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Jan 6, 20231 min read

Music Subscribers Database

Just published is an online Dataset of Subscribers to Eighteenth-Century Music Publications in Britain and Ireland, which can be accessed...

Jan 6, 20221 min read

Music by Subscription

Just published! Music by Subscription: Composers and their Networks in the British Music-Publishing Trade, 1676–1820. Edited By Simon...

Apr 3, 201513 min read

Music in Eighteenth Century Birmingham - The Musicians of St Philip's

First home to the Birmingham Triennial music festivals, St Philip's (now Birmingham Cathedral) has a long tradition of as a place of...

Oct 19, 201415 min read

Sir Samuel Hellier's 'Musical People'

The 18th century is littered with examples of remarkable people who contributed to the fabric of cultural life of England. Most of these...

Jul 20, 20148 min read

Jeremiah Clark, musician of Worcester and Birmingham

The late 18th century composer and performer Jeremiah Clark (1742/3-1809) has received very little attention from music historians. This...

Feb 17, 20144 min read

Sanderson Miller, Warwickshire Gentleman and Amateur Musician

Sanderson Miller was born in 1716 at Radway, a village on the Oxfordshire and Warwickshire border a few miles north of Banbury. His...