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MS Mus. 1934

Record Id:
032-004543552
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004543552
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100185940706.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1934
Title:

Letters of Sivori, Viotti, Wieniawski, Vieuxtemps

Scope & Content:

Four letters of nineteenth-century violinists:

Camillo SIVORI (1815 –1894), in French, to an unknown recipient (‘Mon cher ami…’), Geneva, 21st June 1853. With reference to a coach accident in which Sivori fractured his left wrist, and which also involved the impresario Richard Mulder and his wife the impresario and singer Inez Fabbri-Mulder. With other remarks on Sivori’s tour of Switzerland.

Henri VIEUXTEMPS (1820–1881), in French, to the cellist Joseph van der Heyden, Mustapha, Algeria, 24th August 1880. With reference to his brother Lucien Vieuxtemps and the cellist Adrien-François Servais, and their verdict on his cello concerto. With reference to a Mr. Smetkoren.

Giovanni Battista VIOTTI (1755–1824), in English, to William Watts of the Philharmonic Society, 3rd January 1816, expressing his regret at having to turn down his recent appointment to a directorship of the Society.

Henryk WIENIAWSKI (1835–1880), in French, to an unknown correspondent (‘Cher Monsieur, et ami…’), London, 23rd September 1876. With reference to Wieniawski’s brother Joseph (Director of the Warsaw Musical Society).

Collection Area:
Music Collections
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-004543552
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not applicable
Hierarchy:
032-004543552
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
4 letters (7 folios)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
French
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1816
End Date:
1880
Date Range:
1816-1880
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Former Internal References:
Music Deposit 2009/35
Source of Acquisition:
Purchased from Sotheby's, December 2009.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Heyden, Joseph, cellist, fl 1880
Mulder, Inez, American singer and impresario, 1831-1909
Mulder, Richard, Dutch-American impresario, 1822-1874
Servais, Adrien François, cellist and composer, 1807-1866,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012135894X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61734771
Sivori, Camillo, violinist, 1815-1894,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120370509,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34722696
Vieuxtemps, Henri François Joseph, Belgian violinist and composer, 1820-1881,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108886609,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/37103723
Vieuxtemps, Jean-Joseph Lucien, Belgian pianist, 1828-1901,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000003365997X
Viotti, Giovanni Battista, violinist, 1755-1824,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012319722X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2581364
Watts, William, violinist and secretary of the Philharmonic Society, fl 1815-1847
Wieniawski, Henryk, violinist and composer, 1835-1880,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110600294,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/44486770
Wieniawski, Józef, Polish composer, 1837-1912,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109045967,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/56835594