Artificial collection of miscellaneous items given to the College reflecting aspects of musical life in the Greater Manchester area. Includes photographs of Manchester Womens' Orchestra, autograph books, letters from Charles Hallé to a number of correspondents, letters and papers of other composers and musicians.
Creator: Manchester Women's Orchestra (fl.1920s-1930s)
Dates: mid 1930s
Description: Taken on 2 separate occasions, once with Dame Ethel Smyth. String players only, including Jessie Honor Bragg (double-bass) - mother of the donor.
Letter from Sir Charles Hallé concerning Red Hall Chapel choir
Creator: Hallé, Charles (1819-1895), Knight; pianist, conductor, founder of Royal Manchester College of Music
Dates: c.1870?
Description: Letter possibly to J.O. Bridge (father of Geoffrey Bridge) who lived in Buxton. Hallé will be using 12 members of the choir of Red Hall Chapel [Audenshaw, Lancs]. Dating is very rough: paper watermark is 1858; Red Hall Chapel was drowned in the building of the Audenshaw Reservoirs 1877-1882 [http://www.tameside.gov.uk/corpgen2/audhistory.htm].
Description: 3 photographs of Hilda de Angelis [Johnson], singing student of the RMCM 1901-1904. Two are publicity shots - one standing, the other seated in an ornate chair; the other appears to be HdA playing ball with a small child in a garden. The standing shot and the shot with the child are post cards, the former taken by Foulsham & Banfield Ltd.
Creator: Hallé, Charles (1819-1895), Knight; pianist, conductor, founder of Royal Manchester College of Music
Dates: 4 Jun 1889
Description: Letter in response to a letter from Fuchs - Hallé cannot exempt him from concerts in cities other [than Manchester] in which the entire orchestra has to participate - there will 8-10 concerts in London, Leeds and Bradford. Furthermore departure from the established order of rank (ie placement on stage) which is based on seniority, would be very awkward for them both. Should Fuchs wish however to step down Hallé would give him that freedom. Letter in German, signed Hallé.
Creator: Fellowes, Edmund Horace (1870-1951), music scholar, clergyman
Dates: 29-Jun-48
Description: Letter from E.H. Fellowes from The Cloisters, Windsor Castle, to Warburton. Fellowes thanks him for returning the notes about Marbeck, and has some answers or comments on Marbeck's setting of psalms to measurable notation rather than to plainsong. Includes musical examples. The identity of Warburton is unknown.
Creator: Wagner, Winifred (1897-1980), organiser of Bayreuth Festival
Dates: 17-Jun-63
Description: Letter from Winifred Wagner to Jacqueline Moore, a student of the RMCM. She thanks her for her letter and the photographs and programme of "Parsifal" which the College had just given.
Creator: Reger, Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian (1873-1916), composer, pianist, organist, conductor, teacher
Dates: 1-Oct-14
Description: A receipt for 275 marks, raised to help support the court orchestra at Meiningen. Members of the orchestra are not yet permanently engaged and are now "breadless". The sum is in part from the fund of the Riders' Association, Jena, the other part being the receipts of an organ recital on September 27th by Fritz Stein. In German. Stein was to have succeeded Reger as director of the orchestra, but the outbreak of war prevented this. The post had once been held by Brahms.
Menu for a dinner given by Wilma Neruda (later Wilma Hallé) in honour of the Princess of Wales (later Queen) Alexandra
Creator: Hallé, Wilma Maria Francisca (1839-1911), Violinist
Dates: 28 Mar 1888
Description: In French. Autographed by the guests, including the Princess Alexandra, Joseph Joachim, Clara Schumann, Olga Neruda. The dinner was held at 20 Linden Gardens, London.
Creator: German, Edward (1862-1936), Knight, composer
Dates: 26-Mar-36
Description: Letter from Edward German to Henry Geehl on the ending of "The English Rose" in "Merrie England". It can be left to the discretion of Maurice Whittaker, who he is sure would do nothing inartistic. German's health is gradually improving.
Description: Letter from Ernest Newman to an unknown correspondent. He has not published anything on the subject of criticism since "A Musical Critic's Holiday". The interest in the subject of music criticism is limited in England.
Creator: Hallé, Charles (1819-1895), Knight; pianist, conductor, founder of Royal Manchester College of Music
Dates: 3 Aug 1890
Description: Hallé thanks his dear "batty-puss" for her letter and the news of the family. He writes from Melbourne of the family members he has met in Sydney - perhaps one day Cecile will be able to visit them by travelling by the submarine cable - Hallé has heard through the cables a tune played in America and transmitted to Melbourne, and another that had been recorded in London nine months previously. They have seen a kangaroo in Lady Hopetoun's garden; they will bring home two java-sparrows, and would like to bring much of the other wildlife they have seen. The countryside is not pretty but curious, and travelling is monotonous and lengthy. The winter is not like European winters. They will be leaving for home in a fortnight and will be very glad: on their return they will tell Cecile all about their travels and have lots of stories. "Grand-mama Wilma" sends her best wishes, and finds it very funny wondering from such a distance what everyone at home is doing. Signed "Your affectionate Grand-Papa".
Description: Two letters to Maurice Whittaker, both from "Henry". It has not yet proved possible to identify the writer. Sep 15 1948 He thanks Maurice for his letter. He gave Freud & Co. up years ago; is now reading the bible which contains nonsense equal to any modern or sexual philosophy of Hegel, Kant and "all the rest of the lang-headed teutons". He is not, however, an atheist. Henry is glad that JB[arbirolli] is making a success "over there" (ie in South Africa, to where the letter is addressed) and discusses the tempi used for Figaro. It is scandalous how the clique keep JB out of London: Henry rates him very highly. Henry has never tried to write another lighter ballad because the woman who inspired "for you alone" died. He finishes with joking poems about Maurice and the "fagott", and about the black market. Jun 14 1949 He has writers cramp, which forces him to use the typewriter instead of hand-writing the letter; he is still able to raise a pint glass. He has been undertaking a great deal of arranging work for the BBC for a variety of combinations and instruments. He will send some suggestions on the pieces Maurice sent him. Recently he went to hear the Philadelphia Orchestra - they are very good and deserve a better conductor than [Eugene] Ormandy. He is glad Barbirolli has been knighted, and admires Maurice for having left the UK. He wishes he could do the same as the future is not good for "blokes like myself" - there are a lot of musicians in cliques and fashion is turning towards atonal/12-note music. Henry has some suggestions as to how to write "one of these Schonbergian [sic] things" and sets out some rules.
RMCM report and student's card: Miss Edith J. Coward
Creator: Royal Manchester College of Music (1893-1973)
Dates: 1920
Description: Timetable for first year: subjects studied were singing, piano, harmony, choir, opera, sight singing/musical dictation, elocution, literature, Italian, French. With short report for each subject by the responsible professor, and with principal's remarks. Signed by Withers & Brodsky.
Description: Autograph book containing signatures, drawings, musical sketches, quotations, poems, photographs etc of students and staff (Jeanne Bretey) of the Royal Manchester College of Music, 1927-1930. Kept by Eva M Walker, then of Liverpool.
Creator: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (1889-present)
Dates: 1933
Description: Reverse engraved "Presented to Annie Waring for highest distinction marks in Grade VIII music examinations Blackpool June/July 1933." Awarded by the Associated Board, Patron George V. R.A.M.R.C.M. Cast by John Pinches, London.
Creator: Schumann, Clara Josephine (1819-1896), composer, pianist
Dates: 8 Apr 1892
Description: Clara Schumann writes from Frankfurt to an unidentified correspondent of Heidelberg, probably a doctor, about an appointment to see him for a headache which has been tormenting her for months. In German. With transcription and English translation provided by Gabriele Reinsch July 2003.
Description: Issue of "International Musician, official journal of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada" Jan 1947 containing a short article on Naum Blinder. With autograph musical extract (Allegretto - otherwise unidentified) "Memories of the ensemble class at the RMCM and of a fine performance by my excellent old students Lucy Pierce and Naum Blinder. With kind regards from Carl Fuchs 31.3.47".
