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MS Mus. 1855/1/2
- Record Id:
- 040-003947841
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003947835
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124058537.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1855/1/2
- Title:
-
Letters to Kenneth Leighton, 1956-1959
- Scope & Content:
-
126 letters, as follows:
- Eric Parkin (9 January 1956)
- G. A. M. Williamson, organiser of the Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music, regarding Leighton's cello concerto (30 January 1956)
- Eric Parkin (8 February 1956)
- Charles Groves (9 February 1956)
- ‘Charles’ (13 February 1956)
- Watson Forbes (16 February 1956)
- Peter Wallfisch (20 February 1956)
- Eric Parkin (28 February 1956)
- ??, sent from Liverpool (12 March 1956)
- Peter Wallfisch (9 April 1956)
- Eric Parkin (11 April 1956)
- Peter Wallfisch (14 April 1956)
- Kathleen Scarr, secretary of the Society for the Promotion of New Music, regarding the 'Fantasia on Bach' (4 May 1956)
- Clifford Curzon (2 June 1956)
- Peter Cox (9 June 1956)
- Peter Wallfisch (20 June 1956)
- Peter Wallfisch (5 July 1956)
- Cesare Nordio, regarding the Bolzano prize (7 September 1956)
- Watson Forbes of the Aeolian string quartet (4 October 1956)
- Peter Wallfisch (4 October 1956)
- Leopold Stokowski (10 October 1956)
- Francis Jackson (15 October 1956)
- Anne Macnaghten (21 October 1956)
- Cesare Nordio (6 November 1956)
- Lucy Reynolds (12 November 1956)
- Greta Parkinson (26 November 1956)
- Anne Macnaghten (28 November 1956
- The Earl of Harewood (29 November 1956)
- Elisabeth Boenden (30 November 1956)
- Francis Jackson (30 November 1956)
- Anne Macnaghten (10 December 1956)
- Margaret Major (30 December 1956)
1957
- Eric Parkin [1957?]
- Maurizio Pollini (10 January 1957)
- Peter Wallfisch (15 January 1957)
- Trevor Harvey (18 January 1957)
- Accademia Veronese di Cultura Musicale, regarding the Busoni prize (19 January 1957)
- Isobel Dunlop (24 January 1957);
- Anne Macnaghten (29 January 1957)
- Thelma L. Hall, secretary to Charles Groves (31 January 1957)
- Walter Jorysz (5 February 1957)
- ‘Trevor’, regarding a performance of one Leighton's quartets (9 February 1957)
- Florence Hooton (28 February 1957)
- Melville Cook (28 February 1957)
- Lucy Reynolds (5 March 1957)
- Frederick Grinke (13 March 1957)
- Peter Wallfisch (11 April 1957)
- Harry Danks (22 April 1957)
- Frederick Grinke (27 April 1957)
- Peter Wallfisch (28 April 1957)
- Harry Danks (30 April 1957)
- The Earl of Harewood, regarding the Leeds Triennial Musical Festival (4 June 1957)
- London Symphony Orchestra, regarding Leopold Stokowski (5 July 1957)
- Melville Cook (8 July 1957)
- James Denny (15 July 1957)
- Peter Wallfisch (27 July 1957)
- Peter Wallfisch, to Harry Croft-Jackson, Music Programme Organiser for the BBC (27 July 1957)
- David Mc...? (23 September 1957)
- Peter Wallfisch (20 October 1957)
- Peter Wallfisch (30 October 1957)
- The Earl of Harewood (11 November 1957)
- Harry Danks (2 December 1957)
- Watson Forbes (2 December 1957)
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (13 December 1957)
- Peter Wallfisch (21 December 1957)
1958
- Peter Wallfisch (24 February 1958)
- Geoffrey Buckley, pianist (7 March 1958)
- Regarding an overture to be performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (13 March 1958)
- Regarding a programme note for the overture to be performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (17 March 1958)
- Peter Wallfisch (17 March 1958)
- The Earl of Harewood regarding Leighton's cello concerto (18 March 1958)
- Peter Wallfisch (25 March 1958)
- Ernest Chapman, regarding a performance of a string quartet as part of the Macnaghten Concerts (9 April 1958)
- Charles Groves (9 April 1958)
- Christopher Finzi, regarding 'Veris Gratia' and the 'Symphony for Strings' (22 April 1958)
- Trevor Harvey (11 May 1958)
- Janet Craxton, regarding Leighton's oboe concerto (14 May 1958)
- Peter Wallfisch (8 June 1958)
- Harvey Phillips (8 June 1958)
