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1. RPS MS 1-271

Reference (shelfmark):
RPS MS 1-271
Title:
MANUSCRIPT MUSIC FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY RPS MSS 1-271. The select portion of the manuscipts of the RPS was placed on loan in June 1914: see Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts deposited on loan in the British Museum by the Royal Philharmonic Society, 1914; the remaining manuscripts were added to the loan in 1984. The whole collection was acquired by the British Library in 2002. It is listed here in a single sequence arranged first in alphabetical order by compos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1791-1990]
Extent:
271 items

2. RPS MS 1-417

Reference (shelfmark):
RPS MS 1-417
Title:
Royal Philharmonic Society Archive
Scope & Content:
Scope: Music manuscripts and papers of the Royal Philharmonic Society. Date range: c 1792-1990 Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by the British Library in 2002. Related material: Printed music from the library of the Royal Philharmonic Society is on loan to the British Library and is ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
c 1792-1990
Extent:
417 items

3. RPS MS 2-19

Reference (shelfmark):
RPS MS 2-19
Title:
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
[1807-1834]
Extent:
18 items

4. RPS MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
RPS MS 5
Title:
Scope & Content:
Symphony no. 9, op 125. [Viennese] copy, with autograph corrections, annotations and dedication to the Society; n.d. [1824]. The copy sent by Beethoven to the Society in 1824. ff. i+169, with 16* 335x300mm. Royal Philharmonic Society: Sir George Thomas Smart, musician: Ignaz Moscheles, pianist...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
[1824]
Extent:
1 item

5. RPS MS 51-54

Reference (shelfmark):
RPS MS 51-54
Title:
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD VON GLUCK
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1867
Extent:
4 items

6. RPS MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
RPS MS 52
Title:
Scope & Content:
Scena and aria ‘Diana, grausame Gottinn ... O du des Lichts’ from Ifigenie in Aulis. Copy; n.d. ff. i+10 245 x 305mm. Euripides: Jean Racine, French poet: Christoph Willibald von Gluck, composer: Marie François Louis Gand Leblanc Roullet, writer and librettist: 'Diana, grausame Göttin. . . O d...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

7. RPS MS 63-70

Reference (shelfmark):
RPS MS 63-70
Title:
JOSEPH HAYDN
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
[1834-1864]
Extent:
8 items

8. RPS MS 67

Reference (shelfmark):
RPS MS 67
Title:
Scope & Content:
Symphony no. 100, the ‘Military’. Full score. Copied by Frederick Nicholls Crouch; 1840. ff. ii+73 234 x 295mm. Franz Joseph Haydn, composer: Frederick Nicholls Crouch, music copyist: Symphonies by Franz Joseph Haydn, in the hand of Frederick Nicholls Crouch: 1840-41: Copies. includes: ff. 8...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1840
Extent:
1 item

9. RPS MS 75

Reference (shelfmark):
RPS MS 75
Title:
Scope & Content:
HEINRICH KARL JOHANN HOFMANN ‘Frithjof’ Symphony, op. 22. Printed score, Berlin: Hermann Erler, [1874]. With an autograph letter of presentation to the Society. ff. ii+38 (printed page casting, 73) 330 x 265mm. includes: f. ii Royal Philharmonic Society: Heinrich Karl Johann Hofmann, pian...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1874]
Extent:
1 item

10. RPS MS 78

Reference (shelfmark):
RPS MS 78
Title:
Scope & Content:
Recit. and aria ‘Gelungen ist mein Plan … Ach es folgt dir in die Ferne’, with italian words ‘Riuscito sono alfin … Ah seguirti io’ added, [no. 8] from ‘Mathilde von Guise’. [German] copy; n.d. ff. ii+24 345 x 270mm. Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer: Louis Emmanuel Felicité Charles Mercier-Dupa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item