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Archive Reference (shelfmark) MS Mus. 1745 Language English Name Fenby, Eric, composer and amanuensis, 1906-1997

1. MS Mus. 1745/1/33

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/33
Title:
Frederick Delius: A Song of Summer; Cynara; A Late Lark; and Idyll
Scope & Content:
1. A Song of Summer (ff. 1-30/31). Manuscript full score (ink) in Eric Fenby's hand. Tone poem for orchestra. Threlfall, VI/26. Publication: 1931, Boosey & Hawkes (full score 6931). Performance: 17 September 1931, London, Queen's Hall, BBC Orchestra, Sir Henry J. Wood. Original cream paper ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929-1932
Extent:
1 volume (ff. i, 83 folios)

2. MS Mus. 1745/1/40

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/40
Title:
Frederick Delius: Sketches for Paris
Scope & Content:
Autograph full-score sketches and short-score workings, for the most part in pencil. Preceded by an extract from a related letter (1935, photocopy) from Eric Fenby to Sir Thomas Beecham. Threlfall, VI/14. ff. 1-3r. Letter extract (photocopy). Grez-sur-Loing, [19 January 1935], Eric Fenby to Sir...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1898]-1935
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)

3. MS Mus. 1745/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/4
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Hassan
Scope & Content:
Incidental music for tenor and baritone soloists, chorus and orchestra, written for the poetic drama of the same name (published 1922) by James Elroy Flecker. The manuscripts comprise: elements of the composer's autograph score; additional copy material in the hand of Jelka Delius; an arrangemen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1920]-[1930]
Extent:
1 file (110 folios)

4. MS Mus. 1745/2/12/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/12/1
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin Act 1, and Prelude to Irmelin
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-6. Prelude [1931] to the opera, full score in the hand (black ink) of Eric Fenby. Based on four themes from the opera, using parts of the Preludes to Acts 1 and 3. Threlfall, VI/27. Performance: 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House. Performed as an Interlude in Act III of Koan...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1890]-[1931]
Extent:
1 volume and 3 bifolia (63 folios)

5. MS Mus. 1745/2/13/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/13/4
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Cynara; Songs of Sunset; Fennimore and Gerda
Scope & Content:
(1). Cynara: sketches and drafts Threlfall, III/5. (a) ff. 1-24. A green Boosey & Hawkes' Manilla Cover housing various sketches and a voice/piano reduction by Eric Fenby: f. i. Front cover inscribed 'Cynara' by Sir Thomas Beecham. ff. 1-12. Six manuscript strips and fragments, lettered (a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1906-[1929]
Extent:
1 file (i + 192 folios)

6. MS Mus. 1745/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/3/4
Title:
Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga (vocal score by Eric Fenby), with English libretto
Scope & Content:
In the hand of Eric Fenby (with additions by others), a vocal score prepared for Sir Thomas Beecham's revival of the work in 1935. The file includes two typescripts of the English libretto, attached to the earliest of which is a brief internal Boosey & Hawkes memorandum (1953). 1. Libretto ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1935-1953
Extent:
1 box (186 folios)

7. MS Mus. 1745/3/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/3/5
Title:
Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby)
Scope & Content:
In three volumes, the score from which Sir Thomas Beecham conducted, 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Beecham's markings in blue pencil throughout. Engraver's annotations are also visible (the score subsequently became the publisher's Stichvorlage). On the title...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928-1929
Extent:
3 volumes

8. MS Mus. 1745/3/5/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/3/5/1
Title:
Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga, Act I (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby)
Scope & Content:
Act I of the score from which Sir Thomas Beecham conducted, 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Beecham's markings in blue pencil throughout. Title-page (un-numbered), with descriptive introduction in pencil to Scene I on the verso, and pp. [1]-69, followed by 1 bl...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928-1929
Extent:
1 volume (61 folios)

9. MS Mus. 1745/3/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/3/5/2
Title:
Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga, Act II (full score, in the hand of Eric Fenby)
Scope & Content:
Act II of the score from which Sir Thomas Beecham conducted, 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Beecham's markings in blue pencil throughout. Title-page (un-numbered), verso blank, then pp. [1]-71, followed by 1 blank page. Scored in black ink on 32-stave 444 x ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1928-1929]
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

10. MS Mus. 1745/3/5/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/3/5/3
Title:
Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga, Act III (full score in the hand of Eric Fenby)
Scope & Content:
Act III of the score from which Sir Thomas Beecham conducted, 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Beecham's markings in blue pencil throughout. Title-page ('Koanga - Act 3'), verso blank, and pp. 1-117 (verso blank). Scored in black ink on 32-stave 444 x 310 mm. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1928-1929]
Extent:
1 volume (119 folios)