79.9/2. Bedfordshire –...
The Sowerbutts collection of letters of musicians; 1662, 1795 – 1952. 1,2. Letters of English and foreign musicians, some of the later items written to H. H. or J. A. Sowerbutts. Arranged in two volumes, each containing a separate alphabetical sequence. Vol. 1 includes single letters of Berlioz...
Letters of Samuel Sebastian Wesley to various corresondents; 1870-1875, n.d. Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Mus.D: Letters to various correspondents: 1870-1875, n.d.: Autogr.
Music Loan 92. CONSTANT LAMBERT: music manuscripts; 1925-1942, n.d. Chiefly autograph. Placed on loan by The Public Trustee, May 1988 and January 1989.
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Leonard Constant Lambert, composer and conductor: Music manuscripts by Leonard Constant Lambert: 1925-1942, n.d.: Mostly autogr.
Overture ‘The Bird Actors’; 1925, re-orchestrated 1927. Full score and orchestral parts. Autograph. Comprises score and 19 parts, each in a separate folder. Some of these parts marked in pencil with the partially-erased title ‘Finale, Adam and Eve’.