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MS Mus. 1120

Record Id:

032-001947056

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032-001947056

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MS Mus. 1120

Title:

MS Mus. 1120. Signature book presented to John Mewburn Levien; [1930]. J. M. Levien was Secretary of the Royal Philharmonic Society from 1918 to 1929, and this book was presented to him on his retirement from office by Sir Edward Elgar, together with a silver cigar box and a gold cigarette case, before the interval of the Society’s concert on 30 Jan. 1930. See the minutes of the Committee of Management (RPS MS 293, ff. 188-9, 191-2, 194, 226, 228), the concert programme (e.1401.) and the description in R. Elkin, Royal Philharmonic (1947), p. 115. The names of signatories are listed in the index; it appears that some of them may have been added later in the year (see f. 29). Transferred from the Norman McCann collection in the Royal Academy of Music, 6 July 2006.

ff. i + 30. 223 x 170mm. Full leather binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gold tooling, the royal arms on the front cover and monograms ‘JML’ and ‘RPS’ on the spine, with gilt edges and printed patterned endleaves.

Scope & Content:

Royal Philharmonic Society: John Joseph Mewburn Levien, Secretary, Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature book presented to John Joseph Mewburn Levien, signed by the Members, Associates and Fellows of the Royal Philharmonic Society: 1930.

includes:

