Classic Musical Performances

Black and white images of musicians performing with string instruments and piano in vintage settings, evoking a nostalgic atmosphere of live music.

Vintage photograph. High angle view of person's hands playing organ

Boardleben Milwaukee. Ship chapel while making music. Cellists

Vintage photograph. High angle view of person's hands playing organ

Open air concert at N. Sydney. December 08, 1952.

Anefo photo collection. The master pianist Rudof Serkin here during the rehearsal in the Concertgebouw. October 30, 1962

High angle view of a man reclining on a chair and playing a piano (EV005529_H)

On grand piano in the centre of Australia, C.H. Chapman, a man of many parts, plays classical music or uses a raspy baritone to entertain visitors. September 12, 1951.

Anefo photo collection. Leonard Bernstein (USA) conductor at Concertgebouw Orchestra. Bernstein (center) listens to violinist. September 5, 1950

Charles Rosen, US Pianist Concert, USIS. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Radio (This is Europe). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Fulbright Students' Concert, USIS. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Boardleben Milwaukee. Ship chapel while making music. Violin

LaForge

Barbirolli Conducts -- "One bar too late, at the back there. December 9, 1950. (Photo by Tom L. Blau, Camera Press).

Anefo photo collection. Celebration of the ten-year anniversary of the Dutch Society of mayors in the Kurhaus in Scheveningen. Mayor of Utrecht c.j.a. The Ranitz during a piano recital. October 14, 1965. Scheveningen, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. The Dutch Student Orchestra will rehearse three weeks in the well-known ruin church in Bergen led by the conductor Jan Brussen. Daughter of the conductor Ada Brussen gets behind her father's harp instructions .. January 6, 1964. Bergen, Noord-Holland

Max Rostal & Joseph Post. March 16, 1955.

Czech conductor - violinist Eugen Prokopv who will conduct Teleman's Concerto in E Major at the Art Gallery "Prom" on Tuesday. March 7, 1954. (Photo by Antonia Blaxland).

Michelangeli, celebrated Italian pianist, giving a recital before the television camera. September 10, 1947. (Photo by BBC Television Service).

Anefo photo collection. Concert in the Concertgebouw. February 4, 1946

1930S 1940S 1950S Music Composer Man Sitting At Piano Keyboard Playing And Writing Down Music Notes Musician

Anefo photo collection. Hie Holland England / Anefo London series. Composer Gerry Schuurman wing. February 9, 1945. Britain

Hands playing Piano, on-set of the Film, "Top Hat", RKO Radio Pictures, 1935

Anefo photo collection. Recording "This is your life", Jo Vincent on the Wing E Clinge Doorenbosch. 17 February 1960

Salvatore accardo and leonardo leonardi

Vintage photograph. The harp

Royal Academy of Music- the work of the Royal Academy in Wartime, London, England, UK, 1944 Mr Douglas Cameron (left), soloist and broadcaster, is a member of the Blech string quartet and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Here, he can be seen giving a cello lesson to a second year student at the Royal Academy of Music.

Boston Symphony Orchestra Heard - But Only Once -- Olivia Mall Luetcke, the only woman member of an orchestra of 104 instruments. She is at her harp during yesterday's brief rehearsal at the royal festival hall.H.E. the American ambassador and Mrs. Gifford attended the performance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the royal festival hall, London, last night.This was the only time the orchestra will be heard in England for it is on its way back to the United States after playing at the Paris congress of cultural freedom.The orchestra is under the permanent conductorship of Charles munch, on of France's most celebrated conductors. May 27, 1952. (Photo by Paul Popper).

Anefo photo collection. Concert in the Concertgebouw. February 4, 1946. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

El director de orquesta Paul Whiteman, 1946.

Close-up of cello musician and musical notes during concert of symphony or jazz orchestra.

Violinist, collage, historical image, ca. 1928

W.C. Carl

MAX STEINER.