Creator: Hallé, Charles (1819-1895), Knight; pianist, conductor, founder of Royal Manchester College of Music
Dates: Feb 1895
Description: Two letters from Sir Charles Hallé at Greenheys to Joachim, 10th and 25th February 1895. In German (with English translations). Hallé makes arrangements for Joachim to play for him: the Brahms concerto for March 7th, and a duet with Wilma - the D major by Spohr which Joachim & Wilma played together last year, probably for the first time in Manchester. Hallé and Joachim will meet and make final arrangements about rehearsals at the concert in Liverpool on March 5th. If Joachim does not have a concert on March 6th he can come and spend the day with the Hallés.
Creator: Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974), composer, conductor, teacher; Milhaud, Madeleine (fl.1930s)
Dates: 1930s
Description: Two letters from Madeleine Milhaud, and one from Darius Milhaud to their son's nanny Eva, with drawings for his son by Darius Milhaud and juvenalia by his son Daniel (who later became a respected painter exhibiting in Aix-en-Provence). Many of the drawings are on the backs of programmes, publicity materials for lectures and concerts, and railways timetables chiefly for Paris where the Milhauds lived before the second world war.
Description: Lists, by composer, the repertoire played by Hallé in recitals at St James' Hall, London, and the year(s) played. Title page in English, but contents in German. With list of Lieder und Gesänge (1874 and 1876).
Creator: Royal Manchester College of Music (1893-1973)
Dates: 1907-1908
Description: Report for 1st and 2nd years of college work - principal study violin (with Brodsky), second study piano. Also studied harmony (with Carroll). With programme for Open Practice Thursday 13th June 1907, at which she played Beethoven "Romance in G".
Creator: Thière, Charles Le (1859-1929), composer, flautist
Dates: 1901-1918
Description: Copy of declaration of intention to become a citizen of the USA made by Thomas L. Prendergast, Nov 4 1901. Assignment of rights in piccolo solo "Sure-to-please" by Charles Le Thiere to Clarence Dewhirst, Feb 7 1918. Form of assignment of rights in all compositions by Charles Le Thiere to Clarence Dewhirst, Feb 20 1918. Letter to Clarence Dewhirst from Charles Le Thiere requesting money and commissions, nd Envelope.
Description: Etching of the Pencil Works at Keswick by Joe Bell. Mounted. Autographed on front "Best Wishes from Joe Bell" No student of that name apparently attended either the NSM or RMCM. Given to a teacher by a private student?
Description: Script for a tongue-in-cheek supplement to the Historical Pageant at Carlisle, with scenes as follows: Pretext; King Alfred & the cakes; Canute at Silloth; the formation of the Choral Society; the founding of the Control Board; Epitaph. Each scene has (musical?) chorus following. With 3 stanzas dedicating the pageant to "our beloved "First Lady"", with references to Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, signed Tommy D. Foreword of script signed "Thos Dowell". With pencil sketch of two hatted ladies in snow with captions "Good King Wenceslas looked out" and "And Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these". No student of that name found at NSM or RMCM.
Description: Thomas Beecham with members of the BBC Northern in rehearsal, including Charles Groves, Paul Cropper and Queenie Coulston. Photo by Thornton Cleveleys
Pierre Monteux with members of the BBC Northern in rehearsal, including Paul Cropper and Norman Cunliffe (2 photographs). Photos by Brook Photography of Manchester and BBC. Identified by Paul Cropper.
Photograph of Arthur Rubenstein and Alexandre Tansman
Description: Two photographs, one showing Dawson as a younger man playing the piano (c.1900), the other dated c.1935 showing him seated at a table reading music.
Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship award certificate
Creator: Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship (1953-present)
Dates: 22-Apr-71
Description: Scholarship of £600 awarded to Sandra Browne. Certificate signed by adjudicators Gerald Moore, John ?, Jennifer Vyvyan, ? Raphael, Joan O. Chissell, and the Chairman of the Trustees Hamish Hamilton.
RMCM, RAM and University of Cambridge diploma certificates: James Martin Oncken.
Creator: Royal Manchester College of Music (1893-1973); Royal Academy of Music (1822-present); University of Cambridge (1209-present)
Dates: 1922
Description: RMCM Teacher's diploma in singing, class A; Performer's diploma in singing. Both signed by Adolph Brodsky and Henry A Miere (?) for the President and dated 1st December 1922. Royal Academy of Music Licentiate diploma in singing. Signed Mackenzie and Fitzmaurice, dated October 26 1922. Terminal certificate of merit, The Appreciation of Music course run by the Local Examinations and Lectures Syndicate. Signed D.H. S. Cranage, Secretary; Lent Term 1922.
