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Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1745/1/37
Title:: Frederick Delius: Five Songs from the Norwegian
Scope & Content:: Composer's autograph score (ink) for voice and pianoforte, dated 1888. For all songs, the original text is in German, with an English translation added (in red ink) by another hand. 'English words by W. Grist'. Threlfall, V/5. Publication: 1890, Augener Ltd., London. f. 1. Title-page: 'Frau Nin...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 volume (6 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1745/1/43
Title:: Frederick Delius: Five Songs (from Gottfried Keller) by August Reuss, with an autograph dedication to Delius
Scope & Content:: Tag & Nachtesänge aus Gottfried Keller's Buch der Natur. 5 Gesänge für eine mittlere Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung von August Reuss, Op. 7 (G. Kühle, Wien). With an autograph dedication: 'Herrn Frederick Delius'. N.B. This volume is currently with the Delius Trust and is therefore unava...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1900
Extent:: 1 volume (pp. 28)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1745/2/1
Title:: Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Early Works for Orchestra
Scope & Content:: (1). ff. 1-16. Idylle de Printemps Threlfall, VI/5. Autograph fair copy, ink and ink over pencil. Score pp. [1]-29. Outer title: '"Idylle de Printemps" / morceau symphonique / pour Orchestre / Fritz Delius / 1889'. Above the title (top left), there is a two-bar sketch (ink) that has been struck-...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French and German
Date Range:: 1889-1890
Extent:: 1 box (5 items, 134 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1745/2/6
Title:: Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Vocal Music
Scope & Content:: (1). ff. 1-20. Words for songs Words for songs, including translations, all in the hand of Jelka Delius unless otherwise indicated: Danish translations (from the Norwegian) of two poems by A. O. Vinje, 'Tytebaeret' (complete) and 'Vaaren' (first six lines only). Both poems were set by Grieg in ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Danish, English, French, German, and Swedish
Date Range:: 1888-[c 1930]
Extent:: 1 file (233 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1745/2/7
Title:: Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Drafts for the Early Operas
Scope & Content:: (1). ff. 1-10. Irmelin: miscellaneous sketch pages (including some material for The Magic Fountain) f. 1. Ink sketches on 3 staves, followed by pencil sketches of the Irmelin motive: 'End of Act 1st' / 'Vorspiel to last Act'. (16-stave 344 x 265 mm.) ff. 2-4. Ink draft of scene with Nils and the...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: [1890]-[1904]
Extent:: 1 file (315 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1745/2/13/3
Title:: Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Draft Scores for Margot la Rouge and for A Mass of Life
Scope & Content:: (1). ff. 1-117. Margot la Rouge (sketches and draft scores) Threlfall, I/7. ff. 1-3. Fragmentary sketches, comprising 1 folio and 1 bifolium (12-stave, 290 x 235 mm.). Two-stave pencil sketches. Annotations include: 'good', 'Margot motif', 'Lili Beguin', and 'Margot's song of woods'. ff. 4-40. ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1902-1905
Extent:: 1 file (246 folios)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1745/2/13/7
Title:: Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): A Mass of Life, Vol. 1 (autograph full score)
Scope & Content:: The first of two volumes comprising the final full score (autograph, ink and ink over pencil). The second volume is MS Mus. 1745/2/13/8. Threlfall, II/4. Title-page: '"Eine Messe des Lebens" / (mit Text zusammengestellt aus Zarathustra von Friedrich Nietzsche) / Frederick Delius / Grez sur Loi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1905
Extent:: 1 volume (48 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1745/2/13/8
Title:: Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): A Mass of Life, Vol. 2 (autograph full score)
Scope & Content:: The second of two volumes comprising the final full score (autograph, ink and ink over pencil). The first volume is MS Mus. 1745/2/13/7. Threlfall, II/4. On the fly-leaf: '34 / BG / Mass of Life / Teil II' (pencil), and '88902' (blue crayon). pp. [101]-234, with a blank un-numbered page followi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1905
Extent:: 1 volume (69 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1745/3/1
Title:: Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Irmelin (vocal score by Florent Schmitt)
Scope & Content:: Bound vocal score (ink), with the piano part throughout in the hand of Florent Schmitt. The voice parts are in Delius's hand, as are the English words. With interlined German words (pencil) in another hand, which has also supplied the German directions (pencil and red ink). pp. 1-275 (no title-p...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: [1893-1894]
Extent:: 1 volume (145 folios)

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