Annals of music in Philadelphia and history of the Musical Fund Society from its organization in 1820 to the year 1858 Compiled by Louis C. Madeira. Edited by Philip H. Goepp
Goepp, Philip H (Philip Henry) 1864-1936 Search this
Physical description:
iv, 202 pages illustrations 21 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Pennsylvanie
Philadelphie
Date:
1973
Contents:
Early conditions: church music: Bishop White -- Earliest dramatic entertainments: Prejudice against the theatre: legislation: local musicians -- Instruments: first piano-forte: Benjamin Franklin: musical glasses: eminent musicians: societies -- Beginnings of the musical fund society -- Early years of the musical fund society -- Building the hall -- Early plans and experiments of the society -- Figures of the time -- English musicians -- Summus parnassus -- Enlargement of the hall: the bazaar: two great pianists -- The age of song: Sontag and Lind: the future
