George Benson Weston autograph collection, 1683-1879.

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847

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Felix Mendelssohn, composer of the early Romantic period. His best-known works include the overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the oratorio St. Paul, the oratorio Elijah, the overture The Hebrides, the mature Violin Concerto and the String Octet. A grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn was born into a prominent Jewish family. He was brought up without religion until the age of seven, when he was bapt...

Rossini, Giocchino Antonio, 1792-1868.

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Drouet, Louis, 1792-1873

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French flutist of Dutch birth. From the description of [Andante grazioso, flute] : autograph manuscript, 1839 May 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270941902 ...

Stäel, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817

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Redi, Francesco, 1626-1698

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Epithet: of Florence, man of letters and scientist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x0001eb Redi was an Italian physician and poet; Angelo Maria Arcioni (1604-ca. 1689) was an Italian poet. From the guide to the Letters to Angelo Maria Arcioni, 1678-1702., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Epithet: of Florence British Library Archives and Man...

Bexfield, William Richard, 1824-1853

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Allegri, Gregorio, 1582-1652

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Jullien, Louis, 1812-1860

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French conductor. From the description of Document signed, dated : London, 25 November 1856, 1856 Nov. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873889 In December 1847 Jullien embarked on an ill-planned season of grand opera at the Drury Lane Theatre; the season resulted in Jullien's first bankruptcy in England, and the Halévy commission was not realized. Cf. New Grove opera. From the description of Contract : between Jullien & Cie., on the part of the Théâtr...

Horsley, Charles Edward, 1822-1876

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Horsley was a minor composer who studied under Hauptmann in Germany, emigrated to Australia and ended up in New York. From the description of Impropmtu at leaving Melbourne, 1867 [manuscript]. 1867. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225267851 English composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London] June 29 1844, to [Felix] Mendelssohn, 1844 June 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666461 Composer and musician. ...

Herz, Henri, 1803-1888

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French pianist, composer, and teacher. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris Mar. 25 1828, to the Vicomte Sosthène[s] de Larochefoucault [i.e. Louis François Sosthènes de La Rochefoucault, duc de Doudeauville], 1828 Mar. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666202 From the description of Partially printed document, dated : Paris, 23 March 1870, 1870 Mar. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873930 German pianist, composer, and teacher. ...

Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712-1764

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Italian writer, friend of Voltaire and Frederick the Great. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Venice, to an unnamed churchman, 1743 June 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131810 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bologna, to Pio Panfilo, 1762 Sept. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131475 Italian author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Padua, to his brother, Bonomo, in Venice, 1732 Oct. 18. (Unknow...

Crotch, William, 1775-1847

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English composer, organist, theorist, and painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., n.d.], to [William Hutchins] Callcott, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873255 ...

George Aspull

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Weston, George Benson

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Normand-Smith, Gertrude.

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N. E. Weippert

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Tartini, Guiseppe, 1692-1770.

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Bettinelli, Saverio, 1717-1808

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Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870

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French man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?, n.d.], to [Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873526 French author and administrator of antiquities. From the description of Letters, 1826-1870. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80148610 ...

Colletta, Pietro, 1775-1833

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Pasta, Giuditta, 1798-1865

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Eloi Johanneau

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Curioni, Alberico, 1785-1875.

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Italian tenor. From the description of Autograph letter in the third person : [London, n.d.], to [William?] Watts, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564799 ...

Reeves, Sims, 1818-1900

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British singer. From the description of Autograph letters signed : Grange Mount, Upper Norwood ; and elsewhere, to Arthur Sullivan, 1869 Dec. 13 to 1897 May 17, a dn 1 undated letter. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125357 English tenor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 22 July 1858, to [Mr. William Sterndale? Bennett], 1858 July 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270675918 From the description of Clipped signature, da...

Hummel, Johann Nepomuk, 1778-1837

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Austrian composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed from Hummel to Sir George Smart, London, 1833 Apr. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122369537 Austrian pianist, composer, teacher, and conductor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Weimar Dec. 12 1822, to Cappi & Diabelli in Vienna, 1822 Dec. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666515 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Stuttgart Oct. 31 ...

