Archive item of the month: June 2022
Giovanni Bononcini (Modena, 18 July 1670 – Vienna, 9 July, 1747)
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Arthur Sullivan (London, 13 May 1842 – London, 22 November 1900) singer, organist, conductor and composer
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Archive Item of the Month: March 2022
Peter von Winter (Mannheim bap. 28 August 1754 – Munich, 17 October 1825)
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Hamburg, 3 February 1809 – Leipzig, 4 November 1847)
A letter from the composer Mendelssohn to one of his English contemporaries, the composer and educator, George Alexander Macfarren (1813-1887, Member A384). Mendelssohn, noted for his Bach scholarship, his friendships with the British Royal Family, his compositions as well as performance as a keyboardist and conductor, is here seen to be promoting “new music”. The letter reveals Mendelssohn’s involvement with performing contemporary British orchestral music within his own concert planning in Leipzig at a subscription series of concerts over the winter months, conducted by him at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. The period August-September 1846 was Mendelssohn’s ninth trip to England. The trip included rehearsals, in London, for his oratorio Elijah which was first performed on 26 August at the Birmingham Musical Festival.
Read More»Archive of the Month – January 2022
John Parry (Denbigh, 18 February 1776 – London, 8 April 1851, Member A264)
Circle of Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830); ca 1835.
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