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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2740-2741
Title:: Compositions by Michael William Balfe, taken chiefly from operas
Scope & Content:: In full score and in the composer's autograph, unless stated to the contrary.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1836-c 1869
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2741
Title:: Numbers from operas, and a pianoforte solo by Michael William Balfe
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-131. Numbers from Operas by M. W. Balfe, mostly autograph, and in full score, the instrumental portions being written for flutes, oboes, clarinets, trumpets, horns, bassoons, trombones, ophicleides, drums, cymbals, and strings; 1858 (see f. 48), etc.. Several of the pieces are mere fragmen...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French and Italian
Date Range:: 1858-c 1869
Extent:: 1 volume (138 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2963
Title:: " ALCESTE" : tragedy by Jean Baptiste Lully, in full score. Paper; ff. iv + 142. Folio. Late XVII cent. Engraved portrait of the composer, by Edelinck, f. 2. Belonged, 17th-18th cent., to -de Seré. Bookplate of W. H. C[ummings] (sale-cat., lot 1014). Two fragments, taken from the binding, have been inserted at the end. They form part of a notarial instrument in a suit of the Chatellerie of the Bois de Vincennes, 1573.
Scope & Content:: Jean Baptiste Lully, composer: "Alceste": late 17th cent. William Hayman Cummings, Mus.D: Bookplates. Bookplates: Cummings (William Hayman), Mus.D. d.1915. includes: ff. iii, iv Bois de Vincennes, Châtellenie du: Fragments of notarial instrument in suit in: 1573.: Fr.f. 2 Jean Baptiste L...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3246
Title:: TCHAIKOVSKY AND STRAUSS: autograph letters. As follows:- (1) Letter of Petr llich Tchaikovsky to Frau Marie von Bülow, explaining why he has given a letter of introduction to her husband to Burmester, the violinist, and his sister; Magdeburg, 24 Jan. 1888. French. ff. 1-2b. (2) Letters and postcards (ff. 3-24) of Richard Strauss, on personal matters, to Eduard Speyer; 14 June 1899-24 June 1925. German. At. f. 26 is a photograph, 1903, of the Strauss family, with Hermann and Lini Wetzler,...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer: Letter to M. von Billow: 1888.: Fr.ff. 3-24 Richard Georg Strauss, composer: Letters to E. Speyer: 1899-1925.: Germ.f. 26 Lini Wetzler, wife of Hermann Hans Wetzler: Postcard to Mrs E. Speyer: 1903.: Germ.f. 26 Richard Georg Strauss, co...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1888-1925
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3301-3306
Title:: PERCY PITT PAPERS: correspondence of Percy Pitt (d. 1932), musical director at Covent Garden, 1902, and the British Broadcasting Company, 1922 (cf. J. D. Chamier, Percy Pitt of Covent Garden and the B.B.C., 1938); 1892-1932. Six volumes. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Percy Pitt, conductor and composer: Correspondence: 1892-1932. Music: Correspondence of P. Pitt: 1892-1932.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1892-1932
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3304
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. IV (ff. 246). A-H. includes: f. 2 Henry Ainley, Manager, St. James's Theatre: Letter to P. Pitt: 1930. ff. 4, 5 Effie Maria Albanesi, alias 'Effie Adelaide Rowlands': Letters to P. Pitt: 1911. f. 6b Max Aldenhoven: Letter to P. Pitt: 1913.: Germ.: Typewritten. Signed. ff. 8-13 Sir George ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1894-1932
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3304-3306
Title:: PERCY PITT PAPERS. Vols. IV-VI. General correspondence, in alphabetical order, consisting chiefly of letters to Pitt from members of the musical profession; 1892-1932, n.d.:-
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1892-1932
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3305
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. V (ff. 272). J-R. includes: f.1 Georges Jacobi, conductor: Letter to P. Pitt: 1906. f. 3 Edvard Armas Järnefelt, conductor: Letter to P. Pitt: 1912.: Germ. f. 4 Léon Jehin, conductor: Letter to P. Pitt: 1919.: Fr.: Signed. f. 5 Isabelle Johnston, wife of Sir C Johnston, Baronet, Lord Mayo...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1894-1932
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3306
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. VI (ff. 235). S-Z. includes: ff. 1-9 Charles Camille Saint Saëns, composer: Letters to P. Pitt: 1909-1913.: Fr. f. 11 Joseph Salmon: Letter to P. Pitt: 1927.: Fr. f. 12 M. Salmon ten Hang: Letter to P. Pitt: 1927.: Fr. ff. 15-35 G. Mario Sammarco, singer: Letters to P. Pitt: early 20th ce...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1892-1929
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: G.390.
Title:: FRENCH SONGS; circa 1830. 3 songs for soprano and piano, bound between tracts 18 and 19 of an album of French songs printed between 1810 and 1832. Contents:– ‘Colin que vous ai je fait: chansonette Parisian’ (ff. 1v-2); – ‘La Demoiselle au Bal: Amédée de Beauplan’ (ff. 2v-3); – ‘Le bonheur de se revoir: Tyrolienne’ (also by Beauplan) (ff. 3v-4). On ff. 5 and 6v are sketches in pencil for two simple melodies. Front flyleaf inscribed ‘A Melle Eugénie Mayer’. Purchased, 12 Feb. 1866. ff. 6. 32...
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 2v-4 Amédée Rousseau, alias de Beauplan; composer: Two songs: circa 1830: Fr: Copy.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1830
Extent:: 1 item

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