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Archive Reference (shelfmark) MS Mus. 1745 Name Fenby, Eric, composer and amanuensis, 1906-1997 Digitised Content No

1. MS Mus. 1745/1/9B

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/9B
Title:
Frederick Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away (two copies by Eric Fenby)
Scope & Content:
1. A photographic version of a copy score made by Eric Fenby, the original of which is held at Stanford University, California. Although the score bears the date 1897, Fenby's copy was made for Beecham between 1929-34 (see Lowe, pp. 44-5). 2. A second copy, also made by Fenby during the same pe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1929]-[1934]
Extent:
1 file

2. MS Mus. 1745/1/18A

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/18A
Title:
Frederick Delius: Paris (Symphonic Poem, arranged for two pianos by Julius Buths)
Scope & Content:
Manuscript arrangement, in the hand of Julius Buths, made in 1903. Paris was composed 1898-99, and published in 1909 by Leuckart (6320) in a lithographed full score. Threlfall, VI/14. In September 1977, Buths's manuscript was modified by Eric Fenby by the application of numerous 'taped-over' p...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1903]-1977
Extent:

1 volume: 90 folios

3. MS Mus. 1745/1/31

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/31
Title:
Frederick Delius: A Poem of Life and Love and A Song of Summer
Scope & Content:
1. A Poem of Life and Love (ff. 1-22, and 23-32v). Thelfall, VI/25. An incomplete full score, in Delius's autograph, followed by an incomplete full score (a fair copy) in the hand of Jelka Delius that omits Delius's deletions and copies his amendments. Delius's manuscript was found unbound and...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1918-1929
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

4. MS Mus. 1745/1/32

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/32
Title:
Frederick Delius: A Poem of Life and Love and A Song of Summer (arrangements for two pianos, and for solo piano)
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises: (1) Two copies of A Poem of Life and Love arranged for two pianos by Balfour Gardiner and Eric Fenby; (2) selected material from A Poem of Life and Love (a short score for solo piano dictated to Fenby by Delius); (3) A Song of Summer arranged for two pianos by Fenby. (1) T...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1928-1929
Extent:
1 volume (ff. 1-47/48 + i-iii)

5. MS Mus. 1745/1/33

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/33
Title:
Frederick Delius: A Song of Summer; Cynara; A Late Lark; and Idyll
Scope & Content:
1. A Song of Summer (ff. 1-30/31). Manuscript full score (ink) in Eric Fenby's hand. Tone poem for orchestra. Threlfall, VI/26. Publication: 1931, Boosey & Hawkes (full score 6931). Performance: 17 September 1931, London, Queen's Hall, BBC Orchestra, Sir Henry J. Wood. Original cream paper ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929-1932
Extent:
1 volume (ff. i, 83 folios)

6. MS Mus. 1745/1/34

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/34
Title:
Frederick Delius: Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Nos. 1 and 3
Scope & Content:
1. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, with first proof copy (ff. 1-79), and two printed scores (both 1917). Threlfall, VIII/6. Publication: 1917, Forsyth Bros. (see below). Performance: 24 February 1915, Manchester, Houldsworth Hall, A. Catterall and R. J. Forbes. ff. 1-12. Sketches in Delius'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1905]-1930
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

7. MS Mus. 1745/1/40

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/40
Title:
Frederick Delius: Sketches for Paris
Scope & Content:
Autograph full-score sketches and short-score workings, for the most part in pencil. Preceded by an extract from a related letter (1935, photocopy) from Eric Fenby to Sir Thomas Beecham. Threlfall, VI/14. ff. 1-3r. Letter extract (photocopy). Grez-sur-Loing, [19 January 1935], Eric Fenby to Sir...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1898]-1935
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)

8. MS Mus. 1745/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/4
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Hassan
Scope & Content:
Incidental music for tenor and baritone soloists, chorus and orchestra, written for the poetic drama of the same name (published 1922) by James Elroy Flecker. The manuscripts comprise: elements of the composer's autograph score; additional copy material in the hand of Jelka Delius; an arrangemen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1920]-[1930]
Extent:
1 file (110 folios)

9. MS Mus. 1745/2/12/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/12/1
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin Act 1, and Prelude to Irmelin
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-6. Prelude [1931] to the opera, full score in the hand (black ink) of Eric Fenby. Based on four themes from the opera, using parts of the Preludes to Acts 1 and 3. Threlfall, VI/27. Performance: 23 September 1935, London, Royal Opera House. Performed as an Interlude in Act III of Koan...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1890]-[1931]
Extent:
1 volume and 3 bifolia (63 folios)

10. MS Mus. 1745/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/3/4
Title:
Frederick Delius (Boosey & Hawkes Accessions): Koanga (vocal score by Eric Fenby), with English libretto
Scope & Content:
In the hand of Eric Fenby (with additions by others), a vocal score prepared for Sir Thomas Beecham's revival of the work in 1935. The file includes two typescripts of the English libretto, attached to the earliest of which is a brief internal Boosey & Hawkes memorandum (1953). 1. Libretto ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1935-1953
Extent:
1 box (186 folios)