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 photograph may have been taken when Anna was suffering from partial paralysis in the early 1920s. She is seated outside on a wicker-work wheelchair. She wears a dark-coloured hat and has a shawl tucked in over her clothes. In her right hand ...
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
At the beginning of the new season of the R.M.C.M. Club [October 1909], Mrs Brodsky and Madame Grieg [who was staying with the Brodskys in Bowdon] held a reception for members and friends.