Music Publisher John Walsh outside Britain: 18th-Century Print Dissemination and Collection
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Joncus, Berta; zur Nieden, Gesa and Over, Berthold, eds. 2025. Music Publisher John Walsh outside Britain: 18th-Century Print Dissemination and Collection. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag. ISBN 9783837672169 [Edited Book] (Forthcoming)
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Printed music was central to the performance, reception, and recollection of music in the 18th century. Among music publishers, the London firm of John Walsh (father and son) held unmatched commercial reach both in and outside of Britain. This is the first book to consider the Walsh firm’s impact on music markets and collectors outside Britani. The volume collates and synthesizes renowned scholars’ findings to illuminate how Walsh brokered musical taste in and beyond Europe. The authors show the Walsh firm calibrating its offer to suit, and shape, an audience that ranged from amateurs of limited means to well-heeled opera devotees and members of court circles. Rigorous scholarship tracks the origins of Walsh miscellanies – selections that constructed, and to some extent fabricated, histories of stage works as ‘performed by’ virtuosi – as well as the aims of the collectors of these editions and the provenances of Walsh volumes held by libraries today. This book establishes the Walsh firm’s international mediation of music for connoisseurs, librarians, domestic performers, and historical researchers alike.
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May 2025 |
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