Word: dolmetsches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the crwth, the virginal, the rebec, the fipple, the lute, the dulcimer, the zither and many another old and forgotten instrument was to be heard in the little Surrey town of Haslemere where 76-year-old Arnold Dolmetsch was giving the tenth annual Haslemere Festival of Ancient Music...
...apprenticeship in his father's piano factory in LeMans, France, several years' work with Chickering in Boston, and with Gaveau in Paris taught Arnold Dolmetsch how to make instruments. This knowledge he passed on to his wife, his daughters, Cecile and Natalie, his sons, Rudolph and Carl. Nights the Dolmetsches get together in their little cluttered home in Haslemere, play antique music on antique instruments or their replicas...
More interesting to musicians than Arnold Dolmetsch's reconstruction of old-time instruments is his research into early music. When he gave his first concert 45 years ago the oldest composition Antiquarian Dolmetsch played dated from the 17th Century. Believing that the past could offer more pungent novelties he studied tirelessly, rediscovered the formal counterpoint and chromatic modulations of the Renaissance. Deciphering manuscripts of Perotin le Grand (circa 1200) revealed a forgotten treasure of intricately constructed works. Moroccan musicians in 1929 taught Dolmetsch the secrets of traditional Andalusian music which influenced 11th and 12th Century European composers...