A composer and his copyright
21st March 2017
Here’s something else for the Edinburgh book fair: an interesting piece of music, published 1834/5, with local connections (and a fine lithographed title-page). Charles H. Purday (1799–1885) was a composer, writer, and lecturer on music, the youngest son of the bookseller Thomas Purday (1765–1838). ‘In his retirement he advocated reform of the copyright laws, seemingly […]
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