Autograph letters signed (5), and letters signed (4), dated : [London], to Mr. [Joseph] Bennett, 1874-1901.

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...

Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection (Pierpont Morgan Library)

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Bennett, Joseph, 1831-1911

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Music critic, librettist, and organist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 109 Hinchley Rd., to Arthur Sullivan, 1884 May 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125511 English music critic and writer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (6), dated : [London], to [Samuel] Aitken, 1883-1910. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672239 From the description of Autograph letters signed (6), dated : [London], to Annabel [Aitken], 1902-1...

Goddard, Arabella, 1836-1922

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English pianist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3), dated : [London], 11 November 1902, Boulogne sur Mer, 31 January 1909, and [n.p., n.d.], to Mr. [Joseph] Bennett, 1902 Nov. 11 and 1909 Jan. 31 and n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270577935 English pianist; wife of J.W. Davison. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 49 Finchley Road, N.W., [London], to Arthur Sullivan, [n.y.] July 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125616 ...

Davison, J. W. (James William), 1813-1885,

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Macfarren, G.A. (George Alexander), 1813-1887

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English composer, professor of Music at Cambridge University and Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to John Simon, 1878 Apr. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 770045477 English composer; principal of Royal Academy of Music; professor at Cambridge. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 7 Hamilton Terrace, N.W., [London], to Arthur Sullivan, 1876 Apr. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2701...

Schumann, Robert

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Originally composed for solo piano, 1833-1835. Collaborative orchestration of the score, 1908-1909, for the use of the Russian Imperial Ballet. No indication is given of each collaborator's contribution. First performance as a ballet St. Petersburg, 1910. First concert performance, Boston, 25 November 1938, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Carnival / Robert Schumann ; orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazounov, Li...

Bennett, William Sterndale, 1816-1875

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William Sterndale Bennett was an English composer, conductor, and teacher of music. He wrote most of his best compositions in Leipzig, where he befriended Mendelssohn and Schumann. He later curtailed composition in favor of education, first as Professor of Music at Cambridge and later as Principal of the Royal Academy of music; he was also conductor of the London Philharmonic. His piano music remains a prime example of Victorian musical tastes. From the description of William Sternda...

Spohr, Louis, 1784-1859

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Composed 1835. First published as Violin Concertino No. 2.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Zweites Concertino für Violine, Op. 92 / Spohr. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 54951426 Composed 1839. First published as Violin Concertino No. 3, with the sub-title Sonst und Jetzt.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concertino no. 3 for violin and orchestra, op. 110 / L. Spohr. [19--?] (Franklin & Marsh...

Broadwood, Fiona

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Macfarren, Walter, 1826-1905

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English pianist and composer, brother of Sir George Macfarren. From the description of Partially autograph letter signed, dated : [London], to Clement Scott, 1897 June 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270581475 From the description of Autograph letters signed (5), and letters signed (4), dated : [London], to Mr. [Joseph] Bennett, 1874-1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270581472 ...

Westlake, Frederick, 1840-1898

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Scates, Linda.

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Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus

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The Serenade from which this movement is taken originally composed for 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons, 1781; second version, with the addition of 2 oboes, in 1782 (see callno.: 2329). This transcription 1941.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Adagio, K. V. 375 / Mozart ; transcribed by Zoltán Fekete. [c1941]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 42631243 Composed originally for solo piano, 1788. This transcription 1986.--Cf. Fleisher C...