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Printed pamphlets relating to Beethoven; 1870-1927. ff. 198. Largest dimensions 228 x 155mm. 1. ff. 1-35. Jahres-Bericht des Konservatoriums der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, 1869-1870 (Vienna, 1870), including note on the links between the Gesellschaft and Beethoven, list of Beethove...
Verein Beethoven-Haus in Bonn (contributions by Fritz Knickenberg and others): Bericht über die ersten fünfzehn Jahre ... 1889–1904 (Bonn, [1904]). Printed. pp. 111. 267 x 189mm. Maroon buckram binding. Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: Beethovenhaus; Bonn: Dr Fritz Knickenberg, teacher, of Bonn...
Two London newspapers, presented to the Society by Messrs Chappell & Co. Ltd; 1813, 1827, 1899. ff. 12. 1. ff. 1-2v. The Morning Herald, 15 March 1813, containing a notice of the Society’s second concert to be given that day. 494 x 397mm. 2. ff. 3-10v. The Atlas, 13 May 1827, with a revie...
Musical Courier, vol xxxii, no. 32, 25 June 1896, ‘Philharmonic Double Number’. Included are complete Philharmonic Society concert programmes, 1813-1896, and biographical notices of Sir Alexander Mackenzie (conductor), W. H. Cummings (Hon. Treasurer), Francesco Berger (Hon. Secretary) and the ot...
The Strand Musical Magazine, vol. iii; Jan.–June 1896 (London, George Newnes), the [March] issue, containing an article by W. H. Cummings on the Philharmonic Society. With a flyleaf inscription of purchase from Louis Wolff, Sept. 1961. pp. 428. 278 x 197mm. Bound in full cloth with an embossed ...
History of the Society by H. C. Colles, prepared in 1937 to supplement the published history by Myles Birket Foster, but not published. Typescript (ff. 2-79); author’s MS (ff. 80-147). ff. 147. 254 x 205mm. Henry Cope Colles, music historian: Arthur Searle, of the British Library: History of t...
Typescript and two variant printed copies of Robert Elkin, A Short Account of the Royal Philharmonic Society (London, 1948); 1948, circa 1960. ff. 35. 1. ff. 1-16. Author’s annotated and amended typescript, with the title ‘The Royal Philharmonic Society. Founded January 1813.’; 1948. 254 x 205...
Commonplace book of Johannes Stobaeus, containing musical compositions and instructions for the lute
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Commonplace book of Johannes Stobaeus (or Stobäus), Kapellmeister to the Elector of Brandenburg, compiled at Königsberg in and shortly before 1640. The book contains vocal and instrumental music, writings on music and drawings of instruments. Many of the pieces are probably Stobaeus's compositio...
Collection of untitled 17th-century musical compositions for two viols
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Collection of 16 short pieces, without titles, in score. Written on 2 staves of 5 and 6 lines respectively, evidently intended for 2 viols. The treble part on folio 9 is a duplicate of that on the preceding page, with a slight variation in the 2nd bar.