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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41634
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Scope & Content:: PERABO COLLECTION. Vol. VII. Music by Johann Michael Haydn and Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, viz.:- (1) 'Messa de Requiem', in Bb, for four voices, two violins, viola, two oboes, two horns, two fagotti, tromboni, two clarini and drums, and figured bass for organ with violoncello, by Gi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1804
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41636
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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 41639
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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
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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 42064
Title:: 'FANTASIO': a comic opera in three acts, with overture and orchestral accompaniments, etc., in score, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880). Mainly autograph. Libretto by Paul de Musset, based on the play by Alfred de Musset, his brother. French. Published in 1872 and first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, 18 Jan. 1872, and then in Vienna, 21 Feb. 1872, in a German translation made by Eduard Mautner and Richard Genée (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, 2nd ed., 1955, col. 1020). This score is s...
Scope & Content:: Jacques Offenbach, composer: Comic opera 'Fantasio' by: 1872. Paul Edmé de Musset, Author: Libretto to comic opera 'Fantasio' by: 19th cent. Louis Charles Alfred de Musset, poet: Comic opera 'Fantasio' based on the play by: 19th cent. Eduard Mautner, Austrian writer and poet: German translati...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42233
Title:: AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MAINLY ON MUSICAL MATTERS, consisting for the most part of letters addressed to Edward Speyer, amateur of music and art (d. 1934), arranged in alphabetical order of writers, with a few drafts or copies of Speyer's replies; 1876-1930. English and German. In the correspondence with Sir Henry Hadow occurs some discussion of his proposed identification of Schubert's 'Gastein' symphony with his Grand Duo in C major, op. 140, of which Speyer owned the original MS. Other correspo...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Frank Bridge, composer: Letter to E. Speyer: 1918.f. 2 Sir George Grove, musicologist: Letter to J. Ella: 1874.ff. 4-45 passim Sir George Grove, musicologist: Letters to E. Speyer: 1876-1899.f. 31 Sir George Grove, musicologist: Letter to G. A. Macmillan: 1894.ff. 46-93 p...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1841-1930
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42718
Title:: JOACHIM CORRESPONDENCE: original correspondence, in German, of Joseph Joachim, the violinist, and other members of his family; 1839-1881. Many of the letters are undated, and their order is consequently not always certain. Arranged as follows:- (1) Letters from Joseph Joachim, with a number from his wife, Amalie Weiss, whom he married in 1863, (a) to his parents Julius and Fanny Joachim 1844-1867 (ff. 1-100), and (b) to his brother Friedrich, 1860-1881 (ff. 101- 192). Not included in J. Jo...
Scope & Content:: Brenzett, Kent: Deeds and papers rel. to: 1448-1777.: fr. includes: ff. 1-100 Joseph Joachim, violinist: Letters to his parents: 1844-1867.: Germ.ff. 2, 4b, 193, 194b, 195, 198 (copy), 201 (copy) Fanny Witgenstein, née Figdor al Vigdor; wife of Hermann Witgenstein: Letters to various relat...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1839-1881
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 47843
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Scope & Content:: MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. I (ff. 140). Letters and papers of musicians. Autograph unless otherwise stated. Contents:- (1) Letter (f. 2) from Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach to -, criticising an aria and suggesting amendments; Hamburg, 20 Nov. 1780. German. Belonged to Julian Marshall and Edward Spey...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1760-1999
Extent:: 1 item

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