RMK0R6W8–Arnold Schoenberg in the 1920's portrait. Austrian composer 13 April 1874 - 13 July 1951.
RMKE549W–Johann Walter Johann Walter - Title page of score. Pieces for recorder, violin, lute or other instruments. Eight canons by Johann Walter for the same intruments. Spielstucke fur blockfloten. Published by Bärenreiter, 1930. German composer: 1496 – 25 March 1570.
RMK6WGHR–Georges Bizet portrait on Wills's Cigarette Card. Published in London. French composer (1838-1875)
RMK0R7G6–Russian folk dancers holding handkerchief. early 20th century postcard
RMKD6HAX–Verdi's letter to Piave about the Macbeth production intended for Florence. Italian composer (1813-1901).
RMKH92FN–W.T.Rees (Alaw Ddu). Portrait of Welsh composer. 1838 - 1904
RMKF0HX1–Leos Janacek 's opera 'The Excursions of Mr. Broucek' - set designed by Karel Stapfer - A Public Place in Prague. Czech composer, 13 July 1854 - 12 August 1928.
RMKE53RA–Jacques Offenbach operetta La Vie Parisenne. La Veuve Du Colonel , Zulma Bouffar in role as Gabrielle at Varietés , Paris 1866. German/French composer (1819-1880)
RMKE53PJ–Hamburg in 1727.With a view of the Opera House (nr.16). Handel connection - (German-English composer, 1685-1759)
RMKF2RE3–MAHLER, Gustav conducting- in 4 poses caricature by Hans Boehler (Böhler) Austrian composer, 1860-1911
RMKF0J1C–Henry VIII' , the opera in four acts by Camille Saint-Saëns, with libretto by Léonce Détroyat and Armand Silvestre at Academie Nationale de musique, Paris. 1903. Act III. CSS: French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, 9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921. Tinted version.
RMK0R4W7–Rachmaninov in Senar, 1938 Segei Vassilievich Rachmaninov. Russian pianist and composer at his villa in Senar, 1873-1943
RMK2YDB4–AUDIENCE... after the performance by Gustave Dore
RMKD3T17–CHOPIN, Frederic - composed music for the ballet ' Chopiniana ' (Russian title for Les Sylphides ) Polish composer, 1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849 Premiered 23/2/1907, Marinsky Theatre, St Petersburg.
RMKD6J06–Plate XXXII from Praetorius's 'Syntagma Musicum' showing: 1. chorus, 2. psaltery, 3 & 4. psaltery decahordun, 5 & 6. cithara hieronimi. Dated 1619. 16th century Renaissance, 17th century early Baroque. Praetorius: German composer and musicologist of sacred and profane music, 18 February 1571 - 15 February 1621. German musician, composer and theorist, 15 February 1571 - 15 February 1621.
RMKF2R5F–Luigi Lablache as Figaro in Gioacchino Rossini 's opera 'Il barbiere di Siviglia' (The Barber of Seville). Italian bass of French and Irish parentage 6 December 1794 - 23 January 1858. Caricature by Dantan. Also Gioachino
RMKD3RTK–MEYERBEER's The Prophet - Act 4 Scene 4 The "Prophet" (John of Leyden) denies that Fides is his mother. Liebig Meat Advertisement. German composer, 1791-1864
RMKFRBK9–Musicians from the 16th century - one sits on the other's shoulders and plays a wooden flute. The standing musician is baging a drum. Two dogs barks at the sound. Woodcut by Lorenz Strauch 1554-1636 Drummer. Flautist
RMKH92CF–Song composed for George II by Mr. Rann, one of his foresters at Windsor. To the tune of King George's March. George II of Great Britain, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760.
RMK0RAA5–PRAGUE - Interim Theatre, where Dvorak was employed here as a member of the orchestra
RMKD6HA9–Dmitri Shostakovich at the piano standing with score in hand, c.1942 Russian composer, 25 September 1906 - 9 August 1975. Schostakowitsch
RMKD3TDE–Rhené-Baton portrait. French conductor and composer (1879-1940), real name René Baton. Photo by Manuel Freres. (1913- 1939)
RMKD6KAD–Title-page of Handel's opera 'Julius Caesar'. / Giulio Cesare in Egitto. First edition, 1724. (English School 18th century). Lady playing clavichord and man with bass viol, in Renaissance/Elizabethan costume. Angels holding parchment and horn player. Heavenly setting. German-English composer, 1685-1759.
