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MS 1399 Finzi Collection

Manuscript music Box 1 of 6

Newbury String Players - assorted parts and scores, mainly dyelines

C. Hubert H. Parry – The North Wind and The Frogs, mss in unidentified hand

Anthony Milner – St Francis, dyeline

Manuscript music Box 2 of 6

Various dyelines of works by Jeremy Dale Roberts, Howard Ferguson, Elizabeth Maconchy, Robin Milford and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Manuscript music Box 3 of 6

C. Hubert H. Parry – Soliloquy, ms in Finzi’s hand (see also box 5 of 6)

Set of George Frideric Handel parts, mss in unidentified hand

Finzi’s “Brass Bands” notebook

Finzi’s “Folk Songs” notebook

Jeremy Dale Roberts – The Mourner, ms in unidentified hand

Works by Thomas Augustine Arne – mss in unidentified hand

Ms copies in Finzi’s hand of works by various composers including Louis-Nicolas Clérambault’s Symphonia Guarta

Quantity of photocopied and printed published music

Benjamin Frankel – dyeline

Manuscript music Box 4 of 6

Finzi’s edited version of a work by Antonio Vivaldi, ms in Finzi’s hand

Finzi’s edited version of a work by John Stanley, ms in Finzi’s hand

Robin Milford – two organ pieces, mss probably in Milford’s own hand

Elizabeth Maconchy – ms score for Newbury String Players

Anthony Scott organ piece

Various Finzi arrangements and transcriptions, mss in his own hand Ms fragments of works by C. Hubert H. Parry, including possible some 4th Symphony fragments in Charles Villiers Stanford’s hand

Christoph Willibald Gluck, unidentified score and parts

Ivor Gurney – various dyelines and mss

Ms copies of works by Henry Purcell in Finzi’s hand

C. Hubert H. Parry – Quartet No.2 in C Major, ms copy, possibly in Finzi’s hand

Manuscript music Box 5 of 6

Quantity of printed published music, mainly 1950s and 1960s

Lists of contents of the Parry Room at the Royal College of Music, London

Finzi ms fragments, probably in his own hand

Ms copies of works by Charles Villiers Stanford and Ralph Vaughan Williams, in Finzi’s hand

Letters from Howard Ferguson and Max Seiber

Ernest Farrer – organ piece, ms possibly in Finzi’s hand

Various concert programmes

C. Hubert H. Parry – Soliloquy, ms in Finzi’s hand (see also box 3 of 6)

James Shaw mss

Howard Ferguson – dyeline

MS copy of a score by Ralph Vaughan Williams, possibly Finzi’s hand

Manuscript music Box 6 of 6

Various ms scores including:

Copy in C. Hubert H. Parry’s hand of a work by Muntzberger (?)

Anthony Scott dyeline

A litany by Pietro Antonio Tamburini

Madrigals by Antonio Lotti

Copy of a work by Gustav Holst in Finzi’s hand

Leonard Hokanson dyeline

Newbury String Players Box 1 of 1

Correspondence, notebooks, membership and concert records of Newbury String Players Various papers of C. Hubert H. Parry including notes from examinations by Parry at the Royal College of Music, London

Photograph of Gustav Holst

Correspondence between the Finzi family and the University of Reading regarding the acquisition of the Finzi Collection

Cuttings, 2 boxes

Newspaper cuttings and tearsheets, probably originally inserted by Finzi into books in his library and subsequently removed

Quantity of concert programmes

Miscellaneous, Box 1 of 1

Quantity of concert programmes

Letters to Finzi, mainly regarding rights and copies of scores, including letters from:

 Various music publishers;

 C. Hubert H. Parry;

 Herbert Sumsion

 Lady Ponsonby.

Quantity of photographs of composers and musicians

Notebook of Finzi sketches

Lists of contents of the Parry Room at the Royal College of Music, London