Music History

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Vintage Photograph. Young blonde woman wearing evening gown sitting in wooden chair holding cello and bow in front of solid studio backdrop, Frame 5

Vintage Photograph. Young man wearing black tuxedo with back turned to viewer holding conductor wand standing in front of solid studio backdrop with light gradient

Vintage Photograph. Male hands playing a piano

Portrait of young woman playing piano at home

Vintage Photograph. Woman in long gown playing the flute. Frame 2

Young woman singing with electric guitarist playing guitar in foreground

Musicians performing in a band

Man playing harp

Young woman playing violin

Young woman singing with an electric guitarist

American female singing group, The Supremes. Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson.

Harpsichord 1599 Ruckers family (17th C. Flemish) Handelhaus, Halle, Germany

Grand Gala du Disque poplar in Kurhaus in Scheveningen Marlene Dietrich Date October 12, 1963 / Location Scheveningen, South Holland.

ABBA. Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus 1976. Photo: Kristoffersson/9-29

Agnetha Fältskog. Singer. Member of the pop group ABBA. Born 1950. Pictured here 1970. Photo: Kristoffersson

ABBA. Björn Ulvaeus 1976

Al Jolson in the Jazz Singer Date: 1927

EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG Norwegian musician Date: 1843 - 1907

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN German composer Date: 1770 - 1827

GUSTAV HOLST - English composer and music teacher. Date: 1874 - 1934

GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL (1685 - 1759) Composer.

GIACOMO PUCCINI leans on the piano,a cigarette dangling from the side of his mouth Date: 1858 - 1924

FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician Date: 1810 - 1849

A selection of wind instruments Date: 1878

SAPPHO Greek lyric poet with Alcaeus Date: FL 610 - 580

GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL Neal's Music Hall, Dublin, where his oratorio 'Messiah' was first performed Date: 1685 - 1759

RICHARD STRAUSS with Hofmannsthal and other associates at the first production of 'Der Rosenkavalier' at Dresden, 26 January 1911 Date: 1864 - 1949

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Date: 1770 - 1827

La Boheme music score cover by Giacomo Puccini Date: 1896

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART the Austrian composer playing an ornate harpsichord Date: 1756 - 1791

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH German organist and composer Date: 1685 - 1750

part of the score of Berlioz's 'La Damnation de Faust', first performed in December 1846, and later turned into an opera Date: 1846

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Morning prayer in the Bach household Date: 1685 - 1750

Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949) the German composer in 1926 with his son, on board Lloyd Triestino's ship 'Cleopatra' en route for Greece. Date: 1926

Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) German composer: shortly before his death

Ancient Greek musicians playing wind instruments and percussion

Studying and practising music on a wide range of instruments under the supervision of a teacher. Date: circa 1500

JOSEPH HAYDN his Vienna home, later turned into a Haydn Museum Date: 1732 - 1809

JOSEPH HAYDN Austrian musician and composer Date: 1732 - 1809

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The Austrian composer at the age of seven, with his sister Marianne, aged eleven, and their father Leopold, in 1764. Date: 1756 - 1791

ANTONIO VIVALDI Italian composer Date: 1678 - 1741

FRANK SINATRA American singer and film actor: 'Goodnight Irene' Date: 1915 - 1998

A piano quartet Date: 1877

The Silbermann grand used by J S Bach at Potsdam, Germany Date: 1746

Sometimes known as a GLASS HARMONICA : glasses, filled with liquid to different depths, emit different notes when struck, giving a sound somewhat like a xylophone. Date: 1880

A masked performer plays the lute Date: 16th century

A page from the French royal court plays the lute, dressed in the picturesque attire of the day and armed with a huge and unwieldy sword. Date: 1629

'PUTO CHE SUONA LA GUITARRA' - a young angel plays the lute.