Moscheles, Ignaz, 1794-1870

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Printed before 1826.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto no. 2 in E♭ für pianoforte, op. 56 / Moscheles. [18--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 42677061 German pianist and composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed : Leipzig ; and Belgrade, to Arthur Sullivan, 1864 Mar. 26 to 1869 June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125351 German pianist. From the description of [Allegro spir...

Zelenka, Johann Dismas, 1679-1745

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Ries, Ferdinand, 1784-1838

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German pianist, composer, and copyist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Godesberg, 14 June 1826, to [C.F. Peters in Leipzig], 1826 June 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270676094 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p., London?, n.d., between 1814 and 1824?], to Sir George [Smart?], [n.d., 1814-1824?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270676102 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Dresden, 19 December 1826,...

Pindemonte, Ippolito, 1753-1828

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McEvers

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Gozzi, Gasparo, conte, 1713-1786

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Italian journalist, poet, and prose writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Venice, to an unnamed patron, 1765 Apr. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269586066 Italian journalist, poet and prose writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Venice, to Petronio Matteucci, in Bologna, 1755 Sept. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269586057 From the description of Autograph manuscript : [Venice, ca. 1750]. (Unknown). WorldCat re...

LeRoy, Bayard

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Davison, James William

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English critic. From the description of Autograph manuscript : [n.p., London?, n.d.], n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565474 From the description of Autograph letters signed (12), dated : [London, undated by year], to [Joseph] Bennett, 1880's. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565468 ...

G. G. Schicht

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Jarrett

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Prudent, Émile 1817-1863

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French pianist, composer, and teacher. From the description of [Composition for piano] : autograph manuscript, 1843 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270568762 French pianist and composer. From the description of Autograph inscription signed : [n.p., n.d.], n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270675172 From the description of [Album leaf] : autograph manuscript, 1845 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270942540 ...

Bishop, Henry R.

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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 ...

Weston, George Benson

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G. Cooke

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Meyer, Leopold ˜vonœ 1816-1883

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François Marie Arouet de Voltaire?

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Kalkbrenner, Friedrich

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French pianist, teacher, and composer of German extraction. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), 1 dated : [Paris], 4 January 1837 and [n.d.], to M. de Coussy, 1837 Jan. 4 and n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270578719 Author and recipient were pianist-composers active in Europe. From the guide to the ALS, from Fréd. Kalkbrenner, London, to Ignace Moscheles, 1824, Apr. 26, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) ...

Martello, Pier Jacopo, 1665-1727

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Italian poet and scholar. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bologna, to Cardinal Cornelio Bentivoglio, 1725 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270605531 ...

Gozzi, Carlo, conte, 1722-1806

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Milli, Giannina

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Sloper, Lindsay, 1826-1887

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Pietro Schedon

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Clementi, Muzio, 1752-1832

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English composer, keyboard player and teacher, music publisher, and piano manufacturer of Italian birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : London, 15 June 1818, to Mme Lehmann (née Bilguer) in Berlin, 1818 June 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564496 From the description of Autograph note signed, dated : Birmingham, 17 August 1829, 1829 Aug. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564500 Sonata first published 1795. This arrangement 1951.-...

Essex, Catherine (Stephens) Coningsby, countess of, 1794-1882

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Päer, Ferdinando, 1771-1839

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From the opera first performed Vienna, 18 December 1800. German version: Der lustige Schuster.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Overture to the opera Der lustige Schuster / F. Baer [sic]. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53081483 Italian composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 4 February 1835, to M. [Edouard] Robert at the Théâtre des Italiens, 1835 Feb. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...

Catalani, Angelica, 1779-1849

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Mme ; Schauroth

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Braham, John, 1777-1856

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Maffei, Scipione, marchese, 1675-1755

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Italian archeologist and writer. From the description of Letter : Verona, 1727 March 23. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 146003168 Title: Marquis British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000876.0x0003d2 Italian scholar. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Verona, to Monsignor Lucchesini, Segretario dei Brevi a Principi di Sua Santità, Rome, 1740 Oct. 20. (U...

Domenico Guizzelli

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Bottesini, Giovanni, 1822-

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Wood, Mary Ann (Paton) 1802-1864

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Arthur Kinglake

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Porsile, Giuseppe

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