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MS Mus. 1750/1

Record Id:

040-003355984

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003355981

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100038164712.0x000001

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MS Mus. 1750/1

Title:

Benno Moiseiwitsch Collection. Manuscript music

Scope & Content:

Works are for solo piano unless otherwise specified.

1. f. 1. Benno Moiseiwitsch? "Fantasie-Stück, op. 1, no. 1"; 1907. Incomplete composition, probably composed by Benno Moiseiwitsch. Score, in ink.
2. ff. 2-3. Benno Moiseiwitsch? Untitled, unattributed material probably composed by Benno Moiseiwitsch; [c 1900?]. Sketches in pencil.
3. ff. 4-11. Isidor Achron. "Sonnet N. 3 for piano, op. 13". Score, photocopy, with autograph revisions.
4. ff. 12-15. Roy Agnew. "Passion-flower" and "Poppies", songs for voice and piano, with words by Victor Daley; May 1917.
5. ff. 16-23. Allan Biggs. "Capriccio" and "Serenade"; [1958]. Scores in ink. Dedicated to Benno Moiseiwitsch. With a brief letter from the composer to Benno Moiseiwitsch (request to dedicate the pieces to him); the envelope, addressed to "Maestro Moiseiwitsch", is postmarked 1958.
6. ff. 24-47. Frederic Bontoft. "Ten preludes for piano"; 1955. Dedicated to Benno Moiseiwitsch. Score, in ink.
7. ff. 48-53. Frederic Bontoft. "Moment espagnole for piano"; 1954. Score, in ink.
8. ff. 54-66. Luther Conradi. Transcription of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565; [1938]. Score, photocopy, with a photocopy of a letter from Richard Burmeister to Conradi, relating to the transcription, dated 20 October 1938.
9. ff. 67-68. Carlos Giucci. "Preludio"; 22 May 1935. Dedicated to Benno Moiseiwitsch. Autograph score in ink.
10. ff. 69-72. Carlos Giucci. "Candombe. Visión fantástica de color"; undated; composed 1928. Score in ink. Signed on f. n by [Belief]? Faraday Gozzi.
11. ff. 73-92. Eugène Goossens. "Nature poems", op. 25; undated; published 1920. Dedicated to Benno Moiseiwitsch. Score in ink with a few annotations in pencil.
12. ff. 93-94. Max Gootherts. "Suprême Bonheur", three waltzes; undated. Autograph score in pencil. Inscribed on f. n "Dedicated to my friend Joe Feinstein".
13. ff. 95-105. Mark Hambourg. "Concert study in octaves"; undated. Two photocopies of a 1940 copyist’s score (signed ‘E.C.N.’); the second contains a single pencil annotation, the first more.
14. ff. 106-107. Nicolas Medtner. "Tale, op. 31". Op. 31, no. 3. Score in purple ink, in the hand of Anna Medtner.
15. ff. 108-117. Sydney Rosenbloom. "Variations and fugue on an original theme", op. 16; 1915. Score in ink. Published by Augener, 1915.
16. ff. 118-130. Sydney Rosenbloom. "Air, variations and finale", op. 23; March 1919. Score in ink. Published by Augener, 1919.
17. ff. 131-132. Sydney Rosenbloom. "The Cambridge Boy", op. 36; 1947. Score in ink. Published Augener, 1955.
18. ff. 133-138. Ernest Schelling. "Variation 10A, to be included in Piano var."; undated; a "Thème et variations" by Schelling was published in 1904. Dedicated to Benno Moiseiwitsch. Three scores in ink.
19. ff. 139-145. Paul Sterman. "Trois danses orientales"; 1923. Printed score (published Paris: Allegro Edition, 1923) with a few autograph annotations. With a letter from the composer to Benno Moiseiwitsch, dated 28 Jan 1960.
20. ff. 146-152. Paul Sterman. "Prelude"; undated. Photocopy.
21. ff. 153-159. Christopher Thomas. "Little prelude and fugue" in A minor; undated (published Boston, Mass: B. F. Wood, 1939) . Dedicated to Benno Moiseiwitsch. Autograph score in pencil of the prelude and two printed copies of the prelude and fugue, the first with an inscription to Benno Moisewitsch by the composer, dated 1948, the second annotated by the composer.
22. ff. 160-164. Christopher Thomas. "Intermezzo,'The silver flask'" in F minor; undated. Dedicated to Benno Moiseiwitsch. Two scores in ink.
23. Christopher Thomas ff. 165-166. Arrangment of Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale-prelude "Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott", BWV721. Score in ink.

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003355981
040-003355984

Is part of:

MS Mus. 1750 : Benno Moiseiwitsch Collection

MS Mus. 1750/1 : Benno Moiseiwitsch Collection. Manuscript music

Hierarchy:

032-003355981[0001]/040-003355984

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1750

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

166 folios

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1895

End Date:

1960

Date Range:

c 1900-1960

Era:

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Names:

Achron, Isidor, 1892-1948
Agnew, Roy, pianist, composer, 1891-1944
Biggs, Allan, of St Leonards-on-Sea, 1877-1960
Bontoft, Frederic, composer, b 1896
Burmeister, Richard, pianist, 19th century
Conradi, Giuseppe, fl 1800-1830
Daley, Victor, poet, 1858-1905
Giucci, Carlos, composer, 1904-1958
Goossens, Eugène, violinist and conductor, 1867-1958,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/26256363
Gootherts, Max, composer, fl 1922
Hambourg, Mark, pianist, 1879-1960
Medtner, Anna Mikhailovna, 1877-1965
Medtner, Nikolay Karlovich, composer and pianist, 1880-1951
Moiseiwitsch, Benno, pianist, 1890-1963,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108839079
Rosenbloom, Sydney, composer, b 1889
Sterman, Paul, composer, fl 1920-1929
Thomas, Christopher, 1894-1976