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1. MS Mus. 2-83

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MS Mus. 2-83
Title:
Francis Chagrin Collection: Music manuscripts and papers of the composer, conductor and administrator Francis Chagrin (1905-1972)
Scope & Content:
All music manuscripts are autograph full scores for orchestra, written in pencil, except where otherwise stated. Manuscripts are arranged chronologically within each section where a date can be established, then alphabetically for undated pieces. Dates of recording, where cited, are descibed as ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Latin, Romanian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1927-1974
Extent:
82 volumes

2. MS Mus. 84

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MS Mus. 84
Title:
MS Mus. 84. NIKOLAI KARLOVICH MEDTNER: Violin sonata no.3, op.57, with related correspondence; 1934-50, n.d. Purchased from Richard Macnutt, 5 June 1989. ff. 76. Largest size 329 x 279mm. 1. ff. 1-35. Sonata no.3 in E minor, op.57, for violin and piano (‘Sonata epica’); 1948. Photocopy of the composer’s pencil score, written over in ink by his wife, with annotations in pencil and ink, some autograph. The sonata was composed circa 1935-8. The annotations mainly correspond with those added t...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-35 Nicolas Medtner, alias Nikolai Karlovich; composer and pianist: Dr Arthur Alexander, pianist; husband of Freda Swain: Anna Medtner, wife of N K Medtner: Violin sonata no.3 in E minor by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner, dedicated to Dr. Arthur Alexander and partly in the hand of A...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1934-1950
Extent:
1 item

3. MS Mus. 88-96

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MS Mus. 88-96
Title:
SUSI JEANS COLLECTION
Scope & Content:
MSS Mus. 88-96. Music manuscripts and papers formerly belonging to the keyboard player and musicologist Lady Jeans (b.1911, d.1993); 18th and 20th centuries. For other music manuscripts owned by Lady Jeans, see Add. 71209 and 71210; further papers and books are now housed at the Royal College of...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
18th and 20th century
Extent:
9 items

4. MS Mus. 97-104

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MS Mus. 97-104
Title:
DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION
Scope & Content:
MSS Mus. 97-104. Papers of the musicologist, publisher and administrator Donald Charles Peter Mitchell (b.1925). For other papers presented by Mitchell see Add. 49597, ff. 3-6. Further papers in the possession of the British Library are deposited at the Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh. MSS Mu...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
[1876-1989]
Extent:
8 items

5. MS Mus. 116-129

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MS Mus. 116-129
Title:
MSS Mus. 116-129. NORMAN DEL MAR COLLECTION Music manuscripts, papers and notebooks of the conductor, composer and writer Norman René Del Mar, CBE (b.1919, d.1994); 1903-92, n.d. With the exception of MSS Mus. 116-117, the manuscripts of Del Mar’s compositions are housed in the Royal College of Music. MSS Mus. 116-126 presented by Mrs Pauline Del Mar, 3 May 1994; MSS Mus. 127-129 presented by Mr Jonathan Del Mar, 28 Aug. 1998. Paper. Fourteen volumes. A. Music: 116-117. B. Papers relatin...
Scope & Content:
Norman Del Mar, conductor: Music manuscripts, papers and notebooks: 1903-92, n.d.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1903-1992
Extent:
14 items

6. MS Mus. 133 A-K

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MS Mus. 133 A-K
Title:
Miscellaneous Letters of Musicians, etc.; 19th – 20th cent.
Scope & Content:
MS Mus. 133 A-K. ff. 196. Largest size 350 x 243mm. British Library arrangement.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:

11 items

7. MS Mus. 153-165

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MS Mus. 153-165
Title:
Supplementary Vaughan Williams Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts, correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Czech, English, German, and Swedish
Date Range:
1895-1979
Extent:
13 volumes

8. MS Mus. 166 A-D

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 166 A-D
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS
Scope & Content:
MS Mus. 166. 18th cent. – 1933. ff. 40.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-1933
Extent:

4 items

9. MS Mus. 168-208

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MS Mus. 168-208
Title:
ALICK MACLEAN COLLECTION MSS Mus. 168-208. Music manuscripts and papers of the composer and conductor and Alexander Morvaren (‘Alick’) Maclean (b.1872, d.1936); 1880-1970, n.d. All music manuscripts are autograph full scores for orchestra, written in ink, except where otherwise stated. See K. Young, Music’s Great Days in the Spas and Watering-Places (1968), pp. 78-107. Presented by Alick Mayhew, Esq., grandson of the composer, 12 Sept. 1988, and incorporated June 2002. Paper. Forty-one vol...
Scope & Content:
'Alick' Morvaren Maclean, or Alexander; composer and conductor: Music manuscripts and papers: 1880-1970, n.d.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1880-1970
Extent:
41 items

10. MS Mus. 238

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MS Mus. 238
Title:
MS Mus. 238. ALBERT LORTZING: ‘Der Waffenschmied, Komische Oper in 3 Acten’ to a libretto by the composer after Friedrich Wilhelm von Ziegler’s Liebhaber und Nebenbuhler in einer Person; after 1846. Full score in ink, with performance annotations in pencil and red and blue ink. German. Copy, in several hands and on several different types of paper. Bearing the ownership stamp of ‘Carl Leo, Direction des Stadt-Theaters zu Frankfurt a/O’ (ff. 1, 287v). First performed Vienna, 30 May 1846. Voca...
Scope & Content:
Albert Lortzing, German composer: Friedrich Wilhelm von Ziegler, writer: 'Der Waffenschmied', comic opera by Albert Lortzing, to a libretto by the composer after Friedrich Wilhelm von Ziegler: after 1846: Germ: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
after 1846
Extent:
1 item