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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Language English Name Boieldieu, François-Adrien, composer, 1775-1834

1. Add MS 27725

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Add MS 27725
Title:
Henry R. Bishop: 'The Night before the Wedding and The Wedding Night', opera
Scope & Content:
'The Night before the Wedding and The Wedding Night': Comic Opera in Two Acts. Partly composed, and the whole arranged and adapted for the English Stage by Henry R. Bishop. The Poetry by Edw. Fitz-Ball.' The alterations and additions are in Bishop's hand.This volume contains the music, in score, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 volume (439 folios)

2. Add MS 27726

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Add MS 27726
Title:
The English words to 'The Night before the Wedding and The Wedding Night'. An opera in 2 acts, composed and arranged by Henry R. Bishop.
Scope & Content:
'The Night before the Wedding and The Wedding Night': Comic Opera in Two Acts. Partly composed, and the whole arranged and adapted for the English Stage by Henry R. Bishop. The Poetry by Edw. Fitz-Ball.' The alterations and additions are in Bishop's hand.This volume contains the English words (he...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 volume (165 folios)

3. Add MS 32587

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Add MS 32587
Title:
Harpsichord compositions by Francesco Geminiani and Alessandro Scarlatti. - Piano compositions by, or transcribed by, Johann Baptist Cramer. - Catches and glees by William P. Stevens.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-15. Pieces for the Harpsichord. Before 1740. Belonged to S[arah] S[ophia] Banks, sister of Sir Joseph Banks, in 1767, 1768. Oblong quarto and octavo.1. Sonata in B minor. 'Francesco Geminiani.' Apparently autograph. f. 1. 2-5. Harpsichord arrangement of nos.1-3 (wanting in each case the la...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (45 folios)

4. Add MS 33965

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Add MS 33965
Title:
Original letters of musicians, arranged as in the preceding volume. Among them are letters of:- Dr. Thomas Augustus Arne, Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Dr. William Boyce, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Hector Berlioz, François Adrien Boieldieu, François Gounod, Étienne Henri Méhul, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Alexander Schumann, Louis Spoh...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 E- T- Allan, husband of Mad. Caradori-Allan: Letter to P. F. Laporte: 1834. ff. 1, 372 Pierre François Laporte, actor and impresario: Letters to him: 1832-1841.: Fr. f. 3 Thomas Augustine Arne, composer: Letter to G. Woodfall: n.d. f. 3 George Woodfall, Printer: Letter to, from D...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (418 folios)

5. Add MS 43728

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WILDE PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 48). Miscellaneous autograph letters of distinguished persons, addressed chiefly to Wilde or to other members of his family, including his brother-in-law, Col. Sir Augustus Frederick D'Este, son of the Duke of Sussex, by whom some of the letters have also been annotate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1751-1851
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 50845

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Add MS 50845
Title:
SONGS, TRADITIONAL AIRS, ETC., mostly by 18th and early 19th cent. English and French composers, including Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Thomas Augustine Arne and Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, copied by Eliza Lane; signed and dated '30th Janry 1819' (f. 1). Preceded by an index of titles (ff. 2, 2b), 'An approved method of tuning the Piano Forte' (ff. 7-8b) and fragments of printed Quadrilles (ff. 4-6). Includes (ff. 18-19) notes on a visit to co. Wicklow, 1817, and on MS. translations from the Irish made...
Scope & Content:
Eliza Lane: Copied: bef. 1819. includes: ff. 3-6 Music: Quadrilles,: circa 1819: Fragments, mostly printed.ff. 7-8b Music: `An approved methods of tuning the Piano Forte': n.d: Copy, bef. 1819.ff. 9-10b, 86-87, 101-102 George Frideric Handel, composer: Songs, etc.,: n.d: Copies, bef. 181...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jan 1819
Extent:
1 item