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Name Calvocoressi, Michael Dimitri, writer on music, 1877-1944

1. Add MS 50496-50505

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Add MS 50496-50505
Title:
THE CALVOCORESSI COLLECTION
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts owned by Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi (d. 1944), the writer on music; circa 1897-1936. Many of the manuscripts bear notes of presentation or dedication to Calvocoressi. Presented by Miss Ethel Glave in accordance with the wishes of her late aunt, the widow of M. D. Calvocoressi....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1897-1936
Extent:
10 items

2. Add MS 51023 B

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Add MS 51023 B
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Scope & Content:
PAPERS OF FRANK WHITAKER. Vol. I B (ff. 144). Correspondence and papers; circa 1926-1927, n.d. Partly typewritten, printed, drafts, and translations of articles in 51023 C. Includes:- (a) Galley proofs of his account of 'A Visit to Béla Bartók', published in The Musical Times, lxvii, 1926, pp. 2...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1926-1927
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 56105

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Add MS 56105
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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper; ff. 140. British Library arrangement. A. Letters of Jules Verne and Raoul Dufy; 1897, 1916. French. Paul C. Richards Autographs, Brookline, Mass., U.S.A., Cat. 46, items 75, 148. Purchased from Paul C. Richards, 31 Jan. 1970. ff. 1-6. Largest size 180 x 135mm. 1. ff. 1-3. Letter from Jules Verne to Duncan Lucas; Amiens, 8 April 1897. 2. f. 5. Letter from Raoul Dufy to –, about war posters; Paris, 30 May 1916. B. Letter from Louis Jacques M...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-3 Jules Verne, author: Duncan Lucas: Letter to Duncan Lucas from Jules Verne: 1897: Fr.f. 5 Raoul Dufy, artist: Letter to -: 1916: Fr.f. 7 Dominique François Jean Arago, astronomer: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, photographer: Letter to Dominique François Jean Arago from Lo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1706-1964
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 71839

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Add MS 71839
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Scope & Content:
HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. cxix. 1929-1956. ff. 265. includes: ff. 1, 54-58 Lady Mathilde Schlich, née Marsily; second wife of Sir William Schlich; grandmother of Humphrey Searle: Letters to Humphrey Searle: [1929?], 1937. f. 2 Humphrey Searle, CBE; composer: Reginald Montague Wright, o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1929-1956
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 71854

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Add MS 71854
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Scope & Content:
HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. cxxxiv. Letters to Searle relating to Liszt research and publications; 1936-1968. ff. 211. Largest size 360 x 290mm. includes: ff. 1, 12-13, 52-53, 91 William Roberts, alias 'Ernest Newman'; music critic: Letters to Humphrey Searle rel. to Franz Liszt: 1936-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1936-1968
Extent:
1 item

6. H.1339.(1.)

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H.1339.(1.)
Title:
MICHEL-DIMITRI CALVOCORESSI: draft of an article on the music of Yrjö Kilpinen; 1934. Autograph. Partly written on a typewritten letter to Calvocoressi from R. S. Lambert, editor of The Listener. Bound with a printed score of Kilpinen’s Lauluja V. A. Koskenniemen runoihin (Helsinki: Fazerin Musiikkikauppa, 1930), with a note of dedication to Calvocoressi signed by the composer. Purchased from the First Edition Bookshop, 15 May 1959. ff. ii. 254 x 200mm.
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includes: f. i Michael Dimitri Calvocoressi, writer on music: Richard Stanton Lambert, editor, 'The Listener': Letter to Michael Dimitri Calvocoressi from Richard Stanton Lambert: 1934: Typewritten, signed.ff. i-ii Michael Dimitri Calvocoressi, writer on music: Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen, compose...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1934
Extent:
1 item

7. MS Mus. 148 A-D

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MS Mus. 148 A-D
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MS Mus. 148. DMITRY DMITRIEVICH SHOSTAKOVICH: ‘Lady Macbeth (Katerina Izmaylova)’, op.29, opera in three acts (original libretto by A. Preis and D. Shostakovich after N. Leskov); [1935?].
Scope & Content:
Full score in three Russian copyist’s hands in ink with typewritten lists of characters and orchestral forces required (ff. 2-3). Scenes I-IV and the opening 6 folios of Scene IX (ff. 291-296) have been copied by Hand A; Scenes V- VIII are in Hand B; Scene IX (from f. 297) is in hand C. The scor...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1935?]
Extent:

4 items

8. MS Mus. 1692 A-M

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MS Mus. 1692 A-M
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MS Mus. 1692. Miscellaneous letters and music. ff. 147. Largest size 390 x 280mm.
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includes: f. 5. Frank Bridge, composer: Sir Hugh Percy Allen, organist and administrator: Letter probably to Sir Hugh Percy Allen from Frank Bridge: 1933. f. 6. Frank Bridge, composer: Adela Maddison, Irish composer: Postcard to Frank Bridge from Adela Maddison: 1921. f. 10. Frank Bridge, compo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1881-1984]
Extent:

13 items

9. MS Mus. 1714/1/3

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MS Mus. 1714/1/3
Title:
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Correspondence
Scope & Content:
Letters and papers. To Ralph (al. 'Randolph') Wedgwood. [1905-1909]. (17, of which 7 published in Cobbe). From Adeline Vaughan Williams to Ralph (al. 'Randolph') Wedgwood. [1905-1906], n.d. (9). Correspondence of Ursula Vaughan Williams relating to 'Heroic Elegy and Triumphal March', with Donald...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1909
Extent:
163 folios

10. MS Mus. 1752/1/2

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MS Mus. 1752/1/2
Title:
Supplementary Vaughan Williams Collection: Scores. J. Cooper's arrangement of Piano Concerto, Copyist's piano duet score of "The Pilgrim's Progress".
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-54. "The Pilgrim's Progress", arranged (by Allen Percival?) for piano, 4 hands; between 1951 and 1955? Copyist's score in ink and pencil on 12-stave paper in six gatherings of folded bifolia numbered "I", "II", "III", "IV" and "VI". With vocal cues and references to page numbers in th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1991
Extent:
144 folios