Printed and manuscript music

Lennox Berkeley's published works, and various manuscripts and sketches, including manuscript of Hail Holy Queen, and sketches from Violin concerto, Oboe quartet and Dinner Engagement.

Printed and manuscript music formerly belonging to Lennox by other composers.

Some of these items bear signed inscriptions to Lennox from the composers of the works. These include works composed and signed by Charles Barnes, Benjamin Britten, John Clare and Richard Bennett, Rory Boyle, Christopher Brown, William Busch, Brian Chapple, Ruy Coelho, Michael Elliott, Vivian Ellis, N. Forbes Kay, Christopher Headington, Herbert Howell, Michael Hurd, C.W. Lush, Witold Lutostawski, André-François Marescotti, William Mathias, Marcel Mihalovici, Virgilio Mortari, Aleksander Obradovic, Peter Pope, Francis Poulenc, Betty Roe, Zbigniew Rudzinski, Francis R. Shaw, T.W. Southam, Richard Stoker, Soulima Stravinsky, Antonio Tauriello, Roy Teed, Malcolm Williamson, David Wooldridge and Bill Wray

There is also printed and manuscript music by Nelly Berkeley and Arthur Jackson, Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire given as a music prize to E Benjamin Britten at Gresham's School Holt in 1930, and libretto for Castaway with manuscript corrections and revisions 28 Nov 1967.

Uncatalogued - requires checking before production

The collection is uncatalogued; there are preliminary lists of accessions 7442, 8684 and 9379 (lists 115, 136 and 149).

All reference numbers are provisional and may change when the collection is catalogued.

This material is made available under the standard conditions of Britten Pears Arts. Readers will be required to produce proof of identity and to sign a Reader's Undertaking form.

Further music manuscripts of Lennox Berkeley are found in the collection of Britten and Pears (see Library catalogue for details).