Wilhelm Ganz in Hanover Square Rooms - June, 1856
from Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life, pages 78-9:
My second concert was in June 1856, given in conjunction with my uncles, Leopold and Moritz Ganz, the Conzertmeister to the King of Prussia, who had come over from Berlin, and my eldest brother, Eduard Ganz, who was a pupil of Moscheles and Thalberg. At this second concert we had many artists of European reputation to assist, such as Madame Clara Novello, who had a beautiful, bell-like, soprano voice. For years people used to rave about her singing of "God save the Queen" at the opening of the great Exhibition in 1851. The last time I heard her was at her farewell concert in 1860, at which … more >>
Wilhelm Ganz, Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life. In Internet Archive (London, 1913), p. 78-9. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1436182498768 accessed: 15 October, 2024
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written by Franz Schubert |
performed by Pauline Viardot-Garcia |
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Date/Time | June, 1856 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |