Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes. Of Music and Musicians. Ancient and Modern, Vol. II ONLY
Language: English
Published by Clementi & Co., London, 1825
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Roundabout Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.Roundabout Books
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Condition: Used - Fair
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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.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes. Of Music and Musicians. Ancient and Modern, Vol. II ONLY
- Author
- Thomas Busby, Mus. D.
- Publisher
- Clementi & Co., London
- Publication year
- 1825
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 0.75 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Music
Roundabout Books
Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.
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Roundabout Books is a bookstore for book people: an independent, locally-owned bookstore in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Our physical shop is located in the old Diamond-Electric Soap Factory at 85 Pierce Street, just two blocks off Federal Street in Greenfield. We offer an extensive, organized, and thoughtful collection of used and new books at excellent prices. We hope you will find our store welcoming and that our love of books shows through in our work. If you are here in-person, come wander and browse an expansive collection of all genres, including poetry, science, history, literature in translation, and university presses. Enjoy our historic industrial building transformed, and envisioned as accessible and environmentally sustainable for the future. Please stop in or give us a call if you have questions for us!…
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