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1856 Brussels Competition

El Clamor Publico. N.3667, 3 July 1856 (page 4)

    —GUITARS. While in Spain every day the study of the guitar is declining, which in other times had the same role that the piano represents today in the salons, that instrument achieves more success in some foreign countries. We do not know on whose behalf, but it is true Read more

By Robert Coldwell, 6 yearsMay 27, 2019 ago

Revue et Gazette Musicale de Paris. N.26, 29 June 1856 (page 210)

    *St. Petersburg. —A passionate amateur of the guitar has just put out two prizes: one of 200 and the other of 125 rubles of silver, which will be awarded to the author of the two best compositions for this instrument; in addition, he has devoted two other prizes of Read more

By Robert Coldwell, 6 yearsMay 27, 2019 ago

La Iberia. N.601, 24 June 1856 (page 4)

    THE GUITAR. While in Spain every day the study of the guitar is declining, which in other times had the same role that the piano represents today in the salons, that instrument achieves more success in some foreign countries. We do not know on whose behalf, but it is Read more

By Robert Coldwell, 6 yearsMay 27, 2019 ago

La Zarzuela. N.21, 23 June 1856 (page 166)

    While in Spain every day the study of the guitar is declining, which in other times had the same role that the piano represents today in the salons, that instrument achieves more success in some foreign countries. We do not know on whose behalf, but it is true that Read more

By Robert Coldwell, 6 yearsMay 27, 2019 ago

Le Guide Musical. N.16, 19 June 1856 (pages 2-3)

    *Among the musical instruments that have been struck by severe ostracism is the guitar, whose fashion, long famous, has disappeared nowadays to give way to the most desolate indifference or the most bitter derision. Once an inseparable companion of song and poetry, the guitar has been accused of insufficient Read more

By Robert Coldwell, 6 yearsMay 27, 2019 ago

L’Indépendance. N.169, 17 June 1856 (page 1)

–Among the musical instruments that have been struck by severe ostracism is the guitar, whose fashion, long famous, has disappeared nowadays to give way to the most desolate indifference or the most bitter derision. Once an inseparable companion of song and poetry, the guitar has been accused of insufficient and Read more

By Robert Coldwell, 6 yearsMay 27, 2019 ago

Rheinische Musik Zeitung für Kunstfreunde und Künstler. N.24, 14 June 1856 (page 190)

   Petersburg. A Mr. Nicolaus Makarov in St. Petersburg as a “lover of music and especially the guitar” to raise this latter instrument has announced four prizes, one of 200 and one of 125 silver rubles for the best compositions for the guitar, then one of 200 and one of 125 Read more

By Robert Coldwell, 6 yearsMay 27, 2019 ago

Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti. N.78, 5 April 1856 (pages 442-443)

Guitar Awards program for the best guitar compositions and best guitars     Among the musical instruments that are expelled from the huge orchestral family is the guitar. The fate of this poetic instrument, which came to us from the homeland of Don Juan, is sad.     Once a fashionable Read more

By Robert Coldwell, 6 yearsMay 27, 2019 ago

Neue Berliner Musikzeitung. N.23, 4 June 1856 (page 182)

    Brussels. A Mr. Nicolaus Makarov in St. Petersburg as a “lover of music and especially of the guitar” to raise this latter instrument has announced four prizes, one of 200 and one of 125 silver rubles for the best compositions for the guitar, then one of 200 and one of Read more

By Robert Coldwell, 6 yearsMay 26, 2019 ago

Blätter für Musik, Theater und Kunst. N.43, 27 May 1856 (page 172)

  *A Mr. Nicolaus Makarov in St. Petersburg as a “lover of music and especially the guitar” to raise this latter instrument has announced four prizes, one of 200 and one of 125 silver rubles for the best compositions for the guitar, then one of 200 and one of 125 silver Read more

By Robert Coldwell, 6 yearsMay 26, 2019 ago

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