RMKFRB7A–National Theatre, Prague, inaugural concert programme, 1883. Programme of the inaugural concert with which the National Theatre was opened, 18 November 1883.
RMK0R5DJ–Nellie Melba portrait. Australian soprano, 1861-1931
RMKD6JFE–Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer, b.1904.- 1992. editorial usage only
RMKD6NX6–Andrea Chenier Act III opera by GIORDANO, Umberto - Italian opera composer. Drawing by A. Bonamore28 August 1867- 12 November 1948
RMKF2R53–PAGANINI, Niccolo, being cheered at end of concert and given a bouquet of flowers by an ardent female admirer. Italian Violinist and Composer (1782-1840)
RMKH907R–Tubo Timpanite. Drum with resonating tube, played with beaters by musician in ancient military costume.Caption reads Tubo Timpanite. Illustration from Filippo Bonanni's 'Gabinetto Armonico' published in 1723, Illustration 80. Engraving by Arnold van Westerhout.
RMKH92XE–Joseph Frankovský - portrait of Czech actor. 13 May 1840 - 15 September 1901.
RMK6WG48–YSAYE, Eugene - caricature from Musica 1903 Belgian violinist (1858-1931)
RMKD6KXH–Giacomo Meyerbeer - Robert le Diable - 1831 (Robert the Devil, Robert Der Teufel). Opera act 5 scene 3: Bertram the devil with Alice holding Robert. German composer, 1791-1864 Liebig Fleisch-Extract collection cards.
RMKF2T7J–Erich Kleiber - portrait of the Austrian conductor by Emil Orlik. EK: 5 August 1890 - 27 January 1956. Father of Carlos Kleiber.
RMKE55NY–The Mighty Five or The Mighty Handful (Moguchaya kuchka). Caricature by K E Makovsky, 1871. The five composers Cui, Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Borodin had refused to give a private performance of Dargomishsky 's 'Stone Gues' for Turgenev. As T had offended them with remarks about Glinka and Balakirev in his novel 'On the Eve'. From l to r: Cesar Cui, Balakirev with Baton, Stasov in national costume blowing the horn of fame and beating a drum, Victor Hartmann, architect and artist, whose exhibition of paintings inspired Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition', sitting on Stasov
RMKF2R6Y–Tambourine Ancient and primitive instrument consisting of shallow wooden hoop with parchment head. Inserted in its side are small circular metal plates or 'jingles'. Musician is wearing a crown of laurels
RMK6WGY7–LISZT, F. Hungarian pianist and composer - in Paris - in the studio of Godebski (sculptor). From "Le Monde Illustré", 3rd April 1886. 22 October 1811 - 31 July 1886.
RMK2YCT9–Richard WAGNER - Caricature - 1879 by CV Grimm Heading: 'Siegfried-Wagner raises the 'treasure' of the Nibelungs.' Wagner has slain the dragon which symbolises the Critics (Kritik). Published in Leipzig, 1879. Villa Wahnfried in backgroundGerman composer & author (1813-1883).
RMKE55R8–The house where Verdi was born in Roncole, Parma, Italy.
RMKF0J6A–BRAHMS conducting by Willy von Beckerath. German composer. 1833-1897. Tinted version.
RMK2YDA9–Alfredo Catalani 's opera 'La Wally', scene from 1st production, Milan 1892. With CESARI (baritone), Hariclea DARCLÉE (Soprano) and Sophie STEHLE (Soprano). Italian composer, 19 June 1854 - 7 August 1893.
RMKH90XB–Isadora Duncan - after portrait by Bakst, 1905. ID: American born dancer, 27 May 1877 — 14 September 1927. LB: Russian painter and scene- and costume designer, member of Ballets Russes, 10 May 1866 – 28 December 1924.
RMKH92E6–Lady playing bass viol, 17th century.
RMKE5598–Carroll Gibbons. American-born pianist, composer and conductor. 4 January 1903 - 10 May 1954. (Wills's cigarette card)
RMKD6KNJ–Slaughter on Tenth Avenue - musical by Richard Rodgers. Score cover with smoking gun. Published by Chappell in 1936. American composer, 28 June 1902 - 30 December 1979.
RMKH92RW–Hartford Festival programme 1936. Programme for first Hartford Festival. Contemporary music festival.
RMKF2R5P–Arcangelo Corelli - title page of the Italian composer 's 'Trio Sonatas', Op.1, Rome 1681. 17 February 1653 - 8 January 1713.
