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MS 981

Reference code

MS 981

Title

Michael Kadwell collection

Level

Sub-fonds

Administrative / Biographical history

Michael Kadwell was a bookseller, responsible for the music section of Holleyman and Treacher of Brighton.

Date

1864-1969

Extent & medium

1 file

Content description

A collection of music, opera and theatre ephemera and autographs, assembled by Michael George Kadwell, including:

St James's Hall concert program, Address of M E Braddon, 1864

Theatre Royal Drury Lane programme - Fidelio The Carl Rosa Opera Company, 1883

Prince of Wales's Royal Theatre programme: Quite by Accident, n.d. (Marie Wilton Bancroft, manager)
Prince of Wales's Royal Theatre summer programme, n.d. (Marie Wilton Bancroft, manager)

Royal Opera Covent Garden programme, Romeo and Juliet, July 1895
Royal Opera Covent Garden programme, Götterdämmerung, May 1912
Royal Opera Covent Garden programme, Das Rheingold, May 1912

Queen's Hall promenade concert programmes (3): 31 Aug 1906; August 20, 27 1909

His Majesty's Theatre, Orpheus in the underground, n.d.(manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree)

Southern Philharmonic Orchestra, clipped programme, signed by Joan Hammond, soprano, n.d.

Festival Concert, Brighton, 1951, clipped programme, signed by Malcolm Arnold

Clipped unidentified concert programme, signed by Paul Tortelier, soloist, n.d.

Clipped unidentified concert programme, signed by Elisabeth Schwartzkopf, soloist, n.d.

Clipped Brighton Dome concert programme, signed by Elisabeth Schwartzkopf, soloist, 31 Oct 1948

Clipped Brighton Dome concert programme, signed by Moiseiwitsch, soloist, 14 Nov 1948

Offprint, Zoltan Fekete: Händel und die aufführungspraxis (1948), signed

Juan Orrego Salas: Canticos de navidad, printed score (n.d.), inscribed and signed, London 1949

Clipped Brighton Dome concert programme, signed by Yehudi Menuhin, 2 January 1955

Autograph letterfrom ?Erich Kleinschuster to an unidentified recipient (in German), 8 Aug 1955

Autograph letter from Maggie Teyte to Cedric Wallis, 2 Jan 1969

Autograph letter to Miss Bane from Arnold Bax, 28 Aug n.d.

Provenance

Collected or assembled by Michael Kadwell during his lifetime.
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