厳島くんの Random Thoughts Journal
You Hanaoka 花岡 洋 in Hiroshima prefecture in Japan has started a very interesting blog with a lot of detail on historical Japanese guitarists.
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Works by Francesco Calegari
This table represents the most complete catalog of works by Francesco Calegari. Not much detail about his life is known besides his works and a single concert advertised for July 24, 1815 in Leipzig. He published most of his works with opus numbers through Hofmeister in Leipzig, beginning in 1813 and none appear after 1818. He seems to have returned to Florence in 1818 as his only work for guitar was published by Ricordi that year. Ricordi lists music for piano published by an F. Calegari from 1827 through 1838 but it is unknown whether this is the same composer.
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Pfennig-Magazin für Guitarre
Pfennig magazines were cheap collections in the 1830s of music for instruments such as guitar, piano, violin, and flute. Two in Germany began publication in 1834 with similar titles.
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Luigi Legnani, Catalogo tematico delle edizioni a stampa per e con chitarra by Marco Mustardino
Marco Mustardino published a series of articles 2009 in il Fronimo titled “Luigi Rinaldo Legnani: catalogo tematico delle prime opere a stampa per Chitarra. [Luigi Rinaldo Legnani: thematic catalog of early printed works for Guitar].” This covered first editions and was the first detailed catalog of Legnani’s works.
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Guitar Making In Nineteenth-Century London by Dr. James Westbrook
Dr. James Westbrook has just published Guitar Making in Nineteenth-Century London: Louis Panormo and his Contemporaries.
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The works of C. W. Schmölzl
Not much is known about C. W. Schmölzl other than he was a municipal employee in Augsburg who was the teacher of Eduard Bayer. It doesn’t appear that he published more than a few pieces but there are a large number of manuscripts in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Some of them have been digitized.
Daniel Marx has published an edition of opus 4 Introduction und Variationen über “einem Solo-Steyrer Jodler.”
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Felix Horetzky Vol. 1 – Karl Michelson
A wonderful new 2 CD recording of music by Felix Horetzky (1796-1870) performed by Karl Michelson has just been released. Vol. 1 presents his op 1-19 including duets with terz guitar, concert pieces,
divertissements and exercises.
S. Brainard’s Sons
In the March 1876 issue of Brainard’s Musical World, the editors reprinted articles about their new business location at 341 and 343 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland. The articles came from the Cleveland Daily Herald, the Cleveland Daily Leader, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. An engraving of the front of the building appeared in the March 1876 issue, an engraving of the retail department appeared in May 1876, and an engraving of the Piano Parlors appeared in June 1876. In January 1879 a consolidated article was published in Brainard’s Musical World as appears below.
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