Friendship Album

Résumé du livre

Friendship album compiled by Sophy Horsley, consisting of signatures, fragments of scores, drawings, and inscriptions produced by members of her family's circle. Signatures include the following: English translator Sarah Austin; English mathematician Charles Babbage; German statesman Friedrich Ballhorn-Rosen; French cellist Alexandre Batta; English sculptor John Bell; German artist Eduard Bendemann; Belgian violinist Charles Auguste de Bériot; Mary Elizabeth Brunel; English painter Augustus Wall Callcott; English writer and illustrator Maria Callcott; English composer William Hutchins Callcott; Franco-Polish composer Frédéric Chopin; Anglo-German music publisher and composer J. B. Cramer; English composer William Crotch; Moravian composer Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst; English librarian Josiah Forshall; German violinist Leopold Ganz; German cellist Moritz Ganz; German scholars Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; English artist John Rogers Herbert; Franco-Austrian composer Henri Herz; English composer Charles Edward Horsley; William Horsley; German artist Hübner; Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel; Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim; Swedish singer Jenny Lind; Hungarian composer Franz Liszt; Spanish singer Maria Malibran; German composer Fanny Mendelssohn; German composer Felix Mendelssohn; German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer; Irish lyricist Thomas Moore; Bohemian composer Ignaz Moscheles; English pianist Charles Neate; English singer Clara Novello; Italian violinist Nicolò Paganini; English artist John Phillips; German pianist Johann Peter Pixis; German composer Julius Rietz; German cellist Bernhard Romberg; German orientalist Friedrich August Rosen; German orientalist Georg Rosen; German artist Johann Wilhelm Schirmer; German organist Johann Gottlob Schneider; German singer Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient; Italian violinist Camillo Sivori; German composer Louis Spohr; Italian composer Gaspare Spontini; German artist Eduard Steinbrück; English painter Frank Stone; German artist Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein; English painter Thomas Webster; Scottish painter David Wilkie.