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MS Mus. 1748/2/1/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003353106
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002024141
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100036621803.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1748/2/1/1
- Title:
- Edna Iles Medtner Collection. Correspondence. Letters from Nikolai and Anna Medtner and Ernest Bloch
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1-105. "Letters from Nikolai Medtner and Anna Medtner including originals of photostat copies"
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 18 March 1930, responding to Iles's request that he should hear her play.
- Harry Iles (Edna Iles's father) to Nikolai Medtner June 1939, drafts of two letters. These and the following five letters originally wrapped in a paper marked "special-personal"
- Nikolai Medtner to Harry Iles (Addressee's name on envelope looks like "Lany" Iles). 9 June 1939 (postmark).
- Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 2 September 1939
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 14 October 1939
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 25 January 1940
- Nikolai Medtner to Harry Iles 5 June 1940
- Nikolai Medtner, letter of recommendation for Edna Iles 20 April 1943, 2 copies
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 22 June 1943
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 3 August 1943
- Nikolai and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 31 August 1943 (postmark)
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles September 1943
- Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 1943, 2 letters
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 1943
- Nikolai and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 1943, 2 incomplete letters
- Nikolai and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 10 January 1944
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 1944? Letter relating to translations of song texts (The Butterfly, op. 28, no. 3 and Spanish Romance, op. 36, no. 4), apparently the criticism promised in letter of 10/1/44.
- Nikolai and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 12 February 1944 (postmark)
- Nikolai and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 17 March 1944
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 6 April 1944
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 3 May 1944
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 20 May 1944
- Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 13 June 1944. Includes reference to a performance of the 3rd piano concerto, given by Medtner, conducted by Adrian Boult, on 5th June.
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles, 23 October 1944. Photocopy. (Not originally in the packet of letters, but found with the interpretative notes)
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 16 November 1944. Refers to plans for the publication of the 3rd piano concerto: "Novello have made only 3 photographic copies of the orchestra-score and one copy of piano-score promising to print this concerto after the war".
- Nikolai Medtner to Amy Iles (Edna Iles's mother) 16 November 1944
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 29 November 1944
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 10 January 1945
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 28 March 1945
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 16 May 1945
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 3 July 1945. Medtner refers to the destruction by bombing of the publisher Zimmermann's stock and plates and doubts that his music can be reprinted in his lifetime.
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 16 July 1945
- Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 2 August 1945. She writes of Medtner's disappointment that performers of his works do not take the opportunity of asking his advice. He advises Iles "not for him, or for you but for the art itself".
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 24 August 1945
- Nikolai and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 4 September 1945
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 23 November 1945
- Nikolai and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 22 December 1945
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 9 or 19 January 1946 (postmark)
- Nikolai and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 23 January 1946 (postmark)
- Nikolai and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 17 August 1946
- Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 25 October 1946
- Nikolai and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles December 1946. 2 postcards
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 1947
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 19 December 1947 (postmark)
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 7 January 1948
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 22 April 1948
- Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 6 May 1948
- Nikolai and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles autumn 1949
- Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 24 December 1949
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 16 May 1950
- Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 16 June 1950
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 7 September 1950 (postmark)
- Anna Medtner, letter of recommendation for Edna Iles, 10 April 1960
- Anna Medtner to Edna Iles, undated. 1 letter, 1 note.
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles, undated. 8 letters, 1 incomplete letter, 1 postcard, 1 note
- Nikolai and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles, undated. 2 letters, 4 incomplete letters, 3 Easter greetings cards
ff. 98-105. "Original letters of copies"
- Nikolai Medtner and Anna Medtner to Edna Iles 6 January 1942
- Nikolai Medtner letter of introduction for Edna Iles 20 April 1943, 2 further copies
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 15 January 1946
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles Spring 1947
- Nikolai Medtner to Edna Iles 26 January 1950
- Anna Medtner to Mr Johnstone 12 August 1958, copy
ff. 106-134. "Letters from Anna Medtner"
- 6 February 1940
- 12 August 1945
- 4 December 1947 (postmark)
- 17 May 1948
- 1 February 1950
- 11 July 1950
- 3 August 1950
- 9 November 1950
- 27 December 1951
- 2 July 1953
- 3 October 1953
- 23 December 1953
- 2 February 1954
- 6 July 1954
- Copy by Anna Medtner of a letter from Nikolai Medtner to Mr Raybould, undated. A letter of recommendation for Edna Iles.
- 3 other undated letters
- Newspaper cuttings, "An E.J. Moeran novelty", Daily Telegraph, 14 August 1943, "New Medtner concerto", Sunday Times, 20 February 1944, "Medtner's third piano concerto", Daily Telegraph 20 February 1944, "The latest Medtner", Daily Telegraph? 1944?
ff. 135-160. "Letters from Ernest Bloch"
- 15 August 1955. This and the following letter and telegram refer to a tape recording of Iles's performance of Bloch's "Concerto symphonique".
- 20 September 1955
- 22 September 1955, telegram
- 14 April 1956
- 10 May 1956
- 24 August 1956
- 29 November 1956
- 3 December 1956
- 7 August 1957. This and the two following letters refer to a tape recording of Iles's performance of Bloch's piano sonata.
- 26 August 1957
- 2 October 1957
- 12 December 1957
- 27 February 1958
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002024141
036-003352900
037-003352901
040-003353106 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1748 : Edna Iles Medtner Collection.
MS Mus. 1748/2 : Edna Iles Medtner Collection. Correspondence and other papers
MS Mus. 1748/2/1 : Edna Iles Medtner Collection. Correspondence
MS Mus. 1748/2/1/1 : Edna Iles Medtner Collection. Correspondence. Letters from Nikolai and Anna Medtner and Ernest Bloch - Hierarchy:
- 032-002024141[0002]/036-003352900[0001]/037-003352901[0001]/040-003353106
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1748
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 160 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1930
- End Date:
- 1960
- Date Range:
- 1930-1960
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Arrangement:
- Originally in three packets, "Letters from Nikolai Medtner and Anna Medtner including originals of photostat copies", "Letters from Anna Metner", "Letters from Ernest Bloch". This arrangement is preserved.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bloch, Ernest, American composer, 1880-1959,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110308955
Iles, Edna Amy, pianist, pupil of Nikolay Medtner, 1905-2003
Medtner, Anna Mikhailovna, 1877-1965
Medtner, Nikolay Karlovich, composer and pianist, 1880-1951