classical music

L. van Beethovens Geburtshaus in Bonn

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Classical Music from "Mazowsze. Obraz etnograficzny, etc"

This image has been taken from scan 000076 from volume 03 of "Mazowsze. Obraz etnograficzny, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Librar... More

Portret van componist Franz Liszt

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Jos. Hofmann, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Josef Casimir Hofmann (1876-1957), a Polish American pianist, composer, music teacher and inventor. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on t... More

R. Epstein, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows pianist Richard Epstein (1869-1919) at the piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain C... More

To a water-lily

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Skuteczky The Recital 1885

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Haremde beethoven - Drawing. Public domain image.

A painting by Abdulmecid (29 May 1868 – 23 August 1944) depicting his Circassian wife Şehsuvar Kadınefendi playing violin, Hatice (also known as lady Ophelia) playing piano, and his son Ömer Faruk plays cello ... More

Franz Schubert - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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Novaes, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Brazilian pianist Guiomar Novaes (1895-1979) seated at piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Gra... More

Stravinsky, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1882-1971). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. F... More

Mlle. Violette Chantal, French pianist

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[The Philadelphia Orchestra, Ormandy, at the Palais de Chaillot]

[The Philadelphia Orchestra, Ormandy, at the Palais de Chaillot] - [PAR-7160 through PAR-7169]

Violinist Itzhak Perlman Performs during the White House State Dinner ...

Original caption: Violinist Itzhak Perlman plays during the entertainment portion of the White House State Dinner in honor on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Monday evening, May 7, 2007, in the East Room at the... More

Human Spaceflight The Kennedy Legacy

Emil de Cou conducts the Space Philharmonic during a program entitled Human Spaceflight: The Kennedy Legacy, Wednesday, May 25, 2011, in the concert hall at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in... More

Mstislav Rostropovich performs at the White House - NARA - 181346

Elena Rostropovich and her father Mstislav Rostropovich perform at the white house in Washington, DC in 1978

William Hogarth - George Frideric Handel

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Marsovia waltzes

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791, engraving, Library of Congress

Head and shoulders, facing left. Halftone repro. of drawing copyrighted by Eugene A. Perry. No. 166. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I.; BI; Pub.; Shelf.

Orchestra

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[ Danny Kaye gives a powerful gesture to the orchestra while conductin...

Courtesy of Otto Rothschild Collection, Music Center Archives (Copyright Notice) Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description P... More

[Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left...

17386 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph of painting(?). Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pink lady waltzes

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Illinois symphony orchestra - Public domain music sheet scan

Poster for Federal Music Project presentation of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra at the Great Northern Theatre, showing a large musical note. Date stamped on verso: May 22 1937. Work Projects Administration Pos... More

Aaron Copland at Rock Hill

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[The Philadelphia Orchestra, Ormandy, at the Palais de Chaillot]

[The Philadelphia Orchestra, Ormandy, at the Palais de Chaillot] - [PAR-7160 through PAR-7169]

Alois Hans Schram - Klavierstunde 1902

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Georges Bizet - George Bizet, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Georges Bizet, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in oval. Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm. No. 7727. Bain News Service photograph. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Illinois symphony orchestra - Public domain music sheet scan

Poster for Federal Music Project presentation of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra at the Great Northern Theatre, showing a hand conducting and musical notes along left border. Poster design attributed to Ralph G... More

Franz Liszt - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Sevillanas

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E. Granados - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Spanish composer and pianist Enrique Granados Campina (1867-1916). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Concerto for two violins

Violin duet, with string ensemble Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Felix Mendelssohn - Public domain portrait photograph

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Aaron Copland, Nadia Boulanger, Walter Piston at the Old France restau...

At the Old France restaurant in Boston. Irving Fine is seated at front left.

Hart House String Quartet 1932

Magyar: Kézzel írva a fotó egy fizikai változatáraː Négy Stradivari hangszeren játszva a Town Hall-ban [New York] '/32 "Harry Adaskin (ex Halir 1693), Milton Blackstone (ex Paganini 1730), Geza de Kresz (Prince... More

Julius Schmid Schubertiade

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Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911

3/4, seated, facing left. H [2?]4096 U.S. Copyright Office. Photoprint copyrighted by A. Dupont, N.Y. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.

Percy Grainger - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961), an Australian-born composer and pianist. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Heimkehr aus der Fremde. Libretto. German

Musik von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Libretto by Klingemann--New Grove. Performers' names not given.

De Pianoles door Henriëtte Ronner-Knip

Pianolesson by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip. Cats are playing on the piano

Johann Sebastian Bach - Public domain portrait drawing

Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 61) in a portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann, second version of his 1746 canvas. Bach is holding a copy of the six-part canon BWV 1076.

The Mendelssohn family Felix Mendelssohn--Abraham Mendelssohn, his fa...

