Piano Collection (#97)

Two Runners Race C1878
A young member of the Larson household does her piano practice while papa paints her

Children Play Duet
A girl plays her violin while her brother accompanies her on the piano

Making French Pianos 2
The manufacturing of upright pianos at the Pleyel factory, France

Clementi Postcard
MUZIO CLEMENTI the Italian composer, pianist and piano manufacturer

Ponchielli / Ferrari
AMILCARE PONCHIELLI the Italian opera composer, best known for La Gioconda of 1876

Hallucinated Figure
In a reverie induced by his wife playing the piano, he hallucinates the girl he didn t marry

Verdi & Boito at Piano
ARRIGO BOITO Italian composer and librettist, with Giuseppe Verdi, for whom he wrote two opera libretti Date: 1842 - 1918

Husband Ignores Wife 19C
Realisation: the husband ignores the wifes rendition of their song

Music Room 1902
The music room in a house at Crowborough, Sussex

Drawing Room 1916
An elegant colour scheme designed by Waring and Gillow, suitable for any upper class home

EUROTAS WRECKED
It is rare for a picture of a shipwreck to include both a piano and a camel, but when the Eurotas is beached on the North African coast, it happens. Donkeys, too

Music at Home, Piano 19C
Two women and a girl making music at the piano

Dollys Piano Lesson
A little girl attempts to give her doll a piano lesson

Music Class 1900
A music lesson at a German school. One teacher plays the piano while another conducts the schoolchildren, who play an assortment of instruments, including tambourines, etc

Sonata for 20 Fingers
A pupil and her teacher try their hands on a sonata for twenty fingers. Date: 1846

Learning the Balalaika
A group of Russian children being taught how to play the balalaika and mandolin, with piano accompaniment

Titanic Music Sheet
The Wreck of the Titanic, piano composition by Jeanette Forrest - The Voyage Begins - Everybody Happy and Care-free - Whistle sounds the Alarm - Nearer my God - Ship sinks

Easy Piano Pieces
Je joue pour maman (= I play for mama) - collection of very easy pieces : this is the valse

Family at the Piano
A Swedish family round the piano - Mama sings a musical story to her seven children

1798 Rebels Destroy Home
Rebels destroying a house and furniture : property smashed with hammers and axes, floorboards ripped up and set on fire, piano danced upon

Hector Berlioz / Postcard
HECTOR BERLIOZ - composing Les Troyens

Stylish Lady at Piano
Stylishly dressed in swathes of pink, she plays as elegantly as she dresses

Family / All Together
A German family in their living-room, each member of the household industriously occupied

Beethoven / Liebig Card 3
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN At the piano with Teresa Brunswick Date: 1770 - 1827

Music / Chamber
Trio for piano & strings

Ballet dancers rehearsing Rouet d Armor
Ballet dancers at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse rehearsing a new opera-ballet by Adolphe Piriou, Rouet d Armor (Wheel of Armour)

Helen Keller / Piano
HELEN ADAMS KELLER (1880-1968), American author and lecturer who was left blind, deaf and mute at the age of 19 months, seen here listening to a piano

Wagner / Tid / Bayreuth
RICHARD WAGNER German musician, playing to friends at Bayreuth

A family at home, gathered round the piano
A family enjoying a cosy evening at home, gathered round the piano

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