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MS Mus. 1808/3/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003392471
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003391374
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054011747.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1808/3/1
- Title:
- Giles Swayne Collection. Correspondence and scrapbook. Correspondence and biographical material
- Scope & Content:
-
c. ff.1-163: Personal and professional correspondence to and from select friends and colleagues. Mainly consists of manuscript and typed letters, with two printed email threads.
Correspondents include: William Walton, granting permission to quote from Façade; Olivier Messiaen, regarding composition classes at the Paris Conservatoire and the purchase of books on the birds of India and Pakistan; BBC controllers and producers; Susan Bradshaw; Hugh Wood; Brian Elias; Nicholas Maw; Raymond Leppard; Prince Charles, regarding an invite to a performance of Cry (op. 27); Tony and Renate Coxhead; Nicola LeFanu; Barry Guy; Lord and Lady Harewood; Paul Patterson; Julian Bream; Yolande and Breyten Breytenbach; Richard Rodney Bennett, under the nommes de plume Tracy Doreen Thribden and Cyrano de Trendiberth; and others.
c. ff.164-207: Biographical material by Giles Swayne and others, originally stored loose inside scrapbook (held in MS Mus. 1808/3/2). Also contains Novello catalogues, one with manuscript corrections; an application for the Park Lane Group Composer Award; a gouache portrait signed by Giles Swayne; and a programme for a 50th birthday concert by the Park Lane Group.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003391374
036-003392465
040-003392471 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1808 : Giles Swayne Collection
MS Mus. 1808/3 : Giles Swayne Collection. Correspondence and scrapbook
MS Mus. 1808/3/1 : Giles Swayne Collection. Correspondence and scrapbook. Correspondence and biographical material - Hierarchy:
- 032-003391374[0003]/036-003392465[0001]/040-003392471
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1808
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
c. 207 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1975
- End Date:
- 2009
- Date Range:
- 1975-2009
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Closed until
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- Access Date:
- 31 Dec 2075
- User Conditions:
- Arrangement:
- ff.164-207 were originally held loose inside a scrapbook and have been separated for ease of production.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bennett, Richard Rodney, Knight, composer, 1936-2012
Bradshaw, Susan Mary, pianist and musicologist, 1931-2005,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109851256
Bream, Julian Alexander, guitarist and lutenist, 1933-2020
Breytenbach, Breyten, b 1939
Elias, Brian, composer
Guy, Barry John, composer and double bass player, b 1947
Lascelles, George Henry Hubert, 7th Earl of Harewood, 1923-2011
LeFanu, Nicola, composer, b 1947
Leppard, Raymond John, conductor, harpsichordist, and arranger, 1927-2019
Maw, Nicholas, composer, 1935-2009
Messiaen, Olivier, composer, 1908-1992
Patterson, Paul, composer, b 1947
Walton, William Turner, OM, composer, 1902-1983
Wood, Hugh Bradshaw, composer, 1932-2021 - Related Archive Descriptions:
- MS Mus. 1808/3/2