RMKD6K1Y–Mario Lanza, portrait on photographic postcard American singer of Italian descent, 1921-1959. Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
RMK0R7PX–BACH, J S - Caffee Cantata 1734 'The Leipzig Kuchengarten' (in Grimmaischen Steinweg, in the suburb of Gaststätte, South of Leipzig) drawn in 1746. Bach's Collegium Musicum would meet here in the summer. Owned by Katherinenstrasse coffee house owner. Bach's Collegium Musicum would meet there.
RMK4N511–KETELBEY, Albert W - In a Persian Market Cover of score. Published by Bosworth and Co. London, 1920. British composer and conductor, 1875-1959
RMKF0J83–Leos Janacek autograph manuscript for 'Conte'/ Pohadka. Fairy tale for cello and Piano. JW 7/5. Czech composer, 13 July 1854 - 12 August 1928.
RMKE53JK–The Great Waltz programme cover. Musical romance on life of Johann Strauss, musical adaptation by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Lyrics by Wright and Forrest, book by Jerome Chodorov. Performed at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London from July 1970.
RMKFRBC5–Louis Spohr - portrait of the German violinist in 1858, composer and conductor, 5 April 1784 – 22 October 1859.
RMKD6HJK–Tamara Karsavina, pictured in unknown role. Russian ballet dancer, 1885-1978.
RMKF0JGR–Johannes Brahms and Hans Von Bulow. Brahms: German composer. Bulow: German pianist and conductor, 1830-1894 1833-1897. Colourised version.
RMKH90GF–'The Lovers' (harp, lute and lute-case). Engraving by Israel van Meckenem. (also Israhel) German printer and goldsmith, c. 1445 – 1503.
RMKD6K5W–Félicien David score cover for Le Désert - composed music for poem by MA Colim. Drawing on score cover by C. Nanteuil. Published Mayence, B.Schott. French composer 1810-1876
RMKE55FJ–Pauline Viardot-Garcia. French mezzo-soprano and composer, 1821-1910
RMKE51YD–Ludwig van Beethoven - caricature / drawing of German composer by J.P. Lyser. 17 December 1770 - 26 March 1827
RMKF2RWM–Jean Baptiste Lully with a group of court musicians ensemble behind him (violin, viola da gamba) Engraving by Bonnart, Henri (1642-1711). Italian-French composer, 1632-1687.
RMKH917M–'The Officer of the Mint' - from engraved design by J. Amman, 16th century.
RMKD6NW5–Gaspare Spontini, portrait. Italian opera composer and conductor, 14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851
RMKD6NND–Paris, view of L'Avenue de L'Opéra from Grand Hôtel du Louvre.
RMKD6MD2–Ludwig van Beethoven - opening page of score for Overture from opera Fidelio, Opus 72b. German composer, 17 December 1770 - 26 March 1827. Ernst Eulenburg, Leipzig, 1911
RMKE5313–Giacomo Puccini in his motor-boat. 22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924.
RMKFRB31–Franz Liszt - caricature, after drawing by M. Munkacsy (1844 - 1900). Hungarian pianist and composer, 22 October 1811 - 31 July 1886.
RMK2YCDJ–GRIEG family in Landaas Garden Norwegian composer, 1843-1907
RMK2YDDA–MARTIN, Riccardo - as Enzo in 'La Gioconda' in PONCHIELLI's "La Gioconda" American Tenor (1874-1952)
RMKE52YY–Aeolian Orchestrelle - Louvres behind doors increase volume. 'Model Y' made by Aeolian Orchestrelle Company of New York in 1901. Height 8 foot, 4 inches, width 6 foot 4 inches. Utilises 28 stops and cost £600 when first new. Case made from walnut, interior from yellow tulipwood. Plays paper rolls automatically and can be played manually using keyboard. Air is pumped by an electric blower. 2 wooden levers are knee or hand operated. Piano roll is a roll of paper with perforations (holes) punched in it.Produced industrially.
RMKFRBCE–Thomas Britton - portrait of the English coal merchant and concert promoter. TB: 14 January 1644 - 27 September 1714. Established weekly concerts over his shop in London.
RMKE51FT–Pygmalion - opera by French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. Costume design for Pierre Jeliotte in role of Pygmalion. Artist unknown. JPR: 25 September 1683 - 12 September 1764.
RMK4N4M2–Kirsten Flagstad as Leonore in Beethoven 's Fidelio. Norwegian soprano 1895-1962.
