Philip J. Bone (1873 in Luton – 17 June 1964 in Luton) was an English mandolinist and guitar player in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While his day-to-day work was as a teacher and music dealer, he is remembered today as the author of the book The Guitar and Mandolin: Biographies of Celebrated Players and Composers for These Instruments, published by Schott and Augener, London, 1914. He was also a Medallist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. Other honours given him include being a medallist at the International Music Contests in Bologne, medallist in the International Music Contest in France (1st Prize Honours), and medalist of the I.U.M. in London. He conducted of the Luton Mandolin orchestra.[1][2][3]
His book The Guitar and Mandolin is comprehensive look at the composers and players of these two instruments up to 1914. He advertised his book on his company letterhead in 1915, saying it was "the only compendium of invaluable information concerning these instruments", and "lives of 300 of the most celebrated players and composers. Facts hitherto unpublished."[4] In writing the book, Bone did not include people living at the time, as he felt that it was the job of future historians to decide who would be notable. The book contains biographies for composers and musicians throughout western Europe. Many of those in his book who were prominent have been forgotten today, and the book has information not readily available elsewhere. Later in 1953, Bone wrote to Vahdah Olcott-Bickford, who had assisted him with his book. He told her he had continued the research since his book was printed and was trying to get another edition published with his new information. He was having difficulty finding a publisher willing to take a risk on a new edition.[5]
References
- ^ Letter from Philip J. Bone to Vahdah Olcott-Bickford, 11 February 1913
- ^ Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911, Registration District: Luton, Registration District Number: 178, Sub-registration District: Luton, ED, institution, or vessel: 22, Household Schedule Number: 19, Piece: 9015.
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966.
- ^ Letter from Philip J. Bone to Vahdah Olcott-Bickford, 19 February 1915.
- ^ Letter from Philip J. Bone to Vahdah Olcott-Bickford, 2 February 1963.
External links
List of biographies in The Guitar and Mandolin
| Name | Page | Portrait page | Instrument Played | Trivia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abreu, Don A. | 9 | guitar | wrote Method for playing perfectly the guitar, with five or six strings | ||
| Aguado, Dionisio | 9 | 10 | guitar | ||
| Aibl, Joseph | 12 | guitar | |||
| Aichelburg | 12 | mandolin | |||
| Aimon, Pamphile Leopold François | 12 | guitar, violin | |||
| Albaneze | 13 | guitar | |||
| Albrechtsberger | 13 | organ | teacher to Beethoven | ||
| Alday | 14 | mandolin, violin | |||
| Allix | 14 | guitar | executed 1664 for sorcery | ||
| Ambrosche, Joseph Charles | 14 | guitar | |||
| Duchess Amelia, Anna | 15 | guitar | |||
| Amon, Johann Andreas | 15 | guitar, violin, horn, piano | |||
| Anelli, Joseph | 16 | guitar | author of New Method for the Guitar and History of the Guitar | ||
