Letter to Robin Humphrey Legge from William Strecker

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-411/1/1/L24501
• Dates of Creation:07 February 1913
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  [1]p. 26 x 21cm 1 Letter
  [1]p. 26 x 21cm

• Scope and Content

  Letter, 7 February 1913, London, William Strecker to Robin Legge. Asking for Legge's patronage of Tovey and praising the composer, suggesting there is no living composer who has written and is likely to write Chamber Music like Tovey. Typescript, first page of L2488.

• Archivist's Note

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  27 July 1995

• Subjects

  Chamber music

  Music patronage

  Professional Interaction

• Personal Names

  Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907 (violinist)

  Legge, Robin, 1862-1933 (music critic)

  Strecker, Wilhelm, b. 1877

  Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 1875-1940 (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh)

• Geographical Names

  London, England