The Brodsky Papers comprise letters, newscuttings, programmes, telegrams, photograph albums, loose photographs, concert tickets, official documents (marriage certificate, diplomas) and music, which were found in the Brodsky home following the deat...
Brodsky, Adolph Davidovich (1851-1929), Violinist, Principal of the Royal Manchester College of Music
This cryptic outline of Brodsky covers his birth, education, marriage to Anna Skadovsky in 1880 and subsequent career as teacher and international performer. His recreation is given as chess and his clubs, London City Chess, Schiller Anstalt and ...
At the top of this newscutting is written and underlined in ink: Anna Brodsky's copy. This concert was given a couple of months before Brodsky's 70th birthday.
This article outlines Brodsky's biography and also mentions his violin, a fine Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu of 1735 and his bows, by Tourte, Hill and others. The article includes a list of Brodsky's most famous pupils. Much of the inform...
Mrs. Brodsky was present in an "invalid chair" in the company of many musicians including past and present students of the College, members of the Hallé and representatives of the University
This article was originally broadcast on the Home Service and later published in The Listener pages 683 and 684, dated 19 April 1962. The Tchaikovsky letters were translated by Mrs. Alice Pitfield, wife of the author. Thomas Pitfield mentions how...
Pitfield, Thomas Baron (1903-1999), Composer, artist
This handsome cigar box bears the inscription: Ihrem Ehrengast Herrn Professor A. Brodsky zur freundlichen Erinnerung an die Concertsaison 1888-1889. Die Mitglieder des Neuen Philharm. Orchesters unter Leitung des Herrn Dr. H. v. Bülow. Hamburg,...
Bülow, Hans von (1830-1894), conductor, pianist, composer
The marriage took place between Adolph Davidov Brodsky aged 29 and Anna L'vovna Skadowsky aged 27 on 1 May 1880 in Sebastopol Petropavloskaia Tserkov'. [Peter Paul Church]. The certificate has been stamped in Kherson on 8 May 1895 and a...
Brodsky, Adolph Davidovich (1851-1929), Violinist, Principal of the Royal Manchester College of Music
Picture postcard of the Brodsky Quartet comprising Adolph Brodsky, Christopher Rawdon Briggs, Simon Speelman and Carl Fuchs. In Anna's hand, Annadolph Brodsky writes to Herr Dehn [Gustav Dehn] to thank him for his kind letter and expresses a...