HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. cxviii. Letters from notable writers, arranged alphabetically by correspondent; 1936-1982, n.d. Partly typewritten. Searle removed these letters from the main sequence (now Add. 71839-71840).ff. 195.includes:ff. 1-4 ... 1936-1982
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Scherchen, Hermann, 1891-1966
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German conductor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Leipzig?] Jan. 15 1921, to Herr Dünnebeil [at Breitkopf & Härtel], 1921 Jan. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270668850 Scherchen left Germany in 1933 in voluntary protest of the new Nazi regime. Later that year he organized what he termed a musical workshop (Arbeitstagung) in Strassburg, intended especially for young musicians, and with the additional intention of providing a forum for perfo...
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951
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Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg was born on Sept. 13, 1874 in Vienna; began composing before he was nine years old; composed the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899), which he later scored for string orchestra, and became one of his most popular works; Austrian composers Alban Berg and Anton Webern began studying with him in 1904; his cantata Gurrelieder (begun in 1900) was received enthusiastically at its premiere in 1913; by 1909 he began creating atonal compositions, and in his Opus 25 Piano S...
Dallapiccola, Luigi, 1904-1975
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Luigi Dallapiccola, an Italian composer, wrote Rencesvals, a piece for voice and piano based on three fragments of La Chanson de Roland, for French baritone Pierre Bernac. From the description of Correspondence concerning Rencesvals : Firenze, to Pierre Bernac, Paris, 1945-1946. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122640078 From the guide to the Correspondence concerning Rencesvals : Firenze, to Pierre Bernac, Paris, 1945-1946, (The New York Public Library. Music ...
Webern, Anton
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Austrian composer. From the description of Anton Webern / Das Augenlicht / von / Hildegard Jone / für / gemischten Chor / u. / Orchester / Op. 26 / Klavierauszug / von / Ludwig Zenk. [1935?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571148 From the description of Stefan George / VII. Ring / A. v. Webern op. 2. [1908-1909?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571211 From the description of Vier Lieder / für / Gesang und Orchester / von / Anton Webern / op. 13 / Partitur. [19...
Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945
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Commissioned by the Basel section of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Composed originally as Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion 1937. Orchestrated 1940 as this Concerto. First performance London, 14 November 1942, Royal Philharmonic Society, Adrian Boult conductor, Louis Kentner and Ilona Kabos soloists.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra / Béla Bartók. [194-?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record i...
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974
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Milhaud was born in Aix-en-Provence on September 4, 1892. As a child he improvised melodies at the piano and soon took up the violin. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1909, studying the violin with Berthelier, ensemble with Lefèvre, harmony with Leroux, counterpoint with André Gédalge, composition and fugue with Charles-Marie Widor, and conducting with Vincent d'Indy. He received first "accessit" in violin and counterpoint, and second in fugue, winning the Prix Lepaulle for composition. Mil...
Petri, Egon
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German pianist of Dutch descent, later naturalized American. From the description of Autograph postal card signed signed, dated : [Berlin, 6 August 1923], to Otto Eckermann, 1923 Aug. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674933 Epithet: pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000243 ...
Ionesco, Eugène, active 1936-1982, writer
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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000247 ...
Varese, Edgard Victor Achille Charles, active 1931-1982, composer
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000246 ...
Nono, Luigi, Italian composer
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Epithet: Italian composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x0001c6 ...
Boult, Adrian, 1889-1983
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Sir Adrian Cedric Boult (1889-1983) was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was not called up due to ill health, but served as an Orderly Officer training troops in Cheshire and North Wales before working as a translator for MI5 and as an assistant to Frederick Marquis, later Lord Woolton, at the War Office. He later became a musician and conductor. From the guide to the Sir Adrian Boult papers, 1977, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Epithet: CH, co...
Mitropoulos, Dimitri, active 1932-1987, conductor pianist and composer
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Epithet: conductor pianist and composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000241 ...
Webern, Wilhelmine von, active 1936-1982, née Mörtl wife of Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern
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Epithet: née Mörtl wife of Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x00023e ...
St Clair, Jean, active 1936-1982, acquaintance of Humphrey Searle
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Epithet: acquaintance of Humphrey Searle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000242 ...
Krips, Harietta, active 1936-1982, widow of Josef Krips
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Epithet: widow of Josef Krips British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x00022d ...
Berlin, Isaiah, Sir, OM, philosopher
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Epithet: OM, philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x000044 ...
Hoffnung, Gerard, active 1933-1982, artist illustrator musician and humorist
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Epithet: artist illustrator musician and humorist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000240 ...
Rawsthorne, Alan, 1905-1971
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x00002f ...
Fricker, Peter Racine
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x0003d4 Biography / Administrative Information One of the most important postwar British composers, Peter Racine Fricker was born in London in 1920 and was educated at London's St. Paul's School. In 1937 he entered the Royal College of Music where he studied theory with Reginald Morris and organ with ...
Krips, Josef
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Epithet: conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x0000a7 ...
Searle, Humphrey
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0003d6 ...
Bliss, Trudy, 1904-
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Writer and broadcaster, wife of Sir Arthur Bliss. Epithet: née Hoffmann British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x00023f ...
Lambert, Leonard Constant, 1905-1951, composer and conductor
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Epithet: composer and conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x0000ca ...
Ireland, John, 1879-1962
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English composer, pianist, and teacher. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 5 June 1919, to Mr. Kling [at J. &. W. Chester], 1919 June 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270578522 Epithet: composer and pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x00036a ...
Thomas, Dylan Marlais, active 1930-1983, poet
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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x000283 ...
Berkeley, Lennox, 1903-1989
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Epithet: composer Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0002c4 ...
Bliss, Arthur, 1891-1975
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English composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [London], 7 June [1921] and 22 May [1922], to Mme [Louise] Alvar Harding, 1921 June 7 and 22 May [1922]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672855 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London, n.d., 1915-1924], to Mr. [Otto M.] Kling [at J. & W. Chester], [n.d., 1915-1924]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672860 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [...
Sacher, Paul
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Epithet: conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000244 ...
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...
Milhaud, Madeline, active 1936-1982, wife of Darius Milhaud
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Epithet: wife of Darius Milhaud British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x00022e ...
Einstein, Alfred, active 1924-1982, musicologist
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Epithet: musicologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x0001ab ...
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...
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 ...
Ayrton, Michael
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Epithet: artist and author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000168 ...
Seiber, Mátyás, 1905-1960
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0003c0 ...
Valen, Olav Fartein, active 1936-1982, composer
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000245 ...
Betjeman, John, 1906-1984
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John Betjeman was a poet, journalist, free-lance writer, architectural commentator, broadcaster, and television personality who was popular in England in the 1960s and 1970s and was active in the campaigning for the preservation of churches, buildings and landscape. He was knighted in 1969 and became poet laureate in 1972. During his time at Oxford University, Betjeman's active social life included writers such as Evelyn Waugh, Bryan Guiness, Graham Greene, and W.H. Auden. He married Penelope Ch...
Walton, William, 1902-1983
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William Walton composed the Sinfonia Concertante while living in London with the Sitwell family. Walton dedicated the three movements of the work to Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell. The Sinfonia Concertante was first published in 1928 and revised in 1943. From the description of Sinfonia concertante : for orchestra with pianoforte (quasi obbligato) / by William Walton. [ca. 1927] (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 62092340 English composer. From the de...
