Author: BUSBY (Thomas):
Title: Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes of Music and Musicians, Ancient and Modern.
Description: London: Printed for Clementi & Co..., 1825. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. Small 8vo, 160 x 98 mms., pp. xv [xvi blank], 304; ix [x blank], 288; x, 301 [302 List of Plates], engraved title-page (foxed) in each volume, folding engraved frontispiece and one folding engraved facsimile of autograph music and 4 engraved portraits in volume 1, engraved frontispiece of music facsimiles and composers' autograph and 3 engraved portraits in volume 2 (lacking the portrait of Purcell), engraved portrait frontispiece, other engraved portraits (lacking the portrait of Braham), and 2 folding engraved facsimiles of autograph music in volume 3, contemporary calf, with gilt crest of Signet Library on each cover, volume 3 rebacked, with gilt spine, morocco label; front cover volume 1 detached, spine worn, joints volume 2 cracked and tender. Busby (1755 - 1838) was the tenor soloist in the 1785 Handel commemoration, an engraving of which forms the frontispiece to volume 1. The Anecdotes are still useful to scholars and musicologists, as they contain information not found elsewhere.

Keywords: music history prose


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