HOLMES (William Henry or W.H., 1812-1885, Pianist and Composer, Teacher at the Royal Academy of Music)

Long Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Lloyd Roberts acknowledging receipt of “5/- for my ‘Notes upon Notes’ & to thank you very much. A lady wrote to me last year... I can hardly recollection now, what it was about unless connected with the Royal Academy of Music. I hope your Concert will be a success. I shall indeed be proud to again have the privilege of giving you lessons - I have two piano fortes, side by side, which I consider a great advantage in giving lessons... Yesterday, I continued a series of lessons, to a noble lady, who played well about two years before I was born - and about that period Beethoven began to be talked about in Germany - & this Lady got a Composition of Beethoven, & took it to her Master; who requested she wd never bring such rubbish to him again - music has advanced since then...” he continues about the many eminent teachers the pupil has had and sends him “a piece of mine called ‘The Presentation’ dedicated to a pupil of mine of the 3rd Generation... her paper happened to be in attendance on the Queen...”, 4 sides 8vo., 36 Beaumont Street, Marylebone, 26th August

He was born in Sudbury, Derbyshire in 1812, son of a musician. He entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1822, the year it opened, and he gained two of the first medals given by the Academy, for composition and the piano. He became Sub-professor at the academy in 1826, and later Professor of the Piano, remaining in the post for more than fifty years. His pupils included Charlotte Alington Barnard, William Sterndale Bennett, George Alexander Macfarren, Walter Cecil Macfarren and James William Davison

Item Date:  1881

Stock No:  41868      £75

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