Britten Manuscripts: Musical compositions of Benjamin Britten 1925-1979

Rostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007

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Concert violoncellist and conductor. From the description of Oral history conducted by Sharon Eisenhour, May 8, 1992. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155896787 Epithet: cellist and conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000624.0x00032b ...

Keats, John, 1795-1821

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John Keats was an English poet and literary critic. John Keats, English poet, was born in London, England, on 29 or 31 Oct. 1795. He died of tuberculosis in Italy on 23 Feb. 1821. In 1810, Keats was articled to a surgeon, T. Hammond, in Edmonton for five years. The contract was broken in 1814 or 1815. He then continued his study of surgery in London, entering Guy's Hospital on 2 Oct. 1815. In 1816, Keats became a dresser at Guy's and on 25 July 1816 passed his licentiate at Apothecaries' H...

Keller, Hans, 1919-1985

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Epithet: music critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x000022 ...

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695

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This version 1943.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Suite from the opera : the Fairy queen / Henry Purcell ; selection and orchestration by Harold Byrns. 1943. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53445289 From the opera composed ca. 1689. Transcribed 1936.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Passacaglia : from Dido and Aeneas / Henry Purcell ; transcribed by Charles O'Connell. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall Colle...

Holst, Imogen, 1907-1984

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English musician. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Aldeburgh, 9 February 1976, to Joseph Chouinard, 1976 Feb. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270918349 Epithet: composer and writer on music British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x0001ab ...

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

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Brecht was a German dramatist and poet. Karl Korsch was a Marxist theoretician. From the description of Correspondence with Karl Korsch, 1934-ca.1954. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122556373 From the guide to the Bertolt Brecht correspondence with Karl Korsch, ca. 1934-1954., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Reyersbach was a pediatrician with special training in endocrinology and rheumatic diseases; she came to the U.S. in ...

Wilbye Consort of Voices, Vocal ensemble, fl 1975

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Bridge, Frank, 1879-1941

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000005 ...

Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683

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Epithet: writer, author of 'The Compleat Angler' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x0003e1 Epithet: of Seal CVIII British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x0003e4 ...

Taylor, Jane, 1783-1824

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English writer for children. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Colchester, to Miss Conder in London, 1806 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574640 Epithet: poet, novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x0003c5 ...

Jonson, Benjamin, 1572-1637

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Epithet: dramatist and poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0003af ...

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

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Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), poet, was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, from 1925-1928, then served as a schoolmaster in various institutions in England and Scotland from 1930 to 1935, including The Downs School in Colwell. In 1935 Auden married Erika Mann, a writer and the daughter of Thomas Mann, so that she could gain British Citizenship and escape Nazi Germany. Although the two never lived together, they remained married until Mann's death in ...

Piper, Myfanwy

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Epithet: librettist and writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x0003c6 ...

Gay, John, 1685-1732

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Epithet: poet, playwright British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0002c5 ...

Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986

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After Isherwood dropped out of Cambridge University in 1925, he became the private secretary to the French violinist André Mangeot. Mangeot's son, Sylvain, the manuscript's illustrator, would become the Diplomatic Editor for the Reuters News Agency and the author of The Adventures of a Manchurian: The Story of Lobsang Thondup (Collins, 1974). From the description of People one ought to know : autograph manuscript signed : [London], January 1926. (New York Public Library). WorldCat r...

Oldham, Arthur, 1926-2003

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Private pupil to Benjamin Britten, 1945-1951. Epithet: composer, choirmaster British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x0003c7 ...

Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter, 1893-1918

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Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687

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Epithet: poet and writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000572.0x000327 Epithet: Dr British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000572.0x000326 Epithet: senior British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000572.0x000328 Charles Cotton (1630-1667) was a poet, satiri...

Plomer, William, 1903-1973

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William Plomer was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, librettist, and songwriter. From the description of William Plomer collection of papers, 1921-1973. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122575712 From the guide to the William Plomer collection of papers, 1921-1973, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) William Plomer was born in South Africa and educated in England. After ...

