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- Record Id:
- 040-001990072
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- 032-001990065
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000336.0x000275
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WALTER LEIGH COLLECTION. Vol. VI (ff. 147). Incidental music; 1937, n.d.
1. ff. 1-34. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'; 1937. Ink piano reduction of nos. 1-8; - ink instrumental parts for nos. 1-10 (ff. 11-34). No. 9 does not appear in the version published Berlin: C. F. Vieweg, 1937, where the order of movements differs from that in this manuscript. For string quartet version of the overture see Add. 54350. Largest size 360 x 265mm.
2. ff. 35-144. 'The Silent Knight' (words, Humbert Wolfe after the Hungarian of Eugene Heltai); 1937. Draft full score of 'Overture' and a 'Lento' movement; - script, typewritten, annotated in ink in various hands (ff. 45-144), with a typewritten list giving details of the music required annotated by Leigh (ff. 43, 44). Largest size 355 x 262mm.
3. ff. 145-147v. 'Merry Widow'; n.d. Draft piano score of four numbers. 303 x 239mm.
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- ff. 35-144 Eugene Heltai: Humbert Wolfe, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Labour; writer: 'The Silent Knight', incidental music by Walter Leigh , with texts by Humbert Wolfe after the Hungarian of Eugene Heltai: 1937.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001990065
036-001990066
040-001990072 - Is part of:
- Add MS 65105-65134 : WALTER LEIGH COLLECTION. Musical compositions and papers of Walter Leigh (b.1905, d.1942); 1926-1979, n.d. All manuscripts…
Add MS 65105-65112 : A. STAGE WORKS
Add MS 65110 : WALTER LEIGH COLLECTION. Vol. VI (ff. 147). Incidental music; 1937, n.d. 1. ff. 1-34. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'; 1937.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001990065[0001]/036-001990066[0006]/040-001990072
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 65105-65134
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- File
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- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1937
- End Date:
- 1937
- Date Range:
- 1937
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Heltai, Eugene
Wolfe, Humbert, Deputy Sec Ministry of Labour, writer, 1885-1940