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European, British, and American Musical Instrument Collectors, 1850–1940 book cover

1st Edition

European, British, and American Musical Instrument Collectors, 1850–1940

Edited By Christina Linsenmeyer Copyright 2025
382 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

382 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The contributors to this volume examine musical instrument collectors and their reasons and means for collecting: Who were they professionally and personally? Why did they collect musical instruments? How did they acquire their objects? What were their collecting criteria and aesthetics? Following a critical introduction, two chapters on historically overlooked yet essential themes –... Read more

Introduction

 

1. Collecting African Musical Instruments during the Colonisation Era. The case of the Congo

Maarten Couttenier, Ignace De Keyser, Rémy Jadinon, and Saskia Willaert

 

2. Provenance and Instruments of the Violin Family

Carla Shapreau

 

3. From ‘Scoundrel’ to Professor: The legacy of John Donaldson (c. 1788–1865) and the Founding of the University of Edinburgh’s Musical Instrument Collection

Sarah Deters

 

4. Carl Engel (1818–1882): ‘The Highest Authority in Europe Upon the Development of Musical Instruments’

Gabriele Rossi Rognoni

 

5. Adolphe Sax’s (1814–1894) Collection of Musical Instruments: ‘The Rare Museum of an Artist and Inventor’

Ignace De Keyser and Malou Haine

 

6. Alfred Hill (1862–1940) and Arthur Hill (1860–1939): Private Collectors, Public Benefactors

Tom Wilder

 

7. César Charles Snoeck (1834–1898): Making the Intangible, Tangible

Ignace De Keyser

 

8. Daniel Sargent Pillsbury (1836–1902): First Collector of American Band Instruments

Robert E. Eliason and Jeanine Head Miller

 

9. Collecting Musical Instruments – A Merchant’s Passion. The Rück Family Collection (c. 1880–1962)

Dominik von Roth, Linda Escherich, and Markus Zepf

 

10. Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown (1842–1918): A Herculean Piece of Work

Sally B. Brown and Jayson Kerr Dobney

 

11. Auguste Tolbecque's (1830–1919) Collection: A New Aesthetic Order and the Experimental Archeology of Musical Instruments

Jean-Michel Renard and Christina Linsenmeyer (Trans.)

 

12. Celebrating the Art of Musical-Instrument Making. The Private Collection of Victor-Charles Mahillon (1841–1924)

Ignace De Keyser and Saskia Willaert

 

13. Carl Claudius (1855–1931) and His Sound-Chests

Madeleine Modin

 

14. ‘No Mere Assemblage of Musical Instruments’: The Foundations of Arnold Dolmetsch’s (1858–1940) Collection

Edmond Johnson

 

15. Dayton C. Miller (1866–1941), an American Collector of Flutes

Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford

 

16. George Henry Benton Fletcher (1866–1944), The Improbable Collector

Mimi S. Waitzman

 

17. Francis W. Galpin (1858–1945): The Canon and Collector

Darcy Kuronen

 

18. Henry Ford (1863–1947): Gathering America’s Musical Past

Jeanine Head Miller and Robert E. Eliason

 

19. Fritz Wildhagen (1878–1956): Painter, Collector, Aesthete

Annette Otterstedt and Klaus Martius

 

20. Evan Gorga (1865–1957): An Extraordinary Collector, His Incredible Collections and Their Disastrous Odyssey

Alessandra Palidda

 

21. Curt Sachs (1881–1959) as Head of the Collection of Musical Instruments in Berlin: Views and Perspectives

Heike Fricke

 

Index

Biography

Christina Linsenmeyer is Associate Curator, Collection of Musical Instruments at Yale University.

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