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Archives4
Objects1
Books and printed items1

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Brotherton Collection5
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection5
Leeds Russian Archive1

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composers6
biography as topic4
music2
diaries1
gift giving1
hair1
music publishing1
travel1

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Linz, Austria1
London, United Kingdom1
Munich, Germany1
Paris, France1
Salzburg, Austria1
Vienna, Austria1

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AsafʹEv, B (1884-1949)1
Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich, 1865-19361
Glinka, M. I. (Mikhail Ivanovich), 1804-18571
Lyadov, Anatoly Konstantinovich, 1855-19141
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-19431
Rubinstein, Anton, 1829-18941
Taneev, Sergei Ivanovich, 1856-19151
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-18931

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Up to 19991

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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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BC MS NCC/2/8/1 Lock of Mozart's hair
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Lock of Mozart's hair

1829

A lock of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's hair, tied with red string. Vincent and Mary Novello visited Mozart's widow Constanze in Salzburg, Vienna, as part of their travels across Europe in 18...

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Vincent Novello's questions for Mozart's sister

c. 1829

A list of questions for Mozart's sister, Maria Anna Mozart, about her younger brother Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, complied by Vincent Novello in preparation for his and his wife's visit to her in the sum...

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Memoranda for Mozart's Life

c. 1829

One small notebook with yellow marbled covers containing notes on persons to apply to for anecdotes and works to consult for Vincent Novello's planned biography of Mozart, which remained unwritten. Or...

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Vincent Novello's questions for Mozart's widow

14 Jul 1829

A copy of a list of questions for Mozart's widow, Constanze Mozart, compiled by Vincent Novello in preparation for his and his wife's visit to her. Novello intended to write a biography of Mozart but ...

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Izbrannye trudy (v.1)

Asafʹev, B (1884-1949)

1952-1957

At head of title: Akademii͡a nauk SSSR. Institut istorii iskusstv. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. List of Asafʹev's writings and musical works: volume 5, pages 295-380.

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