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GB GB1179 AB-AB/1077
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A collection of miscellaneous papers with Brodsky connections
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- 1920s (Creation)
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(1851-1929)
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Adolph Brodsky was born in 1851 in Taganrog on the Sea of Azov. At the age of not quite five, he began to play the violin and later became a pupil of Hellmesberger at the Vienna Conservatoire. In 1880 he married Anna Tskadowska in Sebastopol in the Crimea. The following year Brodsky became the first person to play the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, declared unplayable by Leopold Auer to whom the original dedication was made. From 1883 to 1891 Brodsky taught at the Leipzig Conservatoire and established the Brodsky Quartet. In October 1891 Adolph and Anna Brodsky sailed for New York . After a very strenuous three years as concertmaster and soloist with the New York Symphony Orchestra under Walter Damrosch, Brodsky decided to return to Europe. When in Berlin, Adolph Brodsky received a letter from Sir Charles Hallé inviting him to teach at the recently founded Royal Manchester College of Music and to lead the Hallé Orchestra. Although Brodsky received offers of work from St. Petersburg, Berlin and Cologne and despite his wife's misgivings, Brodsky accepted the Manchester post. Within weeks of Brodsky's arrival in Manchester in 1895, Hallé died and Brodsky took over as principal of the College, a position which he held until his death in 1929.
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This miscellany of papers was with a collection of Brodsky programmes. This collection comprises various mainly musical items and is listed here: Hale Cinema House Programme for December 1929, an order form for violin music from Joseph Williams, London, a Breitkopf & Hartel catalogue of modern Russian music for solo string instruments, a brochure of the music of William Baines, two copies of Music Teachers' Guide [Bosworth & Co.], Musical News, July 1928, programme of a musical recital by Mrs. William Alsop, vocalist and Mr. William Alsop, violinist in the Vincent Club, Glasgow on 30 January 1920, press notices of the violinist, Albert Voorsanger, a catalogue of selected songs by Cyril Scott, published by Elkin, a catalogue of songs by Roger Quilter, also published by Elkin, Stories of the operas in the repertoire of the Godwin Opera Company, an advertisement for the book, The Technique of the fiddle bow, by J. Hullah Brown, Thematic list of violin pieces for teaching purposes, published by Joseph Williams, two handbills for concerts given by the Vienna Choir Boys, conductor Dr. Georg Gruber, in the Houldsworth Hall, Manchester on Saturday 30 October at 3 and 8pm, and a list of violin works published by Joseph Williams.
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- Brodsky, Adolph Davidovich (1851-1929), Violinist, Principal of the Royal Manchester College of Music (Creator)
- Vienna Choir Boys (1498-present) (Creator)
- Brown, J. Hullah (fl.1920s), author (Creator)
- Godwin Opera Company (fl.1920s) (Creator)
- Quilter, Roger Cuthbert (1877-1953), composer (Creator)
- Scott, Cyril Meir (1879-1970), composer, poet (Creator)
- Voorsanger, A.E. (fl.1920s) (Creator)
- Alsop, ?. (fl.1920s), singer (Creator)
- Alsop, William (fl.1920s), violinist (Creator)
- Baines, William (1899-1922), composer, pianist (Creator)
- Breitkopf & Härtel (1719-present), music publishers (Creator)
- Joseph WIlliams, London (1808-1907), music publishers (Creator)
- Gruber, Georg (fl.1920s), conductor (Creator)