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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 48596-48597
Title:: SANTLEY COLLECTIONS. Vols. II, III (ff. 162, 57). Copies and arrangements, made or owned by Santley, of settings by other composers for baritone and orchestra or piano.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1831-1909
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 48597
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. III. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, ff. 1-17b; S. Mercadante, ff. 18-29; S. von Neukomm, ff. 30-43; G. Rossini, ff. 44-57. includes: ff. 1-17b Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer: Scena, 'On Lena's gloomy heath': 1846. ff. 18-29 Saverio Mercadante, composer: Song, 'II Sogno': 19...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1831-1909
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49196
Title:: 'MAIN BOOK (MUSIC)' OF ETHEL MARY SMYTH, D.B.E. (b. 1858, d. 1944); 1936-1943. Autograph notebook, apparently first written in 1936-1937, but thoroughly revised in 1938 and altered in detail up to October 1943. Contents:- (1) Catalogue of her published musical compositions, with the exception of Lieder und Balladen, op.3, circa 1886, Lieder, op.4, circa 1886, the sonata for 'cello and piano, op.5, 1887, and Three Songs, 1913, giving details of performing materials, timings, ownership of copy...
Scope & Content:: Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE; composer: Catalogue of her compositions, etc.,: 1936-1943: Autogr. Music: Catalogue of compositions, etc., of Dame Ethel Smyth: 1936-1943: Autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1936-1943
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49286
Title:: EARLY VOCAL COMPOSITIONS by Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini (b. 1760, d. 1842), mostly unpublished; 1781-1806, n.d. Copies, early 19th cent. Paper; ff. iii+129. Folio. Early XIX cent. Ff. 1-91 and 94-121 are each written in a different hand and on different paper; and are followed (ff. 122-129) by two items in a third hand. Three works originally included between ff. 93 and 94 as well as six works originally following f. 129 are now missing (list of contents on f. ii). Annota...
Scope & Content:: Luigi Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria Cherubini, composer: Vocal music: 1781-1806, n.d.: Copies, early 19th cent.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1781-1806
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49287 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: NOTEBOOKS OF FREDERICK E. WEATHERLY. Vol. I A (ff. ii+126). 'Eric and Elsie'; a translation so entitled (f. 1b) of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger's tragedy Axel og Valborg, Copenhagen, 1810; Mar. 1873 (f. 2). Probably made from Oehlenschläger's own German translation (new edition, Stuttgart and Tüb...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mar 1873
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49287 A-C
Title:: NOTEBOOKS OF FREDERICK E. WEATHERLY, librettist (b. 1848, d. 1933); 1873-1912, n.d. Autograph. Paper. Octavo and (49287 B) oblong octavo. Three volumes.
Scope & Content:: Poetry ENGLISH: F. E. Weatherly; notebooks: 1873-1912, n.d: Autogr. Frederick Edward Weatherly, KC; barrister and songwriter: Notebooks: 1873-1912, n.d: Autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1873-1912
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49287 B
Title:
Scope & Content:: NOTEBOOKS OF FREDERICK E. WEATHERLY. Vol. I B (ff. i+55). Libretti for operas and songs; dated Rottingdean, 14-19 Aug. 1895, n.d. Unfinished drafts. Followed (f. 55) by a poem, on a separate inserted sheet, 9 Dec. 1912. On ff. 31, 50b are two pencil sketches of views at or near Rottingdean, n.d....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1895-1912
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49287 C
Title:
Scope & Content:: NOTEBOOKS OF FREDERICK E. WEATHERLY. Vol. I C (ff. 55). Libretti for an opera, 'Olaf: the Wild Huntsman' (ff. 6-16), and for an unidentified opera (ff. 16b, 55-42 reversing the vol.); n.d. Drafts, together with drafts, partly in Italian, of songs, including (ff. 18-39b) seven 'Sagas', n.d.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1873-1912]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49288
Title:: Harp compositions by Fanny Krumpholtz, afterwards Mrs Pittar, daughter of Johann Baptist Krumpholtz (or Krumpholz), the Bohemian harpist and composer.
Scope & Content:: Dated 1811 (f. 1). Partly French. Autograph. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. Paper; ff. 30. Oblong quarto. 1811. Original pagination from 1 to 47 on ff. 2-25. Written in a music manuscript book, with an engraved ornamental border on the title-page, 'Sold by R. Birchall at his ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1811
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49354
Title:: SIX STRING QUARTETS, in C, E flat, D, A, F and B flat major, attributed (f. i) to 'Stamitz'; n.d. Copies, early 19th cent. In parts, as follows:- 1st violin, ff. 1b-10; 2nd violin, ff. 11b-19 (imperfect, by the loss of a folio between ff. 14 and 15); viola, ff. 20-25b; violoncello, ff. 26-32b. Formerly the last six (nos. 34-39) in a quartet collection of which the remainder, by Haydn, Mozart, Cambini, Hoffmeister, Steibelt and Fränzl, is now missing (former label of 1st violin part, now f. i...
Scope & Content:: Stamitz, composer: String quartets attrib. to: early 19th cent: Imperf. includes: f. ii Noyelle, Pas-de-Calais: Rental of lands in: 16th cent: Lat: Fragm.f. ii Locon, Pas-de-Calais: Rental of lands in: 16th cent: Lat: Fragm.f. ii Vitry-en-Artois, Pas-de-Calais: Rental of lands in: 16th c...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

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