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Library

Documents, essays, biographies, historical sources and reference materials

The Library is the documentary archive of Classical Archive, bringing together biographies, essays, historical documents, analytical studies, booklets and selected reference materials devoted to classical music.

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REFERENCE INDEX HISTORICAL GROVE · 1904–1910

Historical Grove Dictionary

Historical musicological source integrated into Classical Archive. Complete second edition in five volumes, 1904–1910. All five volumes provide article-level access. I, II, III and V use local page jumps; IV (Q–S) opens an internal record and launches the search directly inside the 1908 facsimile.

5complete historical volumes
HISTORICAL SOURCE · EXACT FACSIMILE — Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition, five volumes published from 1904 to 1910. Original facsimiles are shown; unreviewed OCR is not published as article text.
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GROVE'S DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS · SECOND EDITION

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Volume 1 · A-E1904PDF p. 58
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Original article · historical facsimile

This is the exact reproduction of the historical edition. Raw OCR is no longer shown publicly.

RELIABLE READING — At this stage the exact facsimile is prioritised. Web transcriptions will be published only after correction; unreviewed OCR will not be shown again as a finished article.