RPS MS 272

Foundation book, with signatures and addresses of members; 6 Feb. 1813. With annotations and additions to 1847. The members are numbered 1-59, but some of the later names in this series are inserted in pencil rather than signed, and the series has been extended unnumbered and in pencil to 1847. f. 1r, containing the first 30 signatures, is reproduced in Ehrlich, p. 5.

ff. 2. 315 x 203mm.

includes:

• f. 1r Jean Baptiste Viotti, violinist: John Alois Moralt, viola player: Charles Jane Ashley, cellist; Secretary, Royal Society of Musicians; Secretary, Philharmonic Society: Johann Baptist Cramer, composer and publisher: Vincent Novello, organist, composer and publisher: Thomas Attwood, composer and organist: William Shield, composer: William Knyvett, son of C Knyvett, the elder; singer and composer: Sir George Thomas Smart, musician: William Ayrton, writer on music and impresario: Johann Peter Salomon, violinist and composer: Felix Janiewicz, composer: Johann Georg Graeff, composer: Muzio Clementi, composer: Samuel Webbe, the younger; composer: Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, composer: William Horsley, composer: Andrew Ashe, flautist and concert organiser: Charles Neate, composer and pianist: François Cramer, alias Franz; violinist: William Dance, pianist and violinist: Henry Hill, the elder; double-bass player: Richard Huddleston Potter, viola player: George Eugene Griffin, pianist and composer: William Sherrington, viola player: Benjamin Blake, composer: Philip Antony Corri, pianist, singer and composer: James Bartleman, singer: Robert Cooke, organist and composer: Louis Berger, alias Ludwig; pianist and composer: Foundation book of the Philharmonic Society, signed by: 1813.
• f. 1v Charles Weichsel, violinist: Nicolas Mori, violinist: Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer: Samuel Wesley, composer and organist: Ferdinand Ries, composer and pianist: Paolo Spagnoletti, violinist and composer: William Watts, Secretary, Philharmonic Society: Joseph Calkin, violinist, publisher and music seller: Frédéric Charles Meyer, harpist and composer: Philippe Jacques Meyer, the younger; harpist and composer: August Alexander Klengel, composer: Foundation book of the Philharmonic Society, signed by: [1813?].
• f. 2r François Fémy, composer: François Joseph Dizi, harpist and composer: Thomas Welsh, singer and composer: T. Scheener, musician: Foundation book of the Philharmonic Society, signed by: [1813?].