An Account of the First Edinburgh Music Festival, Held between the 30th of November and the 5th November, 1815, to which is added an Essay, containing some general observations of music
Published by Edinburgh James Ballantyne and co Edinburgh, James Ballantyne, 1816.
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Seller: Amanda Hall Rare Books ABA ILAB, Shaftesbury, Wiltshire, United KingdomAmanda Hall Rare Books ABA ILAB
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First Edition. in contemporary blue boards with paper backstrip, rather dusty and worn, spine very badly chipped with loss of large sections to head and foot, remnants of label, both joints weak but front joint particularly so, though still holding, presentation inscription on the title page ?John Curwen? from the Author? 12mo in sixes (180 x 115 mm), pp. xi, 213, [iv], uncut and unpressed throughout, light peripheral browning, some light foxing, An unsophisticated, uncut, presentation copy of an account of the first Edinburgh music festival by the Scottish musicologist George Farquhar Graham. He is known primarily for his Songs of Scotland, a three-volume collected edition of Scottish songs published by Wood and Co. of Edinburgh. Graham was educated at the University of Edinburgh and then travelled to France and Italy. The Aberdonian musician James Davie believed that Graham might have had harmony lessons from Beethoven during his travels. The first music festival was co-founded by Domenico Corri (manager of the Theatre Royal) and Felix Yaniewicz (1762 ? 1848), a Polish-Lithuanian violinist who settled in the New Town on Great King Street. Yaniewicz led the musical life of the recent and fashionable new town, and as the 1815 music festival opened, Yaniewicz led the orchestra throughout an ambitious program of music over the four days. An organ from Covent Garden was said to have been imported for the festival. Graham?s introduction opens that it is regretful that in ?a country distinguished for its learning and good taste in poetry and general literature, Music, in the liberal sense of the term, should be so little cultivated?, and hailed the music festival as a turning point in Scottish culture. Prophetically, he writes that he hopes it ?may be followed by important consequences?, and Farqhuar?s hope would idealise in the form of the Edinburgh International Festival (1947) and the Fringe Festival. Amusedly, his description of Edinburgh during the first music festival is startlingly accurate to it during the month of August every year, as ?from England, and the remotest part of Scotland, individuals and whole families poured into the city. Every house and every room that could be obtained was occupied? A lovely copy of a text that describes the beginning of the cultural boom of Edinburgh, and a charming piece of pre-festival history. WorldCat lists Edinburgh University, Glasgow, St Andrews, Cambridge, Berlin, NYPL, Columbia, Stanford, Newberry, Indiana, Wayne State, Carnegie Library and Bridwell.…
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- An Account of the First Edinburgh Music Festival, Held between the 30th of November and the 5th November, 1815, to which is added an Essay, containing some general observations of music
- Author
- FARQUHAR GRAHAM, George (1789?1867)
- Publisher
- Edinburgh James Ballantyne and co Edinburgh, James Ballantyne, 1816.
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