Editing Royal College of Music (section)

== Royal College of Music Collections==
[[File:Schnittke by Reginald Gray DSC00520.JPG|thumb|upright|left|[[Alfred Schnittke]] by [[Reginald Gray (artist)|Reginald Gray]]]]
The Royal College of Music Museum houses over 14,000 items, representing a range of music-making activities over a period of more than five centuries. Amongst instruments housed in the museum is a [[Clavicytherium#The RCM clavicytherium|clavicytherium]], thought to be the world's oldest surviving [[keyboard instrument]], and the earliest known guitar. Following a £3.6 million investment from [[Heritage Lottery Fund]], the Museum underwent a major redevelopment in 2020–21.

Owing partly to the vision of its founders, particularly Grove, the RCM now holds significant Collection Materials, dating from the fifteenth century onwards. These include autograph manuscripts such as [[Anne Boleyn]]'s Music Book, [[Chopin]]'s [[Minute Waltz]], [[Edward Elgar|Elgar]]'s [[Cello Concerto (Elgar)|Cello Concerto]], [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]]'s [[String Quartets, Op. 64 (Haydn)|String Quartet No. 48 Op. 64/1]] and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]'s [[Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart)|Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor K491]].<ref>[https://www.rcm.ac.uk/library/collections/ RCM Library Collections]</ref> More extensive collections feature the music of [[Herbert Howells]] and [[Frank Bridge]] and film scores by [[Stanley Myers]]. Among more than 300 original portraits are [[John Cawse]]'s 1826 painting of [[Carl Maria von Weber|Weber]] (the last of the composer), [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]] by [[Thomas Hardy (English painter)|Thomas Hardy]] (1791) and [[Bartolomeo Nazari|Bartolommeo Nazari]]'s painting of [[Farinelli]] at the height of his fame. A recent addition to the collection is a portrait of the Russian composer [[Alfred Schnittke]] by [[Reginald Gray (artist)|Reginald Gray]]. 10,000 [[printmaking|print]]s and photographs constitute the most substantial archive of images of musicians in the UK. The RCM's 600,000 concert [[Programme (booklet)|programme]]s document concert life from 1730 to the present day. There are also more than 800 musical instruments and accessories from circa 1480 to the present.

[[File:CT-Holst-RVW-Ireland.jpg|thumb|right|alt=head and shoulders shots of four youngish men in early 20th century dress|Early RCM pupils included (clockwise from top left) [[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor|Coleridge-Taylor]], [[Gustav Holst|Holst]], [[Ralph Vaughan Williams|Vaughan Williams]] and [[John Ireland (composer)|Ireland]]]]