We are delighted to announce the publication of a new article by Damián Martín-Gil, ‘Nicolas Legros de la Neuville (1764-1844), the inventor of the “fixateur”’, The Galpin Society Journal, 78 (2025), 111-123 and 209-211.

Beethoven and Mozart arranged for guitar, flute and strings: newly discovered chamber repertoire from Victorian England, edited by Christopher Page

Available on open access on Apollo, a digital repository of the University of Cambridge.

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This edition of newly discovered septets, together with a sextet, presents five highly accomplished chamber arrangements for guitar, flute and strings of movements from chamber works (and in one case a complete sonata) by Mozart and Beethoven. They were all made by the London professional violinist George Pigott (1798-1853). Such large chamber scorings involving a guitar are a great rarity in the instrument’s nineteenth-century repertoire, and these are both skilful and engaging. The pieces were created for Alexander George Fraser, sixteenth Lord Saltoun and a keen guitar-player, for use with his friends, aristocratic amateur musicians, in his London mansion. 

We are pleased to announce that Christopher Page’s book The Guitar in Victorian England: A Social and Musical History will be published by Cambridge University Press on 26 June.

We are delighted to announce the publication of Taro Takeuchi’s new article ‘Discovering the Georgian Lute’, which has just been published (online) in the Oxford University Press Journal, Early Music. Click here to read. The paper version will appear in the Autumn.