A, B. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: arpeggio study said to have been written by Mozart at the age of six, mounted together with an engraving of Mozart, aged seven, and notes by John Ella. Leaf and mounting now separated, revealing a few notes in Mozart's hand. Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Moz...
Michael Haydn: bifolium containing part of the finale of a symphony, K.App.52 in Köchel’s Mozart Verzeichnis. Johann Michael Haydn, composer: Bifolium containing part of the finale of a symphony (K.App.52): n.d.: Autogr. ***No longer held by the British Library: this item was withdrawn from lo...
Gioachino Rossini: chorus and aria from the opera ‘Maomotto II’, or ‘The Siege of Corinth’; 1820. Full score. Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, composer: Chorus and aria from the opera 'Maomotto II': 1820: Autogr. ***No longer held by the British Library: this item was withdrawn from loan in 2010***
The Norbury Drawings: watercolour drawings of church and other organ cases. Arranged by country, and alphabetically by place within country. Norbury’s catalogue of the collection is Music Loan 79.8/14, but a full listing of the present arrangement, principally by country and alphabetically by p...
The Sperling Notebooks: notebooks of John Hanson Sperling (1825-1894)
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The Sperling Notebooks: notebooks of John Hanson Sperling (1825-1894). Music Loan 79.9/1-3. Notes principally relating to church organs, giving detailed specifications of the instruments, arranged by place: Music Loan 79.9/1. London and surrounding parishes; Music Loan 79.9/2. Bedfordshire –...
The Sowerbutts collection of letters of musicians; 1662, 1795 – 1952. 1,2. Letters of English and foreign musicians, some of the later items written to H. H. or J. A. Sowerbutts. Arranged in two volumes, each containing a separate alphabetical sequence. Vol. 1 includes single letters of Berlioz...
Letters of Samuel Sebastian Wesley to various corresondents; 1870-1875, n.d. Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Mus.D: Letters to various correspondents: 1870-1875, n.d.: Autogr.
Overture ‘The Bird Actors’; 1925, re-orchestrated 1927. Full score and orchestral parts. Autograph. Comprises score and 19 parts, each in a separate folder. Some of these parts marked in pencil with the partially-erased title ‘Finale, Adam and Eve’.