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Brotherton Collection13
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection6
Herbert Read Collection1

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music19
travel4
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biography as topic2
classical music2
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Paris, France6
Salzburg, Austria4
Vienna, Austria4
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Linz, Austria1
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Milan, Italy1
Munich, Germany1
Rome, Italy1

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Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy4
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)4
Dubos, Jean Baptiste (1670-1742)3
Adam, Adolphe (1803-1856)1
Beethoven, Ludwig Van1
Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827)1
Bocquillon-Wilhelm, Guillaume Louis1
Bocquillon-Wilhelm, Guillaume Louis (1781-1842)1
Brewin, Robert1
Calvocoressi, M D (1877-1944)1

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Musicians gallery : music and ballet in Paris and London

Calvocoressi, M D (1877-1944)

[1933]

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Reflexions critiques sur la poesie et sur la peinture (v.1)

Dubos, Jean Baptiste (1670-1742)

1746

First edition published anonymously, Paris, 1719.

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Reflexions critiques sur la poesie et sur la peinture (v.2)

Dubos, Jean Baptiste (1670-1742)

1746

First edition published anonymously, Paris, 1719.

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Reflexions critiques sur la poesie et sur la peinture (v.3)

Dubos, Jean Baptiste (1670-1742)

1746

First edition published anonymously, Paris, 1719.

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Contracts to sing in Italy, France and Spain

1849-1852

6 contracts for Clara Anastasia Novello to sing in Rome, Florence, Milan, Paris and Madrid between 1849 and 1852, written in Italian.

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Wilhelm's method of teaching singing : adapted to English use under the superintendence of the Committee of Council on Education

Hullah, John (1812-1884); Bocquillon-Wilhelm, Guillaume Louis (1781-1842)

1842

Based on G.L. Bocquillon-Wilhelm's 'Manuel musical', Paris, 1836, and later editions.

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BC MS NCC/3/7/6 Mary Novello's, diary, 1829
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Mary Sabilla Novello's travel diary from 1829 to 1832

1829-1832

Mary Sabilla Novello's travel diary from 1829-1832, which describes her and her husband Vincent Novello's journey to Salzburg, Vienna and Paris in the summer of 1829, with anecdotes about Mozart and B...

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Transcript of Mary Sabilla Novello's travel diary from 1829 to 1832

1947-1949

Typewritten transcript of Mary Sabilla Novello's travel diary from 1829 to 1832 transcribed by her great grand daughter Nerina Medici di Marignano (née Gigliucci) between 1947 and 1949. The original ...

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The life of Haydn : in a series of letters written at Vienna. Followed by the life of Mozart, with observations on Metastasio, and on the present state of music in France and Italy

Stendhal (1783-1842); Gardiner, William (1770-1853); Brewin, Robert; Carpani, Giuseppe (1752-1825); Winckler, Théophile Frédéric (1771-1807); Schlichtegroll, Friedrich von (1765-1822)

1817

"Canon cancrizans a 3 voce. Haydn": p. [331]. The life of Haydn is, in the main, a plagiarism of G. Carpani's Le Haydine (Milan, 1812) The biographical part of the Mozart, credited by Stendhal to Sc...

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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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Souvenirs d'un musicien

Adam, Adolphe (1803-1856)

1857

"Liste complète des ouvrages d'Adolphe Adam": p. [li]-liv.

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Etude in F minor

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)

1839

Title from attached typed title leaf. Interleaved with protective paper. Autograph manuscript of Mendelssohn's Etude in F minor. The piece was composed in 1836 but this is a copy written out by Me...

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