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Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/7
Title:: Béla Bartók, ‘String Quartet no. 1’, Op. 7 (BB 52)
Scope & Content:: Sketch for the first 17 bars of the String Quartet no 1, dated 16 January 1908 and extracted from the ‘Black Pocket-Book’, between the present ff. 8 and 9. (for the facsimile edition of 1987, see British Library, a.264.). On 7, 9 and 14 January Bartók had described his feelings at his rejection...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Undetermined
Date Range:: 1908
Extent:: 1 file (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/8
Title:: Sir Arnold Bax: Music for the film ‘Oliver Twist’ (1948), directed by David Lean
Scope & Content:: Sir Arnold Bax: music for the film ‘Oliver Twist’ (director David Lean); 1948. Full score. With a detailed music cue sheet, and dossier regarding the contractual rights and obligations of those involved in the production, both typewritten The manuscript comprises some 80% of the music for the fi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Undetermined
Date Range:: 1948
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/11/1
Title:: Sir William Sterndale Bennett: ‘Caprice’
Scope & Content:: ‘Caprice’. Inscribed: ‘William Sterndale Bennett Dec. 19 1834’ and signed: ‘William S Bennet Royal Academy of Music’. Published in 1835 in a slightly revised form as no. 4 of ‘Six studies in the form of capriccios for the Piano Forte’, op. 11 by Coventry & Hollier. See James Robert Sterndal...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1834
Extent:: 1 file (14 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/11/2
Title:: Sir William Sterndale Bennett: ‘Romance in B minor’ WO 33
Scope & Content:: ‘Romance in B minor’ WO 33 for piano. Inscribed by the composer: ‘William Sterndale Bennett. Dusseldorf May 28th 1836’. With the end of an entry by Frédéric Kalkbrenner on the verso dated: ‘24 Juin 1838’.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1836
Extent:: 1 file (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/11/3
Title:: Sir William Sterndale Bennett: ‘Fandango’ in C# minor, WO 43
Scope & Content:: 'Fandango' in C# minor, WO 43, for piano. Originally part of an album compiled by Sir George Alexander Macfarren. Signed by the composer and dated: ‘London. June 22nd 1840’. Preceded by the end of an entry by ‘Il Benedictus Parvulus’ (signed: ’40 Brixton), and followed by entries by Joseph Hellme...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1840-1991
Extent:: 1 file (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/11/4
Title:: Sir William Sterndale Bennett: ‘Presto’ in E minor
Scope & Content:: ‘Presto’ in E minor, U13, for piano (unfinished). Signed by the composer and dated: ‘Exeter April 29th. 1843’. Followed by a quotation from ‘La Fuscia Valse’ by A. M. R. Barret, signed: Bristol, 25 February 1849, and an inscription beneath this by Ernst Sonnenberg, dated: 25 February 1849. On the...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 file (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/11/5
Title:: Sir William Sterndale Bennett: ‘Prelude’ in A minor, WO 45
Scope & Content:: ‘Prelude’ in A minor WO 45, for piano. With a dedication by the composer to his friend and neighbour Arthur Cramer dated 31 July 1844.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1844
Extent:: 1 file (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1810/11/6
Title:: Sir William Sterndale Bennett: Puzzles for a musical young lady
Scope & Content:: 'Puzzles for a musical young lady, Cambridge, 27 August 1856'. Includes three puzzles written on single staves.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 file

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