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Total number of records: 215

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection134
Brotherton Collection121
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive35
Leeds Russian Archive6
Ripon Cathedral1
Leeds Poetry1
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
English Literature1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
music215
letter writing46
classical music35
newspaper press29
press cuttings29
music publishing22
poetry22
vocal music21
family12
retirement11

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom58
Leeds, United Kingdom11
Genoa, Italy10
Vienna, Austria9
Paris, France6
Salzburg, Austria4
Munich, Germany3
Norwich, United Kingdom3
Augsburg, Germany3
Rome, Italy3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Novello, Vincent6
Hunt, James Henry Leigh3
Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)3
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)2
Leigh, Blanche Legat2
Cowden Clarke, Charles2
Bishop, Henry Rowley (1786-1855)2
Novello, Clara Anastasia (Afterwards Countess Gigliucci)2
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria2
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 170010
From 1800146
From 190058
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17994
Up to 1899135
Up to 199973
Up to latest3

Archive Collection

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...

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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,...

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James Brown manuscripts and papers

Brown, James Clifford (1923-2004)

c.1933-2000

Comprises the manuscript notebooks, musical compositions, and associated printed works written and compiled by James Brown between the years 1933 and 2000, along with miscellaneous personalia and an a...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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STREMLIN Collection

1989-2007, 2014-2020

Cuttings and photocopies of articles by Iosif Darskii (Joseph Stremlin) et al in Russian-American newspapers and journals about: L N Andreev /26, 28/, A I Andzhaparidze /19/, I K Arkhipova /17/, Iu Be...

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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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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...

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