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501. MS Mus. 1808/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1808/3/1
Title:
Giles Swayne Collection. Correspondence and scrapbook. Correspondence and biographical material
Scope & Content:
c. ff.1-163: Personal and professional correspondence to and from select friends and colleagues. Mainly consists of manuscript and typed letters, with two printed email threads. Correspondents include: William Walton, granting permission to quote from Façade; Olivier Messiaen, regarding composi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1975-2009
Extent:

c. 207 folios

502. MS Mus. 1808/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1808/3/2
Title:
Giles Swayne Collection. Correspondence and scrapbook. Scrapbook
Scope & Content:
Scrapbook containing programme notes, newspaper cuttings and some correspondence. Includes a letter from Olivier Messiaen inviting Swayne to composition classes at the Paris Conservatoire; and sample pages from first proofs of 'Suite' (op. 21) for guitar.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1976-1981
Extent:
1 volume; c. 28 folios

503. MS Mus. 1810/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/2
Title:
Charles-Valentin Alkan: ‘Zammerū la-’Ădhōnāi’ (Sing praises unto the Lord)
Scope & Content:
For piano. Published in Paris in 1844 by the Bureau Central de Musique as ‘Alleluia’, op. 25. French and Hebrew words.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1840s
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

504. MS Mus. 1810/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/4
Title:
Daniel François-Esprit Auber: ‘Eh mais pourquoi’ and ‘Dans ce séjour’ from Marco Spada
Scope & Content:
‘Eh mais pourquoi’ and ‘Dans ce séjour’ for solo voice in vocal score from no.1, Cavatine, in Auber’s opera comique, Marco Spada. Written in ink. With some differences from the published score.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

505. MS Mus. 1810/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/5
Title:
Georges Auric: ‘La fete du Duc’
Scope & Content:
‘La Fête du Duc’ (GA21). Song with words by Jean Cocteau. Dated: ’19 Novembre 1918’.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

506. MS Mus. 1810/6

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/6
Title:
Jean Barraqué, ‘Fragment de la Sonate pour piano’
Scope & Content:
Extract in Barraqué’s hand of his Sonate pour piano. A different version of page 9, line 4, bar 2 to page 14, line 3, bar 4 in the printed edition published, with modifications, by Bruzzichelli in 1965 as ‘Sonate pour Piano’. With performance annotations in the composer’s hand and a dedication on...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1949
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

507. MS Mus. 1813

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1813
Title:
The Boosey & Hawkes Archive
Scope & Content:
Archives of the music publishers Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd. of London: business records, correspondence, music scores and reprographic material record the administration of the firm and many of its activities in the twentieth century. Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd. was formed in October 1930 by a mer...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Afrikaans, Chinese, Church Slavic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh
Date Range:
1879-1984
Extent:
2 sub-fonds

508. MS Mus. 1813/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1813/2
Title:
Boosey & Hawkes Business Archive
Scope & Content:
Business papers and correspondence of personnel or departments of Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd., predominantly those operating at the firm's headquarters at 295, Regent Street, London, and created mainly in the mid- to late twentieth century. The bulk of the business archive is formed by four major...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Afrikaans, Chinese, Chinese, Church Slavic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh
Date Range:
1904-1993
Extent:
4 series

509. MS Mus. 1813/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1813/2/1
Title:
Boosey & Hawkes: Directors' files
Scope & Content:
Business archives of Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd., London, generally accumulated by individual directors of the firm. The contents of this series record the activities of several directors of Boosey & Hawkes, and of the firm more generally, most extensively during the mid-twentieth century and...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Afrikaans, Chinese, Chinese, Church Slavic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh
Date Range:
1904-1976
Extent:
302 boxes, 1 envelope

510. MS Mus. 1813/2/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1813/2/1/1
Title:
Operas and ballets: administration of scores and parts for hire
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the number of scores available for hire of individual works generally by Richard Strauss, along with details of loans made by Fürstner in the 1930s. Also includes details of the commission to be earned by Boosey & Hawkes for the sale, hire or performance of Strauss' works...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1926-1952
Extent:
1 box (2 folders)

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