Sarah Clarke 
The Periodicals of Ferdinand Pelzer (1833-1857) [PDF ebook] 
A German Musician in London

Give unique insights into Pelzer’s career with the guitar and the singing class movement from the 1830s through to the 1850s.



The German musician, Ferdinand Pelzer (1801-1864), arrived in England in around 1829 with his wife and daughter and settled in London. He became one of the most important guitarists in the capital in the 1830s at a time when the instrument was enjoying great popularity. In the 1840s his attention turned to choral teaching and he played a role in the singing class movement which was then sweeping the country. In the 1850s he continued to teach the guitar in London.


This edition reproduces the text of three periodicals that trace his career through three decades. They are all bound together into one volume in the hugely important Appleby Collection of Guitar Music. The Giulianiad (1833-c.1835) was the first niche magazine devoted to the guitar that included both text and music sections and it is widely accepted that Pelzer had an editorial role. In the early 1840s he outlined his philosophy and aims for the singing class movement in his Musical Herald and his Guitarist’s Companion of 1857 demonstrated his continued enthusiasm for the guitar.

Tabla de materias

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Note on the Text

Introduction

The Giulianiad

The Musical Herald

The Guitarist’s Companion

Appendices

I. ‘March’ and ‘Waltz’ from ‘Seven Popular Airs’
The Giulianiad, 1:1 (1833), Music 1-4, at 1

II. ‘Solo by Giuliani, (from his 3rd Concerto.)’
The Giulianiad 1:1 (1833), Music 5

III. ‘Fair Evening Star’, Song, Words by E. J. J., Music by Miss Eliz. Mounsey.
The Giulianiad, 1:1 (1833), Music 9-12, at 9


Bibliography

Index

Sobre el autor

SARAH CLARKE’s research interests centre on the guitar in nineteenth-century England. She has a Ph D in music from the Open University. In 2018 she was awarded the Andrew Britton Fellowship by the Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research and has since been elected a member. She contributed a chapter to ‘The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe 1800-1840’ ed. by Christopher Page, Paul Sparks, and James Westbrook, 2023.