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Total number of records: 152

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items140
Archives8
Objects3
Art items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Russian Archive94
Brotherton Collection29
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection9
Herbert Read Collection8
English Literature2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
composers152
music16
pianists5
biography as topic4
gift giving3
hair3
musical analysis3
musicians3
classical music2
conductors (music)2

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Soviet Union26
Russia20
Austria5
Russia (Federation)4
Europe2
Armenia (Republic)1
Linz, Austria1
London, United Kingdom1
Moscow (Russia)1
Munich, Germany1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Schubert, Franz, 1797-182820
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-189311
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-188110
Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-195310
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-194310
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-19087
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-18475
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich (1840-1893)5
Glinka, M. I. (Mikhail Ivanovich), 1804-18574
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180027
From 1900115
From 200010

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189922
Up to 1999116
Up to latest14

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METNER (MEDTNER) Nikolai Karlovich (1879/1880-1951) & Anna Mikhailovna (née BRATENSHI; 1877-1965)

1940-2009

Letters, postcards and greetings card from A M and N K Metner, London, [Birmingham], Wooton Wawen, to Eric Thornton Prehn (Erik Dmitrievich Pren) (1894-1985) and Irina Prehn (née Irina Eduardovna Gar...

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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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Collection of cabinet cards, cartes de visite, postcards, and other photographs, chiefly associated with Western and Central European classical music composers, compiled by Herbert Thompson.

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

c.1860-1936

Comprises: (1) 94 cabinet cards, dated ca. 1860-1903, depicting the portraits, homes, birthplaces, monuments to, and haunts of, the majority of the most famous Western and Central European classical m...

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Travel

1829

Vincent Novello and his wife Mary Sabilla Novello travelled through Europe in 1829 and both kept diaries from this time. The file contains Vincent Novello's diaries along with associated letters, memo...

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Betkhovenʺ : ego zhiznʹ i muzykalʹna︠i︡a d︠i︡e︠i︡atelʹnostʹ

Davidov, I A; Pomeran︠t︡seva, A M

1893

Includes: "Vyborʺ betkhovenskikhʺ proizvedenīĭ dl︠i︡a fortepīano/ sostavila A.M. Pomeran︠t︡seva".

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A.N. S︠i︡erov : ego zhiznʹ i muzykalʹna︠i︡a d︠i︡e︠i︡atelʹnostʹ

Bazunov, S A

1893

"S portretom S︠i︡erova i muzykalʹnym prilozhenīem, sosto︠i︡ashchim iz vybora ego proizvedenīĭ dl︠i︡a fortepīano."

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Dnevniki v trekh knigakh : 1894-1909 (Vol.1)

Taneev, Sergeĭ Ivanovich (1856-1915); Korabelʹnikova, L Z

1981-1985

Contents: kn. 1. 1894-1898 -- kn. 2. 1899-1902 -- kn. 3. 1903-1909

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Dnevniki v trekh knigakh : 1894-1909 (Vol.2)

Taneev, Sergeĭ Ivanovich (1856-1915); Korabelʹnikova, L Z

1981-1985

Contents: kn. 1. 1894-1898 -- kn. 2. 1899-1902 -- kn. 3. 1903-1909

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Dnevniki v trekh knigakh : 1894-1909 (Vol.3)

Taneev, Sergeĭ Ivanovich (1856-1915); Korabelʹnikova, L Z

1981-1985

Contents: kn. 1. 1894-1898 -- kn. 2. 1899-1902 -- kn. 3. 1903-1909

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A.P. Borodin v vospominani︠i︡akh sovremennikov

Zorina, Angelina Petrovna

1985

"Spisok sochineniĭ A.P. Borodina": p. 260-[266].

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Strani︠t︡sy zhizni N. A. Rimskogo-Korsakova : Letopisʹ zhizni i tvorchestva (Vol.2)

Orlova, Aleksandra Anatolʹevna (1911-); Rimskiĭ-Korsakov, Vladimir Nikolaevich

1969-

Includes bibliographies.

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