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Photograph of Adolph Brodsky

• GB GB1179 AB-AB/022
• Item
• 1850s

Part of Brodsky Papers

Aged about two and wearing a smock, Adolph is seated barefoot on a large chair. Note his elegant hands with long fingers

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Photograph of Adolph Brodsky

• GB GB1179 AB-AB/023
• Item
• 1850s

Part of Brodsky Papers

Aged about 5, Adolph leans against a very elaborately carved chair. The printing on the back of the photograph is in gold and under the photograph is printed in Roman lettering: Cherson Winkert.

Anonymous - unknown creator

Photograph of a boy aged about 2

• AB-AB/241
• Item
• [19th cent]

Part of Brodsky Papers

This photograph may be of Adolph Brodsky as a young boy.

Autograph letter signed from Giacomo Meyerbeer

• GB GB1179 AB-AB/656
• Item
• [1862]

Part of Brodsky Papers

This letter is an attestation of Adolph Brodsky's musicianship at 11 years of age. By the desire of Herr Brodsky from Kherson, Meyerbeer has listened to his 11-year-old son Adolph play a fantasy for violin by Alard. In Meyerbeer's opin...

Meyerbeer, Giacomo (1791-1864) opera compose

Brosky's term's end report from the Conservatorium der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna

• GB GB1179 AB-AB/098
• Item
• 31 Jul 1867

Part of Brodsky Papers

The report covers the term 1866-67, and shows that Brodsky was studying violin, composition and piano. His progress has been 'outstanding'. The certificate is signed by Hellmesberger, director of the Conservatoire.

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (1817-present)

Photograph of Henrik Ibsen

• GB GB1179 AB-AB/217
• Item
• [late 19th cent]

Part of Brodsky Papers

Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906) playwright, poet

Newscutting of a review of a concert conducted by Hans von Bülow in Hamburg

• GB GB1179 AB-AB/004
• Item
• [1880s]

Part of Brodsky Papers

This newscutting is probably from a Hamburg newspaper in the late 1880s

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Photograph of Anna Brodsky

• GB GB1179 AB-AB/941P
• Item
• [20th cent]

Part of Brodsky Papers

A studio portrait of Anna Brodsky in later years, with a dedication to Mrs Welch. This photograph was included with letter AB/941.

Brodsky, Anna (c.1855-1929), scientist, President of RMCM Club, writer

Newscutting of a review of a concert in which Adolph Brodsky played the Beethoven Violin Concerto

• GB GB1179 AB-AB/018
• Item
• [1880s]

Part of Brodsky Papers

This article has been torn from a newspaper and the part concerning Adolph Brodsky has been marked by hand in red. The date of this review is probably some time in the 1880s.

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