Emile Berliner collection 1871-1965 1871-1930

Benedict, Julius, 1804-1885

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zm68r5 (person)

German-English composer, conductor, and pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 2 Manchester Square, [London], to Sir George Grove, [n.y.] Apr. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125514 English composer and conductor of German birth. From the description of Autograph letters signed (7), dated : [London], to Richard Peyton, 1870 Feb. 7-Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672208 From the description of Autograph letter signed, ...

Root, George F. (George Frederick), 1820-1895

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz47dq (person)

Composer, music educator and president of Root & Sons Music Co., Chicago, Ill. Acquaintance of Abby Hutchinson Patton a famous singer (Hutchinson Family Singers) and song writer of the nineteenth century. Also a campaigner for Abraham Lincoln and member of the Executive Committee of the American Equal Rights Association after the Civil War. From the description of Letter, June 26, 1891. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54354828 Geo...

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qp70pv (person)

By 1831, Spontini's reputation has lost ground to the works of younger men, including Meyerbeer, whose Robert le Diable was first performed eight month after the date of this letter; this is perhaps the opera mentioned here, though Meyerbeer may be referring to the abortive Le Portefaix, the contract for which he had just signed. Despite the apparent warmth of their relationship, Spontini was already jealous. His own continuing lack of success he attributed to a plot orchestrated by Meyerbeer, "...

Gilmore, P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield), 1829-1892

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z42rhg (person)

Patrick Sarsfield (P.S.) Gilmore was born in County Galway, Ireland, on December 25, 1829, and later became known as the "Father of the American Concert Band." Gilmore organized and staged two music festivals in Boston, Massachusetts: the National Peace Jubilee (1869) and the World's Peace Jubilee (1872). He conducted bands and integrated woodwinds into what had traditionally been brass bands. He led the New York Twenty-seventh Regiment Band for almost 20 years. Gilmore also a...

Berliner, Emile, 1851-1929

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tg0q17 (person)

Emile Berliner (1851-1929) was a prominent inventor living at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Overlooked by today's historians, Berliner's creative genius rivaled that of his better-known contemporaries Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, and, like the works of these two inventors, Berliner's innovations helped shape the modern American way of life. Although Berliner did not invent recorded sound technology, his innovations led to i...

Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gq6x36 (person)

Buffalo Bill was employed as a scout by the United States 5th Cavalry, 1868-1872. In 1869 he participated in the Battle of Summit Springs, Colorado, in which the 5th Cavalry defeated Cheyenne Indians. From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Missouri, to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, South Dakota, 1896 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702162229 From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Mo., to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, S.D., 1896 May 23. (Unkno...

Dresser, Paul, 1858-1906

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cn75b0 (person)

Song writer. From the description of Papers 1897-1904. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 702670236 Paul Dresser, a native of Terre Haute, Ind., was the older brother of novelist Theodore Dreiser. In 1873 he changed his surname. Dresser held a number of jobs, including working for minstrel shows, but found some success as a songwriter. He is best known as the author of the state song of Indiana, "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away." From the description ...

Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61n854k (person)

Ingersoll: unmarried lawyer in Peoria, Ill. From the description of Letter : Peoria, Ill., to Miss Han Selby, Smithland, Ky., 1859 Sept. 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 41986349 Ingersoll: lawyer, author, lecturer, well-known proponent of agnosticism. Hackley (1837-1905): businessman & philanthropist from Muskegon, Mich. From the description of Letter : New York, [N.Y.], to Mr. [Charles Henry?] Hackley, 1897 July 21. (Abraham L...

Bowers, Frederic V., 1874-1961

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68x5g7f (person)

Hastings, Thomas, 1784-1872

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63b7zqv (person)

Berliner, Cora A. (Cora Adler), 1862-1942

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rk6n2j (person)

Udall, Lyn.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6040swc (person)

Bellini, Vincenzo

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66h4j57 (person)

Music by V. Bellini, Italian libretto by F. Romani after Carlo Tedaldi-Fores's play Beatrice di Tenda; opera first performed in Venice at the Teatro La Fenice, 16 March 1833. Cf. New Grove online. From the description of Cavatine für eine Bassstimme aus der Oper Beatrice di Tenda : mit Piano Forte Begleitung : manuscript, [185-?] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 671538604 Italian composer. From the description of Autograph letter (incomplete), dated : [...

