[Selected scrapbooks in the Music Division, New York Public Library [microform] : Marsh, Schipa, Cummings, Gretchaninoff, Fray and Braggiotti]. 1842-1968.

Braggiotti, Mario, 1905-1996

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Summary: Mario Braggiotti was born in Florence, Italy. He formed the first piano duo to play both classical and popular music on the same program and created over two hundred original transcriptions. Braggiotti also founded the Braggiotti Music School in Italy. He died in 1996. Full History: Mario Braggiotti, a pianist, composer, lecturer and linguist, was born in Florence, Italy. Braggiotti studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, as well as the Paris Conservat...

Grechaninov, Aleksandr Tikhonovich

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Composed 1944. Original title: Élégie. First performance Boston, 29 March 1946, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conductor. "In memory of those who gave their lives for freedom."--Fleisher Collection. From the description of Poeme elegiaque for full orchestra, op. 175 / A. Gretchaninoff. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 49945337 From a comic opera after Gogol, op. 180.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of ...

Fray, Jacques

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Schipa, Tito, 1889-1965

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Cummings, William Hayman, 1831-1915

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William Hayman Cummings, English singer and musical antiquary. He was the first to unite the music of Mendelssohn's Festgesang with Charles Wesley's hymn 'Hark! the herald angels sing'. From the description of William Hayman Cummings manuscript material : 1 item, 1878 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 677020996 William Hayman Cummings was an English organist, composer, singer and writer, author of Purcell (1881), a biographical dictionary (1892) and other works ...

Marsh, Jane.

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