Creator: Royal Manchester College of Music (1893-1973)
Dates: 1906-1908
Description: Timetable for first year: subjects studied were piano, violin, harmony, quartet. Second year, same subjects with the addition of ensemble, orchestra and musical dictation. With short report for each subject by the responsible professor, and with principal's remarks. Signed by Withers & Brodsky.
Description: Personal notes relating to Sir Charles Hallé and founding of Royal Manchester College of Music and Hallé Concerts Society compiled by Gustav Behrens. Written at the request of Sir Alexander Porter, Lord Mayor of Manchester, in August 1918. With other related items including three letters from Marie Hallé (1923-1924), 4 newspaper cuttings concerning Gustav Behrens including an obituary, typescript copy of a letter received by Charles Hallé in 1877 from Charles Wharton (proposed engagement for the band at a fete at Dewsbury), and correspondence on new guarantors of the Hallé Concerts Society, 1932.
Description: Pencil head sketch of Lena Kontorovich (a violin student at RMCM) by John Singer Sargent. Autographed "To Mlle Kontorovich ?her ?admirer John S. Sargent April 12th 1914".
Description: Signed Leigh Andrews. Dated November 30th 1982 and print number 111/1000 - in a different hand to the signature. The sitter and artist are unknown.
Description: "a Miss Lees Stephen Heller. Manchester 19 Mar 1862." With typescript extract of a letter from Miss Jane Lees of Werneth Park, Oldham, describing a concert given by Stephen Heller and Charles Halle, and an interview with Stephen Heller at which he gave her his autograph. With these items is an envelope postmarked Oldham Mar 20 1862 addressed to Miss Lucy Lees, Wincobank Hall [Ecclesfield] West Sheffield - the likely receiver of Jane Lees' letter?
Correspondence regarding Hinrichsen Edition of Mozart piano concerto K453 arr. for two pianos and ed. by T.A. Johnson
Description: Score published London: Edition Peter, with correspondence between Hinrichsen Edition (Jonson Dyer and Carla Hinrichsen) and T.A. Johnson, with copy of letter of complaint and correction from John Ruggero. Includes comments on editorial practice and other editions.
Description: First meeting May 1st 1828; final meeting minuted November 7th 1832. Also has lists of those purchasing music, those paying forfeits and monthly contributions.
Description: Scripts of two talks broadcasts by the BBC: by Eric Gillett on Harty, Feb 19 1943; by Stephen Williams "In the Artists' Room" - Sir Hamilton Harty a personal sketch drawn, with gramophone records. In envelope addressed to Mrs Farrer, ?Lambrigg Park, Nr Kendal, Westmorland and postmarked 11 Feb 1942.
Creator: Carroll, Walter (1869-1955), composer, teacher
Dates: 1922-1925
Description: Handbook of Music, A Course of Work for Elementary Schools, (City of Manchester Education Committee, 1925) The Training of Children's Voices, (Forsyth, 1922)
Creator: Ogdon, John Andrew Howard (1937-1989), composer, pianist
Dates: 19-Feb-61
Description: John Odgon replies to a letter sent to him by Barbara Silverstone (nee Morris) regarding a recital due to take place on 12 Mar [1961?]. John Ogdon states that he has to attend another concert on that date but suggests his wife, Brenda Lucas could give a recital in his place.
Teaching notes made by Gordon Green for his pupil Barbara Silverstone (nee Morris) referring to the pieces she was working on at the time.
Description: This collection has been kept together although on the whole the papers are not related. It consists of the following papers: Score for Berlioz's 'Romeo et Juliette', this edition was published 1857; programme for a concert performed by the Catterall Quartet in 1923; and a series of attendance registers kept by Miss Elaine Bevis a former teacher of Speech and Drama at the RMCM, 1963-1973. The following duplicates have been removed from the collection and destroyed: RMCM examination papers 1923-24; RMCM prospectus 1972; RMCM annual reports 1969 and 1971-2.
