RPS MS 326

Ivory counters admitting Directors, etc., of the Society to concerts; 1821, 1825, n.d. Each has the words ‘Philharmonic Society’ on one side, with the name of the person issued with the ticket on the other. All but three tickets issued in individual names also specify the office held within the Society, most commonly Director. Three tickets have a name with no office specified; two have no name but instead the wording on one ‘Conductor’, on the other ‘Leader’. The names are listed in the index.

78 counters. Largest 45mm. in diameter.

Charles Lucas, conductor and cellist: Charles Weichsel, violinist: John Alois Moralt, viola player: William Henry Holmes, composer: Sir John Goss, organist and composer: Vincent Novello, organist, composer and publisher: Sir George Thomas Smart, musician: James Turle, organist, composer and writer; d.1882: Sir William George Cusins, composer: Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, violinist and composer: Ferdinand Ries, composer and pianist: Paolo Spagnoletti, violinist and composer: Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, composer: John Henry Griesbach, composer: William Horsley, composer: William Dorrell, pianist: Joseph Tenielli Calkin, singer: John Balsir Chatterton, harpist: William Dance, pianist and violinist: François Joseph Dizi, harpist and composer: Marmaduke Charles Wilson, composer and pianist: Adolphus Angelicus Gottofredus Ferrari, alias Adolfo; pianist and singing teacher: Robert Harold Thomas, pianist and composer: C. G. Kiesewetter, violinist: Joseph Calkin, violinist, publisher and music seller: Joseph Thomas Cooper, organist and composer: Joseph Williams, clarinet player and composer; director, Philharmonic Society: John Jay, violinist: George Benson, singer: William Sherrington, viola player: Henry Smart, violinist: Thomas Henry Wright, harpist and composer: Edward Schulz, alias Edouard; pianist: Christian Kramer, Master of the King's Music: George Frederick Anderson, violinist; Master of the Queen's Musick (1848): Ivory counters admitting directors and other officials of the Philharmonic Society to its concerts: 1821-[circa 1880].