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British Musical Biography, 1897
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1issued by the authors themselves as a kind of experiment in publishing, their object being a patriotic desire to record the achievements of British workers in the field of musical art.
3The authors are indebted to the following gentlemen for information or aid rendered during the progress of the work:—Mr. Reginald B. Moore, Exeter; Mr. J. A. Browne, editor of the British Musician; Dr. James C. Culwick, Dublin; Mr. Spencer Curwen, London; Mr. T. B. Dowling, Cape Town, South Africa; Mr. Emlyn Evans, Connies, Montgomery; Mr. John Glen, Edinburgh; Mr. W. J. Ions, King's Norton; Mr. E. P. Jones, Brisbane, Australia; Mr. J. A. Matthews, Cheltenham; Mr. C. F. South, Salisbury; Mr. C. J. B. Tirbutt, Reading; Mr. Herbert Thompson, Leeds; and Mr. F. H. Torrington, Toronto, Canada. Also to those artists who responded to the applications made to them for personal information. In addition to the catalogues of the British Museum and other public libraries, general newspapers, and other sources of information, the following works have been drawn upon for particular details: Brown's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians; Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians; the works of Fétis and Mendel-Reissmann; Dictionary of National Biography; Love's Scottish Church Music; Baptie's Musicians of All Times, and Musical Scotland; Roll of the Union of Graduates in Music; Degrees in Music, Abdy Williams, etc. The chief authorities for dates within their period have been the Musical World, 1836-91; Dramatic and Musical Review, 1842-51; Musical Times, from 1844; Musical Standard, from 1862; besides the musical journals of more recent date. For many particulars of less-known musicians, bandmasters, and teachers, much has been gleaned from the Orchestral Times, British Musician, the Musical Herald, and other papers.
5STEPHEN H. STRATTON,
6217, Monument Road,
7Birmingham.
9JAMES D. BROWN,
10Public Library,
11Clerkenwell, London, E.C.
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