Ossian E Dodge Composer (1 results)
Published by Oliver Ditson, Boston, 1850
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Sheet Music
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1 score (5 pages) : 32 cm. Original 1850 first edition sheet music for the song "Ossian's Serenade,"composed and sung by the prominent 19th-century American vocalist, comic singer, and publisher Ossian Euclid Dodge. Published in Boston by Oliver Ditson, the cover features a famous lithog…raph by [B.W. Thayer & Co.] depicting a highly publicised historical event from that year. Historical Background The trio featured on the front cover includes: Ossian E. Dodge (Left): The singer and songwriter. Phineas Taylor (P.T.) Barnum (Centre): The legendary American showman and entrepreneur. Jenny Lind (Right): The renowned Swedish opera soprano widely celebrated as the "Swedish Nightingale". The text underneath the illustration reads: "P.T. Barnum introducing Madelle. Jenny Lind to Ossian E. Dodge, The 'Boston Vocalist,' & purchaser of the $625 ticket for the first Concert of the Swedish Nightingale in Boston." When Barnum brought Jenny Lind to the United States for an unprecedented concert tour in 1850, he drummed up immense public excitement by auctioning off choice seats. To generate publicity for his own musical career, Ossian Dodge aggressively outbid everyone else for the first Boston ticket, paying a massive sum of $625—an astronomical amount of money at the time. Barnum capitalised on this high-profile stunt, and Dodge immortalized the introduction on the cover of this sheet music, leveraging the "Lind Mania" sweeping the nation to sell his own songs.
