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The previous [RISM news item](/library_collections/2024/09/26/music-from-english-local-archives-in-rism.html){:blank} introduced the project [Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England’s County Record Offices](https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/music/research/research-projects-and-centres/music-heritage-place/){:blank}, led by [Royal Holloway, University of London](http://www.rhul.ac.uk/music){:blank}. This article introduces some of the sources recently discovered or catalogued in the project, to show the range of musical heritage found in these local archives.

Derbyshire Record Office ([GB-MTdro](https://rism.online/institutions/51007743){:blank}) holds a unique complex of sources for Joseph Haydn’s Derbyshire Marches for military band, Hob. VIII:1–2. Although these sources were known to the editors of the _Johann Haydn Werke_, our RISM cataloguing has enabled new insights into them. The two Haydn marches were commissioned in 1794/5 by Sir Henry Harpur (1763–1819), 7th Baronet of Calke Abbey, for the cavalry regiment he had raised in Derbyshire. The manuscripts include Haydn’s autograph score of the March in C major Hob. VIII:2 ([RISM Catalog](https://opac.rism.info/search?id=1001307844&View=rism){:blank} \| [RISM Online](https://rism.online/sources/1001307844){:blank}) and sources in the hand of Haydn’s copyist Johann Elssler with corrections by the composer, including a score of the March in E flat major Hob. VIII:1 ([RISM Catalog](https://opac.rism.info/search?id=1001308157&View=rism){:blank} \| [RISM Online](https://rism.online/sources/1001308157){:blank}), incomplete sets of parts for both marches ([RISM Catalog](https://opac.rism.info/search?id=1001308398&View=rism){:blank} | [RISM Online](https://rism.online/sources/1001308398){:blank}) and piano arrangements of both ([RISM Catalog](https://opac.rism.info/search?id=1001308294&View=rism){:blank} \| [RISM Online](https://rism.online/sources/1001308294){:blank}). The source complex also contains five exemplars of the printed edition published by Harpur ([RISM Catalog](https://opac.rism.info/search?id=990028178&View=rism){:blank} \| [RISM Online](https://rism.online/sources/990028178){:blank}). Autographs of the marches in E flat and C also survive in the Hungarian National Library ([RISM Catalog](https://opac.rism.info/search?id=530001642&View=rism){:blank} \| [RISM Online](https://rism.online/sources/530001642){:blank}) and Eisenstadt respectively, but the Derbyshire sources show Haydn’s revisions of these compositions and how he carefully corrected Elssler’s copies.
Derbyshire Record Office ([GB-MTdro](https://rism.online/institutions/51007743){:blank}) holds a unique complex of sources for Joseph Haydn’s Derbyshire Marches for military band, Hob. VIII:1–2. Although these sources were known to the editors of the _Johann Haydn Werke_, our RISM cataloguing has enabled new insights into them. The two Haydn marches were commissioned in 1794/5 by Sir Henry Harpur (1763–1819), 7th Baronet of Calke Abbey, for the cavalry regiment he had raised in Derbyshire. The manuscripts include Haydn’s autograph score of the March in C major Hob. VIII:2 ([RISM Catalog](https://opac.rism.info/search?id=1001307844&View=rism){:blank} \| [RISM Online](https://rism.online/sources/1001307844){:blank}) and sources in the hand of Haydn’s copyist Johann Elssler with corrections by the composer, including a score of the March in E flat major Hob. VIII:1 ([RISM Catalog](https://opac.rism.info/search?id=1001308157&View=rism){:blank} \| [RISM Online](https://rism.online/sources/1001308157){:blank}), incomplete sets of parts for both marches ([RISM Catalog](https://opac.rism.info/search?id=1001308398&View=rism){:blank} \| [RISM Online](https://rism.online/sources/1001308398){:blank}) and piano arrangements of both ([RISM Catalog](https://opac.rism.info/search?id=1001308294&View=rism){:blank} \| [RISM Online](https://rism.online/sources/1001308294){:blank}). The source complex also contains five exemplars of the printed edition published by Harpur ([RISM Catalog](https://opac.rism.info/search?id=990028178&View=rism){:blank} \| [RISM Online](https://rism.online/sources/990028178){:blank}). Autographs of the marches in E flat and C also survive in the Hungarian National Library ([RISM Catalog](https://opac.rism.info/search?id=530001642&View=rism){:blank} \| [RISM Online](https://rism.online/sources/530001642){:blank}) and Eisenstadt respectively, but the Derbyshire sources show Haydn’s revisions of these compositions and how he carefully corrected Elssler’s copies.

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