Handling Music
Channel: British Library
Date: 2022-10-12

Dr Fabio Morabito outlines some of the most popular modes of musical consumption in the nineteenth century and the importance of handling music before the advent of recording technologies. 

The burgeoning industry in music publishing provided a huge array of music to play or sing at home, using the latest printing techniques such as transfer-lithography. 

Meanwhile, examples of a composer’s handwriting were increasingly prized by both amateurs and professionals, such as the composer Luigi Cherubini, who amassed a large collection of musical manuscripts for study and inspiration.