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Elgar, Sir Edward William, (1857-1934), 1st Baronet Composer

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Surname: Elgar
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Edward William
Gender: Male
Date: 1857-1934
Places:
  • Broadheath, Worcestershire
Biography: ODNB link for Elgar, Sir Edward William (1857-1934) 1st Baronet Composer
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P148135 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P9100 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Edward William Elgar
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
19th-20th cent: annotated proofs, printed scores and miscellaneous papers
British Library, Music Collections
Music Deposit 2018/34
See Annual Return 2019
2
corresp and family papers
British Library, Music Collections
NRA 12648 Elgar
3
papers incl musical manuscripts and copies of corresp
British Library, Music Collections
NRA 12104 Elgar
4
1892-1933: diaries and corresp
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
See Research Libraries Bulletin 4,1996
5
music MSS
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 47900-08, 49973-74, 52525-35, 57984-58068, 64061-63, 69442-44, 69827-45
6
manuscripts
Royal Academy of Music Library
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
7
MS of "The Music Makers"
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
See Friends of the National Libraries minutes 2/5/95
8
1900-26: letters to publisher William Broome relating to 'May Song' with corrected and annotated proofs
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
1999/102
See Annual Return 1999
9
1904-33: corresp (copies) with De Navarro family
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
BA 8213
NRA 3524 Worcs RO misc
10
1919-24: letters (copies) to Beatrice Harrison
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
BA 8213
NRA 3524 Worcs RO misc
11
1897-1933: letters to Sir Percy Hull
Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre
BA 88
NRA 42699
12
1927-33: letters (10) to Walter Hussey
West Sussex Record Office
Hussey
NRA 42362
13
1901-04: letters from George Hope Johstone, chairman of the Birmingham Music festival (transcripts)
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
BA 9515
NRA 3524 Worcs RO misc
14
1886-1933: letters to Sir Hubert Leicester
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 60357
15
1930-33: letters (12) to Charles Long
London University: Senate House Library
MS 841
16
1903-07: corresp with Ernst Newman
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
Acc 2000/69
See Annual Return 2000
17
1899-1932: corresp with Percy Pitt
British Library, Music Collections
Eg MS 3303
18
letters to Edward Speyer
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
See Annual Report 1992-4 p7
19
1898-1913: letters (24) to Herbert Thompson
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
NRA 19566 Thompson
20
corresp rel to Birmingham University
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
1960-71
NRA 13197 Birmingham Univ
21
1912-1913: letters to Henry Clayton
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
LAdd/6191-6193
See Annual Return 2004
22
1930: music manuscript, "Severn Suite" full orchestral score
British Library, Music Collections
Ms Mus. 1718
23
1923: musical score for the Loughborough Memorial Chimes, corresp from Elgar to WW Starmer
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for
See Annual Return 2012
24
1933-1934: corresp rel to possible burial in Westminster Abbey and a memoral service
Westminster Abbey Library and Muniment Room
WAM 61909-17
25
c 1907: autograph sketches of Pomp and Circumstance March no. 6
British Library, Music Collections
Music Deposit 2016/41
See Annual Return 2016
26
c1901-1934: letters (7)
British Library, Music Collections
Music Deposit 2018/02
See Annual Return 2018
27
c1901-1934: enigma variations, sketches and revisions
British Library, Music Collections
Music Deposit 2018/13
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
Elgar, Caroline Alice, (1848-1920), author
spouse
Family