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Total number of records: 16

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Brotherton Collection13
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection7

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music16
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classical music2
music publishing2
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administration1
business management1
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Paris, France6
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Munich, Germany1

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Chorley, Henry Fothergill (1808-1872)4
Gardiner, William (1770-1853)2
Haydn, Joseph, 1732-18092
Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-17822
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-17912
Stendhal (1783-1842)2
Adam, Adolphe (1803-1856)1
Brewin, Robert1
Burney, Charles (1726-1814)1
Burney, Charles, 1726-18141

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Contracts to sing in Italy, France and Spain

1849-1852

6 contracts for Clara Anastasia Novello to sing in Rome, Florence, Milan, Paris and Madrid between 1849 and 1852, written in Italian.

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Chapelle-musique des rois de France

Castil-Blaze (1784-1857)

1832

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Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770

Burney, Charles (1726-1814); Poole, Herbert Edmund

1969

First published in 1771 under title: The present state of music in France and Italy.

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The lives of Haydn and Mozart : with observations on Metastasio, and on the present state of music in France and Italy

Stendhal (1783-1842); Gardiner, William (1770-1853)

1818

L.A.C. Bombert is a pseudonym for Stendhal.

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The life of Haydn : in a series of letters written at Vienna. Followed by the life of Mozart, with observations on Metastasio, and on the present state of music in France and Italy

Stendhal (1783-1842); Gardiner, William (1770-1853); Brewin, Robert; Carpani, Giuseppe (1752-1825); Winckler, Théophile Frédéric (1771-1807); Schlichtegroll, Friedrich von (1765-1822)

1817

"Canon cancrizans a 3 voce. Haydn": p. [331]. The life of Haydn is, in the main, a plagiarism of G. Carpani's Le Haydine (Milan, 1812) The biographical part of the Mozart, credited by Stendhal to Sc...

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Receipt from Luigi Zuppani

21 Dec 1852

Handwritten receipt to Clara Anastasia Novello from Luigi Zuppani for 1,080 Francs paid as a brokers fee, in connetion with a document by the Royal Theatre, Madrid, Spain, as agreed by R.B.Benelli the...

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Modern German music : recollections and criticisms (v.1)

Chorley, Henry Fothergill (1808-1872)

1854

A portion of the work appeared in the author's Music and manners in France and North Germany' in 1841.

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Modern German music : recollections and criticisms (v.2)

Chorley, Henry Fothergill (1808-1872)

1854

A portion of the work appeared in the author's Music and manners in France and North Germany' in 1841.

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Modern German music : recollections and criticisms (v.2)

Chorley, Henry Fothergill (1808-1872)

1854

A portion of the work appeared in the author's Music and manners in France and North Germany' in 1841.

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Modern German music : recollections and criticisms (v.1)

Chorley, Henry Fothergill (1808-1872)

1854

A portion of the work appeared in the author's Music and manners in France and North Germany' in 1841.

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Souvenirs d'un musicien

Adam, Adolphe (1803-1856)

1857

"Liste complète des ouvrages d'Adolphe Adam": p. [li]-liv.

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Novello, Clara Anastasia to Rossini, Gioachino

5 May 1867

Typedwritten copy of a letter from Clara Anastasia Novello to the composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini, written in Italian.

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