Greetings from Paris ! Please try this : www.phonobase.org/advanced_search.php?GETTitre=&GETCompaut=beethoven There you will discover five applicants. Henri Le 13/11/2017 à 21:29, Frank Forman a écrit : > I am planning an annotated listing of the first recordings of > Beethoven's works. I am pouring over the usual suspects, such as > Arnold, GSE, Voices of the Past, Moses, Creighton, WERM, Bauer, Hurst, > Myers, and gobs of company catalogs. > > The acoustic vocals will be the hardest part. > What is "The Brain Spinning Swains," sung by Susan Strong, 1908? > > "The Cottage Maid" and "Faithful Johnnie," sung by Julia Culp? > > Which version of "In Questo tomba oscuro" did Chaliapin likely record? > > "Delizia" sung by Battistini, 1912? > > Did any of Schnabel's Hupfeld ROLLS precede records? > > Any music boxes of the first movement of the MoonShine? > > More later. > > Then there is whole post-WERM, or post-Myers, or just post-Schwann. > > Check this out: Beethoven: The first recording, 1889 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmdfSCM1B4o&list=RDnmdfSCM1B4o > > Has anyone undetaken this effort already? > > Frank Forman, author of _Acoustic Chamber Music Sets_ and (with the > late Kenzo Amoh), _Evegny Mravinsky Discography_, both in the ARSC > Journal. > Henri CHAMOUX http://www.archeophone.org : les aventures de l'archéophone, lauréat du cristal cnrs 2017 http:www.phonobase.org : de la cire, de la gomme-laque, du celluloïd à écouter en ligne http://phonobase.hypotheses.org : dernières nouvelles de la phonobase -- École normale supérieure de Lyon LARHRA - UMR 5190 Pôle histoire numérique 1 rue Maurice Arnoux 92120 Montrouge Tel : 06 64 80 00 81 [log in to unmask] http://larhra.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/membre/113