f. 2 Frederic Austin, composer and singer: Edward Joseph Dent, musicologist and translator: Harold L. Brooke, of Novello & Co., music publishers: Theodore Holland, FRAM: Norman O'Neill, composer; Treasurer, Royal Philharmonic Society: Ernest Irving, conductor and composer: Percy Waller, pianist and teacher: Sir Arthur Drummond Bliss, KCVO; CH; Master of the Queen's Music: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 3 Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, KCVO; composer: William Wallace, composer; Secretary, Philharmonic Society: Pablo Casals, cellist and composer: Frederic D'Erlanger, Baron: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 4 Reverend James Bonar, hymnologist: George Baker, singer; Hon. Secretary of the Philharmonic Society: Gladys Helen Rachel Montagu, widow of 2nd Baron Swaythling: William Waddington Cooke, musician: Joseph Ivimey, violinist and conductor: Mrs Dora Carson Roberts, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: A. M. Foster, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Nellie Chaplin, pianist: Margaret Jones, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: E. Lilian B. Hopkinson, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: A. J. B. Littleton, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 5 Katharine Goodson, afterwards Hinton; pianist: Stewart Charles Macpherson, musician: Henry William Richards, Mus. Bac.; FRCO: Thomas B. Knott, pianist, composer and teacher: William Shakespeare, singer, teacher and composer: Robert Radford, singer: Maurice D'Oisly, singer: Brian O'Brien, OBE; JP; solicitor: Mrs Hortense Stevens, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Olive Byrne, musician: Edgar Carr, pianist: A. H. Dymond, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 6 Adam von Ahn Carse, composer and writer on music: Dorothy Howell, composer: J. Albert Sowerbutts, musician and collector: Charles F. Reddie, pianist: Septimus Webbe, musician: William John Kipps, FRAM; FRCO; piano teacher: Frederick Moore, of London and Stanmore, county Middlesex: Eric Grant, member of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Harry Frangcon, musician: Arthur J. Greenish, Mus.D: Thomas Meux, singer: B. McCara Symons, pianist: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 7 Sir Edward German, formerly Jones; composer: Sir John Blackwood McEwen, composer; Principal, Royal Academy of Music: Thomas Wood, MA; DMus: Richard Henry Walthew, composer: Arthur Hinton, composer: Ernest Read, music educationist: Harry R. Lewis, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Herbert Lake, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Morna MacKenzie, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 8 Montague Fawcett Phillips, composer: J. Percy Baker, Secretary, Musical Association: I. A. de Orellana, violinist and pianist: Herbert Walenn, cellist: Nina Maxwell-Jackson, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Mrs Alexander Robertson Steele, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: J. P. Kingsley Tarpey, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Edith Walton, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 9 Edwin York Bowen, composer: Frederick Keel, singer: Gwendolen Mason, harpist: Vivian Langrish, pianist and teacher: Reginald Steggall, organist and composer: Edwin J. Hickox, piano teacher: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
ff. 9, 26 Rowsby Woof, violinist: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 10 Gordon Bryan, composer and arranger: Caroline Hatchard, musician: Frederick G. Shinn, Mus. Doc.; organist and conductor: Sir Stanley Robert Marchant, composer and organist: Frederic King, pianist: Walter S. Vale, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Cecilie Regan, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Irene Thompson, singer: Francis G. Sanders, organist and choirmaster: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 11 Mrs J. Godwin King, of West Heath: Henry D. Truscott, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Joseph Speaight, composer: Miss Winifred Maunder, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Miss C. de C. Parrish, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Major H. B. Lewis-Barned, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: L. R. Ruckert, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Helen Mott, cellist: Miss Florence L. Bean, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Minnie Winter, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Maud Agnes Winter, pianist: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 12 Frederick St John Lacy, music educationist and composer: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 13 Adine O'Neill, née Rückert; pianist: John H. Tillett, music agent: Kálmán Rónay, violinist: Daisy Morris, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Max Lindlar, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Violet Brodie, née Hope; OBE; wife of Ian Brodie of Brodie: William George Edward Brownlow, 4th Baron Lurgan: John Sebastian Morley, harp maker: Dora Williams, alias Dorothy Marion Lloyd,; née Trench; wife of Major Hugh Lloyd Williams: Laura Henderson, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 14 Elsie E. Horne, composer: Hester Stansfeld Prior, member of RMA: Arthur T. Cummings, hon. solicitor, Philharmonic Society: William Henry Brereton, singer: William Courthorpe Last, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Lottie Williams, alias Charlotte,; singer and pianist: Arthur Manclark, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Florence G. Fidler, music educationist: Violet E. Passmore, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 15 Marion Margareta Scott, musicologist: Captain R. Graham Carritt, member of RMA: Dr John William Ivimey, composer, organist and conductor: Edward O'Brien, violinist: Mr G. W. Wallace, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: M. G. Grainger Kerr, singer: Richard H. Pearce, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Ida Snowdon, piano teacher: E. H. Bell, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Donald Ross, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 16 Thomas Brentnall, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 17 Julia Myra Hess, DBE; pianist: Katharine E. Eggar, writer on music: Theresa Beney, composer: Herbert Fryer, pianist: Neville G. Swainson, composer: Ernest Fowles, pianist: Reverend Charles Reeve Taylor, MA; LL.B: Cecil Hazlehurst, MusD; composer: J. Howard Bliss, cellist: Howard Hadley, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 18 Henry George Ley, DMus.; Precentor of Eton College; d.1962: Sir George Dyson, composer: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer: Charles Herbert Kitson, musicologist: Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent, conductor: Captain Aylmer Buesst, conductor and composer: J. Lloyd Powell, pianist: Ernest Tomlinson, writer on music: Aubyn Raymar, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 19 Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer: Arthur Leslie Benjamin, composer and pianist: John Nicholson Ireland, composer and pianist: Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM; composer: George Thomas Thalben-Ball, organist: Sir Walter Galpin Alcock, composer and organist: John St. Oswald Dykes, pianist: Daniel Price, singer and teacher: Dorothea Webb, singer: Edgar Thomas Cook, organist: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 20 Louis A. Hamand, MusD; organist: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 21 Edric Cundell, conductor and composer: Frank Thistleton, Secretary, Musicians' Benevolent Fund: Henry Ernest Geehl, composer: John Pointer, composer: Winifred Robinson, violinist and conductor: Seymour Dicker, organist: Mary Ramsay, pianist: H. G. Partridge, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Miss Vivien Hughes, violinist: T. Francis Howell, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Miss Isména Schwann, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Theodor Otscharkoff, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 22 Samuel Liddle, pianist and composer: Charles Hoby, composer and arranger: Amy Sargent, pianist and singer: Adela Hamaton, pianist: Mrs Sylva van Dyck Watson, musician: Gladys Calvert, of London: Miss Annie Z. Miller, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Charles J. C. Boddington, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: George Uttley, singer: Beryl Calvert, of London: H. S. Gordon, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 23 Sir John Battista Barbirolli, conductor: William Murdoch, pianist: William J. Pearce, of Novello & Co: Julian Clifford, pianist, conductor and composer: Walter Widdop, singer: Miss Jessie Dorothea Page, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Frederick Laurence, composer: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 24 James Partridge, pianist, organist and teacher: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 25 Allen Gill, FRAM: Gustav Theodore Holst, composer: Dr George Cunningham, organist: Lillie Wormald, singer and teacher: Ashley Leggatt, MD: Thomazine Mary Lockyer form. Brodhurst, née Browne; wife of Sir Norman Lockyer; feminist and Unitarian: Frederick Gregson Shuttleworth, organist: Robert Jessurun, singing teacher: William A. Turridge, musician: Henry Carte de Lafontaine, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Miss Constance Huskisson, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Miss Alice Roscoe, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 25v Miss Pattie Butcher, singer and pianist: Mrs Margaret S. Pearce, Fellow of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 26 Roger Cuthbert Quilter, composer: Ada Le Marchant, musician; wife of William Le Marchant: Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, alias 'Sheila McCarthy'; alias 'Dermot O'Byrne'; KCVO; composer: Irene Scharrer, pianist: William Wolstenholme, organist and composer: Alice M. Hardcastle, pianist: Frank Bonner, Director, Metropolitan Academy of Music: Maurice Oswald Marshall, MA; music teacher: E. Wraith Lawrence, ARCM; wife of Max Lawrence: Ernest Innes, musician: Fanny M. Whitelegge, musician: Mrs E. B. Pattison George, wife of Arthur Pattison George: Cecil Bonvalot, member of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 27 Cyril Bradley Rootham, composer: Alfred Charles Reynolds, composer and conductor: Ernest Markham Lee, composer and organist; d.1956: Lionel Tertis, viola player: Maurice Besly, composer: Orton Bradley, conductor and pianist: Florence Mary Hill Holmes, née Rivington; composer and violinist; wife of Sir Charles Holmes: A. Forbes Milne, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 28 Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, FSA; Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum: Sir Shafto Adair, Baronet; DL, JP: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.
f. 30 Mrs L. C. Birch, wife of George Birch: Signature, in a book presented to J. M. Levien: 1930.

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032-001947056

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Fonds

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English

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Latin

Start Date:

1930

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1930

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[1930]

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Custodial History:

Norman McCann, concert agent; of Festival Music Ltd: Owned, until 1999.

Royal Academy of Music: Presented, in 2006.

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