| Araciel, Don Diego, | 17 | violin, guitar | |||
| Armanini, Pietro | 17 | 16 | mandolin | ||
| Arnold, Johann Gottfried | 18 | cello, guitar | |||
| Arnold, Friedricii Wilhelm | 19 | piano, guitar | |||
| Arnold, Charles | 20 | piano, guitar | |||
| Arrevalo, Miguel S. | 20 | ||||
| Asioli, Bonifacio | 20 | piano, mandolin, bass, guitar | |||
| Baillon, Pierre Joseph | 20 | guitar | author of New Method for the Guitar | ||
| Baillot, Pierie Maria Francois de Sales | 20 | violin | |||
| Barco, Va | 21 | guitar | |||
| Bathioli, Francois | 21 | guitar | |||
| Bertioli, Alex | 22 | guitar | author of Complete Method for the Guitar and Forty-four Progressive Lessons | ||
| Baumbach, Frederick August | 22 | guitar, mandolin | |||
| Bayer, Anton | 22 | 22 | flute, guitar | ||
| Bayer, Edward | 23 | 22 | guitar, zither | pseudonym A. Caroli | |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van | 25 | piano, mandolin, violin | picture of Beethoven's mandolin page 26 | ||
| Bellenghi, Giuseppe | 33 | 32 | violincello, mandolin | published Method for the Mandolin in four languages | |
| Beniezki, S. | 35 | guitar, harp-guitar | invented the "harpolyre" (harp-guitar) and the "aclipolyra" (double-bass guitar) | ||
| Benzon, Siegfried | 35 | guitar, violin | |||
| Berard, Jean Batiste | 35 | guitar, singer | |||
| Berggreen, Andreas Peter | 36 | guitar, voice | |||
| Berlioz, Hector | 36 | 36 | guitar, cello, violin | picture of Berlioz/Paganini guitar page 40 | |
| Bevilaqua, M. | 40 | guitar, flute | |||
| Birnbach, Henry August | 40 | guitar, violincello, piano | created a guitar with detachable neck and fingerboard | ||
| Blum, Carl Ludwig | 42 | guitar | Composer to the Court of the King of Prussia | ||
| Borowicz, J. N. | 45 | guitar | |||
| Boccherini, Luigi | 47 | violincello | |||
| Boom, Jan van | 50 | flute | |||
| Bornhardt, J.H.C. | 50 | guitar, piano | |||
| Bortolazzi, Bartolomeo | 51 | 50 | mandolin | ||
| Bott, J.J. | 52 | violin, guitar | |||
| Boulley (Du), Aubery Prudent Louis | 53 | guitar | |||
| Bracco C.A. | 55 | 54 | mandolin, violin | ||
| Brand, Alexander | 56 | 56 | guitar | ||
| Brand J.P. de | 56 | author of Sonata in C. major for guitar and violin | |||
| Branzoli, Giuseppe | 57 | violin, mandolin, guitar | Theoretical and practical method for the mandolin (1875) | ||
| Brecneo, Luis | 58 | guitar | |||
| Bremner, Robert | 58 | guitar | |||
| Brunet, Pierre | 59 | mandore, mandola, mandolin | author of Tablature de Mandore | ||
| Burgmuller, Frederick | 59 | piano, guitar | |||
| Butignot, Alphonse | 59 | guitar | |||
| Buttinger, Charles Conrad | 60 | violin, flute, guitar, piano | |||
| Calegari, Francesco | 60 | guitar | |||
| Caliginoso | 60 | guitar | Stage name Caliginoso has been identified as Giovanni Paulo Foscarini. | ||
| Call, (De) Leonard | 61 | mandolin, guitar | |||
| Call, Thomas | 62 | guitar, harpsichord, organ | |||
| Camerloher, Placidus von | 62 | guitar, violin | |||
| Campion, Francois | 63 | guitar, lute | |||
| Carbonchi, Antonio | 63 | guitar | |||
| Carcassi, Matteo | 63 | 62 | guitar | ||
| Carulli, Ferdinando | 67 | 66 | guitar | picture of Carulli's guitar, page 70 | |
