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Total number of records: 608
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 299 |
| Novello Cowden Clarke Collection | 138 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 65 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 56 |
| Maurice de Sausmarez Archive | 35 |
| English Literature | 16 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 4 |
| Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society | 3 |
| Ripon Cathedral | 3 |
| Quaker Collection | 2 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Burney, Charles (1726-1814) | 19 |
| Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | 13 |
| Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847) | 13 |
| Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828 | 12 |
| Grove, Sir George (1820-1900) | 11 |
| Busby, Thomas (1754-1838) | 9 |
| Fuller-Maitland, J A (1856-1936) | 9 |
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) | 8 |
| Crotch, William (1775-1847) | 7 |
| Hawkins, Sir John (1719-1789) | 7 |
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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...
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,...
Novello Cowden Clarke
1739-1966
The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NOVELLO, (Mary) Sabilla
1838-1904
Financial, artistic, legal and literary material related to (Mary) Sabilla Novello and her short singing career. Includes portraits of her, albums of greetings cards and her illustrations to her siste...