Edna Iles Medtner Collection. Correspondence. Letters from Nikolai and Anna Medtner and Ernest Bloch
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ff. 1-105. "Letters from Nikolai Medtner and Anna Medtner including originals of photostat copies" Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 18 March 1930, responding to Iles's request that he should hear her play. Harry Iles (Edna Iles's father) to Nikolai Medtner June 1939, drafts of two letters. These and...
Edna Iles Medtner Collection. Correspondence. Edna Iles and various correspondents
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Eugene Goossens, letter of recommendation for Edna Iles 21 September 1951 O.W. Neighbour, of the British Library, to Edna Iles, 2 letters, 14 September 1976, 6 October 1976 Edna Iles to Wilson Lyle, author of A dictionary of pianists (London : Hale, 1985) 27 August 1987, copy Wilson Lyle to E...
Edna Iles Medtner Collection. Concert programmes, writings about Medtner
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Programmes: 19 January 1935, Aeolian Hall. Nikolai Medtner solo recital 30 January 1942, Max Mossel Club. Nikolai Medtner solo recital. With a handwritten copy. 12 October 1943, National Gallery Concerts. Nikolai Medtner, Oda Slobodskaya, Edna Iles 30 January 1946, Royal Albert Hall. Edna Iles, ...
Edna Iles Medtner Collection. Photographs, song translations, original collection listing, unpublished dissertation by L.P. Mayes
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Photograph of Nikolai Medtner and Edna Iles, undated, circa 1940? Photograph of Nikolai Medtner with his cat Photograph of Nikolai Medtner, Anna Medtner and two others (unknown) Photograph of Vera Tarasova (sister of Nikolai Medtner) and Nicolas Tarasova Translations by Edna Iles of the text...
Edna Iles Medtner Collection. Notes on the interpretation of Medtner's works
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"Notes on the interpretation of Medtner works studied with Medtner in accordance with his directions and wishes".For a detailed listing of contents, see A. Karpeyev. New light on Nikolay Medtner as pianist and teacher (2014), Appendix. (MS Mus. 1748/2/5)
Edna Iles Medtner Collection. Notes on the interpretation of Medtner's works. Notebooks 1-3
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"Early book" contains chiefly notes on technique Book 1 contains remarks on op. 21, 42, 44, 51, 53 and other works. Book 2 contains remarks on op. 7, 17, 33, 34, 38, 39, 40, 47, 49, 51, 55 and other works For a detailed listing of contents, see A. Karpeyev. New light on Nikolay Medtner as pia...
Edna Iles Medtner Collection. Notes on the interpretation of Medtner's works. Notebooks 4-5
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Book 3 (ff. 1-62) contains remarks on op. 24, 27, 29, 32, 33, 39, 40, 42, 47, 50, 58, 60, and other notes. Book 4 (ff. 63-68) contains notes on Medtner's recording sessions for the HMV recording of his first piano concerto. For a detailed listing of contents, see A. Karpeyev. New light on Nik...