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Musical gathering of composers and musicians, 1853Musical gathering of composers and musicians in London. From left to right: A. Bazzini, H. Blagrove, Goffrie, Blumenthal, H. Vieuxtemps, Lazarus, S. Phatten, Jarrett, F
Shame Flute - German punishment for being a poor musicianA Shame Flute ( Schand Flote ) - German punishment for being a poor musician - you had to face the public wearing (around the neck) a heavy iron flute
Pablo Sarasate - Spanish violinistPablo Sarasate (1844-1908) Spanish violinist. Date: circa 1901
A group of Persian musiciansA group of four Persian musicians playing their instruments. 1818
Charleston by YvaAn expressionist photograph capturing the spirit of the 1920s with a charleston dancer, and a black saxophone player capturing the atmosphere of jazz admirably
Boys Band at Hollybrook Cottage Homes, SouthamptonThe boys band at Hollybrook cottage homes at Shirley Warren, Southampton. The homes were opened in 1911 by the Southampton Union to accommodate pauper children away from the workhouse
Joseph Haydn / CreationJOSEPH HAYDN Austrian musician and composer communing with nature, with a quotation from his oratorio, The Creation, below
Emma Hardinge BrittenEMMA HARDINGE BRITTEN English-born spiritualist in America, author, actress, musician, medium and tireless promoter of the spiritualist cause
Franz Schubert / TorgglerFRANZ SCHUBERT Austrian musician
Greetings card, Jazz drummer on timpani (kettle drums). 20th century
Orpheus playing his lyre. Relief from Thessaloniki. GreeceOrpheus, wearing a Phrygian cap and surrounded by the beasts charmed by the music of his lyre. Relief from Thessaloniki. Greece
Lise Cristiani / MettaisLISE CRISTIANI Musician, and traveller in the Far East Date: -
Sandie Shaw performing at the Savoy RestaurantAdvertisement in London Life magazine for singer Sandie Shaw, voted Britains Top Female Singer - performing at the Savoy Restaurant in 1965. Date: 1965
String quartet, 1872Mr.L.Ries, Madame Norman-Neruda, Herr Straus and Signore Piatti performing at one of the Monday popular concerts at St Jamess Hall. Date: 1872
Marie Hall - ViolinistMarie Hall (1884-1956) - Violinist and pupil of Edward Elgar - gave the 1st performance of Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending in 1920 Date: 1907
Silhouette of Edgar Dowells Dance OrchestraSilhouette of Edgar Dowell and his orchestra, popular in both the UK and US during the 1920s. Date: c.1925
Street music: a family of singersA pathetic scene: an impoverished family of street singers, shoeless and ragged, singing in the rain. Date: 1870
Sri Lanka - Basket Trick - JugglersSri Lanka - Basket Trick - Conjurers (called jugglers on the card) place a woman inside a large wicker basket from whence she would (I imagine) disappear, much to everyones surprise! Date: circa 1907
The Pipe Major - Black Watch Date: 1905
Music at home - little girl at the pianoElizabeth Jane, daughter of Sir William and Lady Maria Somerville, plays the piano on tiptoe. Date: 1866
Boy Drummer of The South Wales Borderers (circa 1909) in Full Dress. Pictured with drum plus bugle (all drummers were buglers). Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Jullien / Cruikshank / 1852LOUIS-ANTOINE JULLIEN Satire on the popularity of the French musician and the concerts which he conducted in Britain from 1840 to 1859
Russian Balalaika PlayerA well-wrapped-up musician plays his balalaika amidst the snow
Igor StravinskyRussian musician, Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Noise PollutionA knife-grinder, a milkmaid, dogs, beggars, musicians, a coalman, and a dustman, a postboy with his horn and a child with her rattle - noise pollution in the 18th century
Antonin Leopold DvorakANTONIN LEOPOLD DVORAK Czech musician
Frederic Chopin / KrzeszFREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician the last notes
Franz Schubert / PostcardFRANZ SCHUBERT Austrian musician
Adolf Busch - German violinistAdolf Busch (1891-1952), German violinist. Date: circa 1910s
Reynaldo Hahn / BarrereREYNALDO HAHN French musician: a satirical view Date: 1874 - 1947
P J ProbyP.J. Proby (born James Marcus Smith, November 6, 1938), American singer, songwriter, and actor. He also portrayed Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison in musical theatre productions. Date: 1965
Gwen Farrar by Olive SnellMiss Gwendoline Farrar, entertainer and musician pictured by society portraitist Olive Snell in 1918. Date: 1918
Hector BerliozHECTOR BERLIOZ French musician, who wrote the Symphonie fantastique, Les nuits d ete, The Trojans and much more. Date: 1803 -1869
FALLA, Manuel de (1876-1946). Spanish composer and pianist. Works for piano solo and for piano and voice. Edited in Madrid
Lute Music by the Canal, Hendrick SorghA lute player entertains a lady in a Dutch interior, seventeenth century. Date: 1939
PAGANINI (1831)NICCOLO PAGANINI Italian musician, at the Royal Opera House, London, 3 June 1831
Franz Schubert / AdlardFRANZ SCHUBERT Austrian musician
Robert Schumann / BalestriROBERT SCHUMANN German musician, depicted composing the Dichterliebe
Liszt / Barabas MiklosFRANZ LISZT Hungarian musician and composer
Richard Strauss (1854-1949). German composer of the late Romantic. Portrait. Photo. Colored
Sergei ProkofievPortrait of Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), Ukrainian born pianist, conductor, and composer, on occasion of the first performance in England of Romeo and Juliet, in The Illustrated London News
Chinese woman playing a Ruan (note the Western influence in her choice of footwear!). Date: circa 1910s
Hollman the CellistHOLLMAN " A great cellist" Date: 1897
Darius Milhaud / HeliosDARIUS MILHAUD French musician Date: 1892 - 1974
CV Stanford - Downey cabSir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924) Irish musician
Emma Eames - American opera singerEmma Eames (1865-1952), American opera singer (soprano) performed in Europe and America from 1889 to 1916. Date: 1890
Roger QuilterROGER QUILTER English musician, known chiefly for his songs though he also wrote orchestral music of an impressionist character. Date: 1877 - 1953
Thessaloniki - Tin Village wedding Date: circa 1916
