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Pictures from Famous Composers and their Music, edited by Theodore Thomas, John Knowles Paine & Karl Klauser; Extra Illustrated Edtion, Boston, J. B. Millet Company, 1901.
I bought my copy of these from a bookshop in Montreal; the set is incomplete.
Title: Famous Composers and their Music
Published by: J. B. Millet Company
City: New York
Date: 1901
Total items: 6
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Anton Rubinstein]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ThomasPainKlauser-FamousComposers-VolV/wm/big/795-Anton-Rubinstein-silhouette-by-Mrs-Behr-q90-135x200.jpg "[picture: Anton Rubinstein]")
![[picture: Music book and wreaths]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ThomasPainKlauser-FamousComposers-VolV/wm/big/000-Title-Page-detail-music-book-wreaths-q85-448x200.jpg "[picture: Music book and wreaths]")
Sheet music (score) with wreaths, perhaps of laurel leaves to signify victory; this is a detail from the musical border from the title page. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Title Page from Famous Musicians]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ThomasPainKlauser-FamousComposers-VolV/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q85-148x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page from Famous Musicians]")
Title Page from Famous Musicians
The title page has a border surrounding it printed in green, yellow, blue and black, which I have made available as a musical border. [more...] [$]
![[picture: XXXII. The Empress Harpsichord.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ThomasPainKlauser-FamousComposers-VolV/wm/big/0700-xxxii-The-Empress-Harpsichord-q75-181x200.jpg "[picture: XXXII. The Empress Harpsichord.]")
XXXII. The Empress Harpsichord.
A harpsichord of the largest size is this, the culmination of an instrument that had remained in use for nearly three hundred years, but, at the time this one was made, was about to be replaced by the pianoforte. This fine harpsichord bears the joint name of Shudi and Broadwood, London. The instrument is numbered 691, and the books of the original [...] [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Frontispiece: Daniel François Esprit Auber]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ThomasPainKlauser-FamousComposers-VolV/wm/big/000-Frontispiece-Daniel-Francois-Esprit-Auber-q75-183x200.jpg "[picture: Frontispiece: Daniel François Esprit Auber]")
