This site is designed so that its contents are accessible to every type of browser. You browser, however, may not support basic Web standards, preventing the display of our site's design details. You are encouraged to upgrade to a more standards compliant browser.

GetRecord

Elderhorst Chamber Concerts (1898-99)

Collection Summary

Collection Title

Elderhorst Chamber Concerts (1898-99)

Unique Identifier

c.371.g. (4.)

Description

Five undated programmes for concerts given during the first two seasons of the Elderhorst Chamber Concerts held at the Steinway Hall, London in 1898 and 1899. Many of the programmes contain advertisements for the next performance in the series, which allows for the dating provided in square brackets below.

All concerts were in two-parts and combined vocal and instrumental solos with instrumental chamber music. All programmes include brief historical and analytical notes on the principal works performed and the texts for the vocal pieces.

[Second Concert, 1898], featuring the Elderhorst String Quartet (Messrs C.K. Elderhorst, J. Kornfeld, A. Hobday and W. E. Whitehouse), with Isidor Cohn (piano) and Clara Samuell (vocal).

[Third Concert, 2 November 1898], with Madame Alma Haas (piano), Herr A. Kummer (violin), Mr E. Shelton (viola), Mr Charles Ould (cello) and Mr Enes Blackmore (vocal), accompanied by Mr Hopkins Ould.

[Fourth concert, 9 November 1898], with Mr Walter Ford (vocal), Madame Ethel Sharpe (piano), Herr C. K. Elderhorst (violin), J. Kornfeld (violin), Alfred Hobday (viola), W. E. Whitehouse (cello), Claude Hobday (double bass), Manuel Gomez (clarinet), A. Borsdorf (horn), and E. F. James (bassoon). The programme includes an advertisement, with outline programme, for the fifth concert, given on 18 November by Margaret Barter, Muriel Foster, R. A. Streatfeild and Francis Harford (vocal), with Madame Adelina de Lara (piano) and the Elderhorst String Quartet.

[Second concert, 7 February 1899], with Camille Chevillard (piano) and Achille Rivarde (violin), Arnold von Auen (vocal), W. E. Whitehouse (cello), accompanied by Mr Hopkins Auld. The programme includes an advertisement, with outline programme, for third concert, given on 15 February by Miss Fanny Davies (piano), Messrs Elderhorst, Kornfeld, Marchand and Nemes (violins), Messrs Hobday and Shelton (violas), Messrs Whitehouse and Parker (cellos) and Miss Agnes Witting (vocal), accompanied by Mr Hopkins Ould.

[Seventh concert, 1899], with Leonard Borwick (piano), Mr Elderhorst (violin) and Whitehouse (cello), Miss Helen Trust (vocal), Mr Hobday (viola). The programme includes an advertisement, with outline programme, for the eighth concert, given on 21 March by Madame Alma Haas (piano), and the Elderhorst String Quartett, with Claude Hobday (double bass), A. Borsdorf (horn), Manuel Gomez (clarinet) and Mr E. F. James (bassoon).

[Messrs Marchant and Nemes (violin) and Mr Parker (cello) still to be added to relationship terms]

Format

Date range of collection

1898 - 1899

Accumulation Dates

Suggested Audience

Not Specific

Associated People or Organisations

Associated Places

Associated Times

19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899

This collection is about

Location Details

British Library, Music Collections

96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB United Kingdom

Open Map

Website

http://www.bl.uk/collections/music/music.html

music-collections@bl.uk

Telephone

020 7412 7772

Fax

020 7412 7751

Visiting Information

Reprographic services

See http://www.bl.uk for details

Collections Overview

See: http://www.bl.uk/collections/music/music.html

For details of other collections held at the same location: See the location record

Additional Collection Information

Accrual Status

closed

Related Publications

Management Information (Type)

Collection Owner(s)

Collection Creator(s)

Collection Collector(s)

Collection Custodians(s)

Associated Collection(s)