| Castellacci, Luigi | 72 | mandolin, guitar | |||
| Chevesailles | 73 | author of New Method for the Guitar and Petite Méthode de Violin | |||
| Chrysander, William Christian | 73 | guitar | |||
| Cifolelli, Giovanni | 73 | mandolin | |||
| Corbetti, Francisco | 74 | guitar | |||
| Cornet, Julius | 74 | guitar, vocalist | |||
| Costa, Pasquale Mario | 76 | playwright | |||
| Coste, Napoleon | 77 | guitar | Picture of his guitar, page 78 | ||
| Craeijvanger, Karel Arnoldus | 78 | guitar, violin | |||
| Cristofaro, Ferdinando, de | 78 | 80 | mandolin | ||
| Darr, Adam | 81 | 82 | guitar, zither | ||
| Della Maria, Domenico | 83 | mandolin | |||
| Denis Pierre | 85 | mandolin | Also known as Pietro Denis | ||
| Denza, Luigi | 85 | mandolin, voice | |||
| Derosiers, Nicolas | 86 | guitar | |||
| Derwort, George Henry | 86 | guitar | |||
| Diabelli, Anton | 86 | guitar, piano | |||
| Doche, Joseph Denis | 90 | guitar, violin, double bass | vaudeville composer | ||
| Doisy, Charles | 90 | guitar, violin | also known as Doisy Lintant | ||
| Dorn, James | 91 | horn, guitar | |||
| Dotzauer, Justus Johann Friedrich | 92 | guitar, piano, double bass, violincello, violin | |||
| Dragonetti, Domenico | 93 | double bass, guitar, violin | |||
| Drouet, Louis François Philippe | 95 | guitar, flute | |||
| Dubez, John | 95 | mandolin, harp, guitar, zither | |||
| Edel, George | 96 | guitar, violin | |||
| Ehlers, William | 96 | guitar, voice | |||
| Ellis, Herbert J. | 96 | 96 | mandolin, guitar | books Tutor for Mandoin, Thorough School for Guitar, Thorough School for Mandolin | |
| Ernst, Franz Anton | 98 | violin, guitar | performer, instrument maker, composer Franz_Anton_Ernst Franz Anton Ernst | ||
| Eulenstein, Carl | 99 | 100 | violin, guitar, flute, jewsharp, French horn | Karl Eulenstein (Musiker) | |
| Farbach, Joseph | 101 | guitar | Joseph Fahrbach | ||
| Ferandiere, Don Ferdinando | 102 | 106 | guitar | Fernando Ferandier | |
| Ferranti, Marc Aurelio Zani de | 102 | guitar | |||
| Ferrer, Manuel Y | 106 | guitar | Born in California. Played Spanish guitar | ||
| Fiorillo, Federigo | 108 | mandolin, violin | |||
| Fischof, Joseph | 109 | guitar, piano | |||
| Fouchetti, Giovanni | 110 | Also known as Fouquet | |||
| Fridzeri, Alexandro Marie Antoin | 110 | Also known by last name "Frixer" | |||
| Fürstenau | 112 | A family of musicians, including Kaspar Fürstenau, Anton Bernhard Fürstenau, Moritz Fürstenau | |||
| Gade, Niels Wilhelm | 114 | guitar, violin, pianoforte | |||
| Gambara, Carlo Antonio | 114 | mandolin | |||
| Gansbacher, John | 114 | organ, piano, guitar, cello | |||
| Garat, Pierre Jean | 117 | guitar, voice | |||
| Garcia, Manuel del Popolo–Vicente | 117 | voice, guitar | Father of a family of musicians, including Manuel García (baritone) | ||
| Gassner, Ferdinand Simon | 119 | voice, violin, guitar | |||
| Gatayes, Guillaume Pierre Antoine | 119 | guitar, harp | |||
| Gaude, Theodore | 120 | guitar, flute | |||
| Geminiani, Francesco | 121 | violin, guitar | |||
| Genlis, Félicité Stephanie, Countess de | 122 | harp, guitar | |||
| Giardini, Felice de | 122 | voice, violin, guitar | |||
