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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41487
Title:: 'Angélus': song for tenor voice with pianoforte accompaniment by [Charles] C[amille] Saint-Saüns, dedicated to [Rodolphe] Plamondon, the singer (for whom see Bonnerot, C. Saint-Saëns, 1922-1923, pp. 206, 208, 210). Words by Pierre Aguétant. Autograph. Published by Durand et fils, 1918, the year of composition. On f. 1 is a pencil note [? by the composer] 'Je retrouve ce manuscrit que je croyais qu'on m'avait volé!' Paper: ff. 4. Oblong folio. A.D. 1918. Sotheby's sale-cat., 28 June 1927, lot...
Scope & Content:: Charles Camille Saint Saëns, composer: Song, 'Angélus': 1918.: Fr.: Autogr. Rodolphe Plamondon, singer: Song dedicated to: 1918.: Fr. Pierre Aguétant: Song 'Angé1us' to words by: 1918.: Fr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1918
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41628-41635
Title:: PERABO COLLECTION of musical autographs collected by Johann Ernst Perabo, pianist (b. Wiesbaden 1845, d. Boston, Massachusetts, 1920)
Scope & Content:: The majority of the musical compositions occur in the sale-cat. of List and Francke, of Leipzig, 1882, having been previously in the possession of members of the publishing house of Haslinger, of Vienna; for the principal sources of the letters see Add. MS 41628. The collection was given by Pera...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1735-1910]
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41636
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 367). 1795-1882. includes: f. 1 John Jacob Astor, musical instrument manufacturer: Letter to Messrs Broadwood and Son: 1795.: Photogr.f. 2 Thomas Campbell, poet: Certificate by: 1842.ff. 3-125 passim John Sliegh, humorous artist: Letters and verses to A. J. and Mrs Hipkins: 1...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1795-1882
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41636-41639
Title:: HIPKINS PAPERS. Correspondence, etc., of Alfred James Hipkins, F.S.A. (1826-1903), relating mainly to his researches on ancient musical instruments and musical pitch, and including letters, etc., from Alexander John Ellis, F.R.S. (on pitch), Victor Mahillon of Brussels (on keyboard instruments), Charles Russell Day (on Indian musical instruments) and contemporary musicians, artists, actors and literary personalities. The collection also includes letters written to members of his family. The ...
Scope & Content:: Music: Correspondence and papers, with drawings and photographs, of A. J. Hipkins rel. to antique keyboard instruments, musical pitch, etc.: 19th-20th centt. Alfred James Hipkins, FSA: Correspondence and papers: 19th-20th centt.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1795-1927]
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41637
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff.334). 1883-1889. includes: f. 1 Friedrich Max Müller, PC; philologist: Letters to A. J. Hipkins: 1861-1883.f. 3 Frederic George Stephens, art critic: Letters to A. J. Hipkins: 1883, 1902.f. 5 Henry, John Dale, pianoforte manufacturer, of Cheltenham: Letter to A. J. Hipkins: 1...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1883-1889
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41638
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. III (ff. 234). 1890-1894. includes: ff. 1, 18, 35 Alexander John Ellis, FRS: Letters, with verses, to A. J. Hipkins and family: 1876-1890.ff. 5, 10, 54 David J. Blaikley, musical instrument maker: Letters to A. J. Hipkins: 1886-1900.f. 8 John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, music critic:...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1890-1894
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41639
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. IV (ff. 331). 1895-1927 and n.d. includes: f. 1 Sir Walter Besant, novelist: Letter to A. J. Hipkins: 1895.ff. 2, 6, 11 Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Baronet; composer: Letters to A. J. Hipkins: 1893-1895.ff. 5, 74 Sir Isidor George Henschel, musician: Letters to A. J. Hipkins:...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1895-1927
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41771
Title:
Scope & Content:: SMART PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. I94). Correspondence, etc., of Sir George Thomas Smart, largely in connection with the Philharmonic Society (including some letters written to Lady Smart after her husband's death); 1790-1867, n.d. includes: ff. 1-3, 35, 47, 88 London; City Companies. Stationers' C...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1790-1867
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42112
Title:: SONGS, by Elizabeth Windsor (1805-1890); 1836-1839. Mostly autograph. Unpublished. The volume also includes copies, made for Charles Kensington Salaman, by Elizabeth and Harriet Windsor, of the songs of Franz Peter Schubert, viz.: 'Dass sie hier gewesen' (ff. 20-21), 'Wandrers Nachtlied II' (ff. 21b-22), 'Der Vollmond strahlt' (ff. 22b-23b), here given with French words by [Édouard?] Bélanger, and the scena 'Der Hirt auf dem Felsen' (ff. 24-31). Notes in the hand of Charles Kensington Salama...
Scope & Content:: Elizabeth Windsor, of Bath: Songs by: 1836-1839.: Mostly autogr. Charles Kensington Salaman, pianist, composer and conductor: Bookplates: n.d. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Salaman (Charles Kensington), d.1901. includes: ff. 20-23 Édouard? Bélanger: Words to songs by Schubert: bef. 1836.: Fr...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1836-1839
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 47216
Title:: LETTERS TO AUGUSTUS HUGHES-HUGHES, relating to his work in the Department of Manuscripts, mainly from musicologists and librarians; 1883-1922. English, French, Italian and German. The letters are chiefly on musical subjects and include (ff. 6-8, 39, 40) information from librarians on manuscripts of the works of John Hothby, on whom Hughes-Hughes wrote an article for the second edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ii, 1906. The names of the writers are given in the Index to t...
Scope & Content:: Music: Letters from musicologists, etc., to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1883-1922.: Engl., Fr., Germ. and Ital. Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Letters to: 1883-1922.: Engl., Fr., Germ. and Ital. includes: ff. 2, 4, 5 William Chappell, music publis...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1883-1922
Extent:: 1 item

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