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1. MS Mus. 1745/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/10
Title:
Frederick Delius: Piano Concerto in C minor
Scope & Content:
Threlfall, VII/4. 'The compositional history of this work is probably the most tortuous of any in the Delius canon' (Threlfall 1990, p. 189). Publication: 1907 [dated 1897], lithographed full score, Harmonie-Verlag; 1951, full score ed. Beecham, Boosey & Hawkes (8864); 1990, rev. ed., ed Bee...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 volume (ff. 37)

2. MS Mus. 1745/1/11

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/11
Title:
Frederick Delius: Fantasy for Orchestra and Pianoforte
Scope & Content:
Threlfall, VII/4. Lowe comments (Catalogue, p. 55): 'Both in its material and in the cyclic repetition of the first section, this one movement fantasy form can be considered the true parent of the piano concerto as we know it in its final version'. Autograph full score (ink and pencil) with muc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 volume (39 folios)

3. MS Mus. 1745/1/39

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/39
Title:
Frederick Delius: A Volume of Sketches
Scope & Content:
f. 1-1v. Headed in the hand of Eric Fenby (green ink): 'Early attempt at piano piece'. 71 bars in 3/4 time, in G minor/B major in a mazurka style, scored in ink. f. 1v. (Upside-down), a 21-bar pencil sketch for voice and pianoforte. f. 2-2v. Headed (in pencil): 'Rhapsody good'. Harmonic plan on t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1888-[1911]
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

4. MS Mus. 1745/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/5
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Instrumental Music
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-14. Piano solo ff. 1-2. 'Pensées Mélodieuses (No. 2)'. Signed and dated 'June 10/85'. F major, C Allegro Moderato. Ink, fair copy. 2 leaves, 12 stave 336 x 263 mm. (Threlfall, IX/2.) f. 3. A single page composition, probably incomplete, with only the number 'I' as a heading. Without d...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1885-1930
Extent:
1 file (225 folios)

5. MS Mus. 1745/2/11/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/11/3
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 3
Scope & Content:
The notebook (undated) contains notes, in ink and in pencil, for several works, as follows: Koanga: 'Calinda dance' (f. 97); 'Quintette' (f. 98); 'Entracte to 3rd Act Koanga' (f. 104); and a two-page description (in English) of the 'Prelude to III Act' (ff. 123v-124, notebook inverted and revers...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1895]-[?1907]
Extent:
1 notebook (folios 97-124)

6. MS Mus. 1745/2/13/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/13/4
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Cynara; Songs of Sunset; Fennimore and Gerda
Scope & Content:
(1). Cynara: sketches and drafts Threlfall, III/5. (a) ff. 1-24. A green Boosey & Hawkes' Manilla Cover housing various sketches and a voice/piano reduction by Eric Fenby: f. i. Front cover inscribed 'Cynara' by Sir Thomas Beecham. ff. 1-12. Six manuscript strips and fragments, lettered (a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1906-[1929]
Extent:
1 file (i + 192 folios)