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Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes. Of Music and Musicians. Ancient and Modern, Vol. II ONLY
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Title: Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes. Of Music and Musicians. Ancient and Modern, Vol. II ONLY
Author: Mus. D. Thomas Busby
Publisher: Clementi & Co., London
Published: 1825
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 288
Catalogs: Music, Biography, Essays
Description: Volume II ONLY; illustrated on frontispiece and title-page, with a few other engravings inside. Half-calf with marbleized boards in blue tones. Leather spine and corners are greatly worn, with spine missing pieces at both ends, backstrip partially torn, and all leather has had part of its finish rubbed away. Marbled boards are scuffed as well. Ownership information stamped on pastedown. Pages are foxed but otherwise unmarked. This is a collection of anecdotes about musicians, both historical and contemporary to the publication of the book. The collection includes: Gluck's Profound Judgment, Music too much for Satan, Suspected Murder of Mr. Billington, Mozart's Prediction of his own Death, Princes bad Operatical Managers, The Hog Organ, Mozart's Benevolence, Rattlesnakes soothed by Music, Jomelli's Discomfiture at Naples, Pasquali's Throrough-Bass, Madame Mara, Parisian Musicals in 1824, Guadagni's Liberality, Abbé Arnaud and Gluck, Eskimaux Concert, Thomas Roseingrave, Mozart and German Despotism, The Ambrosian and Gregorian Chants, Chilian Chants, Winter's Opinion of the French Amateurs, Gluck a better musician than Rousseau, The Cadiz Fandango, The Blind Man in Holborn, Thomas Tallis, Dr. Aldridge, Lord Abingdon-Haydn-and Solomon, Purcell, Peculiarities of Genius, My Dog and My Gun, Lipse's Inconsistency, Gluck's and Sacchini's Opinion of French Singing, Lampe's Grand Bassoon, Triklir and his Musical Microcosm, Effects of Music on Animals, The Profane Cow, Haydn's First Arrival in London, Handel's Irascibility, and many more. Hardcover, acceptable condition. 288 pages, 18mo.
Author: Mus. D. Thomas Busby
Publisher: Clementi & Co., London
Published: 1825
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 288
Catalogs: Music, Biography, Essays
Description: Volume II ONLY; illustrated on frontispiece and title-page, with a few other engravings inside. Half-calf with marbleized boards in blue tones. Leather spine and corners are greatly worn, with spine missing pieces at both ends, backstrip partially torn, and all leather has had part of its finish rubbed away. Marbled boards are scuffed as well. Ownership information stamped on pastedown. Pages are foxed but otherwise unmarked. This is a collection of anecdotes about musicians, both historical and contemporary to the publication of the book. The collection includes: Gluck's Profound Judgment, Music too much for Satan, Suspected Murder of Mr. Billington, Mozart's Prediction of his own Death, Princes bad Operatical Managers, The Hog Organ, Mozart's Benevolence, Rattlesnakes soothed by Music, Jomelli's Discomfiture at Naples, Pasquali's Throrough-Bass, Madame Mara, Parisian Musicals in 1824, Guadagni's Liberality, Abbé Arnaud and Gluck, Eskimaux Concert, Thomas Roseingrave, Mozart and German Despotism, The Ambrosian and Gregorian Chants, Chilian Chants, Winter's Opinion of the French Amateurs, Gluck a better musician than Rousseau, The Cadiz Fandango, The Blind Man in Holborn, Thomas Tallis, Dr. Aldridge, Lord Abingdon-Haydn-and Solomon, Purcell, Peculiarities of Genius, My Dog and My Gun, Lipse's Inconsistency, Gluck's and Sacchini's Opinion of French Singing, Lampe's Grand Bassoon, Triklir and his Musical Microcosm, Effects of Music on Animals, The Profane Cow, Haydn's First Arrival in London, Handel's Irascibility, and many more. Hardcover, acceptable condition. 288 pages, 18mo.
