MS 921 05 01

MS 921 05 01

Malcolm Arnold archive: Signed and dated music scores acquired by Malcolm Arnold

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1930s-1970s

5 boxes, containing 143 scores

A collection of signed and dated music scores, arranged chronologically by Arnold’s date of acquisition; also, some scores of his first wife, Sheila Nicholson, with notes by Anthony Meredith. Of particular significance are the signed and dated study scores from the 1930s to 1970s which indicate what music Arnold was studying and listening to as a student and a young musician, which influenced his later work as a composer

01. Scores acquired in 1936
December 1936: Purcell’s opera King Arthur [Novello];
Undated 1936 Mozart, Idomeneo Overture [missing];
Beethoven Op. 81b Sextett – inscribed 'Malcolm Arnold Feb 29th 1936'

02. Scores acquired in 1937 Parts 1-2
January 23 1937: Selection of Folk Songs compiled by Cyril Winn [Novello]
March 1 1936: Bach Suite No 2 (flute,2 violins, viola and continuo)
March 1937: George Henschel Shepherd’s Lament [see Arnold's transposition of the oboe part in MS 921 19 01 - Arnold incorporated Shepherd's Lament into his Children's Suite for Piano Op.16 (1947)]
March 1937: Bach Suite No. 3, inscribed ‘Malcolm Arnold Mar 1 1937
March 1937: Holst setting of old Cornish poem 'This Have I Done for my True Love' (1919)
March 1799: Berlioz Faust (La damnation de Faust)
March 1937: Handel’s Messiah
March 1937: Mendelssohn’s oratorio St Paul
March 1937: Palestrina, Misa Brevis
April 1937: Cecil Sharp and R Vaughan Williams, A Selection of collected Folk-Songs
April 5 1937 Vaughan Williams, Mass in G Minor
April 1937: Palestrina, Stabat Mater
July 1937; Charles Wood: Music when soft voices die
August 9 1937: Bach, Suite No 1 [Inside page contains his listing in pencil of 13 performances 1942-57 by 13 orchestras, the majority being BBC SO, [Eulenburg]
Oct 29 1937: F. Delius: Dance for Harpsicord inscribed on cover ‘Malcom Arnold Oct 29th
1 November 4 1937: Handel oratorio Belshazzar [Novello]

03. Scores acquired in 1938
March 30 1938: Bax: Mater Ora Filium for unaccompanied double choir
March 30 1938: The New Fellowship Song Book arranged by Walford Davies, [from ‘Annie Laurie’ to ‘The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies’]
c.late 1930s, 'July/30': Richard Runciman Terry: The Shanty Book Part 1 - Sailor Shanties

04. Scores acquired 1940-1941
20 April 1940: Peter Warlock, The Curlew [Carnegie Collection of British Music]
April 1941: Sibelius, 4th Symphony
Sept 1 1941 Walton, Viola Concerto
September 11 1941: Sibelius String Quartet in D minor
Cardiff, Nov 13 1941: Beethoven, 1st Symphony
Cardiff Nov 14 1941: Mozart 40th Symphony (K550)

05. Scores acquired 1942 Parts 1-2
Jan 1942: Berlioz: The Roman Carnival [In 1965 he was to include the LPO’s signature tune, Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture in the first Prom concert he conducted in its entirety. [See Anthony Meredith, Rogue Genius p.246].
February 1942, inscribed ‘Birmingham’: Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini Overture
Feb 1942: Berlioz: Overturen – Beatrice und Benedikt – inscribed ‘Malcolm Arnold Feb 1942’
February 1942: Gluck: Orpheus and Eurydice Overture [Eulenburg]
March 1942 Bartok: 6th String Quartet
March 1942: John Ireland: Concertino Pastorale
March 1942: Elgar: Introduction & Allegro for Strings [Novello]
March 1942: Sibelius: Symphony No.3
April 1942: Sibelius: Rakastava
Oct 21 1942: Sibelius: Lemminkäinen’s Return
Sep 29 1942: Sibelius: Tapiola [covers detached]
Apr 1942: Liszt: Les Preludes inscribed, ‘BBC Northern Orchestra 27/4/42; record 1/12/42; Phil at Leicester Feb 18/43’, annotations in pencil
June 5? 1942: Sibelius: 1st Symphony
1942, Sibelius, Violin-Konzert Dmin, Leeds
July 1942: Britten: Phantasy (quartet for oboe, violin, viola and cello)
July 1942: Britten: Sinfonietta
July 1942: Britten: 1st String Quartet
Sep 1942: Sibelius, The Bard
Oct 1942: Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Oct 1942: Beethoven: Symphony No.8
Oct 1942: Shostakovich, Symphonie
Oct 1942: Sibelius, En Saga
Nov 1942: Sibelius: Karelia Suite

