The community of German migrant musicians in London c. 1750-1850

Reference Number: PP/2396
Level of Description: Item
Title: The community of German migrant musicians in London c. 1750-1850
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Jarvis, Anne: Author
Date: 2003
Extent: Pages: 269
Description: A dissertation produced for the Master of Studies Degree in Local and Regional History at the University of Cambridge August 2003. Contains information on the Griesbach and Herschel families who married into one another and whose members emigrated to England where they worked as musicians. Members of the Herschel family, including William and Caroline (whose memoirs were used to research the dissertation), are mentioned Chapter 1, pp. 7-8, Chapter 2, p. 8, Chapter 4, pp. 2-3. They are also mentioned in Appendix 1 (the transcribed 'Memoirs of George Griesbach'), pp. 1, 2-4, 7. Appendix 2 is a database of German musicians who migrated to England for part or all of their lives and includes entries for the brothers Dietrich, Jacob and William Herschel who all lived and/or performed in Bath at some point in their lives.
Subject: Biography
Genealogy
Memoirs
Migrants
Musicians