Vaslav Nijinsky, Anonymous

Anefo photo collection. Russian musicians in our country J. Beszodmi. December 29, 1953

Anefo photo collection. 50th anniversary of the Society of Dutch composers in the Concertgebouw, v.L.n.R. Landre, Oscar of Heaven and Hans Kor. February 6, 1961

Jack Doyle, surrounded by the *****.Jack Doyle, the famous Irish Heavy-weight boxer, commences his new vocation at the Decca Gramophone company studios, Chelsea, London, as a singer of well-known Irish melodies. He was accompanied by Fred Hartley, and his novelty quintet. February 14, 1934.

The SPD politician Herbert Wehner gave a speech in a church in the Ruhr area, Germany, in about 1968, Europe

Vintage Photograph. Man playing Grand Pedal Harp. Frame 2

Portrait of man playing organ

Anefo photo collection. The master pianist Rudof Serkin here during the rehearsal in the Concertgebouw. October 30, 1962

Anefo photo collection. Utrecht congress green cross. September 15, 1950. Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. Leonard Bernstein (USA) conductor at Concertgebouw Orchestra. September 5, 1950. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Efram i.e., Efrem Zimbalist

Anefo photo collection. Shaffy Chantant in Rembrandttheater, Polo de Haas. February 15, 1965. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

MARIO LANZA in THE GREAT CARUSO (1951), directed by RICHARD THORPE.

Stern, intense, Isador Goodman's in Classical mood plays Beethoven's Appassionata. March 15, 1953.

"Here Comes the Band" Equipages de la Flotte, France. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Radio Show - This is Europe. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Marinus Egberts A.S. Saturday 75 years, Compinquen-Dirigen number 6 Marinus Egberts. September 10, 1963

Dutch Troops Train in England, 1941 Some of the Dutch soldiers in this unit are professional musicians and have formed a dance band together. The harp is a very unusual instrument for such a band, but it is played by a soldier who is a concert harpist in Holland. The band gives regular concerts and dances in the village hall. Here we see the band practicing at their base, somewhere in England in 1941.

FRED ASTAIRE in A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS (1937), directed by GEORGE STEVENS.

String

Anefo photo collection. TV Music express. Rosa muscle (Harp) and Willem O. Duys. November 6, 1961

Bob Brasted of Kensington can't read a note of music and has never played an organ, yet he sits at the console, creating tone that makes you blink with it's brilliance. Bob, an electrician has in front of him a score, which tells him how to play his part. Every ke and stop means a combination, bringing into play thousands of lights. He is operating the latest thing in lighting. Which has been put into use for the first time at the Empress Hall Earls Court, where the pantomime on ice "Babes in the Wood" is being performed. The whole instrument is similar in every way to the keyboard of an organ, for it has been created with the co-operation of a well known firm of organ builders. December 22, 1950.

Anefo photo collection. Violist Jaap concert of Sweden in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Play violinist Jaap from Sweden. January 21, 1981. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Concert of Europe Program #5, Series II, Napoleone Annovazzi. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK.

Man playing harp

Eddie Cantor playing piano

Saxophone player reading music on foot (EV004201_H)

The noted Violinist you're looking at is : Mischa Elman. August 20, 1950. (Photo by Cowles Syndicate).

Misc. - Music - Instruments - Violins. January 21, 1952.

Anefo photo collection. Award ceremony of the national violin competition for young amateurs. Participant to the competition. April 3, 1971

Anefo photo collection. Television deposit piano for sale. Harry De Groot. June 7, 1961

Vintage photograph. Bass tuba in Thomas Beecham Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

CECIL PARKER, HERBERT LOM, PETER SELLERS, ALEC GUINNESS and DANNY GREEN in THE LADYKILLERS (1955), directed by ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK.

Female pianist 1937. still image. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Musicians, African American musicians, Federal Music Project (U.S.), Pianists

Anefo photo collection. Performance Dad Bue in open air theater Dijkzigt. July 27, 1960

Solo Violinist Max Rostal of ABC concert designer with his two violinist valued at £21,250. March 01, 1955.