06. Scores acquired 1943-1944
Jan 1943: Beethoven, Symphony No.7
February 1943: Aaron Copland: El Salon Mexico [popular type dance hall in Mexico City]
February 1943: Delius: 3 Orchestral Pieces: Walk to the Paradise Garden, Intermezzo from Village Romeo and Juliet and Serenade from Hassan
Frank Bridge, Divertimenti for flute, oboe, clarinet & bassoon
May 1 1943: Sibelius, 7th Symphony
August 17 1944: Britten, Sinfonia da Requiem
Oct 27 1943: The Seven Seas Shanty Book - John Sampson
Nov 1943: Brahms, 4th Symphony
December 1943: Beethoven, 14th String Quartet
December 1943: Beethoven: 15th String Quartet
December 1943: Peter Warlock, Capriol Suite


07. Scores acquired 1945-1946
April 1945: Britten, Les Illuminations
June 1945: Songs of the Americas edited by Florence Botsford. Folk songs from USA
July 1945: Mendelssohn, 4th Symphony, ‘The Italian’ [See Feb 1962]
September 1946: Bartok, Divertimento (for string orchestra)

08. Scores acquired in 1947
Jan 1947: Bartok, Violin Concerto
February 1947: Bartok, 2nd String Quartet
February 1947: Bartok, 3rd String Quartet
March 1947: Bartok, 5th String Quartet
March 1947: Bartok, 3rd Piano Concerto
March 1947: Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra
December 1947: Roy Harris, Third Symphony
Xmas 1947: Bartok, Music for String Instruments, Percussion & Celesta ‘from Stuart Thynne’ [a pianist, teacher/professor and particular expert on Bartok]
No month. Bartok: 4th String Quartet

09. Scores acquired in 1948
Feb 10 1948: Bartok, Dance Suite for Orchestra
May 1948: Schubert, Piano Quintet ‘The Trout'
August 1948: Beethoven, Fidelio Overture
August 1948: Sibelius, 6th Symphony
December 1948: Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms
No month: Benjamin Frankel: 2nd String Quartet

10. Scores acquired in 1949
Jan 1949: Fauré: Requiem
Aug 1949: Arthur Honegger, Symphony for Strings
Sept 1949 Holst, A Fugal Concerto for Flute and Oboe & String Orchestra (or for 2 solo violins instead). [Influence for English Dances perhaps?]
?Oct 1949: Holst: The Planets
No month. Carlos Chavez, Sinfonia de Antigona, a 1933 work. [Chavez (1899-1978) was Mexican composer. The work was his first symphony, based on a reworking of his incidental music to Cocteau’s Antigone. He ‘sought to create archaic ambience through the use of modal polyphony, harmonies built on 4ths and 5ths and a predominant use of wind instruments.’]

11. Scores acquired in 1950
Feb 1950: Arthur Honegger, 4th Symphony (Deliciae Basilienses)
Feb 1950: Arthur Honegger, Symphonie Liturgique
April 4 1950: Ravel: Shéhérazade (Trois Poèmes pour Chant et Orchestre)
November 8 1950: Palestrina, Stabat Mater
December 1950: Arthur Honegger, Concertino for Piano & orchestra
Xmas 1950: Verdi, Messa da Requiem [covers detached], inscribed ‘Love from Dad [Will Arnold], Xmas 1950’

12. Scores acquired 1954-1958
Apr 1954: Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
No month 1957: Schumann, 1st Symphony
April 26 1958: Dvořák, Serenade for Strings [Czechoslovakian score, bought in Prague?]

