Composing Collection

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Mozart playing the piano, 1780s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Mozart playing the piano, 1780s, (2023). Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Mozart playing the piano, 1780s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Mozart playing the piano, 1780s, (2023). Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Mozart playing the piano, 1770s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Mozart playing the piano, 1770s, (2023). Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western

Saint Matthew, c1616. Creator: Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael
Saint Matthew, c1616. Receiving inspiration in composing his Gospel from a divinely sent, winged human figure, one of the four winged creatures described in Revelation that were understood as

Milton Dictating to Ellwood the Quaker, 1804/05. Creator: James Barry
Milton Dictating to Ellwood the Quaker, 1804/05

The Raised Skirt, 1742. Artist: Francois Boucher
The Raised Skirt, 1742. From a private collection

Composer Klemperer, 1916. Creator: Ernst Kirchner
Composer Klemperer, 1916

Beauty Writing a Letter (copy of a section of the Hikone Screen), 17th-18th century

They found Schubert hard at work, (1907). Creator: Unknown
They found Schubert hard at work, (1907). In 1817, Franz Schober takes Johann Vogl, a famous opera singer in Vienna, to meet his friend the young composer Schubert

The Deathbed of Mozart, 1910. Creator: Henry Nelson O Neil
The Deathbed of Mozart, 1910. From " The Musical Educator Vol. 5" edited by John Greig, M.A. Mus. Doc. [Caxton Publishing Company, Limited, London, 1910]

George Herbert at Bemerton, Salisbury, 1860, (c1902). Creator: Unknown
George Herbert at Bemerton, Salisbury, 1860, (c1902). After a painting in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London. George Herbert (1593-1633), religious poet, orator and priest

Charles Santley, 1886. Artist: Jonnard
Charles Santley, 1886. Santley (1834-1922) was one of the foremost operatic and concert baritone singers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. From The Magazine of Art

Richard Strausz - Geb. 1864, 1934. Richard Georg Strauss (1864-1949), German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. From Die Groszen der Weltgelchichte. [Ecktein-Halpaus, Dresden, 1934]

View of Composing Room, 1919. Leicester Co-operative Printing Society Ltd.s establishment. From The British Printer Vol. XXXII. [Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Ltd, London and Leicester, 1919]

A View of the Largest Battery of Composing Machines in the World, 1916. The U.S.A. Government Printing Offices establishment, Washington D.C. From The British Printer Vol. XXIX

Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade, 1904. Artist: Max Beerbohm
Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade, 1904. Scene: the Board of Trade. Time: office hours in the early eighties

Young Woman with Earrings, 1657. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Young Woman with Earrings, 1657

Mozart working on the overture for Don Giovanni, 1787, (1906). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote the overture on the night of 28 October 1787 ready for its first performance at the National

Mozart working on his opera The Magic Flute, 1791, (1906). Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), and Emanuel Schikaneder (1751-1812), the librettist

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