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4791. MS Mus. 1912

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1912
Title:
Autograph Album of Marie Ganz
Scope & Content:
Album belonging to Marie Ganz, sister of conductor and composer Wilhelm Ganz (1833-1914). In places within, Marie Ganz is referred to as Mary Ganz. The front fly-leaf is signed by Marie Ganz and dated 1885. The first item is dated 1854. The album contains, pasted-in and loosely inserted, a vari...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854-1885
Extent:
1 file

4792. MS Mus. 1913

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1913
Title:
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Conclusion to 'Echo's Lament for Narcissus', in the hand of David Matthews
Scope & Content:
The file comprises: 1. Two bars of SATB score (ink) in the hand of composer David Matthews, written as the conclusion to 'Echo's Lament for Narcissus' by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The conclusion was commissioned by the Vaughan Williams Estate to complete the original score which lacked an ending....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2007
Extent:
1 file

4793. MS Mus. 1914

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1914
Title:
Benjamin Dale, 'Before the Paling of the Stars'
Scope & Content:
'Before the Paling of the Stars: A Christmas Hymn for Voices and Orchestra', by Benjamin Dale. Words by Christina Rossetti. Signed and bound autograph full score. Annotated in pencil on front flyleaf: 'Novello & Co, Wardour St, Soho, W1'. On the verso of the flyleaf, the orchestration is li...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1912]
Extent:
Bound volume

4794. MS Mus. 1915

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1915
Title:
Kate Winter: Correspondence and Concert Programmes
Scope & Content:
The material comprises: various letters received by the soprano Kate Winter; a mounted photograph of a commemorative plate presented to Henry Wood (1933) signed by many soloists including Winter; and a collection of programmes, largely for BBC Promenade Concerts (including two concerts in which ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1927-1956
Extent:
1 file

4795. MS Mus. 1916

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1916
Title:
Roll Call of the Members of a London Orchestra (1795)
Scope & Content:
Manuscript list of the entire membership of an orchestra, dated 18 January 1795. The list, in three columns, is headed 'Mr Cramer' (suggesting that the event was probably under the direction of Wilhelm Cramer). The surnames of all the players are listed, together with their pay (for most, 1 Gui...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1795
Extent:

1 file (one folio)

4796. MS Mus. 1918

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1918
Title:
Annotated proofs and printed scores of works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, from the archive of Oxford University Press
Scope & Content:
CATALOGUING IN PROGRESS. Please contact for further information.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
50 volumes

4797. MS Mus. 1919

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1919
Title:
3 letters from William Hayman Cummings
Scope & Content:
3 letters from the tenor, organist and musicologist, William Hayman Cummings: ff. 1-2. 14 November 1864. To an unidentified correspondent listing operatic excerpts in Cummings's repertoire and regarding his forthcoming travel from Scotland to Liverpool. Letters to 'Schloesser', thought to be the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1864-1911
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

4798. MS Mus. 1921

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1921
Title:
Transcriptof correspondence from Geraldine Farrar to a fan
Scope & Content:
Transcript of, and notes relating to, correspondence from soprano Geraldine Farrar to a fan, Harold Burro, spanning 47 years. ff. i-ii: Description from sale catalogue.ff. 1-230: Transcription of letters on loose foolscap folios, typed with occasional handwritten annotations. Includes introducti...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1967
Extent:
1volume (ii + 237 folios)

4799. MS Mus. 1922

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1922
Title:
Elisabeth Lutyens: Two versions of the libretto for Isis and Osiris, one annotated
Scope & Content:
Elisabeth Lutyens material dating from c.1969: (1) ff. xx: Libretto for the opera Isis and Osiris, typed, bound. Libretto by Lutyens after Plutarch. (2) ff. xx: Earlier draft libretto for Isis and Osiris, typed, loose. With extensive annotations and insertions by Lutyens in pink and black biro...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1969-1970
Extent:
1 volume

4800. MS Mus. 1923

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1923
Title:
Dorothy Guyver Britton: Anthologie for voice and string quartet. Manuscript score
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript score of Anthologie, for voice and string quartet, by Dorothy Guyver Britton. Movements and authors of texts as follows: • ‘Chinoiserie’ (Theophile Gautier) • ‘Nous n’irons plus au bois’ (Theodore de Banville) • Intermezzo (Variation on the French tune ‘Nous n’irons plus ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Mid 20th century
Extent:
1 volume

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