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MS Mus. 1745/1/40
- Record Id:
- 040-002738150
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002016914
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022567191.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1745/1/40
- Title:
- Frederick Delius: Sketches for Paris
- Scope & Content:
-
Autograph full-score sketches and short-score workings, for the most part in pencil. Preceded by an extract from a related letter (1935, photocopy) from Eric Fenby to Sir Thomas Beecham.
Threlfall, VI/14.
- ff. 1-3r. Letter extract (photocopy). Grez-sur-Loing, [19 January 1935], Eric Fenby to Sir Thomas Beecham, letter pages 2, [2v], and 3. The letter refers to his discovery of the sketches for Paris ('these were unearthed today') and includes a preliminary analysis.
- ff. 1-17v. 'Scenes Parisienne'.
- ff. 18-31r. 'Episodes & Aventures'.
- f. 22v is blank (except for clef signs and a semibreve chord), and so are ff. 29v and 32v.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002016914
033-002716836
040-002738150 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1745 : Frederick Delius: Music manuscripts from the collection of the Delius Trust
MS Mus. 1745/1 : Frederick Delius: Scores (as bound by the Delius Trust)
MS Mus. 1745/1/40 : Frederick Delius: Sketches for Paris - Hierarchy:
- 032-002016914[0001]/033-002716836[0044]/040-002738150
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1745
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (32 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1898
- End Date:
- 1935
- Date Range:
- [1898]-1935
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Scored on music paper of two sizes: 36-stave, 17¾ x 12¾ inches (ff. 1-25); and 28-stave, 17½ x 12½ inches (ff. 26-32).
- Custodial History:
-
Front endpaper stamped: Delius Trust Archives Accession No. 1.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Original foliation: 1 volume (ff. 1-29 + i-iii)
- Names:
- Beecham, Thomas, 2nd Baronet, conductor, 1879-1961
Fenby, Eric, composer and amanuensis, 1906-1997 - Subjects:
- Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Paris