Last night I
found something I had been looking for for years! Some music written by my
great great grandfather – the Frederick Augustus Pearson (1848-1884) written
about in my last blog post.
And, not just
one piece – two pieces.
I found them on Trove , not in the digitised newspapers where I normally focus my searches, but
on a general search – they came up in the (new) Music Australia section.
This section was
only integrated into Trove in June 2012 (something I only just found out).
In
this section, you can search for printed music, sheet music, musical sound recordings, interviews with
significant people, audio books, movies and other videos, including the
digitised copies of early Australian music, held in various libraries, archives
and cultural institutions across Australia.
The two pieces
of music are both Mazurkas for piano – even better as if they had been for
violin I couldn’t have played them – not sure I can play these either but that
is why you have talented nieces and nephews isn’t it!?
I have been so preoccupied with other things in recent months that I hadn't noticed the new Music Australia section. Thanks for the tip.
ReplyDeleteSeems the talent came down through the family from Charles. His grandaughter Gladys played the piano ( I have the piano she learnt on as a child). Her daughter, my mother, sings, I sing and play piano and my son has just completed his degree in music and is a classical vocalist with the sydney symphony choir
ReplyDeleteIt seems so indeed - my brothers and I all play(ed) instruments, and a niece is a cellist in the Adelaide Youth Orchestra. My nephew is studying a diploma of music alongside his engineering degree in Adelaide - he plays the bassoon and the piano, and sings beautifully.
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