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Add MS 60624
- Record Id:
- 040-001991568
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001991529
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000393.0x0000fe
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100176883227.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60624
- Title:
- Benjamin Britten: Waltzes for piano
- Scope & Content:
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Ten waltzes for piano, followed by a 'Waltz Duet' and a 'Petite Valse'. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil (except for f. 1 and the first stave of f. 1v, which are in ink).
- front cover (dated 'March 1925') entitled: 'Walztes [sic] / composed / by / Edward Benjamin Britten / Opus 3 / 1925 / dedicated to My Father: / R. V. Britten Esq.' (f. i);
- Waltz 1 (ff. 1-2v);
- Waltz 2 (ff. 3-4);
- Waltz 3 (ff. 4-6);
- Waltz 4 (ff. 6-9);
- Waltz 5 (ff. 9-10);
- Waltz 6 (ff. 10v-11);
- Waltz 7 (ff. 11v-12);
- Waltz 8 (ff. 12-13);
- Waltz 9 (ff. 13v-14);
- Waltz 10, mis-numbered as '9' and corrected by Britten as '10' (ff. 14v-15);
- 'Waltz Duet' (ff. 15v-18);
- 'Petite Valse' (f. 18v).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001991529
036-001991567
040-001991568 - Is part of:
- Add MS 60593-60626 : Britten Manuscripts: Musical compositions of Benjamin Britten
Add MS 60624-60625 : Benjamin Britten: Juvenilia
Add MS 60624 : Benjamin Britten: Waltzes for piano - Hierarchy:
- 032-001991529[0023]/036-001991567[0001]/040-001991568
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 60593-60626
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (ii + 18 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100176883227.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1925
- End Date:
- 1925
- Date Range:
- 1925
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Re-bound (sewn) music manuscript notebook (A. Weekes & Co. Ltd., 14 Hanover St, London) with original soft covers. Dimensions: 295 x 235 mm.
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_60624
- Publications:
- In 1970, Britten published Five Walztes (retaining his original mis-spelling in the title), four of which were edited and revised from '10 Walztes' (1925) in manuscript, supplemented by a fifth Waltz (1923) from another manuscript source. See Paul Banks, Benjamin Britten: A Catalogue of the Published Works (1999), p. 3. See also, Christopher Mark, Early Benjamin Britten: A Study of Stylistic Evolution (1995), pp. 8-10. Mark reproduces Waltzes 1-2 and 5-9 (Appendix I, pp. 273-90). An arrangement of Waltz 6, Mark notes (p. 10), provided the 'scherzo' for Britten's Sonata in D Major for violin and piano (Add MS 60625) composed the following month.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)