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MS Mus. 1842
- Record Id:
- 032-003436949
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003436949
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100074390739.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1842
- Title:
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No. 2, in A minor. Score, and letters to Jean Stewart.
- Scope & Content:
-
Two volumes:
- MS Mus. 1842/1 'String Quartet in A minor', full score
- MS Mus. 1842/2 Letters from Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams to Jean Stewart (later Hadley), the work's dedicatee and viola player in the first performance
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003436949", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MS Mus. 1842: Ralph Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No. 2, in A minor. Score, and letters to Jean Stewart." },{ "id" : "040-003452411", "parent" : "032-003436949", "text" : "MS Mus. 1842/1: Ralph Vaughan Williams: 'String Quartet in A minor, for Jean on her Birthday', full score" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003452412", "parent" : "032-003436949", "text" : "MS Mus. 1842/2: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Letters to Jean Stewart and photographs of Ralph Vaughan Williams" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003436949
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- MS Mus. 1842/1 : Ralph Vaughan Williams: 'String Quartet in A minor, for Jean on her Birthday', full score
MS Mus. 1842/2 : Ralph Vaughan Williams: Letters to Jean Stewart and photographs of Ralph Vaughan Williams
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- 032-003436949
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1930
- End Date:
- 1958
- Date Range:
- 1930s-1958
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Custodial History:
- The manuscript score was presented to its dedicatee, Jean Hadley (nee Stewart), by the composer. It was placed on loan with the British Library by Mrs Jean Hadley in March 1997 and formally acquired, along with the letters, in January 2019.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from the family of Jean Hadley (née Stewart) with generous financial support from the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust, January 2019.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Hadley, Jean, viola player, 1914-2002
Williams, Ralph, composer, 1872-1958,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108591472,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89801735