Henry Watson Music Library

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Henry Watson Music Library. Prin. mus. library in Manchester, part of the corporation's Central Reference Library. Basis was coll. of 5,000 books and many more scores handed over in 1899 by Henry Watson (b Burnley, 1846; d Salford, 1911), organist, cond., and teacher at RMCM, to Manchester Corporation and since greatly expanded.