MSS Mus. 1532. Michael Hurd Papers: Letters acquired by Michael Hurd.1.ff. 1-59. Letters of composers, including a letter from Mendelssohn and related correspondence; 1842-1969, n.d.2.ff. 60-108. Letters to the conductor Kathleen Merritt; 1951-1... 1842-1969
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Balfe, M. W. (Michael William), 1808-1870
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Irish composer and singer. British composer. Michael William Balfe (15 May 1808 – 20 October 1870) was an Irish composer, best remembered for his operas, especially The Bohemian Girl. (Wikipedia contributors, "Michael William Balfe," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_William_Balfe&oldid=1100078344 (accessed September 9, 2022). M. W. (Michael William) Balfe was an Irish composer, singer, and conductor. Balfe began his musical career as a ...
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
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Felix Mendelssohn, composer of the early Romantic period. His best-known works include the overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the oratorio St. Paul, the oratorio Elijah, the overture The Hebrides, the mature Violin Concerto and the String Octet. A grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn was born into a prominent Jewish family. He was brought up without religion until the age of seven, when he was bapt...
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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Born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw was the only son and third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw. Though descended from landed Irish gentry, Shaw's father was unable to sustain any more than a facade of gentility. Shaw's official education consisted of being tutored by an uncle and briefly attending Protestant and Catholic day schools. At fifteen Shaw began working as a bookkeeper in a land agent's office which required him t...
Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934
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English composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Malvern, 12 April [n.y.], to [Plunket?] Greene. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270566154 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Plas Gwyn, 15 August 1904, to [Samuel Aitken], 1904 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270566140 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Plas Gwyn, Christmas Day 1902, to Mrs. [Louise Alvar] Harding, 1902 Dec. 25. (Unknown). Wo...
Moore, Gerald, 1899–1987
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Epithet: pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x0001c3 ...
Goossens, Léon, oboist
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Epithet: oboist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0001cd ...
Gipps, Ruth
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Composed 1965. First performance London, 19 March 1966, London Repertoire Orchestra, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony no. 3, op. 57 / by Ruth Gipps. 1965. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52075880 Composed 1948.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Song for orchestra, op. 33 / by Ruth Gipps. 1948. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52006557 Composed ...
Ponsonby, Dorothea, née Parry wife of 1st Baron Ponsonby
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Epithet: née Parry wife of 1st Baron Ponsonby British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x00009d ...
McLaren, J Russell, of Hindhead Surrey
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Epithet: of Hindhead Surrey British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000016 ...
Baillie, Isobel
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Epithet: singer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x00032a ...
Josephs, Wilfred
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000318 ...
Leighton, Kenneth, composer
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000206.0x000249 ...
Bridges, Robert, 1844-1930
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Bridges was an English poet. From the description of Robert Bridges letter : to E.B.H., 1905 June 3. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936785 Robert Seymour Bridges, English poet. He held the title of Poet Laureate from 1913, upon the refusal of Rudyard Kipling. From the description of Robert Seymour Bridges manuscript material : 2 items, 1897 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76944649 From the guide to the Robert Seymour B...
Parry, C. Hubert H. (Charles Hubert Hastings), 1848-1918
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English composer, scholar, and teacher. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5), dated : London, 1911-1918, to Mr. R.F. Martin Akerman, 1911 July 10 and 1911-1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674261 From the description of Autograph letters signed (9), dated : Gloucester, London, Montreux, and Worthing, 1889-1899 to Mr. [Joseph] Bennett, 1889 May 15 and 1894 Sept. 10 and 1889 Aug. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674264 From the description o...
Milford, Robin Humphrey, composer
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x0002de ...
Wood, Haydn
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000834.0x00002c ...
Scott, Marion M. (Marion Margaret), 1877-1953
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Epithet: musicologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x00030b ...
Bridge, Ethel, wife of the composer F Bridge
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Epithet: wife of the composer F Bridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000018 ...
Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0001cd Gerald Finzi (1901-56) was a composer. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography . From the guide to the Autograph and copyists' manuscripts of Gerald Finzi's, Requiem da camera, 1924-84, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) From the guide to the Music manuscripts of Gerald Finzi, [ca. 1945-56], (Universit...
Bennett, William Sterndale
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0002f3 ...
Timmins, William
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Epithet: of Birmingham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000015 ...
Novello, Vincent, 1781-1861
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Vincent Novello, English music publisher. From the guide to the Vincent Novello manuscript material : 6 items, 1822-1848, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) English organist, choirmaster, conductor, editor, publisher, and composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 22 November 1828, to George Gwilt, 1828 Nov. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270583026 Epithet: organi...
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
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English composer, teacher, writer, and conductor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Norfolk,] 1 February 1921, to H[arry] H[arkness] Flagler, 1921 Feb. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270677908 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dorking, [n.d.], to Dr. Myers, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270677911 From the description of Letter in the third person, dated : [London], 19 February [1926], to Mme [Louise] Alvar, 1926 Fe...
Campoli, Alfredo, violinist
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Epithet: violinist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000019 ...
Cunningham, George
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Epithet: Dr organist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001027.0x000080 ...
Cawood, Martin, amateur musician
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Epithet: amateur musician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000017 ...
Holst, Gustav
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Gustav Holst (1874-1934), composer and music teacher, was born in Cheltenham, and educated at the local grammar school and at the Royal College of Music. He taught at St Pauls Girls School, and composed many pieces, most notably The Planets. His daughter Imogen was educated at St Pauls and the Royal College of Music, and was among other appointments Director of Music at Dartington Hall, Devon. She wrote on a number of musical themes, but most significantly her father and Benjamin Britten, she be...
Harris, Lillian
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x00001a ...
Maconchy, Elizabeth, 1907-1994
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000363 English composer. From the description of Letter, 1942 Mar. 30, Ludlow, Salop [i.e. Shropshire, England] to Harold Reeves, Bournemouth [Hampshire, England] (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34370439 ...
Boughton, Rutland, 1878-1960
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x000392 Director of the Glastonbury Festival Players and later of the Bristol Folk Festival School. From the description of Letters : Glastonbury, Tatsfield, Newent, and Bristol, to Laurence Housman, 1921-1935. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25334604 ...
Stainer, John, Sir, musicologist and composer
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Epithet: musicologist and composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x000122 ...
Wesley, Samuel S.
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Epithet: MusD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x0001e2 ...
Littleton, Alfred, of Novello & Co
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Epithet: of Novello & Co British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000562.0x000147 ...
Beale, William, organist and composer
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Epithet: organist and composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000205 ...
Stanford, Charles Villiers, 1852-1924
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British composer, teacher, and conductor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : London May 10 1915, to Mr. [Harold] Bauer, 1915 May 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270670048 From the description of Autograph letters signed (11) and autograph postal card signed, dated : Cambridge, London, and Berlin, 1885-1907, to Mr. [Joseph] Bennett, 1885 July 8. and 1889 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270670052 From the description of Autograph lette...
Tate, Phyllis, 1911-1987
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x000201 ...
Arnold, Malcolm
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Composed 1952. First performance Royal Festival Hall, London, 26 June 1953, Boyd Neel Orchestra, Boyd Neel conductor, Leon Goossens soloist. Dedicated to Leon Goossens.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto for oboe and strings, opus 39 / Malcolm Arnold. 1952. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 50756407 Epithet: composer Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : De...
Harvey, Frederick William, Unspecified, solicitor
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Epithet: solicitor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001123.0x000315 ...
Merritt, Kathleen, conductor
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Epithet: conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x00010b ...
Groves, Charles, 1915-1992
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Epithet: conductor Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x000332 ...
Wishart, Peter Charles Arthur, composer
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x00020c ...
Edwards, Frederick George, of Add MS 37267
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Epithet: organist and writer on music, d1909 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x0000dc Epithet: of Add MS 37267 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x00012a ...
