Gordon D. W. Curtis

A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England (eBook, PDF)

William Sweetland of Bath

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

William Sweetland was a Bath organ builder who flourished from c.1847 to 1902 during which time he built about 300 organs. Gordon Curtis places this work of a provincial organ builder in the wider context of English musical life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. He relates the biographical details of Sweetland's family, surveys Sweetland's organ building work and explores the organ recital repertoire of the provinces. The second part of the book consists of a Gazeteer of all known organs by Sweetland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317187035
• Artikelnr.: 44867571

Autorenporträt

Gordon Curtis is a chorister and organist with a lifelong interest in church music. He studied for the MA in Organ Historiography at Reading University and is currently involved in editing music for the Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface Part I Sweetland's Life and Work: Introduction
Biography
Bath organ builders and Sweetland's other acquaintances
Business history
Inventions
The organs
Some notable instruments
Repertoire
Sweetland's place in English organ building. Part II Gazetteer: Geographical list of Sweetland's organs
Appendix: conjectural worklist of William Sweetland
Select bibliography
Index.