Wilhelm Ganz in London - 1886
from Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life, page 317:
After hearing her, and being satisfied that she would be very successful in public, I said that I would like her to sing at Prince's Hall in Piccadilly (now demolished and changed to Prince's Restaurant), at a concert given by a pupil of the late Chevalier Emil Bach. I conducted the concert, and had a small orchestra, and Madame Nellie Armstrong (that was her real name in those days, as she adopted the name of " Melba " later on when she appeared in opera in Brussels and at Covent Garden) sang the two songs which I had heard at my house, and she was encored in both of them.
Wilhelm Ganz, Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life. In Internet Archive (London, 1913), p. 317. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1436459117035 accessed: 29 November, 2024
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Ah, fors'e lui from La Traviata
written by Giuseppe Verdi |
performed by Nellie Melba |
Sing Sweet Bird
written by Wilhelm Ganz |
performed by Nellie Melba |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 1886 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |