French-born musician and instrument maker (1858–1940)
Arnold Dolmetsch
Portrait of Arnold Dolmetsch playing a recorder, by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1916
Born
Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch
24 February 1858
Le Mans, France
Died
28 February 1940(1940-02-28) (aged 82)
Surrey, England
Alma mater
Royal College of Music
Brussels Conservatoire
Occupations
Musician
instrument maker
Spouses
Marie Morel
(m. 1878; div. 1898)
Elodie Désirée
(m. 1899; div. 1903)
Mabel Johnston
(m. 1903)
Children
4
Awards
Chevaliers of the Legion of Honour
Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch (24 February 1858 – 28 February 1940), was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a leading figure in the 20th-century revival of interest in early music.
Eugène ArnoldDolmetsch (24 February 1858 – 28 February 1940), was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England...
fortepianos, from Carey Beebe Harpsichords One of ArnoldDolmetsch's late 19th century fortepianos, from Dolmetsch Online Image and discussion of 1795 Dulcken...
Carl Frederick Dolmetsch (1911–1997) CBE was a French instrumentalist who specialised in the recorder. The son of ArnoldDolmetsch, he was born in Fontenay-sous-Bois...
Boulanger in France. ArnoldDolmetsch is widely considered the key figure in the early music revival in the early 20th century. Dolmetsch's 1915 book The Interpretation...
variation in the sounds available to them. Under the influence of ArnoldDolmetsch, the harpsichordists Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872–1951) and in France...
this period. It had fallen out of use by 1850. In the late 1890s, ArnoldDolmetsch revived clavichord construction and Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, among...
Herbert Brewer, the conductor Landon Ronald and the early music pioneer ArnoldDolmetsch. His public lectures at Gresham College attracted large audiences,...
(1934–2014) Michael Copley Jacob van Eyck (c. 1590–1657) Capilla Flamenca ArnoldDolmetsch (1858–1940) Bertho Driever (born 1953) Horacio Franco (born 1963) Walter...
instrument. An early authenticist was ArnoldDolmetsch, working early in the century in Surrey in England. Dolmetsch's efforts proved premature, as the first...
manuscripts by ArnoldDolmetsch A3a Ap Huw (Traditional, arranged by ArnoldDolmetsch) A3b Penllyn (Traditional, arranged by ArnoldDolmetsch) A4 Eliz Iza...
lute-playing in the 20th century has its roots in the pioneering work of ArnoldDolmetsch (1858–1940); whose research into early music and instruments started...
The musician and instrument maker, ArnoldDolmetsch, was born in France in 1858 and moved with his son, Carl Dolmetsch to Haslemere in 1919. The family...
and they had no more children. His sister, Mabel Johnston, married ArnoldDolmetsch, an instrument maker and member of the Bloomsbury set, in 1903. In...
were revived by early music enthusiasts, an early proponent being ArnoldDolmetsch. The treble viol in d and the even smaller pardessus de viole in g...
at the London Royal Opera House, the instrument being supplied by ArnoldDolmetsch), but it was not until the 1950s that the 18th-century method was consistently...
music under ArnoldDolmetsch, the distinguished reviver of early English music, composer, and performer, and was considered "one of Dolmetsch's most devoted...
(or "English") fingering, which was created in Haslemere in 1919 by ArnoldDolmetsch, soprano recorders have been made that make use of "German" fingering...
This revival grew through the work of a number of musicians including ArnoldDolmetsch in 1930s England, Alan Stivell in 1960s Brittany, and Ann Heymann in...
century, the recorder has experienced a revival with the HIP movement. ArnoldDolmetsch did much to revive the recorder as a serious concert instrument, reconstructing...
Boulanger and harpsichord revival pioneer Wanda Landowska in Paris, with ArnoldDolmetsch in Haslemere, Heinz Tiessen in Berlin, and Günther Ramin in Leipzig...
1923 she studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. She was a pupil of ArnoldDolmetsch (1922–5) and became a leading member of the early music revival. She...
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