European, British, and American Musical Instrument Collectors, 1850-1940

European, British, and American Musical Instrument Collectors, 1850-1940

Linsenmeyer, Christina

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2024

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9781032105093

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Introduction 1. Collecting African Musical Instruments during the Colonization Era. The case of the Congo 2. Provenance and Instruments of the Violin Family 3.From 'Scoundrel' to Professor: The legacy of John Donaldson (c. 1788-1865) and the founding of the University of Edinburgh's musical instrument collection 4. Carl Engel (1818-1882): 'The highest authority in Europe upon the development of musical instruments' 5. 'The rare museum of an artist and inventor': Adolphe Sax's (1814-1894) collection of musical instruments 6. Alfred Hill (1862-1940) and Arthur Hill (1860-1939): Private collectors, public benefactors 7. Cesar Charles Snoeck (1834-1898): Making the intangible, tangible 8. Daniel Sargent Pillsbury (1836-1902): First collector of American band instruments 9. Collecting Musical Instruments - A Merchant's Passion. The Rueck family collection (c. 1880-1962) 10. Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown (1842-1918): A Herculean piece of work 11. Auguste Tolbecque's (1830-1919) Collection: A new aesthetic order and the experimental archeology of musical instruments 12. Celebrating the Art of Musical-Instrument Making. The private collection of Victor-Charles Mahillon (1841-1924) 13. Carl Claudius (1855-1931) and His Sound-chests 14. 'No Mere Assemblage of Musical Instruments': The foundations of Arnold Dolmetsch's (1858-1940) collection 15. Dayton C. Miller (1866-1941), an American Collector of Flutes 16. George Henry Benton Fletcher (1866-1944), The Improbable Collector 17. Francis W. Galpin (1858-1945): The Canon and collector 18. Henry Ford (1863-1947): Gathering America's musical past 19. Fritz Wildhagen (1878-1956) - Painter, Collector, Aesthete 20. Evan Gorga (1865-1957): An extraordinary collector, his incredible collections, and their disastrous odyssey 21. Curt Sachs (1881-1959) as Head of the Collection of Musical Instruments in Berlin: Views and perspectives Appendices
nineteenth century;twentieth century;music;collecting;wealth;objects;material culture;museums;collections;organology;colonization;Africa;the Congo;violin;University of Edinburgh;Belgium;United States;ethnomusicology;musicology;cultural heritage;Europe;Germany