Waldteufel, Emil, 1837-1915

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jd52vv (person)

French composer, pianist, and conductor. From the description of Autograph postal card signed, dated : Grandcamp-les-Bains (Calvados), 6 January 1899, to M. Evelie, doublebass player in Paris, 1899 Jan. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270678946 ...

Stewart, Cal, 1856-1919

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65b3x6t (person)

Santelmann, William H. (William Henry), 1863-1932

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65v5nkc (person)

William H. Santelmann was born into a family with a long musical heritage on Sept. 23, 1863, at Offensen in Hanover, Germany. Santelmann began studying the violin at an early age and progressed rapidly. After less than a year of study he was invited to perform with a 10-piece orchestra that visited Offensen. He soon began study of the clarinet and by age 15 composed his first piece of music. Santelmann joined the 134th Infantry Band in Leipzig and, upon completion of his service, studied at the...

Covert, B. (Bernard), b. 1820

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xx6mhz (person)

Chambers, William Paris, 1854-1913

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p849p0 (person)

Rieger, William H.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66r40g2 (person)

Jones, Sidney, 1861-1946

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64q8cct (person)

The geisha was originally published by Asherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd., London, 1896. This copy was used by the Malvern Operatic Society for its production in the 1930s. Harold Rooksby was the conductor. A copy of the program relating to this production is included. From the description of The geisha [manuscript] : a story of a tea house : a Japanese musical play in two acts / libretto by Owen Hall ; lyrics by Harry Greenbank ; music by Sidney Jones. ca. 1896-ca. 1897. (Libraries ...

Lecocq, Alexandre Charles

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6988d62 (person)

La fille de Madame Angot (with libretto by Clairville, V. Koning and P. Siraudin) was first performed in Brussels at the Fantaisies-Parisiennes, 4 December 1872. Cf. New Grove opera. From the description of La Fille de Madame Angot, opéra bouffe en 3 actes : de Clairville Siraudin Konig : musique de Charles Lecoq [i.e. Lecocq] : valse arrangée par Henri Boyer : manuscript, [after 1872] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 733097409 Libretto by Meilhac and Halévy; fir...

Richards, W. L. (William L.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vf9154 (person)

McGlennon, Felix, 1856-1943

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bc6h23 (person)

Pryor, Arthur, 1870-1942

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65f099m (person)

Wood, N. R.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z15b6k (person)

Phillips, Walter A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zx3nmw (person)

Bliss, P. P. (Philip Paul), 1838-1876

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6157r2h (person)

Epithet: of Egerton MS 3671 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x000238 Rev. Philip Bliss (1742-1803) was Rector of Dodington and Frampton Cotterell in Gloucestershire. From the guide to the Papers of Rev. Philip Bliss, 18th-19th century, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) From the guide to the Commonplace book of Philip Bliss, [ca. 1720-1825], (University of Oxford, Bodleian Libr...

Yradier, Sebastián, 1809-1865

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6058ffs (person)

Rosey, Geo. (George)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hn7b0t (person)

Witmark, Frank M.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jt0n2t (person)

Gaisberg, Frederick William

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fz7cs1 (person)

Epithet: Chief Recorder of the British Gramophone Co British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000296.0x000278 ...

Graham, George, fl. 1896-1903

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d059ks (person)

Berliner (Record company)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n66v29 (corporateBody)

American Bell Telephone Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6575ffw (corporateBody)

Berliner, Jacob, 1849-1918

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cd31wk (person)

Bishop, Henry R.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d79bmk (person)

Henry R. Bishop, English composer. He served as musical director of the top theatres in London, including and Covent Garden, King's Theatre and Drury Lane. Throughout his career, Bishop composed, contributed to, or arranged around 130 stage works, and selections from some 70 of them were published. These published volumes contain 48 overtures, 190 airs and ballads, 53 display songs, 73 duets and trios, 150 glees and ensemble pieces, and 340 melodramas, marches, and ballet airs. From ...