RMKH92CX–Hans Sachs in The Mastersingers of Nuremberg. Character in opera by Richard Wagner (German title:' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'). Illustration on Liebig card, 1906. Series title: 'Heroes of Wagner's Operas' ('Héros des Opéras de Wagner'). RW: German composer & author, 22 May 1813 - 13 February 1883.
RMKF2R4G–Vladimir Horowitz portrait. Russian, later American, pianist, 1 October 1904 - 5 November 1989
RMK0R7AW–Henry PURCELL English composer (1659-1695)
RMK0R4Y9–Prosper Merimee. Painting from 1866, lost in the war. Prosper Merimee 1803-1870. French novelist, archaeologist and historian, wrote CARMEN
RMKD3T3K–Michel / Mikhail Fokine in 'Javotte', St. Petersburg, 1902 - photograph by Karl Fischer. MF, Russian dancer & choreographer: 23 April 1880 - 22 August 1942. Worked for Diaghilev in productions of Schumann's Carnaval, Rimsky- Korsakov's Scheherazade and Stravinsky's Firebird etc.
RMK4N51N–Bechstein first factory- advertisement from 1865. Price list. Grand and Upright Pianos.
RMKD6K8N–Vladimir Horowitz smiling in front of the American flag in an RCA publicity photo. Russian, later American pianist, 1st October 1904 - 5th November 1989
RMKH92TE–Humours of Oxford - frontispiece by William Hogarth, 1729. Comedy play by James Miller. Peformed at Drury Lane, London. Showing the Vice Chancellor with his beadle surprising two Fellows of a College, one of whom is drunk, at a tavern. Engraved by T. Cook.
RMK2YC8C–Mozart's Il Seraglio. Costume design for Osmin, 1910 production at His Majestys Theatre conducted by Beecham.
RMK0R75B–KOTHEN .Princess Friederica Henrietta Married Prince Leopold of Anhalt Kothen. BACH appointed Kapellmeister to his court in 1717. Wrote mainly instrumental works while there.
RMKFRBDD–Man playing the Roman Cornu - G-shaped conical tube of bronze. Illustration from Filippo Bonanni's ' Gabinetto Armonico' published in 1723, Illustration 7. Engraving by Arnold van Westerhout. Caption reads Tromba Curua
RMKD3RXG–BYRD, William-Titlepage from "Psalmes, Sonnets and Songes of sadnes and pietie". Contratenor part. English composer (1543-1623)
RMK0RA36–Franz Liszt - portrait. Paris, c.1837. Hungarian pianist and composer. 22 October 1811 - 31 July 1886.
RMK6WGEC–'Nussdorferlied' by Ernst Arnold. Score cover 1921. Published by Lyra Verlag, Leipzig-Wien, 1921. Dance band with conductor, violinist, accordionist, dancers.
RMKE5547–Les Huguenots, opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer at Her Majesty's Theatre, London 1858 production (London Illustrated News 24 April, 1858) German composer, 5 September 1791 - 2 May 1864.
RMKE53MF–Lavalliere as d'Inesita and Brasseur as Baron de la Palisse in 'Monsieur de la Palisse' by Robert de Flers and G A de Caillavet, music by C Terrasse at Theatre des Varietes. Cover Le Theatre ,December 1904. Photo Paul Boyer.
RMKH9228–'There's a Long, Long Trail' - song written by Stoddard King and composed by Zo Elliot. 1913. Popular during World War 1. Page 3 of 3.
RMKD3RJB–NAPRAVNIK, Eduard - conducted première of Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky. Composed his pwn operas: Dubrovsky (1895), & Francesca da Rimini (1902) Russian conductor, 1839-1916
RMKF0HYA–Eve Lavalliere as Miquette from ' Miquette et sa mere ' at Théâtre des Variétés, Paris. Original photo by Cheri-Rousseau.
RMKD6HC1–Alexandre Dumas fils's 'La Dame aux Camélias'. Scene with Armand and Marguerite. French Playwright, 1824-1895. Story was used in Verdi's opera 'La Traviata'.
RMKH90WX–Eleonora Duse - portrait. Italian actress, 1858–1924.
RMKE51EX–Giuseppe Verdi - portrait of the Italian composer at the time of his opera 'Trovatore' (The Troubadour). Italian composer, 9 or 10 October 1813 - 27 January 1901.
RMKD3T9J–Bad flute player in stocks for his bad playing ('Schandflöte für Schlechte Musikanter'). Late Middle- Ages illustration.
RMK4N4EK–MAYR, Giovanni Simone - portrait by Conte German opera composer (1763-1845). Master of Donizetti