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Total number of records: 98

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items90
Archives8

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection35
Leeds Russian Archive29
Herbert Read Collection9
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
English Literature1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
musicians98
music38
composers3
musical analysis3
violin3
authors, english2
ballet2
harmony2
instrumentation and orchestration2
law2

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Soviet Union6
Europe3
Russia2
Russia (Federation)2
Balkan Peninsula1
Bruges, Belgium1
Brussels, Belgium1
Great Britain1
London (England)1
London, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Fuller-Maitland, J A (1856-1936)9
Grove, Sir George (1820-1900)9
Hawkins, Sir John (1719-1789)6
Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814)5
Choron, Alexandre4
Choron, Alexandre (1771-1834)4
Fuller-Maitland, J. A4
Sainsbury, John S4
Wodehouse, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot4
Wodehouse, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot (1854-1921)4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 170011
From 180030
From 190053
From 20002

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 179911
Up to 189926
Up to 199955
Up to latest4

Archive Collection

Papers of Dame Fanny Waterman

1904-2016

The material comprises the personal archive of Dame Fanny Waterman, covering her career as a piano teacher, speaker, author and organiser of musical events. The archive also reflects personal milesto...

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Archive Sub-collection

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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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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Archive File

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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Autograph album, compiled by Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

c.1878-1900

Contains a collection of signatures of well-known musicians and conductors, letters, postcards, festival-tickets, and a portrait, mounted on separate sheets, with pencil notes by Herbert Thompson iden...

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Archive File

Scrapbook relating to John Kitchen, violinist

Kitchen, John

1950s

An anonymously compiled scrapbook of press-cuttings and transcriptions of adjudicators' remarks in respect of John Kitchen, violinist, whilst a school-boy and a student at the Royal Manchester College...

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Archive Print Item

ABC Dario musico

1780

Contains critical notices of the principal musicians of the period, resident in England.

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Archive Print Item

A dictionary of music and musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) (v. 3)

Grove, Sir George (1820-1900); Fuller-Maitland, J A (1856-1936); Wodehouse, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot (1854-1921)

1879-1890

Originally issued in parts, 1878-89. The appendix, 1889, was separately issued and has signature vol. IV, pt.5. Title varies slightly.

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A dictionary of music and musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) (v.4)

Grove, Sir George (1820-1900); Fuller-Maitland, J A (1856-1936); Wodehouse, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot (1854-1921)

1879-1890

Originally issued in parts, 1878-89. The appendix, 1889, was separately issued and has signature vol. IV, pt.5. Title varies slightly.

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A dictionary of music and musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) (v.2)

Grove, Sir George (1820-1900); Fuller-Maitland, J A (1856-1936); Wodehouse, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot (1854-1921)

1879-1890

Originally issued in parts, 1878-89. The appendix, 1889, was separately issued and has signature vol. IV, pt.5. Title varies slightly.

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