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The historical and more recent source materials for study in Romantic-era performance practice are vast. Below are a selection of significant resources for performance and academic study in the playing styles of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including books, early sound recordings, recent recording projects, major recording repositories and online materials. 


For any addition requests or to this list, feel free to email us at contactamericanromantics@gmail.com. 


Research Resources

Historical Source Materials

Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Tempo Rubato (first published in "Success in Music and How it is Won," 1909)

(Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909) | Link here.


Mathis Lussy: Traité de l'expression musicale

(Paris: Heugel, 1874) | Link here.


Joseph Joachim: Violinschule

(Berlin: N. Simrock, 1904) | Link here.


Leopold Auer: Violin Playing as I Teach It

(New York: Frederick Strokes Company, 1921) | Link here.


Alberto Bachmann: An Encyclopedia of the Violin

(New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1929) | Link here.


Richard Wagner: On Conducting/Üeber das Dirigiren

(Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik/New-Yorker Musik-zeitung, 1869) | Link here.


Collection of Historical Annotated String Editions, University of Huddersfield 

mhm.hud.ac.uk/chase/



Early Sound Recordings

Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Allegro Non Troppo

Berliner Philharmoniker, Max Fiedler (conductor)

1931 | Link here.


Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor

Eddy Brown, violin | Orchestra of the Staatsoper Berlin, Frieder Weissmann (conductor)

1924 | Link here.


Wagner: Vorspiel zu "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg"

Grosses Odeon-Streich-Orchester, conductor unlisted

1911 | Link here.


Mahler: Symphony No. 5, Adagietto

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg (conductor

1926 | Link here.

Books

Robert Philip: Early Recordings and Musical Style

(Cambridge University Press, 1992) | Link here.


Clive Brown: Classical and Romantic performing practice, 1750-1900

(Oxford University Press, 1999) | Link here.


Neal Peres da Costa: Off the Record - Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing

(Oxford University Press, 2012) | Link here.


Robert Philip: Performing Music in the Age of Recording

(Yale University Press, 2004) | Link here.


Daniel Leech-Wilkinson: The Changing Sound of Music 

Approaches to Studying Recorded Musical Performances

(Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM), 2009) | Link here.


Anna Scott: Romanticizing Brahms - Early Recordings and the Reconstruction of Brahmsian Identity

(Orpheus Institute, 2014) | Link here.

Articles and Presentations

Lost Voices: The Aesthetics and Practices of Romantic-Era Choral Performance

Mark Bailey (Jacobs School of Music: Historical Performance: 

Theory, Practice, and Interdisciplinarity, 2017)

Presentation link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dibLbpyKaQw


   Recreating early 19th-century style in a 21st-century marketplace: 

An orchestral violinist's perspective

Clare Holden (IMR Seminar, 2012)

Link here.

Historical Sound Recording Collections

Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings

Yale University

Mark Bailey, head/director

https://web.library.yale.edu/music/hsr


UCSB Cylinder Archive

University of California, Santa Barbara

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/


Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound

https://library.stanford.edu/libraries/ars/about


Rodgers and Hammerstein Archive of Recorded Sound

New York Public Library

https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/rodgers-and-hammerstein-archives-recorded-sound


AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM)

King's College, London

https://charm.rhul.ac.uk/index.html


Russian-Records

https://www.russian-records.com/

Dissertations

Job ter Haar: The Playing Style of Alfredo Piatti – Learning from a Nineteenth-Century Virtuoso 

(Royal Academy of Music, 2019) | Link here.


Samir Golescu: The recorded heritage of Willem Mengelberg and its aesthetic relevance

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Link here.


Online Materials

Studying Performance Practice Through Sound Recordings

Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings

Kevin Sherwin, contributing author

https://guides.library.yale.edu/hsrperformancepractice


The Brahms Lab, Kate Bennett Wadsworth

https://www.facebook.com/brahmslab/


Historical Romanticism (Playlist), Kate Bennett Wadsworth

Link here.


Transforming 19th-Century HIP, University of Oxford

Link here.


(Re)constructing Early Recordings, Inja Stanovic

https://injastanovic.com/reconstructing-early-recordings/

Recording Projects

Mahler, Gustav: Symphony No. 4 / Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen 

Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica, Kenneth Slowik (conductor)

(Dorian Recordings, 2003) | Link here.


Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas and Trio

Marie Ross, clarinet; Petra Somlai, piano; Claire-Lise Démettre, cello

(Centaur Recordings, 2019) | Link here.


Johannes Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Op. 38 and Op. 99

Kate Bennett Wadsworth, cello | Yi-heng Yang, piano

(Deux-Elles, 2018) | Link here.


Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonatas

Leila Schayegh, violin | Jan Schultsz, piano

(Glossa, 2018) | Link here. 


Chasing the Butterfly: Recreating Greig's 1903 Recordings and Beyond...

Sigurd Slåttebrekk, piano

Tony Harrison, creative director | Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Michail Jurowski (conductor)

(Simax Classics, 2011) | Project website here.


The Romantics: Grieg, Mendelssohn, Paganini

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | Shunske Sato, violin and guest director

(ABC Classics, 2017) | Link here.


Brahms: Tones of Romantic Extravagance - Piano Quartet No. 1 | Piano Quintet

Ironwood

(ABC Classics, 2016) | Link here.