Recent music and musicians as described in the diaries and correspondence of Ignatz Moscheles / edited by his wife and adapted from the original German by A.D. Coleridge (Still Image)

Recent music and musicians as described in the diaries and correspondence of Ignatz Moscheles / edited by his wife and adapted from the original German by A.D. Coleridge

Works. Selections. English. 1874

Moscheles, Ignaz, 1794-1870

xviii, 434 p. : music 19 cm

Ignaz Moscheles  (1794 – 1870) was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire, a public university in Leipzig (Saxony, Germany). Founded by Mendelssohn as the Conservatory of Music, it is the oldest university school of music in Germany.
Much of what is known about Moscheles's life is derived from this biography, with selections from his diaries and correspondence, written after his death by his wife, Charlotte, and published in Germany in 1872. The book also gives lively portraits of his era and of his musical contemporaries. The diaries themselves are lost. Another important source is the correspondence between Moscheles and Mendelssohn, preserved at the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds, and published in 1888 by Ignaz's son.
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Translation of: Aus Moscheleś Leben (Leipzig, 1872) also published under title: Life of Moscheles, with selections from his diaries and correspondence

A complete catalogue of compositions by I. Moscheles": p. [421]-428

Includes index"

1874

Moscheles, Ignaz, 1794-1870

Musicians -- Correspondence

b29824722

ML410.M84 M82

New York : H. Holt, 1874

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