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Project / Collection Music Manuscripts Language Not applicable Level [32] Fonds

1. MS Mus. 1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1
Title:
Henry Purcell and Giovanni Battista Draghi: Keyboard music
Scope & Content:
The 'Purcell/Draghi keyboard manuscript' contains, on folios 1v-12, music by or arranged by Henry Purcell and in his autograph. Reversing the volume, folios 42-12v are by, and almost certainly in the hand of, Giovanni Battista Draghi. Folio 1r contains a musical setting of Draghi’s address in th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1690-1700
Extent:
1 volume (folios ii + 43)

2. MS Mus. 1040

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1040
Title:
Part of a manuscript leaf in the hand of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Scope & Content:
The upper half of a divided leaf of manuscript paper containing music in Mozart's hand. On one side is a cadenza to a piano concerto by Ignaz von Beecke, on the other a minuet for string quartet (K.168a). The lower half of the leaf is now at British Library Add MS 47861 A, f. 10. The leaf is bel...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:

1 item

3. MS Mus. 1742

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1742
Title:
Portrait of Handel on glass.
Scope & Content:
A circular portrait, painted on glass and framed in lead with a border of red glass, probably taken from the centre of a larger window. The portrait is said to be of Georg Frideric Handel, according to a letter from James S. Hall in Country Life, 24 Sept. 1959, enclosed with the portrait.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. MS Mus. 1787

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1787
Title:
Johann Christian Bach: ‘Figli addio’, aria from Carattaco, Warburton G7/21b, for soprano, 2 violins, viola and cello
Scope & Content:
Copyist’s score, in ink. The opera seria Carattaco (words, Giovan Gualberto Bottarelli) was first performed at the King’s Theatre, London on 14 February 1767. The present version of the aria differs in its scoring from the version preserved in J.C. Bach’s autograph score (Conservatoire royal de B...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1767
Extent:

1 volume (3 folios)

5. MS Mus. 1791

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1791
Title:
Havergal Brian: Symphonie Partitur
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score for Symphonie Partitur by Havergal Brian. Although the work is not numbered in the manuscript, it is Brian's Symphony No. 18. Instrumentation: 2 flutes (1 also piccolo), 2 oboes (1 also cor anglais), 2 clarinets (1 also bass clarinet), 2 bassoons (1 also contra), 4 horns, 2...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1961
Extent:
1 vol. (ff. 1-23)

6. MS Mus. 1829

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1829
Title:
Alan Rawsthorne: Music for stage and screen
Scope & Content:
(1). Music for the film Broken Dykes (1945), autograph full score in pencil: ff. 1-2. 'No. 1'. Andante. ff. 3-6. 'No. 4'. Andantino. ff. 7-10. 'No. 5'. Poco Andante. ff. 11-12. 'No. 6'. Allegro. (2). Music for the film Burma Victory (1945), autograph full score in pencil: ff. 13-16. '1M4'. Alleg...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1945-1961
Extent:
61 folios