Register of instrumental works performed 1813-1915; compiled circa 1870, with additions to 1915. Arranged in a single sequence alphabetically by composer, and giving the years when each work was performed. Catalogue numbers are not given. The originating hand appears to have entered the years of...
RPS MSS 279-294. . Directors’ minute books (subsequently minutes of the Managers and then of the Council of Management); 1816-1959. Directors were elected annually at general meetings to manage the concerts. These minutes are principally concerned with artists, repertory and allied matters. Sixteen volumes.
Register of members, etc.; 1939-52. Arranged alphabetically, giving category of membership and address. Maintained for the Society’s 128th to 140th concert seasons, indicating subscriber, absentee, donor, etc. [Subsequently used as an album for press-releases etc., 1960-61. All of these that can...
RPS MSS 306-307. Account ledgers; 1908-55. Income and expenditure, arranged under headings such as subscriptions, guarantees, broadcasting fees, recording royalties, etc., and orchestra, conductors and soloists, rent of halls, printing, etc. Two volumes. 317 x 205mm.
RPS MSS 308-310. ‘Cash Books’; 1908-68. Pages specially printed, receipts on versos, expenditure on rectos, with columns bearing headings for income from entrance fees, guarantors, etc., and expenditure on orchestra, soloists, ‘Q[ueen’s] H[all] Staff’ (in RPS MS 309 only), printing, etc. In all three volumes, some headings have been amended in MS, for example, in RPS MS 310 to allow for income from broadcasting. Three volumes.
Subscribers’ lists; 1813-15, 1817, 1819-43, 1866-68. Initially the lists give names of subscribers, of members and of associates; from 1824 female Professors or Associates also appear; Hon. Members are added from 1833, and the list of the orchestra from 1866. Printed, a few with MS annotations. ...
Catalogue of symphonies (ff. 1v-51v) and overtures in the Society’s music library; circa 1870, with additions to 1884. Derived from section 1 of RPS MS 395 above, giving catalogue no., composer and work, musical incipit, and details of parts and scores. Symphonies occupy ff. 1v-51v. The initial ...