Richard Tauber as conductor. December 21, 1940.

Anefo photo collection. Bernard printer plays the largest theater organ in Europe, owned by the NOS, in a church in Hilversum. November 20, 1969. Europe, Hilversum

Michael Penha with cello

Jim Blows the Bass Trombone: With unusually serious expression, comedian Jimmy Edwards practices Elgar's Severn Suite on the bass trombone, while wearing the blue and red uniform of the Barnes, Surrey, Brass Band.Jim, who was born in Barnes, is president of the Band, which is entered for the National Brass Band competition.The Severn Suit is the test piece which the Band will have to play if its heat at the Westminster Central Hall on April 2, The national finals are to be held in the Royal Albert Hall. March 28, 1955. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Notes On The Past -- Back into the leisured salons of the 17th and 18th centuries went these 1951 players for their music and their instruments in a Wigmore Hall, London, rehearsal for a series of eight Festival of Britain concerts arranged by the Arts Council of Great Britain. In foreground, Diana Poulton plays the lute, based on the original instrument of the 17th *****. May 19, 1951. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Anefo photo collection. "Uitmarkt" in Amsterdam; "Drs. P" during performance. August 28, 1982. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Reproduktie Royal Film Amstelveen. April 5, 1954. Amstelveen, Noord-Holland

WAHL 9-4.A Clavichord. September 27, 1937.

Sidonie Goossens (1899-2004) English harpist playing the harp Date: April 1942

1910s 1920s TIN PAN ALLEY COMPOSER IRVING BERLIN AT PIANO KEYBOARD LOOKING AT SHEET MUSIC FOR HIS DEBUT MUSICAL WATCH YOUR STEP

A Musician Italian (possibly Neapolitan School). A Musician, 18th century. Oil on canvas, Shield shape: 42 x 38 1/2 in. (106.7 x 97.8 cm). European Art 18th century

Francis Moore & Paul Reimers

Josef Eriksson with the accordion. The shooting party in Hästbo Josef Eriksson med dragspelet. Skyttefesten i Hästbo

Mr. Nigel Armbrust with a 12ft. garden hose playing in the 'Garden Hose Symphony!.The London Friends of Music organised a special "April Fools Concert" last night at the Royal Festival Hall, London. A number of famous musicians took part in playing "instruments" such as saucepans, cutlery and dinner gongs.April 2, 1954. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

1960S 1970S Portrait Of Man In White Tie And Tails Conducting An Orchestra In Symphony Hall

Drums - Musical Instrument/Misc. April 29, 1944. (Photo by Ernest a Bachrach, RKO Radio Pictiures, Inc).

Kenneth Brown, Billy Lenhart, Billy Gilbert, on-set of the Film, "The Under-Pup", Universal Pictures, 1939

KEVIN KLINE in DE-LOVELY (2004), directed by IRWIN WINKLER.

The Italian conductor Carlo Savina with the Orchestra of Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana in 1956.

Anefo photo collection. Giethoorn musician who cooperates in the movie Bert Haanstra. July 31, 1958

MARCELLO MASTROIANNI in DIVORCE-ITALIAN STYLE (1961) -Original title: DIVORZIO ALL'ITALIANA-, directed by PIETRO GERMI.

03/01/1913. Notable Concert Players. The Renacimiento quartet, which gave a concert at the Ateneo.

Young musician playing a tuba in a black and white photo

Adjutant and his wife sing. Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , San Francisco, California , San Francisco County, Salvation Army

Anefo photo collection. Maurice Nuisker, world champion accordion games, for the lean bridge in Amsterdam. October 24, 1961. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Cornets - Instrument Music. February 4, 1935.

Richard Tauber & Wife Formally Dianna Napier - Tenor & Actor - Stage & Screen. December 21, 1940.

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