| Gilles, Henri Noel | 123 | oboe, guitar | Brother to Peter Gilles | ||
| Giuliani, Mauro | 124 | 124 | guitar | "one of the greatest, if not the greatest guitar virtuoso the world has ever known" | |
| Glaeser, Charles Gotthilf | 131 | violin, guitar | |||
| Gollmick, Carl | 131 | voice, guitar, piano | Carl Gollmick | ||
| Göpfert, Carl Andreas | 132 | 132 | piano, organ, guitar, clarinet, other woodwinds | ||
| Götz, Alois Joseph | 133 | 134 | guitar, violin | ||
| Gouglet, Pierre Marie | 134 | organ, guitar | |||
| Gounod, Charles | 134 | piano, guitar | Picture of Gounod's guitar, page 136 | ||
| Graeffer, Antoine | 136 | guitar | |||
| Gragani, Filippo | 137 | guitar | |||
| Granata, Giovanni Battista | |||||
| Grétry, André Ernest Modeste | 137 | ||||
| Gruber, Franz | 140 | organ, guitar | |||
| Guichard, Francis | 141 | guitar | |||
| Handel, George Frederick | 141 | spinet, organ, violin, oboe, harpsichord | |||
| Harder, August | 144 | guitar, piano | |||
| Haslinger Tobias | 145 | guitar | music publisher and composer. Tobias Haslinger | ||
| Hauptmann, Moritz | 146 | violin, guitar | |||
| Hauschka, Vincent | 147 | mandolin, violin | Last name also "Hauska". Composed for mandolin, violincello | ||
| Held, Bruno | 147 | flute, guitar | |||
| Held, John Theobald | 147 | voice, guitar | |||
| Henkel, Michel | 148 | guitar, organ, piano | |||
| Himmel Friedrich Heinrich | 148 | guitar | |||
| Holland, Justin | 149 | guitar | African-American music teacher | ||
| Horetzky, Felix | 149 | guitar | |||
| Hucke, George H. | 152 | 152 | mandolin | ||
| Huerta, y Katurla Don A. F. | 152 | 154 | guitar, voice | ||
| Hummel, Johan Nepomuk | 155 | 160 | pianoforte, guitar, mandolin | ||
| Hünten, Franz | 160 | piano, guitar | |||
| Hünten, Peter Ernest | 161 | piano, guitar | brother to Franz Hünten | ||
| Janon, Charles De | 161 | 162 | guitar, violin, piano | agent for C.F. Martin & Co. | |
| Jansa, Leopold | 162 | violin, guitar, glute | |||
| Joly | 162 | guitar, violin | Joly's great tutor for the guitar published 1793. Died 1819. | ||
| Kapeller, Johann Nepomuk | 163 | guitar, flute | |||
| Keller, Karl | 163 | flute, guitar | |||
| Klage, Charles | 163 | guitar, piano | |||
| Klier, Josef | 164 | guitar | |||
| Klingenbrunner, Wilhelm | 164 | guitar, flute | |||
| Knize, Franz Max | 164 | guitar | |||
| Kohler, Henry | 165 | flute, guitar, piano | |||
| Korner, Theodore | 165 | 168 | poetry, guitar | ||
| Kraus | 168 | guitar, violin | |||
| Krebs, Franz Xaver | 168 | voice, guitar | |||
| Kreutzer, Conradin | 168 | guitar | |||
| Kreutzer, Joseph | 169 | guitar | |||
| Krumpholz, Wenzel | 169 | mandolin | brother to Johann Baptist Krumpholz (harpist and composer) | ||
| Kucharz, Johann Baptist | 170 | organ, mandolin | |||
| Kuffner, Joseph | 170 | 172 | guitar, violin | ||
| Kuhnel, Frederick | 174 | guitar | |||
| Kummer, Gaspard | 174 | guitar, flute, voice | |||
| Labarre, Trille | 175 | guitar | |||
| Lang, Alexander | 175 | guitar, piano | |||
| Laurentiis, Carmine de | 175 | Mandolin | |||
| Lebedeff, Vasiliĭ Petrovich | 176 | 176 | guitar | VIAF 47189366 | |
| Ledhuy, Adolf | 176 | guitar | |||
