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MS Mus. 134 A

Record Id:

040-001946177

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001946176

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000248.0x000011

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MS Mus. 134 A

Title:

Scope & Content:

A. Letters to the conductor and composer Leslie Heward (b.1897, d.1943) and his widow Leonore; 1935-47, n.d. Arranged alphabetically; the correspondents are listed in the index. Purchased at Sotheby’s, 1 Dec. 1995 (lot 182).

ff. 1-74.

Leslie Hays Heward, composer: Leonore Heward, wife of L H Heward: Letters to Leslie and Leonore Heward: 1935-47, n.d.

includes:

f. 1 Paul Beard, violinist: Letter to Leonore Heward: 1943: Autogr.
f. 2 Arthur Leslie Benjamin, composer and pianist: Letter to L. H. Heward: n.d.: Autogr.
f. 3 Boris Blacher, composer: Letter to L. H. Heward: 1938: Typewrittten, signed.
ff. 4-8 Sir Arthur Drummond Bliss, KCVO; CH; Master of the Queen's Music: Letters to L. H. Heward: n.d.: Autogr.
ff. 9-12 Ernest Bloch, American composer: Letters to L. H. Heward: 1936: Autogr.
ff. 13-17 Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH; conductor: Letters to L. H. Heward: 1940: Partly autogr., partly typewritten, signed.
ff. 18-26 Warwick Braithwaite, composer: Letters to L. H. Heward: 1940-3: Autogr.
ff. 27-8 Giulio Cesare Brero, composer: Letters to L. H. Heward: 1938: Typewritten, signed.
f. 29 Albert Coates, conductor and composer: Letter to L. H. Heward: 1936: Typewritten, signed.
f. 30 Frank Dobson, ARA; artist: Letter to L. H. Heward: 1947: Autogr.
f. 32 Kathleen Hale, writer: Letter to Leonore Heward: n.d.: Autogr.
f. 32 Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell: Letter to Leonore Heward: 1945: Typewritten, signed.
ff. 33-9 Professor Christian Victor Noel Hope Hely-Hutchinson, composer: Letters to Leslie and Leonore Heward: 1943-5, n.d.: Autogr.
ff. 40-2 Julia Myra Hess, DBE; pianist: Letters to L. H. Heward: 1938, n.d.: Autogr.
ff. 43-4 Eda Kersey, violinist: Letter to L. H. Heward: n.d.: Autogr.
ff. 45-6 Leonard Constant Lambert, composer and conductor: Letter to L. H. Heward: n.d.: Autogr.
f. 47 Kathleen Long, pianist: Letter to Leonore Heward: 1943: Autogr.
ff. 48-55 Leighton Lucas, composer: Letters to L. H. Heward: 1940: Autogr.
f. 56 William Somerset Maugham, novelist and dramatist: Signature: n.d.
ff. 57-8 André François Marescotti, composer: Letters to L. H. Heward: 1938: Fr: Partly autogr., partly typewriten, signed.
ff. 59-62 Frank Coningsby Mullings, Professor of Singing, Birmingham School of Music: Letters to Leonore Heward: 1939-43, n.d.: Autogr.
f. 63 Albert Edward Sammons, violinist: Letter to Leonore Heward: 1943: Autogr.
f. 64 Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent, conductor: Letter to L. H. Heward: n.d.: Autogr.
ff. 65-73 Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE; composer: Letters and postcards to L. H. Heward: 1935-8: Autogr.
f. 74 Sir Henry Joseph Wood, CH; conductor: Letter to L. H. Heward: 1940: Typewritten, signed.

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Music Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001946176
040-001946177

Is part of:

MS Mus. 134 A-G : MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS OF MUSICIANS; 20th cent.

MS Mus. 134 A : A. Letters to the conductor and composer Leslie Heward (b.1897, d.1943) and his widow Leonore; 1935-47, n.d. Arranged…

Hierarchy:

032-001946176[0001]/040-001946177

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 134 A-G

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1935

End Date:

1947

Date Range:

1935-1947

Era:

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Names:

Beard, Paul, violinist, 1901-1989
Benjamin, Arthur Leslie, composer and pianist, 1893-1960,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121359504,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61814849
Blacher, Boris, composer
Bliss, Arthur Edward Drummond, Knight, composer, 1891-1975
Bloch, Ernest, American composer, 1880-1959,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110308955
Boult, Adrian Cedric, Knight, conductor, 1889-1983
Braithwaite, Warwick, conductor, 1896-1971,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115736799
Brero, Giulio Cesare, composer
Coates, Albert, conductor and composer, 1882-1953,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083607174
Dobson, Frank, artist and sculptor, 1886-1963
Driberg, Thomas Edward Neil, Baron Bradwell, journalist and politician, 1905-1976
Hale, Kathleen, artist and writer, 1898-2000
Hess, Julia Myra, pianist, 1890-1965
Heward, Leonore, wife of L H Heward
Heward, Leslie Hays, composer
Hutchinson, Christian Victor, composer and conductor, 1901-1947,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000006380711X
Kersey, Eda, violinist, 1904-1944,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/310529472
Lambert, Leonard Constant, composer and conductor, 1905-1951
Long, Kathleen, pianist, 1896-1968
Lucas, Leighton, composer, 1903-1982
Marescotti, André François, composer
Maugham, William Somerset, novelist and dramatist, 1874-1965
Mullings, Frank Coningsby, Professor of Singing Birmingham School of Music
Sammons, Albert Edward, violinist, 1886-1957,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081210050
Sargent, Harold Malcolm Watts, Knight, conductor, 1895-1967
Smyth, Ethel Mary, composer, writer and suffragist, 1858-1944
Wood, Henry Joseph, Knight, conductor, 1869-1944