MS Mus. 1749/1/2

Copies of legal documents and other personal documentation; concert programmes.

1. ff. 1-43. Copies of legal documents and other personal documentation:

• 13 September 1865: Certified Copy (2005) of an Entry of Marriage between Alexander Ireland and Ann Elizabeth Nicholson in the Parish of Penrith.
• 11 October 1866: Certified Copy as photocopy (2000) of an Entry of Birth for Lucy Ireland in the Sub-district of Altrincham in the County of Chester.
• 11 October 1866: Certified Copy (2005) of an Entry of Birth for Lucy Ireland in the Sub-district of Altrincham in the County of Chester.
• 17 February 1868: Certified Copy as photocopy (2000) of an Entry of Birth for Alice Ireland in the Sub-district of Altrincham in the County of Chester.
• 17 February 1868: Certified Copy (2005) of an Entry of Birth for Alice Ireland in the Sub-district of Altrincham in the County of Chester.
• 19 January 1871: Certified Copy as photocopy (2000) of an Entry of Birth for Walter Alleyne Ireland in the Sub-district of Altrincham in the County of Chester.
• 19 January 1871: Certified Copy (2005) of an Entry of Birth for Walter Alleyne Ireland in the Sub-district of Altrincham in the County of Chester.
• 11 January 1873: Certified Copy (2005) of an Entry of Birth for Ethel Ireland in the Sub-district of Altrincham in the County of Chester.
• 13 August 1879: Certified Copy (2005) of an Entry of Birth for John Nicholson Ireland in the Sub-district of Altrincham in the County of Chester.
• 4 October 1893: Certified Copy (2005) of an Entry of Death for Annie Elizabeth Ireland in the Sub-district of Didsbury in the Counties of Manchester and Lancaster.
• 11 December 1894: Certified Copy (2005) of an Entry of Death for Alexander Ireland in the Sub-district of Didsbury in the Counties of Manchester and Lancaster.
• 17 December 1926: Certified Copy as photocopy (1992) of an Entry of Marriage at the Registry Office in the District of Chelsea between John Nicholson Ireland and Dorothy Phillips.
• 19 September 1928: Certified Copy as photocopy (1992) of a Certificate of making Decree Nisi (of 5 March 1928) Absolute (Divorce), between Dorothy Ireland (Petitioner) and John Nicholson Ireland (Respondent).
• 18 July 1934: Principal Probate Registry Certificate (Office Copy as photocopy) stating that Robert McLean Glassby of 46 Tankerton Road, Tankerton, in the County of Kent ‘was last seen alive on the 1st day of November 1933 and whose dead body was found on the 25th day of April 1934 in the River Ouse at Fulford in the County of York died intestate’.
• Three driving licences (as photocopies on a single sheet) for John Ireland: 1924 (resident Chelsea); 1926 (resident Chelsea); and 1940 (resident Guernsey). The same photocopy sheet includes: a note from Clifford Curzon (‘Homage to the composer of the finest modern piano concerto’); newspaper cuttings of a report (4 January 1927) of the ‘Composer’s Marriage’; and a review (2 October 1930) of the first performance (Promenade Concert) of Ireland’s Piano Concerto.
• 4 October 1923: Instrument of Charge on 14 Gunter Grove, £1250 in favour of Charles Gottlieb Joseph Volkert, Music Publisher (not signed - Ireland's copy of document).
• 31 December 1929: Instrument of Charge on 14 Gunter Grove, £400 in favour of Alan Dudley Bush (not signed - Ireland's copy of document).
• Personal card of ‘Dr. John Ireland’ (47 x 75 mm).
• 2 March 1945: Savage Club bill (paid), to Dr John Ireland, for £9.17.10.
• 27 April 1945: The Chappell Piano Company Ltd., 50 New Bond Street, London. Invoice (£200) to Dr John Ireland for reconditioned Bechstein Grand pianoforte, with receipt for £100 attached.
• [1947], typed statement, signed by Ireland, of the 'Dimensions of Studio at Rear of 14 Gunter Grove S.W.10 ... in the occupation of Mrs N. K. Kirby';
• 6 April 1948: signed cheque (Midland Bank Ltd) for £4 in favour of Mrs A. V. Ireland, signed John Ireland. Endorsed on the verso.
• f. 27. Dental X-Ray Report for Dr. John Ireland (without date), signed A. A. Williamson.
• 1952: Catalogue booklet: 'John Ireland: Instrumental Works' (Augener Ltd.).

