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Vincent Novello (1781–1861)
Today Vincent Novello (1781-1861) is remembered as the father of the music-publishing firm. Fiona Palmer's evaluation of Novello the man and the musician in the marketplace draws on rich primary sources. It is the first to provide a rounded view of his life and work, and the nature of his importance both in his own time and to posterity. Novello's early musical training, particularly his experience of music-making in London's embassy chapels, influenced him profoundly. His practical experience as director of music at the Portuguese Embassy Chapel in Mayfair informed his approach to editing and arranging. Fundamental moral and social attitudes underpinned Novello's progress. Ideas on religion...
The Life and Labours of Vincent Novello (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Life and Labours of Vincent Novello To trace the career of one, who has done perhaps more than any other individual towards spreading a love and cultivation of the best music amongst the least wealthy classes of England, must needs be interesting; and the example afforded by such a life, with the incentive given to persevere in a good resolve, even when circumstances appear far from encouraging, seems sufficient cause for pointing out this example to others, by recording the simple and uneventful biography when forms the subject of the present memoir. In a small house overlooking Hyde Park, - 240, Oxford Street, then called Oxford Road, - an Italian, named Giuseppe Novello, ...
A Yankee Musician in Europe
By the middle of the nineteenth century Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was probably the most famous native-born musician in America. Concentrating almost exclusively on vocal music, he built a spectacular reputation as a choir director and teacher. He published many collections of sacred music that sold in unprecedented numbers and made him a household name. In 1837 he traveled to Europe on a little-publicized trip. This was a bold move decades before such trips by American musicians became commonplace, and his diaries from this time are a primary source of information on early nineteenth-century European music. This edition of Mason's 1837 journal has been carefully edited: throughout, Broyles ha...
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ...: England-Homem. 1874
The collections of the Advocates Library, with the exception of its legal books and manuscripts, were given by the Advocates to the National Library of Scotland in 1925.
