North East of Scotland Music Festival minutes, newspaper cuttings, publicity material, photographs, and miscellanea, 1909 - 1913.
Records of the North East of Scotland Music Festival
This material is held atUniversity of Aberdeen Collections
- Reference
- GB 231 MS 3237
- Dates of Creation
- 1909 - 1913
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 5 volumes No physical characteristics affecting use of collection
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Launched in 1908 by Professor Charles Sanford Terry (1864 - 1936), the North East of Scotland Music Festival was the first of its kind in Scotland. It promoted the development of a lively music festival movement in Aberdeen and the North of Scotland, which continues to thrive nearly a century later.
Charles Sanford Terry (1864 - 1936), eldest son of Charles Terry, Newport Pagnell, graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, BA 1886, MA 1891. He was Lecturer in History at Durham College of Science, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1890 - 1898, joined the University of Aberdeen in 1898, and was made first Professor of History there, 1903 - 1930. An authority on the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach, and author of several books on the subject, including the much re-published Bach: a Biography (1928), he also composed music, and was instrumental in developing the early twentieth century Music Festival movement in Aberdeen and the North of Scotland. He published widely on historical topics, in particular, Jacobitism, Imperialism, and European history. For details of his life and works see Who Was Who, 1929 - 1940, and Aberdeen University Review, 24 (1936 - 1937), 42 - 43, 123 - 126, 145 - 146 .
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Gifted to the University in 1914, by Professor Charles Sanford Terry (1864 - 1936). Transferred from the University Local Collection, to Archives in Aug 1986.
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