American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6905tqv (corporateBody)

Hyatt, John W. (John Wesley), 1837-1920

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wx08k4 (person)

John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1920) was an American manufacturer in the plastics field, and the inventor of celluloid. Born in Starkey, New York in 1837, at the age of 16 Hyatt began work as a printer in Illinois and later in Albany, New York, where he eventually set up his own manufacturing company which became the Albany Billiard Ball Company. In his experiments, Hyatt discovered the solvent action of camphor on cellulose nitrate under moderate heat and pressure, creating ce...

Denza, Luigi 1846-1922

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pk0ts4 (person)

Composer of Funiculi-funiculà. From the description of Autograph card signed : Dublin , 1910 Sept. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270903908 Italian composer and conductor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : London, 22 December 1900, to Remigio Turolla, 1900 Dec. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565751 ...

Shaw, David T.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hf9xdx (person)

Sanders, Joseph, 1877-1960

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69x2j5j (person)

Petrie, H.W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hj1564 (person)

Stults, R. M.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hx906w (person)

Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68h98qm (person)

Inventor and educator. From the description of Check, 1918 Feb. 11. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70954428 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and educator, and members of the related Bell, Fairchild, Grosvenor, and Hubbard families. From the description of Alexander Graham Bell family papers, 1834-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979893 Inventor Alexander Graham Bell became a member of the American Philsophical Society in...

Hunting, Russell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f88fv7 (person)

Allen, Roy Morris, 1882-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n70ns9 (person)

Howard, Joseph E. (Joseph Edgar), 1878-1961

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6st7zgr (person)

Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qw49mm (person)

John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches. He is known as "The March King" or the "American March King", to distinguish him from his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford who is also known as "The March King". Among his best-known marches are "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (National March of the United States of America), "Semper Fidelis" (official march of the United States...

Tobani, Theo. M. (Theodore Moses), 1855-1933

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6222tv1 (person)

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz44c1 (person)

Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Berliner family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63899n5 (family)

Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zp44vs (person)

Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after Charles Perrault's Cendrillon and librettos by Charles-Guillaume Etienne for Nicolas Isouard's Cendrillon and Francesco Fiorini for Stefano Pavesi's Agatina, o La virtù premiata; first performed in Rome at the Teatro Valle, 25 January 1817; the Holtei translation first performed in Berlin 20 October 1825. Cf. A. Loewenberg. Annals of opera. From the description of Aschenbrödel : komische Oper in zwei Acten, für die Darstellung auf der Königstädt...

Koninsky, Sadie

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6389cbz (person)

Foster, Stephen Collins

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d79gr1 (person)

Stephen Collins foster was born in Pittsburgh in 1826. He wasnaturally inclined to music and he wrote over one hundred and seventy songs in his short life. He traveled to New Orleans and New York to compose music but still came back to Pittsburgh, where he died in 1864. From the description of Stephen Foster Collins collection 1931-1932 [typescripts]. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 48010401 Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer, orchest...

Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xs64c0 (person)

Composed 1884-85. First performance Stuttgart, 8 December 1885, the composer as soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of 1st concerto for violoncello, op. 8 / by Victor Herbert. [1965?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 50216538 Victor Herbert (1859-1924) cellist, co-founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), conductor and composer is best known as the composer of light operas such as Babes in Toyland...

Bischoff, J. W. (John W.), 1850-1909

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66x09vx (person)

Faure, J. (Jean), 1830-1914

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g452gj (person)

Epithet: French singer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000981.0x0000a9 French baritone. From the description of "Crucifix / poesie V. Hugo / musique / de / J. Faure / 1894." : autograph manuscript, 1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270563233 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?, n.d.], to M. Buisson, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873316 ...

Lowry, Robert, 1826-1899

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c54th4 (person)

Metz, Theodore A., 1848-1936

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6253x9h (person)

Music to the song composed 1886, with lyrics by Joe Hayden. First published 1896. The song became associated with the Spanish-American War in 1898. First performance of this arrangement Free Library of Philadelphia, 8 May 1977, The Fleisher Ensemble, Sam Dennison conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of A hot time in the old town / Theodore A. Metz ; arranged for chamber orchestra by Sam Dennison. c1977. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52925...

Bruniau, A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6748sm0 (person)