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List Of Circulating Music Libraries In France, Updated December 2015, Anita Breckbill
List Of Circulating Music Libraries In France, Updated December 2015, Anita Breckbill
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Following is an updated list of circulating music libraries in France spanning the period of their existence, 1765 to ca. 1950. The preliminary list was published as an appendix to the article by Anita Breckbill and Carole Goebes, “Music Circulating Libraries in France: An Overview and a Preliminary List” Notes 63:4 (June 2007), 761-797 < http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/179/ >. Further work in the collection of publisher’s catalogs at the Bibliothèque national de France and in 18th-century periodicals have yielded ten more circulating libraries and an expansion of dates of operation for a further eleven libraries. Changes are indicated in red type.
Music Publishing By Subscription In 1820s France: A Preliminary Study, Anita Breckbill
Music Publishing By Subscription In 1820s France: A Preliminary Study, Anita Breckbill
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
Subscription lists in six scores published in France in the 1820s open a window onto publishing and distribution practices of that era. The publishers are J. Frey of Paris, with examples of subscription lists from full scores in his complete sets of operas by Mozart and Grétry; Maurice Schlesinger, also of Paris, with a vocal score of Mozart’s Requiem; and Bohem of Lille, with a vocal score of Zémire et Azor by Louis Spohr. The subscription lists contain information about the types of subscribers: male/female, musicians/nonmusicians, and Parisians/provincials/ foreigners. These examples from nineteenth-century France suggest that funding the publishing of …
Music Circulating Libraries In France: An Overview And A Preliminary List, Anita Breckbill, Carole Goebes
Music Circulating Libraries In France: An Overview And A Preliminary List, Anita Breckbill, Carole Goebes
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
The year is 1867 in Paris during the Second Empire. A musician sets off one day from his flat in a building several centuries old situated on the north side of the city. He is mulling over finances, and he feels lucky to have the place. Though the building is six floors tall with a narrow spiral staircase, the ground floor apartment was available when he was looking, and the piano movers were just able to shoehorn in his forty-year- old Erard piano.
He has a package under his arm, and he is on a mission, but he pauses upon …