Found 2 collections related to Cummings,%20William%20Hayman,%201831-1915

William Hayman Cummings was an English organist, composer, singer and writer, author of Purcell (1881), a biographical dictionary (1892) and other works about English music. 29 ALS from 17 correspondents commenting about Cummings's book, Purcell, then sending more information about Henry Purcell and his family and contemporaries. Other papers includes notes on these subjects, some probably in the hand of Cummings and some probably originally enclosed with the correspondence. Correspondents include William Chappell and G.A. Crawford. Removed from the W.H. Cummings scrapbooks after microfilming. less

William Hayman Cummings, English singer and musical antiquarian. He was the first to unite the music of Mendelssohn's Festgesang with Charles Wesley's hymn 'Hark! the herald angels sing'. To [?] Young : 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Jun 1878 : (MISC 4135) : from Brackley Villa, Thurlow Park Road, Dulwich, S. E. (printed stationery) : begins, "I am sorry I cannot come to you. I rehearse my choir tomorrow ..." Mounted on an album leaf as part of an autograph collection. Filed with Lady Byron letters (B'ANA 0615). less