Printed Music in Bound Collections
In addition to hundreds of individual 18th-early 19th century music publications, the Hanover Royal Music Archive contains thirty-eight bound volumes of printed music for use by Queen Charlotte, her...
View ArticleMusic for the Duke of Cumberland’s Band
"Catalogue of Music for H. R. H. The Duke of Cumberland’s Private Band." Cover Within the larger Archive of predominantly vocal, keyboard, and chamber genres, a distinct group of materials identified...
View ArticleOrchestra music of Haydn and Beethoven
Among the most significant works for orchestra in the Archive are printed editions of symphonies of Haydn and an early copyist’s manuscript of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 1. Haydn, Joseph, (1732-1809)....
View ArticlePatronage of Theoretical Works on Music
The Archive contains several theoretical works on music that were supported by members of the royal family, either as dedicatees or subscribers. These are typically works of musicians who also...
View ArticleInstrumental Pedagogy
The Archive contains several pedagogical works for use in teaching and studying the playing of musical instruments. An example is Bartolomeo Campagnoli’s Nouvelle méthode de la mécanique progressive...
View ArticleMozart’s “Haydn” String Quartets
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Quartet, strings, K. 387, G major. (London: L. Lavenu, circa 1797). Part for first violin, beginning of first movement The Jasper String Quartet will perform Mozart’s String...
View ArticleFrench Fashions in London
While most of the Archive documents musical activity at the court of George III, a few items concern related literary and artistic pursuits of the princesses. Journal des dames, a serial published in...
View ArticleAn Astronomer’s Music Book
Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750-1848), an English astronomer of German birth, was born in Hanover, in a family of military musicians. In 1772, she moved to England, settling in Bath with her older...
View ArticleMusic for Harpists: Royal Amateurs, Virtuosi, and a Child Prodigy
Egan, Charles. A New Series of Instructions Arranged Expressly for the Royal Portable Irish Harp (Dublin: for the author by John Egan, circa 1822). Illustration on preliminary page A revival of...
View ArticlePublished Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera
The Archive contains evidence of some ways in which notated music was reproduced and circulated outside the usual methods of printed publication and private manuscript copying. Below are examples of...
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