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Edward JONES (1752-1824)
Harpist, historian, collector & publisher of harp music who died two hundred years ago.
Ticket for Mr. Jones’s benefit concert at the New Rooms, Tottenham Street, 21 April [1779]. One of the numerous benefit tickets which our Founder, Oliver Davies bought for the Museum. (Oliver had a penchant for these beautiful examples of ephemera.)
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March 2024
Sir Frederick BRIDGE (…
English organist, composer, teacher and writer who died 100 years ago.
February 2024
William WILSON
Edinburgh in four views in the mid-Nineteenth Century as shown on a musical title page.
June 2022
Iain HAMILTON (1922-2000)
In highlighting anniversaries of composers and artists, MOMH’s Exhibition of the Month has almost always celebrated those born before 1900
November 2019
Sir Charles HALLÉ (181…
Musicians all over the world heard with deep regret of the sudden death on Friday morning, Oct. 25, of the famous pianist Sir Charles Hallé, …
April 2019
Hector BERLIOZ (1803-1…
CECIL HOPKINSON: A Bibliography of the Musical and Literary Works of HECTOR BERLIOZ (1803-1869), with Histories of the French Music Publishers concerned…
January 2019
Helmore and Neale̵…
This 1853 publication marks an important step in the establishment of Britain’s modern Christmas carol tradition. Like its successor Carols for Easter-t…
May 2017
16 May 1767 – A …
This month marks the 250th anniversary of a seldom celebrated landmark in the annals of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. The first known public perfor…
February 2017
Alexander von ZEMLINSK…
Until relatively recently Zemlinsky (b.Vienna, 14 October 1871; d.New York, 15 March 1942) was regarded as a mere footnote in musical history; if rememb…
August 2010
Dr. Samuel Sebastian W…
WESLEY , Dr. Samuel Sebastian (London, 14 August 1810 – Gloucester, 14 April 1876), the 200th anniversary of whose birth falls this month, was the leadi…
July 2010
Ole BULL (1810-1880)
BULL , Ole (b.Bergen, 5 February 1810; d.Lysøen nr Bergen, 17 August 1880). Lithograph after a drawing by Josef Kriehuber, 1839; published by Tobias Has…