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Frontispiece: Daniel François Esprit Auber

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Frontispiece: Daniel François Esprit AuberFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

From an engraving by G. Deblois, 1867. Auber was a French composer from Paris, born in 1782 and died in May 1871. He wrote a series of comic oeras with Scribe and Auber, including “Leicester” (based o [...]

Keywords: portraits, musicians, greyscale

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Title Page from Famous Musicians

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Title Page from Famous MusiciansFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

The title page has a border surrounding it printed in green, yellow, blue and black, which I have made available as a musical border. There is also a small picture from the top of the border, an open [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, colour

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Music book and wreaths

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Music book and wreathsFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

Sheet music (score) with wreaths, perhaps of laurel leaves to signify victory; this is a detail from the musical border from the title page.

Keywords: music, sheet music, wreaths, xmas, christmas, page elements, ornaments, colour

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Musical Border

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Musical BorderFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

This musical border features Greek or Roman busts at the corners, musical scores, laurel wreaths, musical instruments including violins, trumpets and horns, and is printed mostly in green and black. I [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, musical instruments, music

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Added: 2010-11-14

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XXXII. The Empress Harpsichord.

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XXXII. The Empress Harpsichord.Famous Composers and their Music (1901)

A harpsichord of the largest size is this, the culmination of an instrument that had remained in use for nearly three hundred years, but, at the time this one was made, was about to be replaced by the [...]

Keywords: musical instruments, keyboards, music, colour

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Anton Rubinstein

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Anton RubinsteinFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

A most characteristic silhouette by Mrs. Behr made in 1886 in St. Petersburg. The fac-simile autograph is Rubinstein’s name in Russian. (p. 795) The composer-pianist Anton Rubinstein was born in Nove [...]

Keywords: people, musicians, portraits, sketches, colour

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