Collection of cabinet cards, cartes de visite, postcards, and other photographs, chiefly associated with Western and Central European classical music composers, compiled by Herbert Thompson. ca. 1860-1936.

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Thompson, Herbert, 1856-1945. Collection of cabinet cards, cartes de visite, postcards, and other photographs, chiefly associated with Western and Central European classical music composers, compiled by Herbert Thompson.

Collection of cabinet cards, cartes de visite, postcards, and other photographs, chiefly associated with Western and Central European classical music composers, compiled by Herbert Thompson. ca. 1860-1936.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56222315

Comprises: (1) 94 cabinet cards, dated ca. 1860-1903, depicting the portraits, homes, birthplaces, monuments to, and haunts of, the majority of the most famous Western and Central European classical music composers, chiefly produced in Germany and Austria, and annotated on the back with dated notes in English, presumably written by Thompson himself; (2) 13 postcards, mostly undated, but with one card dated 17 August 1897 and addressed to Mr and Mrs Herbert Thompson in Leeds; (3) 6 cartes de visite, dated ca. 1889-1897, of a similar nature to the cabinet cards; (4) 4 miscellaneous photographs of a similar nature, including 1 of the three organists of the Three Choirs Festival in 1921, addressed to 'H. Thompson' in Leeds; (5) A mounted engraving of Hans Sachs's house in Nuremberg; (6) A mounted photograph of the 'Bayreuther Festspiele', dated in ink 'July-Aug. 1902'; and (7) A small cutting from a playbill for 'I Pagliacci, Leoncavallo', dated in ink '1936 Mar 30' and located as at 'Leeds Grand Theatre'.

1 box; manuscript, photographs, postcards, and some printed material.

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds