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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4909-4923
Title:: Musical collections of Sir John Hawkins.
Scope & Content:: Manuscripts from the library of Sir John Hawkins, 18th-century writer on music. The manuscripts date from the early 16th to the 18th centuries, with most being 18th-century copies.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, German, and Latin
Date Range:: [1500-1799]
Extent:: 15 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4910
Title:: Hawkins Collection. Vol. II. Miscellaneous works relating to music.
Scope & Content:: Includes extracts from (a) Dethlevus Cluverus. ff. 1-10;- (b) John Birchensha (collected, as well as artt. c-e, by Silas Domville al. Taylor, apparently for Viscount Brouncker). ff. 39-40;- (c) — Allison of Covent Garden. f. 42;- (d) Matthew Lock. ff. 43-44, 60;- (e) Christopher Simpson. f. 52;-...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (87 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16027-16028
Title:: Franz Joseph Haydn: 'Ritter Roland', opera
Scope & Content:: 'Ritter Roland': Opera in 3 Acts, in score, by Franz Joseph Haydn, translated into German, probably for the performance at Vienna in January, 1792, from 'Orlando Paladino' [1782]. In the present copy the recitativi secchi are omitted, but some passages wanting in the original (Add MS 32172) are h...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1792?
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17726
Title:: Compositions and parts by Domenico Dragonetti.
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-56b Double Bass solos, with string quartet accompaniment, by Domenico Dragonetti. ff. l-101b. Compositions by Domenico Dragonetti, scored for 5 strings, by Simon Sechter, in whose hand they are. Nos. 1-4 are for double bass, with accompaniment for violin, 2 violas, and a bass; the others...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (176 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24287
Title:: 'Beatus vir‘, composition, in score, by Nicolò Piccinni.
Scope & Content:: ff . 82. 'Beatus vir‘; for solo voices and 5-part chorus, with oboes, horns, and strings, and a figured bass for organ, in score, by Nicolò Piccinni. In a German hand.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (82 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24431
Title:: 2 songs, said to have been composed by Joseph Staudigl
Scope & Content:: Songs, with pianoforte accompaniment, in the hand of Joseph Staudigl, the singer, and said to be composed by him.1. 'Nachtreise,' begins 'Ich reit' ins finst're Land hinein.' f. 1.2. 'Das ferne Land,' begins 'Traget mich, schwankende Wellen.' f. 4.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume (5 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27633-27693
Title:: Comprises autograph musical compositions, collections for a dictionary of music, essays, etc., by John Wall Callcott, Doctor of Music.
Scope & Content:: .
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 18th century-19th century
Extent:: 61 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27688
Title:
Scope & Content:: COPIES of correspondence between John Wall Callcott and A[ugust] F[riedrich] Kollmann; London, 16 Oct. 1798-17 Jan. 1803. At f. 42 b is an account, in German, of an "Orgel-Concert" in St. Catharine's Church, Hamburg, given by [Georg Christoph] Kollmann, 12 Dec. 1801. Paper. Octavo. August Fried...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 16 Oct 1798-17 Jan 1803
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29260
Title:: ORIGINAL correspondence of Johann Andreas Stumpff, musical instrument maker, of London, with J[ohann] B. Streicher, of Vienna, and [Anton] Schindler, music director at Aix-la-Chapelle; 26 Apr. 1822-16 Aug. 1842. German. The letters of J. A. Stumpff are drafts. Included also are letters from:-L[udwig van] Beethoven to [Wilhelm] Ehlers; 1 Aug. 1826. Germ. Copy. f. 1;-J[ohann] A[ndreas] S[tumpff to [Johann Nepomuk] Hummel; London, 20 Jan. 1837. Germ. Draft. f. 8;-Eug[ene ?] Rymenans, junior, to...
Scope & Content:: Johann Andreas Stumpff, musical instrument maker, of London: Correspondence with J. B. Streicher and others: 1822-1842.: Germ. Johann B- Streicher, of Vienna: Correspondence with J. A. Stumpff: 1822-1842.: Germ. Anton Schindler, Music Director at Aachen: Correspondence with J. H. Stumpff: 1822...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 26 Apr 1822-16 Aug 1842
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29261
Title:: Original letters of musical composers and others. Also included is part of a symphony by Hector Berlioz.
Scope & Content:: Original letters of musical composers and others; 1778- 1861:- 1. [Karl Philipp Emanuel] Bach to -; Hamburg, 3 Jan. 1778. Germ. f. 1. 2. [Joseph] Rouget de Lisle to [? Mare François] Guillois; 24 Mar. 1820. Fr. f. 2. 3. L[uigi] Cherubini to the Baron de Bruyers St. Michel, [François André]...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1778-1861
Extent:: 1 volume

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