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The Royal College of Music Museum houses over 14,000 items, representing a range of music-making activities over a period of more than five centuries. Amongst instruments housed in the museum is a clavicytherium, thought to be the world's oldest surviving keyboard instrument, and the earliest known guitar.
Marylebone Road, London, England. 51°31′25″N 0°09′07″W / 51.52361°N 0.15194°W / 51.52361; -0.15194. Website. ram .ac .uk. The Royal Academy of Music ( RAM) [ 3][ 4] in London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the UK, founded in 1822 [ 5] by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter ...
The instruments on display form part of the Royal Academy of Music's fine collection of over 250 stringed instruments from the violin family. The collection includes examples of the work of the finest and most influential makers. These instruments are frequently played in concerts and recordings but are normally kept in the academy.
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945 ...
Performing. From 1926 to 1930, Cyril Smith studied with Herbert Fryer (a student of Tobias Matthay and Ferruccio Busoni) at the Royal College of Music, winning medals and prizes [2] including the Daily Express piano contest in 1928 and made his concert début in Birmingham in 1929. [4] He performed as an off-screen piano accompanist in several ...
Classical music. Occupation (s) Musician, Professor of Guitar at the Royal College of Music. Instrument. Classical guitar. Years active. 1974–present. Charles Ramirez (born 1953) is a Gibraltarian concert guitarist based in London. He is also Professor of guitar at the Royal College of Music.
The baryton can be viewed as a sort of augmented bass viol. It is similar in size to the latter instrument and likewise has six or seven [ 1] strings of gut (typically D G C E A D, although scordatura was used), arranged over a fretted fingerboard and played with a bow. The instrument is held vertically and is supported by the player's legs ...
Ruth Dyson (28 March 1917 – 16 August 1997) was an English keyboardist who performed on the harpsichord and piano. She began playing while studying at the Royal College of Music and was primarily attracted to the English Baroque. Dyson toured Europe, frequently broadcast on the BBC, made several recordings for the BBC Archives, and worked ...