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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 17h

'Original sheets' is another option which I think I have used in the past.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 17h

Perhaps 'unbound sheets...'?

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

. Written for unaccompanied four-part SATB choir, with occasional straightforward divisi, this short piece offers a moment of reflection to concert programmes.' schottmusiclondon.com/with-one-s-t...

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With one's thoughts

Simon Beattie, Anna Achmatowa, Simon Beattie: With one's thoughts | SCHOTT MUSIC LONDON

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the poem, which focuses on being alone with ones thoughts and mentions going for solitary walks, seeming to fit. The music is very much a reflection of the words, rhythmically simple, but achieving expression through the subtle use of harmony and gentle dissonance ...

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With one's thoughts

Simon Beattie, Anna Achmatowa, Simon Beattie: With one's thoughts | SCHOTT MUSIC LONDON

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So this is happening. '"With ones thoughts" sets the composers own English translation of an untitled poem by Anna Akhmatova, written in 1912. The music came about as a response to the pandemic and resulting lockdown periods in 2020–21 ...

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I find the same thing with engraved books or playbills described as 'not in ESTC'. But with a date...

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just had a text to say my blood donation from last week was issued to Newham General Hospital. Hope whoever received it is now on the mend. #givebloodsavelives

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This little piece turns 20 this year. Thank you to everyone over the years who has performed it. For anyone who would like to mark the anniversary, I'm delighted the music is now available from Encore Publications: encorepublications.com/publications...

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In 1944, Georges Favre published a biography of the composer François-Adrien Boieldieu (“Doesn’t he know there’s a war on?”). The London Library received its copy in October 1945. Since then, only two readers have taken the book out: one in 1983, and then me. My thanks to a far-sighted librarian.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just going through some photos from the summer. Quite pleased with how this one came out, taken at Chastleton House.

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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliographical Society is hosting a series of videos from libraries in the UK and around the world introducing viewers to items printed by Caxton ...

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2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Taken inadvertently on my phone. But quite a pleasing result!

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I must say knowing Russian is very useful when trying to work things out in other Slavonic languages.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Out now: simonbeattie.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From Berlin (OK, Potsdam) last week: Study in Shape and Pattern No. 3.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From Berlin last week: Study in Shape and Pattern No. 2.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From Berlin last week: Study in Shape and Pattern No. 1.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I do like a good Fraktur capital A.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pleased to hear Boosey & Hawkes' reading session at chor.com next week (which will feature one of my pieces they recently published) is a sell-out. www.chor.com/veranstaltun...

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Hier trifft sich die Vokalmusikszene!

Der Deutsche Chorverband lädt zur chor.com ein.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Goodbye, Berlin! Thanks for a great week.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Frederick the Great, on his way down Unter den Linden to the Rare Books Berlin book fair. The fair opens at 4 pm. If you're coming, please do come and say hello at Stand 30. Bis dann!

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today saw the dedication copy (Friedrich Wilhelm III) of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Amber games board, made by German craftsmen in Königsberg in 1607, formerly belonging to Anne of Denmark (James I's wife), Charles I, etc.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Berlin does seem to have a thing about statues on the top of buildings.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The first books of the week (outside the Deutsches Historisches Museum). Looking forward to seeing lots more in the coming days. #RareBooksBerlin #ILAB2026

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thanks for a great week, York. See you next year!

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A friend kindly let me know that my piece 'The World to me' was broadcast on Radio New Zealand earlier today. Apparently, the presenter called me 'a very erudite dude'. www.rnz.co.nz/concert/sche...

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Visited the Minster Library today. Excited to see a Kelmscott Golden Legend from Eric Milner-White's library. Don't think I've ever seen his bookplate before.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

York Minster in the evening sunshine.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Impressive Victorian toilets at the former Yorkshire Club (now Pizza Express).

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Last weekend: Canterbury. This weekend: York. My metropolitical tour.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Splendid piece of cover design by Henri-Gabriel Ibels, a collaborator of Toulouse-Lautrec’s, from 1896.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On my calendar this month: Ivinghoe Beacon, one of my favourite Buckinghamshire views. I could see this hill from my bedroom window when I was growing up.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yesterday, in Tesco's, I saw they already had the Christmas foods out. On 31st AUGUST! FFS

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Out now: simonbeattie.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not a novel, but Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts is a favourite.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Also: music. Looking forward to singing here over the next three days.

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Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I just had a nice note from my publisher, forwarding a reader’s comment on my Friedo Lampe translation: ‘I thought At the Edge of Night was impressive. Very vivid scenes, and a sinister undertone, as befits the historical era. What a sad and unnecessary death of the author.’

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