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Add MS 60625
- Record Id:
- 040-001991569
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001991529
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000393.0x0000ff
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100176883256.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60625
- Title:
- Benjamin Britten: 'Violin Sonata in D Major'
- Scope & Content:
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For violin and piano, in score. Autograph music manuscript, in ink and in pencil.
Dated on the front cover: 'Begun March 1925'. The date on which the Sonata was finished is recorded on f. 13v and f. 17: 'April 6th 1925'. With Britten's (youthful) signature ('E B Britten') accompanying each date.
The notebook comprises:
- front cover, entitled 'Violin Sonata in D Major', with date ('Begun March 1925'), with signature and dedication to Britten's brother, 'R. H. M. Britten' (f. i);
- 'Allegro con brio' scored in ink (ff. 1-3v);
- 'Adagio ma mon troppo' scored in ink (ff. 3v-5);
- 'Scherzo' scored in ink (ff. 5-6);
- 'Trio' scored in ink (ff. 6v-7);
- struck-through passages, in ink and in pencil (ff. 7-9v), including (f. 9-9v) a fragment in full score for different instrumentation;
- 'Rondo' scored in pencil (ff. 10-14), finishing on f. 13v which is signed and dated;
- Sonata violin part, scored in ink (ff. 15-17), signed and dated on f. 17.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001991529
036-001991567
040-001991569 - Is part of:
- Add MS 60593-60626 : Britten Manuscripts: Musical compositions of Benjamin Britten
Add MS 60624-60625 : Benjamin Britten: Juvenilia
Add MS 60625 : Benjamin Britten: 'Violin Sonata in D Major' - Hierarchy:
- 032-001991529[0023]/036-001991567[0002]/040-001991569
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 60593-60626
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (ii + 17 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100176883256.0x000001 (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:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Re-bound (sewn) music manuscript notebook (A. Weekes & Co. Ltd., 14 Hanover St, London), with original soft covers. Dimensions: 295 x 240 mm.
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_60625
- Publications:
- Christopher Mark, Early Benjamin Britten: A Study of Stylistic and Technical Evolution (1995), p. 10, notes that the 'scherzo' (ff. 5-6) is an arrangement of Waltz 6 from '10 Walztes' (Add MS 60624). Four extracts from the Sonata are published in Mark, Appendix I, pp. 291-5.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)