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1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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

6. MS Mus. 1810/13

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/13
Title:
Luciano Berio: ‘Sequenza X per tromba in do (e risonanze di pianoforte)’
Scope & Content:
A single leaf of a draft corresponding approximately to the passage from page 8, system 3 to page 10, system 2 in the published score. Sold for charity, and signed and dated by the composer for that purpose.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

7. MS Mus. 1810/14

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/14
Title:
Sir Lennox Berkeley: ‘Three Piano Pieces’
Scope & Content:
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley: Copy of his Three Piano Pieces, composed in 1927, with autograph signature, dated 1929, so probably made for Jan Smeterlin, who performed them in that year.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1929
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

8. MS Mus. 1810/15

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/15
Title:
Hector Berlioz: ‘Quel contretemps facheux le Cardinal’, recitative from Benvenuto Cellini
Scope & Content:
Leaf containing a discarded recitative from Benvenuto Cellini, ‘Quel contretemps facheux le Cardinal’. Full score. Undated. Autograph score in ink. 28 staves. Signed by the composer.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1834-1837
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

9. MS Mus. 1810/16

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/16
Title:
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop: ‘Grand March’ for piano
Scope & Content:
Grand March for piano. With Bishop’s inscription on the title page: ‘Composed for & presented to the Royal Society of Musicians, London’. Dated: May 1827. Published in 1867 in an organ arrangement by W. J. Westbrook.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

10. MS Mus. 1810/17

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1810/17
Title:
Georges Bizet, Jules Massenet: ‘Simplicité, valse à ne pas danser’, piano duet
Scope & Content:
‘Simplicité, valse à ne pas danser’ for piano duet. The Primo part is by Jules Massenet, the Secondo by Georges Bizet. Massenet’s primo part contains one more bar than Bizet’s secondo. For Marguerite de Beaulieu, a cousin of Bizet’s wife Geneviève.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Undetermined
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)