- Ernest Chapman, regarding the Macnaghten Concerts (26 June 1958)
- Stanley Pope, conductor (22 July 1958)
- Hans Redlich, regarding an article for MGG (18 August 1958)
- Maurice Gendron (24 August 1958)
- Hans Redlich (28 August 1958)
- Peter Wallfisch (12 September 1958)
- Douglas Guest, organist (15 September 1958)
- James Dalton, organist (30 September 1958)
- Peter Wallfisch (14 October 1958)
- Renata Scheffel-Stein, harpist (20 October 1958)
- Peter V. Bacon (25 October 1958)
- Ernest Chapman, regarding the Macnaghten Concerts (24 November 1958)
- Peter Wallfisch (24 November 1958)
- Eric Parkin (24 November 1958)
- S. Montagu Cleeve regarding York Bowen (30 November 1958)
- Harvey Phillips (6 December 1958)
- Maurice Gendron (14 December 1958)
1959
- Eric Parkin (7 January 1959)
- Maurice Gendron (24 January 1959)
- Goffredo Petrassi (10 February 1959)
- Louis Poulet (24 February 1959)
- National Federation of Music Societies (2 March 1959)
- Great Yarmouth Musical Society (9 April 1959)
- National Federation of Music Societies (12 March 1959)
- Bernard Rose (21 April 1959)
- Bernard Rose (26 April 1959)
- Julian Herbage (28 April 1959)
- Charles Groves (5 May 1959)
- Charles Groves (10 June 1959)
- Peter Wallfisch (10 June 1959)
- Peter Wallfisch (20 June 1959)
- Valerie Trimble (20 June 1959)
- Julian Herbage (24 June 1959)
- Graham Whettam (15 July 1959)
- William Hill, Churchwarden of St. John-the-Divine, Kennington (27 July 1959)
- Hans Redlich (3 August 1959)
- Frederick Grinke (27 August 1959)
- Hans Redlich (11 September 1959)
- G. A. M. Wilkinson, organiser of the Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music (22 September 1959)
- Colin Kingsley (25 September 1959)
- Bernard Rose (8 October 1959)
- Peter Wallfisch (9 October 1959)
- Geoffrey White (30 October 1959)
- Goffredo Petrassi (9 November 1959)
- Florence Hooton ('Grandad') (5 December 1959)
- Kathleen Merritt (13 December 1959)
- Peter Wallfisch (29 December 1959)
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003947835
036-003947837
040-003947841 - 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. 1855/1/2 : Letters to Kenneth Leighton, 1956-1959 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003947835[0001]/036-003947837[0002]/040-003947841
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1855
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 folder (141 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1956
- End Date:
- 1959
- Date Range:
- 1956-1959
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bowen, Edwin York, composer, 1884-1961
Chapman, Ernest, writer, editor, and friend of John Ireland, 1914-1983
Craxton, Janet, oboist, daughter of Harold Craxton, 1929-1981
Curzon, Clifford Michael, Knight, pianist, 1907-1982
Danks, Harry, musician, 1912-2001
Denny, James Runciman, composer, music scholar and academic, 1908-1978
Finzi, Christopher, conductor, 1934-2019,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000131479120,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/306001585
Forbes, Watson, viola player, 1909-1997
Grinke, Frederick, violinist, 1911-1987
Groves, Charles Barnard, Knight, conductor, 1915-1992
Guest, Douglas Albert, organist, composer, conductor and teacher, 1916-1996
Harvey, Trevor Barry, conductor and broadcaster, 1911-1989
Herbage, Julian Livingstone, musicologist and broadcaster, 1904-1976
Hooton, Florence, afterwards Martin; cellist, 1912-1988
Jackson, Francis Alan, organist and composer, 1917-2022
Kingsley, Colin, pianist, 1925-2020
Macnaghten, Anne Catherine, violinist, 1908-2000
Merritt, Kathleen, conductor, 1901-1985
Parkin, Eric, pianist, 1924-2020
Petrassi, Goffredo, composer and teacher, 1904-2003
Pope, Stanley, conductor, 1901-1995
Redlich, Hans Ferdinand, musicologist, 1903-1968,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121204908
Rose, Bernard William George, organist and conductor, 1916-1996
Stokowski, Leopold, conductor, 1882-1977
Wallfisch, Peter, pianist, 1924-1993
Whettam, Graham Dudley, composer, 1927-2007,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110082802