Piano Collection

Portrait of Mary Lou Williams, CBS studio, New York, N.Y. ca. Apr. 1947. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb
Portrait of Mary Lou Williams, CBS studio, New York, N.Y. ca. Apr. 1947

Beethovens Room at the Time of his Death, 1827
NUL104380 Beethovens Room at the Time of his Death, 1827 by Hoechle, Johann Nepomuk (1790-1835); 26x21 cm; Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria; German, out of copyright

Jimmie Dwyers Saw Dust Trail, New York City, USA
Jimmie Dwyers Saw Dust Trail, West 44th Street, New York City, USA, offering continuous entertainment with four little white pianos. Date: circa 1930

Johannes Brahms at the piano. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a charcoal drawing

George Gershwin / Musician
GEORGE GERSHWIN American composer

Frederic Chopin / Etude
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his C minor Etude

Advertisement for Steinway Pianos - no drawing room of distinction has the ideally correct note unless it contains one. circa 1930s

Frederic Chopin / Nocturne
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his Nocturne opus 9 number 2 Date: 1810 - 1849

The piano in the music room in the House for an Art Lovers, architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Jascha Heifetz / Punch 20
JASCHA HEIFETZ American violinist

Chopin Concert Radziwill
FREDERIC CHOPIN Prince Antoni Radziwill, a long admirer of Chopins talents invites him to play at the palace in Berlin

Advert for Harrods piano sale 1919
Selection of bargain pianos, prices start at 148 gns for a Cramer Baby Grand in rosewood to a Chappell upright Boudoir Grand at 64 gns. 1919

Angels of Mons, cover design for piano music
Angels of Mons (Reve Mystique), cover design for solo piano music by Sydney C Baldock, inspired by rumours of angelic intervention in the fighting (Battle of Mons, Belgium)

Cat - blue siamese standing on piano reading music
LA-2831 Cat - blue siamese standing on piano reading music Jean Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

CAT PIANO
Variations on a catatonic scale : the keys are linked to the cats tails, and when depressed the resulting miaows create a concatenation of feline counterpoint

Ballet dancers rehearsing Coppelia
Ballet dancers from the French Academie de Musique et de Danse rehearsing Coppelia (music by Delibes). Mademoiselle Carlotta Zambelli, Italian dancer and teacher, is in pink on the left

David Bowie at his home, Haddon Hall, at Beckenham, Kent, 20th April 1971

RENOIR: GIRLS / PIANO, 1892. Pierre Auguste Renoir: Young Girls at a Piano. Oil on canvas, 1892
RENOIR: GIRLS/PIANO, 1892. Pierre Auguste Renoir: Young Girls at a Piano. Oil on canvas, 1892

Erik Satie / Renaudin
ERIK SATIE French composer at the piano

McCoy Tyner performing at the Newport Jazz Festival, Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough, July 1978

Mrs Mills, celebrity pianist, with dog
Unusual Friends - Mrs Mills, celebrity pianist, with dog. 1960s

Various musical instruments

Advertisement for A. Wilson. Peck and Co. Ltd. Beethoven House, Pinstone Street, Sheffield
Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP Folder 62

Frederic Chopin / Preludes
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his preludes

Johannes Brahms, German composer and musician. Seen here in profile, playing a grand piano

Piano and music sheets K011303
KENWOOD HOUSE, Hampstead, London. Detail of the Broadwood square piano of 1791 in the Music Room

Self-Help in War Time by Heath Robinson Building a Bungalow
No III - Building a bungalow: Now, having made a good start with your music-room, place your piano in position. A rather back to front way of house construction from the crazy mind of William Heath

Dachshund and Piano
A musical dachshund plays a tune on the piano

Js Bach Conducts
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH German organist and composer conducts the Whitsunday Cantata Date: 1685 - 1750

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, (1756 - 1791), by Carl Schweninger the Younger (colour litho)
3641260 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, (1756 - 1791), by Carl Schweninger the Younger (colour litho) by Schweninger, Karl or Carl the Younger (1854-1903); Private Collection; (add.info)

Miles Davis Quintet, 1960. Creator: Brian Foskett
Miles Davis Quintet, 1960

The Count Basie Orchestra in concert at the Royal Festival Hall, London, 18 July 1980: Count Basie (piano), Cleveland Eaton (bass), Freddie Green (guitar), Gregg Field (drums)

The Windmill Theatre, 1940
Eric Woodburn, seated at the piano, rehearses along with the girls of the Revudeville company at the Windmill Theatre, London. 1940

Benjamin Britten, Yehudi Menuhin
Rehearsal for Piano Trios Concert in the Aldeburgh Parish Church (24 June), Aldeburgh Festival 1963. Benjamin Britten (piano)

Piano playing
A small boy sits at a piano and practises his scales conscientiously

They Laughed when I
They laughed when I sat down at the piano... (and then, of course, he amazed them all with his virtuosity !)

