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1. MS Mus. 1745/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2
Title:
Frederick Delius: Sir Thomas Beecham Accession to the Delius Trust
Scope & Content:
Under the terms of an agreement (1982) between the Delius Trust and the Sir Thomas Beecham Trust, all the Delius material in the Beecham Library was passed to the Delius Trust as a single accession (Accession 218). The material transferred was subsequently sorted and arranged by Robert Threlfall...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, and Swedish
Date Range:
1885-[1931]
Extent:
29 files

2. MS Mus. 1745/2/11

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/11
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebooks
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1887-[?1924]
Extent:
7 notebooks, plus various manuscript 'strips'

3. MS Mus. 1745/2/12

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/12
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Irmelin
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score (ink) of the complete opera, bound in three volumes. The score was used by Sir Thomas Beecham for his 1953 production (New Theatre, Oxford) and includes his dynamics and other markings in blue pencil throughout. Bar numbers were added in pencil by Beecham's librarian, George...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1890]-[1931]
Extent:
3 volumes

4. MS Mus. 1745/2/13

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/13
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Various Scores and Draft Material in Large Format
Scope & Content:
Various manuscript full score material on large-size paper, from drafts to final scores, for the following works: Piano concerto; Paris; A Village Romeo and Juliet; Margot La Rouge; A Mass of Life; Cynara; Songs of Sunset (Songs of Twilight & Sadness); Fennimore and Gerda; Appalachia; The So...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
[1897]-[1929]
Extent:
8 files

5. 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)

6. MS Mus. 1745/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/2
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Piano Concerto in C minor (solo piano part)
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-19. Solo piano part, in the hand of the 'Paris Copyist': 2 gatherings, each of 5 bifolia (12-stave oblong, 272 x 350 mm.) Title-page, pp. [1]-35, with 2 pages blank (and 2 removed). Title page: in black ink, 'Concerto / for Pianoforte & Orchestre / Frederick [altered over erasure]...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[c 1900]
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

7. MS Mus. 1745/2/7

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/7
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Sketches and Drafts for the Early Operas
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-10. Irmelin: miscellaneous sketch pages (including some material for The Magic Fountain) f. 1. Ink sketches on 3 staves, followed by pencil sketches of the Irmelin motive: 'End of Act 1st' / 'Vorspiel to last Act'. (16-stave 344 x 265 mm.) ff. 2-4. Ink draft of scene with Nils and the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
[1890]-[1904]
Extent:
1 file (315 folios)

8. MS Mus. 1745/2/8

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/8
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Draft Scores for Orchestral Works
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-11. [Paris, or Scènes Parisiennes] Threlfall, VI/14. Draft full score (pencil), pp. 28-53, lacking pp. 37-41. (For pp. 1-27, see MS Mus. 1745/1/40.) 3 bifolia, 34-stave 400 x 302 mm: paginated 28-31; 32-35; 36, 42, 43, 44. 1 bifolium, 32-stave 355 x 270 mm: paginated 45-48. 1 folio, 3...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1898]-[1929]
Extent:
1 file (115 folios)

9. MS Mus. 1745/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/1
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Early Works for Orchestra
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-16. Idylle de Printemps Threlfall, VI/5. Autograph fair copy, ink and ink over pencil. Score pp. [1]-29. Outer title: '"Idylle de Printemps" / morceau symphonique / pour Orchestre / Fritz Delius / 1889'. Above the title (top left), there is a two-bar sketch (ink) that has been struck-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
1889-1890
Extent:
1 box (5 items, 134 folios)

10. MS Mus. 1745/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/3
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Three Concertos for String Instruments.
Scope & Content:
(1). ff.1-30. 'Concerto for Violin and Cello' Threlfall, VII/5. An incomplete draft manuscript, signed and dated '[S]pr[ing] 191[5]' at the head of the first page, and dedicated to 'May and Beatrice Harrison'. Ink, with many pencil alterations and over-writing. 15 bifolia (24-stave, 358 x 270 mm...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915-1921
Extent:
1 file (103 folios)