British Library Journal (volume 11, number 1, spring 1985)
British Library Journal (volume 11, number 1, spring 1985)
British Library Journal (volume 11, number 1, spring 1985)
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Item type:Journal article, The library of the Royal Philharmonic Society(1985-04)King, Alec HyattDuring the period from 1790 to the early 1830s, quite a number of organizations came into being in London to provide public musical entertainment of various kinds. The only one of them still active today is the Philharmonic Society, which was established in 1813 and received the title 'Royal' exactly one hundred years later. It owed much of its endurance and success to the fact that its founders were shrewd professional musicians wholly dedicated to giving regular seasons of orchestral concerts of the highest possible standard. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, The Elgar sketch-books(1985-04)Willetts, PamelaA major gift from Mrs H. S. Wohlfeld of sketch-books and other manuscripts of Sir Edward Elgar was received by the British Library in 1984. The sketch-books consist of five early books dating from 1878 to 1882, a small book from the late 1880s, a series of eight volumes made to Elgar's instructions in 1901, and two later books commenced in Italy in 1909. The collection is now numbered Add. MSS. 63146-63166.4 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Journal article, Alban Berg and the BBC(1985-04)Chadwick, NicholasEdward Clark (1888-1962), who was a programme planner with the BBC from 1927 to 1936, had been introduced to Arnold Schoenberg after a performance of the latter's symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande in Berlin in 1910. He was thereafter an ardent champion of the music of Schoenberg (whose pupil he became in 1911) and also of that of Alban Berg and Anton von Webern. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Julian Marshall and the British Museum: music collecting in the later nineteenth century(1985-04)Searle, ArthurIn the second volume of Sir George Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians which appeared in 1880, there is a descriptive list of private music libraries in the British Isles. First, understandably enough, is the Royal Music Library at Buckingham Palace; the next two libraries listed are those of Sir Arthur Frederick Gore Ouseley and of Mr Julian Marshall. The entire Royal Music Library is now in the British Library by royal gift; the whole of Ouseley's collection passed to his foundation of St Michael's College, Tenbury. These two libraries have been catalogued in some detail and both the process of their assembly and the personalities involved have been explored. Only two substantial parts of Marshall's collection remain intact: his printed Handel scores and libretti, now in the National Library of Scotland, and the major part of his manuscript music in the British Library. Marshall's name remains almost unknown, and to many musicologists his bookplate, which is still easy enough to encounter, complicates rather than simplifies the problem of provenance.2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: Selected acquisitions April 1983-March 1984: English books 1501-1800(1985-04) - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, The Curzon Collection(1985-04)Neighbour, O. W.Through the generosity of Dr Peter Curzon and Mr Fritz Curzon the British Library has recently acquired an extensive collection of annotated scores, notebooks, and other papers of the late Sir Clifford Curzon. The working scores amount to some 300 items. Nearly all are printed editions, but there are a few manuscripts as well, including autographs of William Alwyn and Sir Lennox Berkeley. Seventy-eight composers are represented, the standard ones naturally very liberally, many others by only one or two pieces. There are works with orchestra in either full score or two-piano reduction (and sometimes in both), great quantities of solo pieces, and a substantial amount of chamber music. Although this is not Curzon's complete library it includes everything that could be found with his markings and thus nearly everything that he played in public or worked on.1 10