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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60502
Title:
Scope & Content:: BOULT PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 10). Signed testimonial from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to Boult on the occasion of a concert conducted by Boult, 2 March 1933; 1933. Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH; conductor: Wiener Philharmoniker: Testimonial with programme to Sir Adrian Cedric Boult from the Wi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1933
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60512
Title:: MUSIC ROOM, BRITISH MUSEUM: official correspondence of Alexander Hyatt King as Superintendent of the Music Room of the British Museum, principally relating to the Union Catalogue of Music and to the 1959 Cambridge conference of the International Association of Music Libraries; 1945-1963. Transferred from the Music Library, Department of Printed Books, 1 March 1979. Paper; ff. 251. British Library arrangement. 1. ff. 1-62. Correspondence between Otto Erich Deutsch and Theodore Besterman; ...
Scope & Content:: Alexander Hyatt King, of the Music Room, British Museum: Correspondence: 1945-1963: Partly Fr. Alexander Hyatt King, of the Music Room, British Museum: Official correspondence as Superintendent of the Music Room of Alexander Hyatt King: 1945-1963: Partly typewritten. includes: ff. 1-62 Otto...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1945-1963
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60615
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (short score)
Scope & Content:: Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, including discarded passages. Dated by Britten: 'November 10th 1968' (f. 20v). Title page (f. 1): 'Kinderkreuzzug 1939 (Brecht) / For Boy's [sic] voices (solo & chorus) / 2 pianos & percussion / (with electric organ to support voices)'; list of voic...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1968
Extent:: 1 volume (36 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60615-60616
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82
Scope & Content:: In two volumes, an autograph short score and a partly autograph full score. Text by Bertolt Brecht. Set in German, and set separately in English (translation by Hans Keller). First performance: 19 May 1969, St Paul's Cathedral, London (relayed by BBC Radio 3).
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1968-1969
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60616
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (full score)
Scope & Content:: A partly autograph music manuscript, in pencil, setting a text by Bertolt Brecht (translated by Hans Keller). Signed and dated by Britten: 'Aldeburgh October-November 1968' (f. 1), with an additional folio dated in a copyist's hand: 'Sept. '69' (f. 48). The volume comprises: title page (f. 1), ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1968-1969
Extent:: 1 volume (48 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61881
Title:: DAME ETHEL SMYTH: letters to her doctor, Professor Janos Plesch: 1935-1942. Partly German. Purchased at Sotheby's, 27 Nov. 1980, lot 311. Paper; ff. 51+26*. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:: Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE; composer: Janos Plesch, Professor of Medicine: Letters to Prof. J. Plesch from Dame E. M. Smyth: 1935-1942: Partly Germ. includes: f. 51 Hon Maurice Baring, writer: Letter to Dame E. M. Smyth from Hon. Maurice Baring: 1942: Signed.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1935-1942
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61905
Title:: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: one leaf containing two autograph cadenzas for movements 1 and 2 of the piano concerto in C, K. 246; 1776. Together with a note from Johann Anton André to Andres Henkel, 7 July 1820 (f. 2), a letter from Aloys Fuch, 18 Feb. 1847 (f. 3), relating to the cadenzas and other autographs, and miscellaneous papers, 1880-1964, mostly relating to the cadenzas. Partly German. Partly printed. Formerly Loan 64/2. Purchased at a special price from Mrs Helga Koestler in memory of ...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Music: Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: Two cadenzas for piano concerto in C, K246 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 1776: Autogr.f. 2 Johann Anton André, composer and music publisher: Andres Henkel: Letter to Andres Henkel from Johann A...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1776
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61977
Title:: FREDERICK NICOLAY, FRIEDRICH CHRYSANDER: papers assembled by Alexander Hyatt King in the course of preparing his paper, 'Frederick Nicolay, Chrysander and the Royal Music Library', published in Monthly Musical Record, LXXXIX (1959), pp. 13-24; 1957-1960. Partly printed. Partly German. Includes correspondence with members of the Nicolay and Chrysander families. Presented by Dr A. Hyatt King, Oct. 1981. Paper; ff. 169. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:: Friedrich Chrysander, German music scholar: Music: Alexander Hyatt King, of the Music Room, British Museum: Frederick Nicolay, royal musician and librarian: Correspondence and papers of Alexander Hyatt King rel. to Frederick Nicolay and Friedrich Chrysander: 1957-1960: Partly Germ: Partly printed.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1957-1960
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62678
Title:: HYATT KING PAPERS: letters on musical subjects, mostly addressed to Alexander Hyatt King, formerly Music Librarian, British Library, with related papers; 1913, 1934-1989, n.d. Partly printed. Partly German, French and Italian. Presented by Dr A. Hyatt King, 8 June 1981 and later. Paper; ff. 136. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:: Music: Alexander Hyatt King, of the Music Room, British Museum: Letters mostly to Alexander Hyatt King: 1913, 1934-1989, n.d.: Partly Germ., Fr. and Ital.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1913-1989
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62784-62887
Title:: Music manuscripts and papers of Mátyás Seiber (1905-1960); 1922-1960. Autograph, except where otherwise stated. For supplementary items, see Add. 54388 and 63598-63600. Presented by Mrs Lilla Seiber, 2 Dec. 1982. One hundred and four volumes, arranged as follows: A. Orchestral Works: 62784-62796. B. Instrumental and Chamber Music: 62797-62808. C. Vocal Works with Orchestra: 62809-62816. D. Choral Music and Songs: 62817-62822. E. Stage Works: 62823-62830. F. Incidental Music for...
Scope & Content:: Mátyás Seiber, composer: Music: Music manuscripts and papers of Mátyás Seiber: 1922-1960: Partly Fr., Germ. and Hungarian: Partly autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Hungarian
Date Range:: 1922-1960
Extent:: 104 items

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