Farjeon, Eleanor, 1881-1965

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Author. From the description of Correspondence, 1918-1939. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 36254207 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000757.0x000200 ...

Henley, Anthony, 1666-1711

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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William Shakespeare was likely born April, 23, 1564; he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford while working in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. John was a leatherworker and involved in local politics, first becoming an alderman and eventually a town bailiff. ...

MacNeice, Louis, 1907-1963

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Louis MacNeice (1907-63) was a poet and dramatist. From the guide to the Letters and photographs of Louis MacNeice, 1911-40, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1907, his family later moved to Carrickfergus, County Antrim. He attended Merton College, Oxford University, 1926-1930, where he met his lifelong friend W.H. Auden. In the 1930s, MacNeice was associated with English poets, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and C. Day Lew...

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892

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The recipient was Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria, with whom Tennyson had an extensive correspondence. From the description of Alfred Tennyson letter to Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 1867 Oct. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865322 British poet. From the description of Papers, 1831-1909. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20188602 Tennyson was Poet Laureate of England during much of the latter part of...

Motomasa, Jūrō, 1395-1431, Japanese Noh playwright

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Epithet: Japanese Noh playwright British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x0003e3 ...

Halliday, Michael, d 1944

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Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich, 1925-2012

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Epithet: baritone British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x0003e6 German baritone. From the description of Typewritten document, dated : [Berlin, 1967], sent to Mrs. Herbert S. Seligmann, 1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270907077 ...

Burney, Roger, 1919-1942

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"Roger Burney was more a friend of [Peter] Pears's than of [Benjamin] Britten's; rather like the eponymous character Owen Wingrave in Britten's pacifist opera, he was born into a military family and became a convinced pacifist; however, he changed his views after a palpable German atrocity. He enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and while on active service in 1941 he visited New York, where Britten and Pears were then living. As the British Navy Liaison Officer on the Fren...

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

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Amy Crowe (1831-1865) was a family friend who lived with Thackeray as his adopted daughter and later married Thackerays̓ cousin Edward Talbot Thackeray. From the description of [Letter] to Amy Crowe, 27 September [1854], 36 Onslow Sqr. Brompton. [1854] (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 35091085 Thackeray was an English novelist and satirist. J. Pearson and Co. and George William Childs were booksellers in London. Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchi...

Udall, Nicholas, 1504-1556, playwright, cleric, schoolmaster

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Epithet: playwright, cleric, schoolmaster British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000506.0x000079 ...

Britten, Benjamin

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Composed 1938. First performance at a Promenade Concert, by the British Broadcasting Co. Symphony Orchestra, London, Aug. 18, 1938, in Queen's Hall, Sir Henry J. Wood conductor, composer at the piano.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto no. 1 in D major for piano and orchestra / Benjamin Britten. [1928]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43291276 Composed 1939. First performance by the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, New...

Blake, William, 1757-1827

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Epithet: poet, engraver, artist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0001f1 The original manuscript was acquired in 1847 by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It is now, British Library. Add. 49460. From the description of Rossetti manuscript : [stats], 1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612881103 English artist, poet and mystic. From the description of Au...

Pears, Peter, 1910-1986

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English tenor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Aldeburgh-on-Sea, [24 January 1978 and 1 August 1980], to Francis [S. Mason, Jr.] in New York, 1978 Jan. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674854 Tenor Epithet: singer Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000350.0x000288 ...

Strode, Rosamund

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Assistant to Benjamin Britten and archivist of the Britten-Pears Library. Epithet: singer, editor and administrator British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000352.0x000337 ...

Dunkerley, Piers, 1921-1959

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"Piers Dunkeley was a pupil at South Lodge [Benjamin Britten's prep school] (1930-4). During the 1930s Britten and Dunkerley kept up a regular correspondence and it was to Britten that Dunkerley often turned for advice. On leaving school he joined the Royal Marines, during the war serving as captain; he was wounded and taken prisoner during the 1944 Normandy landings. After the war he continued his career as a professional soldier and remained intermittently in touch with Britten. I...

Gill, David, 1920? -1944?

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