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Total number of records: 533

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items323
Archives206
Art items3
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection275
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection133
Leeds Russian Archive71
Herbert Read Collection58
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive36
English Literature7
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections5
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society3
Ripon Cathedral3
Leeds Poetry1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
music533
letter writing45
classical music37
musicians33
newspaper press29
press cuttings29
poetry25
vocal music25
music publishing21
composers16

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom58
Russia (Federation)14
Soviet Union13
Russia12
Leeds, United Kingdom11
Genoa, Italy9
Vienna, Austria9
Paris, France6
Salzburg, Austria4
Augsburg, Germany3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy13
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)13
Schubert, Franz, 1797-182813
Grove, Sir George (1820-1900)11
Busby, Thomas (1754-1838)9
Fuller-Maitland, J A (1856-1936)9
Crotch, William (1775-1847)7
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)7
Abdullin, E B6
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)6

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1800288
From 1900233
From 200012

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899270
Up to 1999245
Up to latest18

Archive Collection

City of Leeds Training College, Leeds College of Art and Leeds College of Music, papers on higher education, held by Leeds City Council Education Committee

c.1903-1961

Comprises: (1) Leeds College of Art papers, ca. 1910-1961, including administrative correspondence, the Principal's annual reports, miscellaneous annual and other reports, notably one of an inspection...

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Ernest Bradbury correspondence and papers

Bradbury, Ernest (1919-1994)

1899-1994

The archive was created by Susan Bradbury, second wife of Ernest Bradbury, in the 1990s. It consists mainly of a very large number of newspaper cuttings. The items are arranged in chronological order,...

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James Brown manuscripts and papers

Brown, James Clifford (1923-2004)

c.1933-2000

Comprises the manuscript notebooks, musical compositions, and associated printed works written and compiled by James Brown between the years 1933 and 2000, along with miscellaneous personalia and an a...

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GRAHAM Collection

[1890s]-1937

Sheet music of: M I Glinka aria "Ty pridesh' moia zaria" ("Zhizn' za tsaria") /1/; N A Kolesnikov "Ukazhi mne takuiu obitel'" (Words by N A Nekrasov) /2/. Modern prints of photographs of Russian and ...

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MARIANSKI Collection

1890s-1910s, 1961, 1990

Sheet music of M P Beliaev editions (except item 3) of: A K Glazunov "Preliudiia i fuga dlia fortepiano", Op 62, 1899 /1/, "Tema c variatsiiami dlia fortepiano", Op 72, 1901 /2/; N K Metner "Chetyre s...

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SHAFT Family

1910s-1920s, [1980s], 1993

Shaft family baptism and school certificates and passports, Moscow, 1833/1905, 1871/1884, 1888, 1902-1918 /1-7/. Savings book, receipts and financial documents, Moscow, 1910-1919 /8-20/. Tax documents...

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ROSE Collection

[1900s-1910s], 1954

Sheet music of: P I Chaikovskii "Ariia kniazia Eletskogo iz opery `Pikovaia dama'" (Moscow, 1954) /1/; F I Detlaf "Vecherniaia skazka: Val's" (Moscow, nd) /2/; M Dzhandieri "Lezginka: Gruzinskii natsi...

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LAVERY Collection

1961-1991

Leningrad, Moscow & Riga concert etc programmes, 1961-1978 /1-25/. Promotional leaflets about Lithuanian and Russian conductors, [1980s] /26-29/. 3 sets of "Moskva istoricheskaia" reproduction pictur...

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STREMLIN Collection

1989-2007, 2014-2020

Cuttings and photocopies of articles by Iosif Darskii (Joseph Stremlin) et al in Russian-American newspapers and journals about: L N Andreev /26, 28/, A I Andzhaparidze /19/, I K Arkhipova /17/, Iu Be...

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Correspondence, mainly on music, addressed to Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

1878-1942

Correspondence, mainly from composers and musicians, with an envelope of press-cuttings, a photograph of Elgar, and other items. 2 Volumes: Vol.1:1 (Airy) - 175 (Paersch), Vol.2:176 (Palmer) - 381 (S...

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Work by others

c. 1930-1960

Material created by others held within the Maurice de Sausmarez Archive, including manuscripts by the sociologist and art historian Arnold Hauser, musical scores by the composer Kenneth Leighton and s...

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NOVELLO, Clara Anastasia

1838-1910

Material related to the soprano singer Clara Anastasia Novello, including a gift presented to her; notes, manuscripts and partial typescripts for 'Clara Novello's Reminiscences' published in 1910; hon...

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