13. Scores acquired in 1959
November 1959: Vivaldi, Four Seasons [4 separate Ricordi scores]

14. Scores acquired 1962-1966
Feb 1962 Haydn, Trumpet Concerto
Feb 1962: Mendelssohn, 4th Symphony, ‘The Italian’ [See July 1945]
Feb 1962: Rossini, La Gazza Ladra (‘Thieving Magpie’) overture
Oct 1962: Vaclav Dobias: Partitura: Sonata for piano & string orchestra – [score by the communist Czech composer given to Arnold in London in 1962, when he was Chairman of the Guild of Composers, with an inscription from Dobias].
No month. Handel, Water Music, arranged by Hamilton Harty.
December 1966: Edmund Rubbra, 3rd Symphony

15. Scores acquired in 1967
February 1967 Holst, Egdon Heath (for orchestra)
February 1967: Elgar, 1st Symphony
March 1967: Rossini, L’Italiana in Algeri overture
August 1967 Mozart, Piano Concerto in B flat major
August 1967: Schumann, Piano Concerto
No month 1967: Dvořák, 6th Symphony

16. Scores acquired in 1968
June 1968: Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
September 1968 Walton, Portsmouth Point Overture
October 1968: Liszt, Orpheus
October 1968: Berlioz, Les Francs Juges (Judges of the Secret Court) Overture
October 1968: Rachmaninoff, 3rd Piano Concerto

17. Scores acquired 1970-1976
No month 1970: Dvořák: Symphonic Variations
October 9 1971: Liszt, 2nd Piano Concerto
June 14 1973: Mozart, Divertimento No.2 (for oboe, 2 horns, 2 violins, viola & bass)
June 14 1973: Mozart, Symphony K201
c. June 1973: Mozart, 25th Symphony (K 183)
29 September 1976, St Gabriel’s, Cabinteely [Dublin suburb close to Dun Laoghaire, where Arnold lived]: Delius, Two Pieces for Small Orchestra: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and Summer Night on the River
29 September 1976 St Gabriel’s, Cabinteely: Mozart, Clarinet Concerto K622

18. Music scores owned by Malcolm Arnold, signed, undated - alphabetically arranged by composer
Auber, Le Cheval de Bronze overture
Bach, Concerto for Two Violins, Boosey & Hawkes (1948) [Might have been acquired round the time of the writing of his own Concerto for 2 Violins? (1962) The signature does not look an early one]
Beethoven, 1st Piano Concerto
Beethoven: Overture Leonore, n.d. inscribed on front cover, ‘R.T.W.’, inscribed on inside front cover, ‘Malcolm Arnold’
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique [inscribed orchestras and dates – presumably of performances heard? – 1944-49, 5 by BBCSO, LPO Proms, LSO Proms, Halle, and BBC Northern (conducted by Malko), before the ‘Marche au Supplice’, inscribed ‘BBC Symphony 12/9/43’
Grieg, Piano Concerto
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764): Scylla et Glaucus Orchestral Suite, Boosey & Hawkes, 1956
Liszt, Mazeppa
Mozart, ‘Linz’ Symphony K425 (Boosey & Hawkes)
Parry: An English Suite for string orchestra (1920), inscribed ‘M. Arnold’
Schubert, 7th Symphony
Stravinsky: Les Cinq Doigts (1922) – inscribed ‘Malcolm Arnold’
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture
Tchaikovsky, 2nd Symphony
Rachmaninoff, 2nd Piano Concerto
Wagner, Tannhauser Overture
Janáček, Taras Bulba, inscribed ‘Praha’ [Prague] by Arnold

19. Signed, dated music scores owned by Sheila Arnold (née Nicholson), Arnold’s 1st wife

Arnold Bax: String Quartet in G maj – signed in purple ink by Bax (1921) inscribed ‘Sheila Nicholson 1942’, loose cover page
Beethoven: String Quartet B flat maj. – inscribed ‘Sheila Nicholson 1938’
Beethoven: String Quartet 10 inscribed ‘Sheila Nicholson 1942’
Beethoven: String Quartet 5 inscribed ‘Sheila Nicholson 1942’
Purcell: Chacony Quartet for Strings Gmi (1925), annotations in pencil
Brahms: Symphonie I Cmi, inscribed ‘Sheila Nicholson July 1939’
Dvořák, Op. 96 Streichquartett, inscribed ‘Sheila July 1938’
Mozart, Symphone in D – inscribed ‘Sheila & Fritz Neve Oct 1939’
Mozart: Klarinettn-Quintett Amaj – inscribed ‘Sheila Nicholson Feb 1938’
Vaughan Williams: Symphony in F mi: (1935), inscribed ‘Sheila Nicholson’