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MS Mus. 1855/1/1

Record Id:

040-003947839

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003947835

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100124057966.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MS Mus. 1855/1/1

Title:

Letters to Kenneth Leighton, 1951-1955

Scope & Content:

43 letters, as follows:

1951-1952

Ildebrando Pizzetti (28 February 1951)
Goffredo Petrassi (17 October 1951)
‘Vittorio’, in Italian, mentioning Goffredo Petrassi (12 March 1952)
Leopold Stokowski (30 July 1952)

1953-1954

Frederick Grinke (7 May 1953)
Trevor Harvey (25 May 1953)
Frederick Grinke (7 June 1953)
Deal & Walmer Handelian Society (3 July 1953)
Isabel Pollard (9 July 1953)
Geoffrey Gilbert, flautist (9 August 1953)
Bronwen Jones, pianist (16 September 1953)
Phyllis Sellick, pianist (10 November 1953)
Margaret Stevenson (18 November [1953])
Trevor Harvey (25 November 1953)
Derek Powell (7 December 1953)
Leslie England, pianist (12 December 1953)
Francis Chagrin (11 January 1954)
Trevor Harvey (20 January 1954)
Trevor Harvey (15 February 1954)
Dennis Murdoch, pianist (9 March 1954)
Janet Craxton, oboist (12 May 1954)
Eric Parkin (31 May 1954)
Paul Schwob (15 June 1954)
Norman Del Mar (5 July 1954)
Margaret Markland (5 August 1954)
Frederick Grinke (20 September 1954)
Christopher Whelen (29 September 1954)
Cyril Wood, Chairman of The Everyman Club, Bath (21 November 1954)
Peter Wallfisch (22 November 1954)
Trevor Harvey (4 December 1954)

1955

Iris Lemare ([1955])
Peter Wallfisch (16 January 1955)
Lady Margaret Read (8 February 1955)
Alfonso Palmeiro, regarding the Carlos Gomes prize (11 March 1955)
Paul Schwob (23 March 1955)
Kathleen Scarr, secretary to the Society for the Promotion of New Music, regarding the Harry Danks award (2 May 1955)
Austin Rennick (13 May 1955)
Kathleen Scarr, secretary to the Society for the Promotion of New Music, regarding the Harry Danks prize (1 June 1955)
Anne Macnaghten (6 September 1955)
Sophie Wyss, singer (24 October 1955)
Bernard Rose (27 October 1955)
Trevor Harvey (15 November 1955)
Christopher Bunting, cellist (8 December 1955)

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Music Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003947835
036-003947837
040-003947839

Is part of:

MS Mus. 1855 : Letters to and from Kenneth Leighton and a scrapbook containing press cuttings and concert programmes
MS Mus. 1855/1 : Letters to Kenneth Leighton, 1951-1976

MS Mus. 1855/1/1 : Letters to Kenneth Leighton, 1951-1955

Hierarchy:

032-003947835[0001]/036-003947837[0001]/040-003947839

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1855

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 folder (47 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Italian

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1951

End Date:

1955

Date Range:

1951-1955

Era:

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Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Chagrin, Francis, composer, 1905-1972
Craxton, Janet, oboist, daughter of Harold Craxton, 1929-1981
Grinke, Frederick, violinist, 1911-1987
Harvey, Trevor Barry, conductor and broadcaster, 1911-1989
Mar, Norman, conductor, 1919-1994
Parkin, Eric, pianist, 1924-2020
Petrassi, Goffredo, composer and teacher, 1904-2003
Pizzetti, Ildebrando, Italian composer conductor and critic, 1880-1968
Sellick, Phyllis Doreen, pianist, 1911-2007
Stokowski, Leopold, conductor, 1882-1977
Wallfisch, Peter, pianist, 1924-1993
Whelen, Christopher, composer, conductor and playwright, 1927-1993