Scrapbook, containing printed matter about the family, holograph letters by them or to them, portraits, and holograph music ("Praeludium für ein Orgel, zum 3ten Oktober 1829," by Fanny Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, d... More

Leginska, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Ethel Leginska, born Liggins (1886-1970) who was a British pianist, music teacher, composer and conductor. Leginska is listening to a battery-powered radio. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 201... More

Teresa Carreno, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Venezuelan pianist and composer María Teresa Carreño García de Sena (1853-1917). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms ... More

[The Philadelphia Orchestra, Ormandy, at the Palais de Chaillot]

[The Philadelphia Orchestra, Ormandy, at the Palais de Chaillot] - [PAR-7160 through PAR-7169]

[New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris and reception]

[New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris and reception] - [PAR-7632 through PAR-7642]

Elijah arranged for duet 4 - Public domain dedication image

"Elijah", Introduction and overture, arranged for piano duet. Manuscript copy in Mendelssohn's handwriting. Page 4 of 7.

Saint-Saëns, Camille. Introduction et rondo capriccioso

Camille Saint-Saëns's Introduction et rondo capriccioso, annotated by Roman Totenberg. 2 violin parts. (General)

Portrait - Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer

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Georges Bizet - Bizet, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Georges Bizet, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Bain News Service photograph. GG Co. 5124. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Arran (music) - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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M. Sieveking, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Martinus Sieveking (1867-1950), a Dutch virtuoso pianist and composer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: G... More

Marcel Charlier - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows conductor and pianist Marcel Charlier. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Kennedy Center Salute To Apollo

Video footage of an Apollo launch is projected on a screen above the National Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Emil de Cou, during the "Salute to Apollo" ceremony at the Kennedy Center for the Performing ... More

Paderewski, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Polish pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Cong... More

Madame Paderewski's dolls - Public domain portrait drawing

Photograph shows dolls made by Polish refugees in Paris and sold to benefit the Relief Fund for Polish War Victims by Helena Maria Paderewska (1856-1934), wife of Polish pianist and politician Ignacy Jan Padere... More

Niccolo Paganini01

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Franz Meyerheim Trio

Deutsch: Ein Trio. Signiert. Öl auf Leinwand, 105 x 148 cm. Literatur: Illustr. Zeitung 1875, Berliner ak. Kunstausstellung 1874. Galerie Adolf Liebermann 1876. Auktion Bangel Frankfurt 12. Dez. 1893. Boettich... More

Spotprent op het Algemeen Muziekfeest te Haarlem, 1850

Spotprent op het Algemeen Muziekfeest van de Maatschappij tot bevordering der Toonkunst te Haarlem, 13-15 juni 1850. Centraal de opvoering van het nieuwe oratorium 'Elias' van Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, met o... More

Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, engraving, Library of Congre...

Print shows Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. No. 936. Reproduction of 1845 painting by E. Magnus.

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Public domain portrait print

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Paderewski, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Polish pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) speaking on an outdoor stage. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bai... More

S. Stojowski, E. Schelling - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Sygmuat Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (1870-1946), a Polish pianist and composer, and Ernest Henry Schelling (1876-1939), an American pianist, composer, conductor, and music director, at the... More

Erl Koenig - Shubert [sic] - Public domain portrait drawing

Franz Schubert seated at desk, writing with feather pen; in background man on horseback carrying baby. G55536 U.S. Copyright Office Photograph of painting.

Leopold Stokowski - Carnegie Hall 1947 (09) wmplayer 2013-04-16

Leopold Stokowski from "Carnegie Hall". Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Court concert at Liège - Public domain portrait drawing

The prince-bishop of Liège, John Theodore of Bavaria, playing the cello. John Theodore was also prince-bishop of Freising and of Regensburg. Detail from Paul-Joseph Delcloche's Concert à la cour du prince-évêq... More

Portret van Franz Liszt - Public domain portrait print

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Jascha Heifetz Collection, 1902-1987

Pio Ricci A private performance

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Georges Bizet - George Bizet, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Georges Bizet, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in oval. Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm. No. 7727. Bain News Service photograph. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

1830, Déclaration d'un Maître de Chant, Frederic Bouchot

Neuf Déclarations (Group title) Lettre - Au recto, imprimée à l'encre noire en haut : " 1830/ Déclaration d'un Maître de Chant "; sous l'image : " Après tant de soupirs que vos charmes ont fait naître, soupirs ... More

Sousa band, Arthur Pryor band, Mandolinata, recording

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Sousa band, Arthur Pryor band, Robespierre overture, recording

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Doina si Sirba

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Wenn die schwalben heimwartz ziehn

Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

La niña de los ojos azules

Male vocal solo, with piano Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Les filles de Cadiz

Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Invano

Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

How much I love you

Soprano vocal solo, with piano Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Treue Liebe

Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Himno nacional mexicano

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The death of Nelson

Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sousa band, Venus on Earth

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Viene a vucà' - Public domain dedication image

Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Serenata napulitana

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Barcarolle

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Sousa band, Amoureuse waltz

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Unknown Take

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Vanka

Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Distant voices

Flute solo, unaccompanied Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arthur Pryor band, Hungarian rhapsody no. 9 : Finale, recording

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Auf dem Kirchhofe

Soprano vocal solo, with piano Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Minuet in D

Violin solo, with piano Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Percy Grainger, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961), an Australian-born composer and pianist. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms par... More

Percy Grainger and mother - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961), an Australian-born composer and pianist with his mother. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Leginska, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Ethel Leginska, born Liggins (1886-1970) who was a British pianist, music teacher, composer and conductor. Leginska is with her two children at Christmas. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016)... More

Italian in Algiers overture

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Preghiera

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Arthur Pryor band, Unfinished symphony : Allegro moderato, recording

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