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Documenting the growth and development of the modern concert harp, this work is the largest and most complete compilation of biographies of harpists.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Artist
Adams, Anne
Allen, Nancy
Bambrick, Winifred
Berghout, Phia
Boschsa, Robert Nicholas Charles
Cardon, Jean Baptiste
Chalifoux, Alice
Cousineau, Jacques
de Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité
de Mello, Acacia
Dilling, Mildred
Dizi, Francois Joseph
Druzinshky, Edward
Dulova, Vera
Dussek, Sophia
Ellis, Osian
Erdeli, Ksenia
Gatti-Aldrovandi, Clelia
Gislinge, Sonja
Goosens, Marie
Grae, Inga
Grandany, Marcel
Griffiths, Ann
Hasselmans, Alphonse
Holy, Alfred
Hürliman, Emmy
Jamet, Pierre
Kastner, Alfred
Korchinska, Maria
Labarre, Théodore
Laskine, Lily
Lawrence, Lucille
Loman, Judy
Malone, Eileen
McDonald, Suzann
McLaughlin, Carrol
Mercz, Nora
Meyer, Philippe-Jacques
Mildonian, Susanna
Molnar, Josef
Naderman, Francois-Joseph
Nordmann, Marielle
Oberthür, Charles
Parish Alvars, Elias
Parry, John
Posse, Wilhelm
Renié, Henriette
Rosenbloom, Lucile
Salvi family
Salvi, Alberto
Salvi, Victor
Salzedo, Carlos
Slepuhskin, Aleksandr
Spohr, Dorette Scheidler
Studio Harpists
Gotthoffer, Catherine
Remsen, Dorothy
Stockton, Ann
Thomas, John
Tournier, Marcel
Vito, Edward
Walter-Kiune, Ekaterina
Watkins, David
Yoshino, Naoko
Zabaleta, Nicanor
Index

About the Author

WENONAH MILTON GOVEA is Professor Emeritus of Music at California State University in Hayward. She is a composer, performer, and teacher and has shared her talent with her community as director of numerous local honor choirs as well as introducing harp in the public schools. She also established her university's harp program, expanding it to include a harp ensemble which performed professionally. Recently, she initiated the AHS Summer Institute for student harpists and was instrumental in the formation of the American Harp Society Foundation.

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?the volume is well crafted and is a delight to read the biographies. Music libraries will not want to be without this important work.?-ARBA

"the volume is well crafted and is a delight to read the biographies. Music libraries will not want to be without this important work."-ARBA