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Tippett, Sir Michael Kemp, (1905-1998), Knight, composer

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Surname: Tippett
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Michael Kemp
Gender: Male
Date: 1905-1998
Title: Knight
Biography: ODNB link for Tippett, Sir Michael Kemp (1905-1998) Knight Composer
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P156907 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P28503 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1934-83: corresp, music MSS and papers
British Library, Music Collections
2
1961: opera entitled King Priam
British Library, Music Collections
3
manuscripts
Britten Pears Arts
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
4
1943-53: letters (10) to Walter Hussey
West Sussex Record Office
NRA 42362
5
letters to Brean Leslie Douglas Newton (1920-2001), poet, museum curator and oceanic art specialist
British Library, Music Collections
See Annual Return 1998
6
music MSS and papers
British Library, Music Collections
See Annual Return 2004
7
corresp
British Library, Music Collections
See Annual Return 2007
8
1947-2005: misc papers
Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections
See Annual Return 2013
9
c1925-1998: autograph excerpt from score ‘The Mask of Time’, with letter and signed photograph
British Library, Music Collections
10
1934-1977: Music mss
British Library, Music Collections
11
1977-1983: Music mss
British Library, Music Collections
12
1958-1959: Drafts of Moving into Aquarius
British Library, Music Collections
13
20th-21st cent: letters and papers , from the collection of Nicholas Wright
British Library, Music Collections
See Annual Return 2022
14
1943: letter to Evelyn Maude
British Library, Music Collections
See Annual Return 2023
15
1930-1970: material incl autograph manuscript score of 'Fantasy Sonata' (later revised as Piano Sonata No. 1); MS of folk songs collected by Tippett and Francesca Allinson; typescript of Francesca Allinson's unpublished book on folk song; drawing, postcard and programme for The Midsummer Marriage, 1955
British Library, Music Collections
See Annual Return 2023