| Leduc, Alphonse | 177 | guitar, bassoon, piano | part of a musical family and music publish business | ||
| Legnani, Luigi | 177 | guitar | friend to guitarist and music publisher Maximilian Josef Leidesdorf | ||
| Leidesdorf, Maximilian Joseph | 179 | guitar, piano | music publisher, friend of Franz Schubert and Beethoven | ||
| Leite, Antonio da Silva | 179 | guitar | |||
| Lemoine, Antoine Marcel | 180 | guitar, violin, viola | music publisher | ||
| Lenau, Nicolas | 181 | poetry, guitar, violin | picture of his guitar page 182 | ||
| Leone | 182 | mandolin, violin | |||
| Le Roy, Adrian | 182 | lute, guitar, voice | wrote A short and easy instruction book for the guiterne or guitar 1578 | ||
| Lfleche | 183 | guitar | |||
| L'Hoyer, Antoine | 183 | guitar | |||
| Lickl, Aegidius Carl | 183 | guitar, piano | |||
| Light, Edward | 184 | guitar | invented a harp-lute and a dital-harp | ||
| Lincke, Joseph | 184 | violincello, guitar | |||
| Lintant, Charles | 185 | violin, guitar | |||
| Litzius, C | 186 | guitar | |||
| Lorenz, Friedrich August | 186 | violin, guitar, bassoon | |||
| Lully, Jean Baptiste | 187 | guitar, violin | |||
| Magnien, Victor | 187 | violin, guitar | Victor Magnien | ||
| Mahler,Gustav | 189 | ||||
| Malibran, Maria Felicita | 189 | voice, guitar, piano | |||
| Mara, Gertrude Elisabeth | 190 | violin, guitar, voice | |||
| Marschner, Heinrich | 191 | voice, guitar | |||
| Mascheroni, Angelo | 193 | mandolin, guitar, voice | |||
| Matiegka, Wenzel | 194 | guitar | |||
| Mattera, Belisario | 194 | mandolin | |||
| Mayseder, Joseph | 194 | 196 | violin, guitar | ||
| Meissonnier, Antoine and Joseph | 196 | guitar | brothers, music publishing and guitar player | ||
| Merchi, Giacomo | 198 | mandolin, guitar | |||
| Merk, Joseph | 199 | violincello, violin, guitar, voice | |||
| Merrick, Arnold | 199 | guitar, organ | |||
| Mertz, Johann Kaspar | 200 | guitar | |||
| Methfessel, Albert Gottlieb | 207 | guitar | |||
| Miksch | 208 | voice, guitar | |||
| Mirecki, Francois | 208 | piano, guitar | |||
| Molino, Don Francois V. | 209 | guitar, violin | |||
| Molitor, J. | 210 | guitar | not Molitor, Simon J. (1766–1848) | ||
| Montesardo, Giacomo | 210 | guitar | |||
| Moscheles, Ignaz | 210 | piano, guitar | |||
| Mounsey, Elizabeth | 213 | guitar, organ | |||
| Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | 214 | mandolin | |||
| Munier Carlo | 218 | 220 | mandolin | grand nephew of Pasquale Vinaccia of naples "the perfector of the modern Italian mandolin" | |
| Mussini, Noël | 222 | guitar, violin, voice | |||
| Naumann, Johann Gottlieb | 222 | guitar | |||
| Nava, Antonio Maria | 223 | guitar, voice | |||
| Neuling, Vincent | 225 | mandolin | Sonata for mandolin & piano in G major | ||
| Niedzielski, Joseph | 225 | guitar, violin | |||
| Nüske, J. A. | 225 | guitar | |||
| Oberleitner, Andrew | 225 | mandolin, guitar | |||
| Padovetz, Johann | 226 | guitar | |||
| Paganini, Nicolo | 226 | 228 | violin, mandolin, guitar | ||
| Paisiello, Giovanni | 236 | mandolin, voice | |||
| Payer, Hieronimous | 238 | piano, guitar, mandolin | |||
| Pelzer, Ferdinand | 239 | 240 | guitar | Ferdinand_Pelzer | |
| Petterletti, Pierre | 240 | guitar | |||
