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To get a transcript of what the friends had to say, you can read the transcript after the jump. J. Tchaikovsky’s Voice Captured on an Edison Cylinder (1890). As is Walt Whitman! E. Lawrowskaja: A disgusting…how he dares slyly to name me.
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Here you can listen to Pyotr Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, etc.)
So he gathered a group of his friends, including the great composer Tchaikovsky, and showed them what it could do.
“Peter” rather than “Pyotr” is the LOC transliteration for his given name.
On the recording you can hear Tchaikovsky’s voice, alongside the voices of pianist Anton Rubinstein, Julius Block, pianist and conductor Vasily Safonov and opera singer Yelizaveta. Bill Turnbull
P. Tchaikovsky: Block is good, but Edison is even better. Thanks Maggie for this tip. To get a transcript of what the friends had to say, you can read the transcript after the jump. The conversation’s in Russian, so here’s part of it translated by YouTuber Transforming Art :
This short clip was recorded onto a wax cylinder and is now help at the Tchaikovsky Museum in Moscow. You can find out more about Tchaikovsky and the house where he lived near Moscow here.
(via BoingBoing).
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in Music | November 14th, 2009 2 Comments, Take a quick trip back in time, to 1890.
©2006-2020 Open Culture, LLC. Open Culture scours the web for the best educational media. E. Lawrowskaja: (sings) A-o, a-o. A. Rubinstein: What a wonderful thing [the phonograph].
W. Safonov : (Sings a scale incorrectly). and other eminent musicians having some fun, recording their voices on a then new-fangled technology, the phonograph cylinder, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. James Joyce is out there too.
Download ''Pur ti miro'' on iTunes, 2 August 2017, 14:55 | Updated: 2 August 2017, 15:01.
In the very early days of recording, a businessman called Julius Block was trying to drum up support for a new-fangled device – Thomas Edison’s phonograph.
On the recording you can hear Tchaikovsky’s voice, alongside the voices of pianist Anton Rubinstein, Julius Block, pianist and conductor Vasily Safonov and opera singer Yelizaveta. Tchaikovsky: Block is good, but Edison is even better. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Get the best cultural and educational resources on the web curated for you in a daily email. The conversation’s in Russian, so here’s part of it translated by YouTuber Transforming Art: Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya: Disgusting.
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P. Tchaikovsky: This trill could be better. Vasily Safonov: [Sings a scale incorrectly].
Block: Finally.
Very few recordings exist from the 19th century partly because the early equipment used to record sound was so delicate. Here you can listen to Pyotr Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, etc.)