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Collection Area Music Collections Language Russian Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 24288

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Add MS 24288
Title:
Portions of two psalms in Ecclesiastical Sclavonic, for 4 voices, in score, by Giuseppe Sarti and Maxim Berezovsky.
Scope & Content:
ff. 114. Portions of two psalms in Russian, for 4 voices, in score. 1. ‘Pomiluy mya Bozhe’ (Ps. li, in 14 numbers); with symphonies and accompaniments for flute, 3 violas, violoncello, and bass, and a figured bass for organ. ‘Giuseppe Sarti.’ f. 1. 2. ‘Ne otverz i menevo’ (Ps. lxxi), 'konshchert...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Russian, and Slavic languages
Date Range:
4th quarter 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (114 folios)

2. Add MS 50843

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Add MS 50843
Title:
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 'Hugh the Drover', ballad opera in two acts with libretto by Harold Child
Scope & Content:
Autograph vocal score, used for the first run-through of the opera by the tenor, Sir Steuart Wilson, and the pianist, William Denis Browne, at the composer's house in Chelsea, June 1914 (letter at f. 2). The first stage performances of the opera were at the Royal College of Music, 9, 11 July 192...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Russian
Date Range:
1910-1914
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 56419-56443

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Add MS 56419-56443
Title:
WOOD PAPERS. WOOD PAPERS: correspondence and papers of Sir Henry Joseph Wood, C.H. (b.1869, d.1944), conductor of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, and of Lady Jessie Wood; 1865-1971, n.d. Some French and Russian. See also Add. 56464-56466. Presented, together with material transferred to the Department of Printed Books, by Lady Jessie Wood, 13 Dec. 1969. Paper. Twenty-five volumes. British Library arrangement. Arranged as follows: A. Correspondence: 56419-56430. B. Other papers: 56...
Scope & Content:
Jessie Linton, afterwards Wood (Lady Jessie): Correspondence and papers of, chiefly rel. to Sir H. J. Wood: 1935-1971, n.d. Music: Sir Henry Joseph Wood, CH; conductor: Correspondence and papers of Sir Henry Joseph Wood: [1896]-1944, n.d.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Russian
Date Range:
1865-1971
Extent:
28 items

4. Add MS 62948-62952

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Add MS 62948-62952
Title:
ERNEST CHAPMAN PAPERS: papers of Ernest Chapman relating to the journal Tempo, and to the Macnaghten Concerts; 1939-1973. Supplementing Add. 59797-59814, 61882-61886 and 63064, 63065. Purchased from May and May, Cat. 119, items 236, 284, 340, 6 Feb. 1984. Five volumes.
Scope & Content:
Ernest Chapman, concert manager: Music: Correspondence and papers of Ernest Chapman: 1939-1979.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Russian
Date Range:
1939-1973
Extent:
5 items

5. Add MS 70783-70786

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Add MS 70783-70786
Title:
MICHAEL VYNER PAPERS: correspondence and papers of Michael Vyner (b.1943, d.1989); 1946, 1948, 1968-1989. The major part of the collection relates to Vyner’s activities as Musical Director of the London Sinfonietta from 1972; most earlier items date from his period working for the music publishers Schott & Co. Purchased at Sotheby’s, 17 May 1990, lots 287-297. Paper. Four volumes.
Scope & Content:
Michael Vyner, music administrator: Letters and papers of Michael Vyner: 1946-1989. London Sinfonietta: Correspondence and papers of M. Vyner as Musical Director of London Sinfonietta: 1968-1989: Partly Fr., Germ., Russ: Partly printed. Partly copies. Partly signed.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Russian
Date Range:
1946-1989
Extent:
4 items

6. Add MS 71178

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Add MS 71178
Title:
JOHN AMIS CORRESPONDENCE: letters, principally from musicians but with some literary and other figures, to John Amis; 1942-1991, n.d. Correspondents include Sir Michael Tippett (25 letters), Luigi Nono (4), Dmitrii Shostakovich (2) and Dame Edith Sitwell (3). All correspondents are indexed in this catalogue. A few of the letters are to other recipients, among them Sir William Glock as Director of the Dartington Summer School of Music. Purchased from Lisa Cox, 14 May 1992, and incorporated 19...
Scope & Content:
John Amis, music critic: Letters from various correspondents to John Amis: 1942-1991, n.d: Partly Fr. and Russ: Partly signed. Partly copies. includes: f. 1 John Mervin Addison, composer: Letter to J. Amis from John Mervin Addison: 1974: Signed. ff. 2-3 Sir Kingsley Amis, KCVO; author: Letters...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Russian
Date Range:
1942-1991
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 71540

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Add MS 71540
Title:
SERGEI VASILEVICH RACHMANINOFF: letters and papers addressed to and collected by Patrick Piggott mostly in connection with his research for his book Rachmaninov (1978); 1914-1975, n.d. Letters are the autograph of the writer unless otherwise stated. Presented by Lewis Foreman, Esq., 8 Oct. 1990. Paper. ff. 96. Overall size 335 x 255mm. 1 ff. 1-69. Letters; 1939-1975, n.d. Partly typewritten. The principal authors are Gerald Abraham, Arnold Bax, Marfa Hudson Davies, (Helen) Mrs Boris Chalia...
Scope & Content:
Patrick Piggott, pianist: Letters and papers rel. to his Rakhmaninov biography: 1914-1975, n.d. includes: ff. 1-2 Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, musicologist: Letters to Patrick Piggott: 1972: Typewritten.ff. 3-4 Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, alias 'Sheila McCarthy'; alias 'Dermot O'Byrne'; K...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Russian
Date Range:
1914-1975
Extent:
1 item

8. MS Mus. 1626-1677

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MS Mus. 1626-1677
Title:
Harriet Cohen Papers
Scope & Content:
MSS Mus. 1626-1677. Letters and papers of the pianist Harriet Cohen (b. 1895, d. 1967): 1846-1967, n.d. The collection consists mostly of letters, with some telegrams, photographs, photographic negatives and other documents. Some of the material was formerly owned by Arnold Bax and the colle...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Irish, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1846-1967
Extent:
52 items

9. MS Mus. 1793

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MS Mus. 1793
Title:
Leonid Feĭgin: music manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Compositions by Leonid Veniaminovich Feĭgin (1923-2009).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Russian
Date Range:
1945-2002
Extent:
25 files

10. MS Mus. 1813

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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