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Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/2-7
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson, Op. 41
Scope & Content:: Vocal scores and autograph full score (dated 1954). Libretto: Alan Pryce-Jones. First performance (concert reading): London, Wigmore Hall, 14 February 1953. English Opera Group Association, introduced by the librettist and directed by the composer. Piano, Robert Keys. First staged performance:...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1954
Extent:: 6 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/3
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson (dyeline copy of complete vocal score)
Scope & Content:: Bound dyeline copy of complete vocal score in a copyist's hand (Chester's Circulating Music Library), 235 ff. (pp. 1-467). Unmarked except in pencil on ff. 1, 82v-88 (struck-through), and 153v-154v (also struck-through).
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1954]
Extent:: 235 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/4
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson, Acts I and II (dyeline copy)
Scope & Content:: Dyeline copy of manuscript vocal score (copyist's hand), Acts I and II only. Chester Library copy (bound, brown paper covers), 105 ff. (pp. 1-210. Occasional markings in blue ink, with the name of 'Frederick Sharp' in pencil on f. 1.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1954]
Extent:: 105 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/5
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson: Act I (autograph full score)
Scope & Content:: Bound autograph full score for Act I. In blue ink (and pencil), pp. 1-175. Stamped: 'Chester Library'. Several pages (unnumbered) and part-pages have been occluded by pasted-down plain paper. There are pasted-down corrections to the score: ff. 3, 19-20, 35, 37, 39-40, 44-45, 47, 51-52, 76, 78, ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1954]
Extent:: i, 150 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/6
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson, Act II (autograph full score)
Scope & Content:: Bound autograph full score (undated) for Act II. In blue ink (and pencil), pp. 1-90 (Scene 1) and pp. 1-59 (Scene 2) which includes a second and revised p. 49 in black ink. Volume stamped: 'Chester Library'. Includes pasted-down corrections to the score as follows: Scene 1, ff. 2-3, 18, 23, 25,...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1954]
Extent:: i, 99 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/7
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Nelson, Act III (autograph full score)
Scope & Content:: Bound autograph full score (undated) for Act III. In blue ink (and pencil and red pencil), pp. 1-154. Volume stamped: 'J. & W. Chester Ltd'. Dated at the end of the work: 'Full score finished 31.VII.54'. Pasted-down corrections: ff. 4, 6, 8, 14-15, 21, 23-28, 30-33, 36, 38, 44-47, 58, 61-6...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1954
Extent:: i, 116 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/8
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: A Dinner Engagement, Op. 45 (libretto)
Scope & Content:: (1). ff. 1-35. Typed libretto by Paul Dehn (typed and bound in soft covers by Ethel Christian Ltd, Southampton Street, London). With annotations. (2). ff. 36-45. Photocopy of a typed draft libretto (pp. 1-19), differing in many details. (3). f. 46. Single page (typed carbon copy) from an article ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1954]
Extent:: 46 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/8-10
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: A Dinner Engagement (opera in one act), Op. 45
Scope & Content:: Sketches and draft material, vocal score, full score and libretto. First performance: Aldeburgh, Jubilee Hall, 17 June 1954. The English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra, cond. Vilem Tausky. First London performance: Sadler's Wells Theatre, 7 October 1954.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1953-1954
Extent:: 3 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/9
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: A Dinner Engagement, Op. 45 (sketches and draft)
Scope & Content:: (1). ff. 1-17. Pencil sketches. Three groups of sketches,: scene 1 (ff. 1-4, 9-15), scene 2 (ff. 5-8, 16-17). (2). ff. 18-68. Draft vocal score (incomplete), in blue ink, pp. 1-59 and 64-93. Signed on p. 1 and dated at the end of the draft: 'Nov 1953 - March 1954'. Includes pasted-down correction...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1953-1954
Extent:: 68 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1801/2/10
Title:: Sir Lennox Berkeley: A Dinner Engagement, Op. 45 (autograph full score)
Scope & Content:: Bound autograph full score, in blue ink. Title-page and pp. 1-204 and 203-240, followed by 4-bar pencil sketch [p. 242]. Title to outer front cover in calligraphic hand, and copyright noted: J. & W. Chester Ltd, 1955. Signed on p. 1, and dated '1954' at the end of the work. Includes pasted-...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1954
Extent:: 1 file

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