A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England: William by Gordon D.W. Curtis

By Gordon D.W. Curtis

William Sweetland was once a tub organ builder who flourished from c.1847 to 1902 within which time he equipped approximately three hundred organs, normally for church buildings and chapels in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, but additionally for destinations scattered south of a line from the Wirral to the Wash. Gordon Curtis areas this paintings of a provincial organ builder within the wider context of English musical lifestyles within the latter half the 19th century. An introductory bankruptcy experiences the provincial musical scene and units the organ within the context of non secular worship, public concert events and family music-making. The publication relates the biographical info of Sweetland's relations and company historical past utilizing fabric acquired from public and kin files. Curtis surveys Sweetland's organ- construction paintings quite often and a few of his most crucial organs intimately, with patents and different innovations explored. The musical repertoire of the provinces, really in regards to organ recitals, is mentioned, in addition to noting Sweetland's friends, different organ developers, architects and artists. half II of the e-book contains a Gazetteer of all identified organs by means of Sweetland geared up through counties. every one access incorporates a brief heritage of the software and its current situation. seeing that there is not any definitive released record of his paintings, and as the entire place of work documents have been misplaced in a fireplace a long time in the past, it will be the closest method of a accomplished checklist for this builder.

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