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1. MS Mus. 1810

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810
Title:
O. W. Neighbour Collection of Music Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts collected by Oliver Wray Neighbour (1923-2015), former Music Librarian of the British Library. The collection reflects Neighbour's own scholarly interests, including items relating to Byrd and Schoenberg, for example, but also a diverse range of other composers, some not otherwi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Unspecified
Date Range:
1500-2015
Extent:
229 files

2. MS Mus. 1810/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/1
Title:
Franz Wilhelm Abt: Zwei (‘Auf hohem Berge’)
Scope & Content:
Choral song no. 2 for SATB from Abt’s Fünf Chor Gesänge, op. 152. Signed: ‘Franz Abt. Braunschweig, 16/7/61.’ Written in ink on a single sheet with 8 pre-printed staves, blue decorative floral borders and caption at the bottom middle reading: ‘Aus dem Album von Carl Gurckhaus’. Single leaf from ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

3. MS Mus. 1810/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/2
Title:
Charles-Valentin Alkan: ‘Zammerū la-’Ădhōnāi’ (Sing praises unto the Lord)
Scope & Content:
For piano. Published in Paris in 1844 by the Bureau Central de Musique as ‘Alleluia’, op. 25. French and Hebrew words.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1840s
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

4. MS Mus. 1810/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/3
Title:
Thomas Attwood: ‘Fugue in E flat’
Scope & Content:
Published by John E. West in ‘Old English Organ Music’, no. 24, as no. 2 of ‘Two Pieces’ by Attwood, with the title ‘Cathedral Fugue’. Dated 7 July 1826.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1826
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

5. MS Mus. 1810/7

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)

6. MS Mus. 1810/8

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

7. MS Mus. 1810/10

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/10
Title:
Sir Julius Benedict: ‘Symphony in C’
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1500-2015
Extent:
1 file

8. MS Mus. 1810/11

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/11
Title:
Sir William Sterndale Bennett Manuscripts
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
7 files

9. MS Mus. 1810/11/1

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)

10. MS Mus. 1810/11/2

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)