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A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England
William Sweetland of Bath
Langbeschreibung
William Sweetland was a Bath organ builder who flourished from c.1847 to 1902 during which time he built about 300 organs. Gordon Curtis places this work of a provincial organ builder in the wider context of English musical life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. He relates the biographical details of Sweetland's family, surveys Sweetland's organ building work and explores the organ recital repertoire of the provinces. The second part of the book consists of a Gazeteer of all known organs by Sweetland.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Preface Part I Sweetland's Life and Work: Introduction; Biography; Bath organ builders and Sweetland's other acquaintances; Business history; Inventions; The organs; Some notable instruments; Repertoire; Sweetland's place in English organ building. Part II Gazetteer: Geographical list of Sweetland's organs; Appendix: conjectural worklist of William Sweetland; Select bibliography; Index.
Gordon Curtis is a chorister and organist with a lifelong interest in church music. He studied for the MA in Organ Historiography at Reading University and is currently involved in editing music for the Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi of Oxford.
ISBN-13:
9781317187028
Veröffentl:
2016
Seiten:
328
Autor:
Gordon D. W. Curtis
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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