MS Mus. 97. DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION. Vol. i. Gustav Mahler: cancelled folio from the draft orchestral full score of the third movement, ‘Rondo-Burleske’, of the Symphony no.9 in D major; [probably 1909]. Autograph. Written in ink on paper of 24 staves. The recto contains bars 412-25 and the v...
MSS Mus. 97-104. Papers of the musicologist, publisher and administrator Donald Charles Peter Mitchell (b.1925). For other papers presented by Mitchell see Add. 49597, ff. 3-6. Further papers in the possession of the British Library are deposited at the Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh. MSS Mu...
MS Mus. 98. DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION. Vol. ii. Johann Sebastian Bach: printed vocal scores of several cantatas, some with annotations by Mahler. The annotations, some of which have been cropped by the binder, show dynamic markings, cuts, and some other details. All published Leipzig: C. F. Pet...
MSS Mus. 98-101. DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION. Vols. ii-v. Scores from the library of Gustav Mahler, some annotated; n.d. Further conducting scores of Mahler may be found in the Anna Mahler Collection at the University of Southampton Library. Four volumes.
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Franz Peter Schubert, composer: Gustav Mahler, composer: Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, composer: Scores of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Peter S...
MS Mus. 99. DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION. Vol. iii. Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture, Coriolanus, op.62. Printed miniature score (Leipzig: Ernst Eulenberg, n.d.) with conductor’s annotations by Mahler in blue crayon, and pencil notes of Mahler’s performance instructions at a rehearsal, possibly in t...
MS Mus. 100. DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION. Vol. iv. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto in E flat major, K428. Printed full score (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d.) with annotations by Mahler in blue crayon. The annotations are stave divisions, rehearsal letters and a few dynamic markings...
MS Mus. 101. DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION. Vol. v. Franz Schubert: String quartets. Printed score of the eight late quartets (Leipzig, C. F. Peters, n.d.) with autograph pencil annotations by Mahler to the quartet in D minor, D810. The annotations relate to Mahler’s arrangement of the quartet for ...
MS Mus. 102. DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION. Vol. vi. Mahler: ‘Blumine’; 1893. Dyeline copy of copyist’s score of the symphonic movement, dated 16 Aug. 1893 (f. 9v), stamped as belonging to Faber Music Hire Library. With conductor’s annotations by Benjamin Britten. Signed by Britten (f. i), with a l...
MS Mus. 103. DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION. Vol. vii. Benjamin Britten: ‘Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo’, op.22; 1940. Dyeline copy of copyist’s score, with autograph label (f. i), contents list, dated Amityville, N.Y., 1940 (f. ii) and inscription ‘for Alma Mahler-Werfel with love from Benjamin Bri...
MS Mus. 104. DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION. Vol. viii. Miscellaneous papers; 1876-1989. Papers by and relating to members of the Mahler family (ff. 1-36); – autograph manuscripts of Igor Stravinsky (ff. 37-48); – correspondence and other papers (ff. 49-138). In ink, unless stated otherwise. ff. 13...