| Petzmayer, Johann | 240 | zither, guitar | |||
| Picchianti, Luigi | 241 | guitar | |||
| Pleyel, Ignaz Joseph | 242 | violin, piano, guitar | music publisher; "first to publish Hayden's quartets" | ||
| Präger, Heinrich Aloys | 243 | violin, guitar | |||
| Pratten, Mdm. Sidney | 244 | 244 | guitar | nee Catherina Josepha Pelzer, married Robert Sydney Pratten. Catherina Josepha Pratten | |
| Pugnani, Gaetano | 245 | violin, guitar | |||
| Radziwil, Anton Heinrich | 246 | guitar, violincello | nobility:Prince of, "Statthalter" of Posen | ||
| Regondi, Giulio | 247 | 250 | guitar, concertina | ||
| Rode, Jacques Pierre Joseph | 253 | violin, guitar | |||
| Rolla, Alessandro | 254 | piano, violin, guitar, viola | |||
| Romberg, Bernhard | 255 | violincello | at least one composition that includes guitar | ||
| Romero, Luis T | 256 | guitar | studied under Miguel S. Arrevalo | ||
| Roser von Reiter, Franz de Paula | 256 | guitar | |||
| Rossini, Gioachino Antonio | 256 | 256 | guitar | inspired by Paganini's guitar playing | |
| Rudersdorff, Joseph | 258 | violin, guitar | |||
| Rugion, Beuclair | 258 | guitar | |||
| Sagrini, Luigi | 259 | guitar | |||
| Salieri, Antonio | 259 | Composed with mandolin parts | |||
| Salomon, M. | 261 | guitar, harp-lyre, harpolyre | |||
| Salvayre, Gervais Bernard | 261 | organ, mandolin, guitar, piano | |||
| Scheidler, Christian George | 262 | guitar | |||
| Schenk Decker, F. | 262 | guitar | guitar maker, son of Friedrich Schenk (a guitar luthier, forman in the workshop of Johann Georg Stauffer). | ||
| Schlick, Johann Conrad | 263 | cello, mandolin | husband of Regina Strinasacchi | ||
| Schnaebel, Joseph Ignaz | 264 | violin, guitar, organ | |||
| Schneider, Charles Adam | 265 | 266 | guitar | ||
| Schubert, Franz Peter | 265 | guitar, violin, piano | |||
| Schulz, Leonard | 268 | guitar | his brother Edward Schultz played piano for Beethoven as a child | ||
| Schumann, Frederic | 270 | guitar | |||
| Sczepanowski, Stanislous | 270 | guitar, cello | |||
| Sellner, Joseph | 272 | guitar, oboe | |||
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 272 | guitar | entry titled "Shelley's Guitar," includes his poem "With a Guitar" | ||
| Sivori, Ernesto Camillo | 275 | violin | |||
| Carlo Sodi | 275 | mandolin | operatic composer | ||
| Sokolowski, Markus Danilowitsch | 276 | 276 | guitar | friend of Nicolas Rubenstein | |
| Sola, Charles Michel Alexis | 277 | guitar, flute | |||
| Ferdinand Sor | 278 | 282 | guitar | ||
| Sotos, Andre | 286 | guitar | |||
| Soussmann, Henry | 287 | flute, violin, guitar | |||
| Spina, Andre | 287 | guitar | |||
| Spinelli, Niccola | 287 | composed for mandolin in opera A basso porto, the part called Intermezzo for mandolins and orchestra | |||
| Spohr, Louis | 288 | violin | composed for violin, guitar, viola, cello, bass | ||
| Stegmayer, Ferdinand | 290 | guitar, violin, piano | |||
| Steibelt, Daniel | 290 | piano, harpsichord, guitar | |||
| Stoessel, Nicolas | 291 | voice, piano, organ, flute, violin, guitar | |||
| Stoll, Franz Paul | 292 | guitar | |||
| Straube, Rudolph | 292 | guitar, harpsichord | |||
| Strauss, Franz | 292 | guitar, French horn, | |||