A lady plays the piano to entertain her gentleman friend: practice makes perfect. Date: 1920s

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Death mask of the German Composer. Date: circa 1826

Recording a man playing the piano using Edison's improved model phonograph. Date: 1891

JOHANNES BRAHMS German musician with his autograph Date: 1833 - 1897

CLAUDE DEBUSSY French musician in 1909. Date: 1862 - 1918

George Frederic Handel. German / English musician. Baroque composer famed for his operas and oratorios (among many other works) Date: 1685 - 1759

The Handel Commemoration at Westminster Abbey. View of the orchestra and organ erected in Westminster Abbey under the direction of Mr. James Wyatt. Date: 1784

Five eminent musicians in a decorative frame: Dr. Samuel Arnold(1739-1802), Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), composer of "Rule Britannia", George Frideric Handel(1685-1759) , Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1786- 1855) , and Henry Purcell(1659 -1695). Date: 18th century

A group of chamber musicians rehearse around a piano in a domestic setting. Date: 18th century

A music teacher instructs a lady pupil, who sits astride a harp and looks up adoringly at him. A lap dog watches the scene with some reservations from a stool underneath the harpsicord. Another seated gentleman looks on-is he about to draw the remainder of the curtain Date: 18th century

Not satisfied with the deforestation of their new territory, a mischievous colonist scares the natives by playing the piano or harpsicord out of doors. One of the natives clutches a boomerang, suggesting this is Australia. Date: 1858

Title page of Syntagma Musicum(1620), by Michael Praetorius. Musicians on earth echo the heavenly music of angels and even King David, as they worship the lamb of God. The same decorative border can be seen on a copy of one of Praetorius' earlier work, Hymnodia Sionia, on picture number 10508934. Date: 1620

A family group gather round the piano to sing and play. Date: C.1835

A mother and five children sing together round the piano, 1866. Date: 1866

Men play cymbals and an oboe during the reign of Louis VX of France. Date: 18th century

Raphael Kirchner - Art Nouveau Girl playing the harp from the 'Greek Virgins' postcard series. Date: 1900

Lilian Norton Nordica (1857-1914), American opera singer (soprano) at the piano. Date: 1890

'The rock and roll Waltz' - Music Sheet Cover, music by Shorty Allen, words by Dick Ware as recorded by Kay Starr on H.M.V. Records. An illustration with a photo of Kay Starr in the middle. Date: circa 1955

Piano near stage in ornate theater

Oriental Fantasy Painting by Ferdinand-Max Bredt depicting a Turkish woman in the Harem playing a long-necked lute, sat crossed-legged on a bench. Date: circa 1910s

A group of Iranian men (in a variety of states of sobriety!) following a 'Festan Persan' or 'Royal Persian Feast' in Tehran, Iran. A number of the men are holding and playing musical instruments, a hubble bubble (houkah) pipe is being enjoyed and alcohol is being consumed left right and centre! Date: 1913

A girl listens to a woman playing the piano. Date: 1875

A gentleman sings along to the piano at a late Victorian evening party. 1894

A lady in evening dress plays a grand piano, while a gentleman in white tie contemplates a group of framed portraits on the mantlepiece. Note the copy of The Bystander on the grand piano. Date: 1927

Anna Pavlova in the ballet The Dying Swan by Camille Saint-Saëns, Anonymous

Sergei Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsky, Anonymous

Portrait of the Composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Anonymous

Portrait of the Composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Hanfstaengl, Franz (1804-1877)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Anonymous

Igor Stravinsky, Paris, Lipnitzki, Boris (1897-1971)

Thea-Jazz of Leonid Utyosov, Anonymous

Homage of Paganini to Berlioz at the concert of December 16, 1838, Yvon, Adolphe (1817-1893)

Portrait of the composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), Benjamin-Constant, Jean-Joseph (1845-1902)

Portrait of the composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Anonymous

Portrait of the composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), Anonymous

Cover of the vocal score of opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata by Giuseppe Verdi, Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)

Misia Natanson at the Piano, Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri, de (1864-1901)

Karl Eliasberg (1907-1978), Leningrad, 1964, Anonymous

The Lute Player, Terbrugghen, Hendrick Jansz (1588-1629)

Pyotr Antonovich Spiro at piano and Savva Mamontov, Polenov, Vasili Dmitrievich (1844-1927)

Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) as Radamès in Opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, Anonymous

Organ chorale prelude. From the Orgelbüchlein, Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)

Autograph manuscript of the first page of the Allegro for harpsichord solo from the first version of the sixth sonata in E minor, Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)

Signature of Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)

Cover of the vocal score of opera Carmen by Georges Bizet, Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)

Cover of the ode-symphony Vasco de Gama by Georges Bizet, Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)

Portrait of the composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Anonymous

Sergei Prokofiev and his second wife, Mira Mendelson, Anonymous

Portrait of the Composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Anonymous

Handel, Bach, Tartini, Quantz, Gluck and Jommelli, Anonymous

Johann Sebastian Bach at the organ, Anonymous

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