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MS Mus. 1855/1/4

Record Id:

040-003947843

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003947835

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100124060034.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MS Mus. 1855/1/4

Title:

Letters to Kenneth Leighton, 1967-1976, and undated

Scope & Content:

91 letters, as follows:

1967-1969

Frederic Symonds, of The Organ Club (30 January 1967)
Christopher Morris, Oxford University Press (31 January 1967)
John Scarfe (19 February 1967)
Joan Dickson (8 March 1967)
Ronald Woan, organist (14 April 1967)
Nicholas Danby, organist (22 June 1967)
Raphael Wallfisch, cellist (28 June 1967)
A. H. F. Luff , Precentor of Manchester Cathedral (5 October 1967)
James Burchill, organist (8 October 1967)
Brigadier H. A. F. Crewdson regarding the Cobbett Medal (19 October 1967)
Ernest Bradbury (25 October 1967)
Joan Dickson (28 October 1967)
Raphael Wallfisch (19 December 1967)
George McPhee, organist at Paisley Abbey (13 January 1968)
Giulio Viozzi (1 March 1968)
Peter Wallfisch (4 February 1969)
Martin Neary, organist (25 March 1969)
Anthony Kooiker (22 April 1969)
Cedric Thorpe Davie (14 May 1969)
Giulio Viozzi (16 June 1969)
Christopher Morris, Oxford University Press (24 September 1969)

1970-1976 (P1050094-P1050136)

'Bobby' [Robert Crawford] (28 January 1970)
from Bellevue Terrace, Edinburgh (29 January 1970)
Sidney Newman (29 January 1970)
Douglas Guest (30 January 1970)
Fred Rimmer (31 January 1970)
Betty Newman (31 January [1970?])
'Kenneth', from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (5 February 1970)
Betty Newman (24 October [1970?])
William Wordsworth (6 January 1971)
Melville Cook (3 September 1971)
Richard Seal, organist (27 October 1972)
Goffredo Petrassi (photocopy) (3 December 1973)
Peter Wallfisch (18 January 1974)
Cedric Thorpe Davie (18 June 1974)
John Bryden, pianist (14 October 1974)
Melville Cook (7 April 1975)
'David' [Bowman?] from Ampleforth College (10 November 1975)
Kenneth Lowenberg (21 November 1975)
Robert Simpson, regarding Leighton's second symphony (31 December 1975)
Cedric Thorpe Davie (10 March 1976)
'Christopher', from the Department of Music, St. Andrews University (16 March 1976)
Eddie Morgan , poet, librettist for Leighton's opera 'Columba' (17 March 1976)
Ronald Jasper (26 March 1976)
Kenneth Lowenburg (25 May 1976)
Colin Goulden and Frederic Symonds of The Organ Club, regarding a performance of 'Martyrs' (19 July 1976)

Undated or partially dated letters from:

Two letters from Greta Parkinson, pianist
Four letters from Frederick Grinke, probably from the 1950s
Joan Trimble, composer
Evelyn Rothwell (Lady Barbirolli)
Martin String Quartet
Gervase de Peyer
Four letters from Harvey Phillips
Two letters from Joan Dickson
Six letters from Margaret Kitchin, pianist
Alec Robertson, music critic
Herma Fiedler
Five letters from Florence Hooton, concerning Leighton's violin concerto and Elegy
J. Leonard from Novello & Co.
Geoffrey Bush
Mary Mitchell
James Douglas
Janet Brown, oboist, regarding Veris Gratia
George Messervy
Margaret Major, from the Aeolian Quartet
Hans Roest
Beryl Kimber, violinist
Anne Macnaghten
'Olga'
Two letters from Eric Parkin
Iris Lemare
Two letters from Maurice Gendron

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Music Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003947835
036-003947837
040-003947843

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. 1855/1/4 : Letters to Kenneth Leighton, 1967-1976, and undated

Hierarchy:

032-003947835[0001]/036-003947837[0004]/040-003947843

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 folder (103 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Italian

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1967

End Date:

1989

Date Range:

1967-1980s

Era:

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Material Type:

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Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Barbirolli, Evelyn, née Rothwell, oboist and second wife of Sir John Barbirolli, 1911-2008
Bradbury, Ernest, critic, member of RMA, 1919-1994
Bush, Geoffrey, composer, 1920-1998,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000119780471
Crawford, Robert M, conductor and composer, 1925-2011
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1897-1983
Dickson, Katharine Joan Balfour, cellist, 1921-1994
Fiedler, Herma Ethelfried, daughter of Professor H G Fiedler, 1902-1977
Grinke, Frederick, violinist, 1911-1987
Guest, Douglas Albert, organist, composer, conductor and teacher, 1916-1996
Hartog, Margaret, née Kitchin; pianist, 1914-2008
Hooton, Florence, afterwards Martin; cellist, 1912-1988
Lemare, Iris, conductor, 1902-1997
Macnaghten, Anne Catherine, violinist, 1908-2000
Neary, Martin, organist and choirmaster, b 1940
Newman, Sidney Thomas Mayow, Reid Professor of Music Edinburgh University, 1906-1971
Parkin, Eric, pianist, 1924-2020
Petrassi, Goffredo, composer and teacher, 1904-2003
Peyer, Gervase Alan, clarinettist and conductor, 1926-2017
Robertson, Alec, musician and writer, 1892-1982,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000011029504X
Simpson, Robert Wilfred Levick, composer and musicologist, 1921-1997
Wallfisch, Peter, pianist, 1924-1993
Wallfisch, Raphael, cellist, b 1953
Wordsworth, William Brocklesby, composer, 1908-1988