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	Add MSS 53771
2	1961: opera entitled King Priam	British Library, Music Collections	Egerton MS 3786
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	Hussey	NRA 42362
5	letters to Brean Leslie Douglas Newton (1920-2001), poet, museum curator and oceanic art specialist	British Library, Music Collections	MS Mus. 291-292	See Annual Return 1998
6	music MSS and papers	British Library, Music Collections	2004/02, 2004/07, 2004/18, 2004/22	See Annual Return 2004
7	corresp	British Library, Music Collections	2007/45	See Annual Return 2007
8	1947-2005: misc papers	Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections	DM2617	See Annual Return 2013
9	c1925-1998: autograph excerpt from score ‘The Mask of Time’, with letter and signed photograph	British Library, Music Collections	Music Deposit 2015/47
10	1934-1977: Music mss	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 61748-61804
11	1977-1983: Music mss	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 63820-63840
12	1958-1959: Drafts of Moving into Aquarius	British Library, Music Collections	Add MS 69422 A-C
13	20th-21st cent: letters and papers , from the collection of Nicholas Wright	British Library, Music Collections	Music Deposit 2022_07	See Annual Return 2022
14	1943: letter to Evelyn Maude	British Library, Music Collections	Music Deposit 2023/21	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Piano Sonata No. 1); MS of folk songs collected by Tippett and Francesca Allinson; typescript of Francesca Allinson's unpublished book on folk song; drawing, postcard and programme for The Midsummer Marriage, 1955	British Library, Music Collections	Music Deposit 2023/15	See Annual Return 2023