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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 Mozart Pilgrimage
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Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?
Roman Catholic church music in England served the needs of a vigorous, vibrant and multi-faceted community that grew from about 70,000 to 1.7 million people during the long nineteenth century. Contemporary literature of all kinds abounds, along with numerous collections of sheet music, some running to hundreds, occasionally even thousands, of separate pieces, many of which have since been forgotten. Apart from compositions in the latest Classical Viennese styles and their successors, much of the music performed constituted a revival or imitation of older musical genres, especially plainchant and Renaissance Polyphony. Furthermore, many pieces that had originally been intended to be performed...