How Pianola Works 1912
How the player-piano works - air passes through the holes in the piano-roll and acts on the bellows mechanism, causing a hammer to strike a key

Metsu - A Gentleman and a Lady at a Virginal K010543
KENWOOD HOUSE, London. " An Interior With a Lady Seated at a Keyboard" c.1650s by Gabriel METSU (1629-67)

Witley Court Music Room c. 1920 BL25088
WITLEY COURT, Worcestershire. Interior view c.1920. The Music Room. Photographed by Bedford Lemere

Osborne House J030034
OSBORNE HOUSE, East Cowes, Isle of Wight. Interior view of the Drawing Room. Some items shown maybe on loan from the Royal Collection

Oscar Peterson in concert at Colston Hall, Bristol, 1955. Artist: Denis Williams
Oscar Peterson in concert at Colston Hall, Bristol, 1955

Margate Pier - Jessie Wildon and her Bijou Orchestra
Margate Pier - Jessie Wildon (Mrs Fred Wildon - pictured on left with cello) and her Bijou Orchestra - a musical quintet. The Wildon family ran orchestras of various types during the summer in

CLARA SCHUMANN (1819-1896). German pianist. Wife of Robert Schumann (1810-1856). German composer. Photographed in 1850

Eugene Ysaye - Belgian Violinist
Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931) - Belgian Violinist Date: circa 1903

New bobbed hair conductor for London symphony orchestra. Miss Ethel Leginska, the young woman from Hull with the bobbed hair

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND. Lithograph poster, 1948, by Ben Shahn for the Progressive Party, satirizing the popular 1945 photograph of Harry Truman playing a piano adorned by actress Lauren Bacall;

Photos on piano, Lloyd Georges farm at Churt, Surrey
Photos on the piano, Lloyd Georges farm at Churt, Surrey. On the back row, l-r: Eleftherios Venizelos, Lloyd George with Prince of Wales (future Edward VIII), General Foch

Wa Mozart Silhouette
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Silhouette of the Austrian composer at the piano

Johannes Brahms playing the piano (engraving)
814059 Johannes Brahms playing the piano (engraving) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Johannes Brahms playing the piano. German composer and pianist (1833-1897)

American singer, Nina Simone, in the UK recording a television programme called Sound of Soul for London Weekend Television

Miles Davis Quintet, 1960. Creator: Brian Foskett
Miles Davis Quintet, 1960

Yehudi Menuhin and Benjamin Britten Rehearsing
Yehudi Menuhin and Benjamin Britten rehearsing violin and piano in the Jubilee Hall for the Piano Trios recital in Aldeburgh Parish Church on 24 June 1963. Date: 1963

Italy, Naples, Portrait of Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa (1749 - 1801), 1785
Francesco Saverio Candido (1768-1807), Portrait of Domenico Cimarosa (Aversa, 1749 - Venice, 1801), Italian composer, 1785

IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1971). American (Russian-born) composer. Pencil drawing, c1935, by Hilda Wiener

Puccini Leans on Piano
GIACOMO PUCCINI leans on the piano, a cigarette dangling from the side of his mouth

Piano Making at Brinsmeads Factory. Fitting in the hammers. 10 December 1920

Beethoven / Bonn Birthplce
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN His birthplace at 515 Bonngasse, Bonn The Relic Room Date: 1770 - 1827

Advertisement for the Brinsmead grand piano
An advertisement for the Brinsmead grand piano, the best that British craftsmanship can produce, with a pure singing tone and beauty of finish. Payment by instalments can be arranged... Date: 1913

Piano teacher and pupil, 1915
Teacher: What does ff mean? Child(learning military march): Fump! Fump! Date: 1915

The Dixieland Jazz Band, c. 1919 Date: c.1919

Racial / French Accordeon
A typical French street or cafe musician playing the one-step for accordion

Couple Dancing / Piano
A couple dancing to popular songs of the day such as Schade, dass man per Telefon nicht kussen kann ( What a shame you can t kiss over the phone )

Rubinstein Plays Piano
ANTON RUBINSTEIN over-enthusiastic pianist plays a tune. So caught up in his performance he is lifted bodily from the stool, long hair & coat-tails flying