Volumes belonging to either Charles Hallé or C Rawdon Briggs
Creator: Hallé, Charles (1819-1895), Knight; pianist, conductor, founder of Royal Manchester College of Music; Briggs, Christopher Rawdon (1869-1948), violinist
Dates: [late 19th cent]
Description: These three volumes consist of the following: Charles Halle's copy of a volume of Beethoven Quartets (autographed by Hallé throughout); C Rawdon Briggs's copy of Haydn Quartets (a Briggs bookplate can be found in the inside cover); and C Rawdon Briggs's copy of Henri Wieniawski's 2nd Violin Concerto, Op. 22 (autographed by Briggs on the front page and dated May 10 1891, in Berlin).
Framed picture of pigs drawn by famous musicians, including Brodsky and Richter
Description: This framed picture was compiled and presented to the RMCM by Leonard F. Behrens, Vice-Chairman of the College in May, 1967. It consists of drawings of pigs done by musicians, at various dates in the early 20th cent; they were apparently asked to do so with their eyes shut by a little boy. The following musicians' drawings are included: Joseph Joachim (1831-1907); Karol Halir (1859-1909); Emanuel Wirth (1842-1923); Robert Hausmann (1852-1909); Adolf Brodsky (1851-1929); Anna Brodsky (1853-1929); Marie Fillunger (1850-1930); Nina Grieg (1845-1935); Hans Richter (1843-1916); Leonard Borwick (1868-1925); Willy Hess (1859-1939); and Donald Tovey (1875-1940). The pictures have all been autographed by their creators. Some have dated their drawings; the dates range from 1903-1910.
'Music in Life and Education. Essays and Outlines' by Walter Carroll
Creator: Carroll, Walter (1869-1955), composer, teacher
Dates: c1948
Description: The book is inscribed by Carroll as follows: 'July 1948. A gift to Letty Walls, in memory of happy friendship, from Walter Carroll'. Lois Walls played in the Hallé around 1948 (?violin and viola). She spent a great deal of her time in New Zealand and conducted the string orchestra attached to the Auckland Secondary Schools Music Festival until 1945.
The Album Supplement: Kings and Queens of the Keyboard
Description: Dated 8 Apr 1895. Features biographies and photographs of prominent pianists. Included are: Monsieur Ignace Jan Paderewski; Mr Frederick Dawson; Madame Schumann; Fanny Davies; Miss Agnes Zimmerman; Madame Alma Haas; Sir Charles Halle; Monsieur Vladimir de Pachmann; Mr Leonard Borwick; Mademoiselle Nathalie Janotha; Monsieur Josef Hofmann; M Sapellnikoff; Madame Sophie Menter; Mr Henry Richard Bird; Mademoiselle Clotilde Kleeberg; and M. Emil Sauer.
Creator: Arnold, Malcolm Henry (1921-2006), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, composer
Dates: 1963-5
Description: Compositions as above, and piano score and parts of march ( 'H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge') by Sir Malcolm Arnold. The compositions are by David Gwilt, Martin Dalby and H. Morgan (undated).
Description: Material relating to Azio Corghi's opera 'Blimunda', performed at La Scala (1990) and the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Lisbon (1991), including programme books, newspaper cuttings and some correspondence of the composer.
Description: This book belonged to a Mary Ellis, and is dated January 1925 on the inside cover. There are only a few autographs, a drawing and a couple of quotations; the rest of the pages are blank.
Creator: Royal Northern College of Music (1972-present)
Dates: 1996
Description: Tracks as follows: Metropolis by Adam Gorb, conducted by Timothy Reynish; Paris Sketches by Martin Ellerby, conducted by Clark Rundell; Sailing With Archangels by Geoffrey Poole, conducted by Clark Rundell; Samurai by Nigel Clarke, conducted by Timothy Reynish. The CD was recorded in May 96 at the Zion Institute, Hulme.
'At Home In England', by Anna Brodsky (annotated in Russian on front cover)
Creator: Royal Manchester College of Music (1893-1973)
Dates: 1898
Description: Black and white photograph of staff and students of the RMCM, including Principal Adolph Brodsky, Walter Carroll, Alfred Barker and Edward Isaacs. Also included are a CD containing a digital image of the photograph, and a photocopied sheet of notes relating to the photograph (identifying some members of staff).
Published score for Fifth Concerto for the Pianoforte, Op. 73, by Beethoven
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