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Opera

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Tovey

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Heinrich Swoboda, c1930

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1749
Scope and Contents

Letter, [n.d], Heinrich Swoboda to Donald Tovey. Comparing English folk opera at Sadlers Wells with Toscanini at Salzburg, Austria. Holograph signed, incomplete.

Dates: c1930
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from James Bee, 03 April 1923

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L752
Scope and Contents

Letter, 3 April 1923, Edinburgh, James Bee to Donald Tovey. Covering note for information regarding The Edinburgh Opera company. Typescript signed.

Dates: 03 April 1923
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Johannes Röntgen, 14 December 1923

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1534
Scope and Contents

Letter, 14 December 1923, Johannes [ Rontgen], to Donald Tovey. Discussing Rontgen's plans to play and conduct Tovey's concert in Edinburgh, asks about a performance of ' Euryanthe ' in Dresden and inform Tovey that he has played with Hindemith and Zemlinsky. Holograph signed.

Dates: 14 December 1923
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from John Christie, 18 March 1936

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1006
Scope and Contents

Letter, 18 March 1936, Sussex, John Christie to Donald Tovey. Explaining that Christie is looking for an opera written by a British composer ' which will be the greatest opera of our generation'. Typescript signed.

Dates: 18 March 1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Julius Rontgen, 16 February 1921

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1537
Scope and Contents

Letter, 16 February 1921, Amsterdam, Julius Rontgen to Donald Tovey. Discussing a forthcoming performance of the ' Laughing Cavalier'. Holograph signed.

Dates: 16 February 1921
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Julius Rontgen, 13 January 1932

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1613
Scope and Contents

Letter, 1932 Jun 13, Surrey, Julius Rontgen to Donald Tovey. Discussing an opera and compositions by Rontgen and inviting Tovey to stay. Holograph signed.

Dates: 13 January 1932
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from London A. Corbett-Smith, 12 November 1922

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1033
Scope and Contents

Letter, 12 November 1922, London A. Corbett-Smith to Donald Tovey. Promoting 'National opera handbooks', and news of a son born to Corbett-Smith. Holograph signed.

Dates: 12 November 1922
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, c1895

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L437
Scope and Contents

Letter, [1895], Berkshire, Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse. Notes and suggestions for a lecture on song, including operatic arias. Holograph, incomplete.

Dates: c1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Walter Stanton from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 17 November 1935

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L193a
Scope and Contents

Letter, 17 November 1935, Edinburgh, Donald Tovey to W. K. Stanton. A discussion of Beethoven's Fidelio. Typescript.

Dates: 17 November 1935
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Music mss: 'Fausta': aria

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1172
Scope and Contents

Music manuscript - the aria Tu che voli gi'd spirto beata from Fausta.

Dates: 1832
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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