Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Robert Müller Hartmann

Letter No. VWL1772

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Robert Müller Hartmann

Letter No.: VWL1772

[late January 1945]

Dear Müller Hartmann

Here are the choruses of the “B minor”¹ – Full of mistakes as the ‘artist’ who did the writing was not a musician²
Yrs

R. Vaughan Williams

1. Bach’s B minor Mass, which Müller-Hartmann had undertaken to copy; see VWL1857 and VWL1869.
2. VW is referring to himself.

To:

Müller-Hartmann, Robert, 1884-1950
From:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
Scribe:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
Subject:

Music copyists
Musical Works:

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Masses, BWV 232, B minor
Format:

Letter
General Notes:

Date estimated; the correspondents had met on 8 or 9 January to discuss the work and these parts were presumably sent in late January.
Location Of Original:

Private collection
Location Of Copy:

British Library
Shelfmark Copy:

MS Mus. 1714/1/16, f. 10
Citation:

White, Dear Müller-Hartmann, 23