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Finding Aid ApIvor, Denis Denis ApIvor collection
of Christian Darnton and Bernard Van Dieren. -- 1920-1994. -- 1 m of textual records. Christian
Darnton was born in Leeds, England, on 30 October 1905 and educated at Caius College,
Cambridge. He was appointed music master at Stowe School in 1929 and became the
assistant editor of the Music Lover. He composed vocal and orchestral works
and published one book, You and Music. He died in 1981. Bernard van Dieren
was born in Rotterdam on 27 Decmber 1887 and moved to England in 1909 where he
became a music critic. He began composing at an early age, and his works include
both vocal and orchestral pieces. He published two books, Epstein and Down
Among the Dead Men. Van Dieren died in 1936. Denis ApIvor, an English
composer and musicologist, gathered together a variety of materials relating to
Van Dieren and Darton. The collection includes correspondence about the men and
their music, original letters by Darnton, biographical materials, information
about their compositions and performances of their works and edited (limited)
editions of their compositions, prepared by ApIvor himself. It has been arranged
into the following series: Series 1: Van Dieren; Series 2: Darnton. Title
based on content of collection.
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