2. ff. 44-130. Concert programmes:

• 27 May 1897: College Concert (No. 243), The Royal College of Music, including Ireland as pianist (Beethoven, Sonata for Violin and Piano in C minor, op. 30, No. 2).
• 21 March 1901: College Concert (No. 318), The Royal College of Music, including the first performance of Ireland, ‘Symphonic Prelude’ (cond. Stanford).
• 10 December [1901]: Pianoforte Recital by Adela Verne (at 18 Great Marlborough St, London), including Ireland, ‘Sea Idyll’.
• 21 April 1903: Organ Recital by Ireland, at St Peter-upon-Cornhill, London (works performed listed).
• 26 January 1909: Ireland, Phantasie Trio in A minor (first performance), by The London Trio, Aeolian Hall, New Bond Street, London.
• 8 November 1909: The Society of British Composers, at Novello’s Hall, 160 Wardour St, London, including Ireland, ‘Rhapsody’, played by York Bowen.
• 20 January [1910], Langley-Muckle Series (8th Concert), at St Dunstan’s Studio, Seymour Place, South Kensington, London, including a performance of Ireland, Phantasie Trio in A minor.
• 1 February [1910]: Langley-Muckle Series (9th Concert), at 19 Grosvenor Square, London, including a performance of Ireland, Phantasie Trio in A minor (‘repeated by request’).
• [c. 1912]: at 141 Sloane Street, a programme of chamber music and songs by Debussy and Ireland, performed by Ireland, including the songs ‘English May’ and ‘When Daffodils Begin to Peer’, and Ireland, ‘Sonata for violin and piano’.
• March 1913: Press Notices for Ireland, Sonata in D minor (Goodwin & Tabb folding brochure).
• 9 June [1914]: The Thomas Dunhill Chamber Concerts (8th Series) at Steinway Hall, Lower Seymour Street, London, including Ireland, Trio in D major, for piano, clarinet, and cello (first performance).
• 9 May 1933: Jubilee Celebration Concert at The Royal College of Music, including Ireland, Concerto for pianoforte and orchestra, conducted by Ireland (photocopied programme).
• 31 October [1938]: Recital of Songs by John Ireland, performed by George Parker and Norman Franklin, at Wigmore Hall.
• 27 June [1942]: Promenade Concert, Royal Albert Hall, including Ireland, Epic March.
• 4 January 1944: Pianoforte Recital by Kendall Taylor, at Houldsworth Hall, Deangate, including Ireland, Sonata in E minor.
• 10 February 1946: at the Olympia Theatre, Athens, a concert by the National State Orchestra (cond. Alastair Royalton-Kisch), including Ireland, Epic March – programme inscribed to Ireland and signed by Royalton-Kisch.
• 26 August - 4 September 1946: A Festival of Songs in English, at the San Francisco Museum of Art, including (unspecified) songs by Ireland and others.
• [29 October 1946]: The Vagabonds, English National Opera, music by John Ireland, choreography by Anthony Burke – single photocopied sheet (from the archive of the English National Opera). See Stewart R. Craggs, Catalogue (2007), pp. 73-4.
• 25 January 1947: at Fitznells Music Club, Chessington Road, Ewell, a Recital of Works by John Ireland, performed by Ireland, George Parker and Frederick Grinke
• 1948: Kendal Taylor, ‘A Pianist Behind the Iron Curtain’, The R.C.M. Magazine, Vol. 44, pp. 57-62, with two programmes relating to his concerts in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria including music by Ireland.
• 10 September 1949: Promenade Concert, Royal Albert Hall, John Ireland 70th Anniversary Concert.
• 1959: Programme Notes by Harold Rutland (annotated ‘Macnaghten Concert: 2 October 1959’) for Decorations, Violin Sonata No. 1, a group of songs by Ireland, and Trio No. 3.
• 25 March 1960: Hampton Music Club, at 4 St James’s Square, including the first performance of Ireland, Sextet for Clarinet, Horn and String Quartet (1898).
• 7 October 1961: The John Ireland Society, at 4 St James’s Square, ‘A Concert in Celebration of Dr Ireland’s 82nd Birthday’.
• 25 October 1961: The John Ireland Society, in The Royal Birmingham Societies Galleries, ‘A Concert of Music by John Ireland’.
• 12 July 1962: In Memoriam Dr John Ireland, at the Church of St Sepulchre.
• 12 June 1963: at the Wigmore Hall, a recital by Alan Rowlands of piano music by John Ireland.
• 12-17 August 1979: John Ireland Centenary Festival at the Wigmore Hall, including programme notes by Alan Bush.
• 17 October [1990]: ‘John Ireland Evening’ at St Luke’s Church, Chelsea (Geoffrey Bush).
• 16 October 1991: ‘An Evening of Music by John Ireland’ at St. Luke’s Church, Chelsea.
• 25 May 1992: at the Purcell Room, The South Bank Centre, ‘John Ireland, His Friends and Pupils’ (performed by Alan Rowlands and Graham Trew).
• 13 June [1992]: Alec Rowley Centenary Celebration Concert at the Assembly House, Norwich, including music by Ireland performed by Alan Rowlands and others. With a letter (10 July 1992) from Rowlands to Peter [Taylor] referring to the caricature on the programme of Moeran, Ireland, Rowley and Warlock, together with a photocopy of the first publication of the caricature in 1929.
• 8 September 1994: London Schools Symphony Orchestra, at the Barbican Hall, including a performance by Dame Moura Lympany of Ireland, Piano Concerto in E flat.
• 4-10 June 1995: Chelsea Festival, at St Luke’s Church, Chelsea: ‘The Music of Two Londoners: John Ireland and Billy Mayerl’ performed by Eric Parkin.
• 23 April 1996: ‘Music for St George’s Day’, at St John’s, Smith Square, London, including Ireland, Piano Concerto in E flat, performed by Alan Rowlands.