Puccini Mascagni Franche
GIACOMO PUCCINI with Mascagni (left) and Franchetti (centre) at Milan in 1893

Johannes Brahms, German composer and musician, seen here as a young man, sitting at a grand piano

Benjamin Britten, Yehudi Menuhin
Rehearsal for Piano Trios Concert in the Aldeburgh Parish Church (24 June), Aldeburgh Festival 1963. Benjamin Britten (piano)

Phonograph Recording
Recording a man playing the piano using Edisons improved model phonograph

Piano player
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Mans hands playing piano in dim lighting. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Margrete Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer and pianist. Circa 1950

Chappell Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Chappell, pianoforte and gramophone salons in London. The image showsa Chappell piano in a fine interior by a fireplace, The choice of the conoisseur. Date: circa 1922

A marriage made in Chelsea, Judy Garland chose a London Registry Office to be the venue for the 1969 wedding to her fifth and final husband Mickey Deans

St. Cecilia, 1891, (1911). Artist: Gustav Naujok
St. Cecilia, 1891, (1911). Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians. From Bibbys Annual 1911. [J. Bibby & Sons, Liverpool, 1911]

At the Piano, 1914. Artist: Sergey Vinogradov
At the Piano, 1914. Found in the collection of the State Art Museum of the Belorussian Republic, Minsk, Belarus

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - playing the piano. circa 1910s

THE ETUDE MUSIC MAGAZINE. Front cover, March 1926

CHOPIN: PRELUDE, c1838. Autograph manuscript of Frederic Chopins Prelude No. 15 in D-flat Major, known as the Raindrop prelude (Op. 28, No. 15), c1838

MOVIE THEATER, 1920s. Interior of an unidentified New York City motion picture theatre showing a film with Buster Keaton, 1920s

Two Young Girls at the Piano, 1892. Creator: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Two Young Girls at the Piano, 1892

Paul Jones and Manfred Mann, West Wickham, Bromley, London, 1964. Creator: Brian Foskett
Paul Jones and Manfred Mann, West Wickham, Bromley, London, 1964

Mozart performs for Empress Maria Theresia, 1 October 1762, (1936). Creator: Unknown
Mozart performs for Empress Maria Theresia, 1 October 1762, (1936). Mozart Vor Kaiserin Maria Theresia, 1 Oktober 1762. The six-year-old Mozart plays for the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria at

Belfast riots, July 1920
A double page spread from the Illustrated London News, reporting on rioting in Belfast from 20th to 23rd July 1920. 18 people were killed, and 200 wounded during the disturbances

Nude model on a break plays a piano
The Model rests A nude model takes a break from posing for an artist and plays a little ditty on the Baby Grand Piano just off his studio. Date: circa 1914

Pianist Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt at the piano. Digitally colored engraving from a 19th-century photograph

Playing a piano amid the destruction - The Blitz
One of the men working on debris clearance in London succeeded in wresting a tune from this battered piano - circa late 1940

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"Piano: A Melodic Journey Through Time and Emotion" Step into the world of piano, where timeless compositions and virtuosic performances have captivated hearts for centuries. From the delicate touch of Johannes Brahms to the fiery passion of Jascha Heifetz's Punch 20, this instrument has been a vessel for musical brilliance. Frederic Chopin's Etude takes us on a whirlwind of technical mastery, while an advertisement for Steinway Pianos reminds us that greatness can be achieved with the right instrument. McCoy Tyner's mesmerizing performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1978 brings jazz and piano together in perfect harmony. Transport yourself to another era as you listen to Chopin Concert Radziwill or get lost in the ethereal beauty of Frederic Chopin's Nocturne. The Angels of Mons grace the cover design for piano music, adding a touch of mystique to each note played. An advertisement for A. Wilson Peck & Co Ltd Beethoven House showcases how pianos have become an integral part of our homes and lives. In places like Sheffield's Pinstone Street, these instruments bring joy and inspiration to all who encounter them. The grandeur continues as we explore The Piano in the Music Room at House for an Art Lovers—a sanctuary where creativity flourishes amidst elegant surroundings. And what better companion than a blue Siamese cat perched on top, reading along with every melody? Erik Satie's Renaudin transports us into a realm where simplicity meets profound expression—an ode to minimalism that resonates deeply within our souls. In every note played upon its keys, whether by legendary composers or contemporary artists, the piano tells stories untold—stories that evoke emotions beyond words can express, and is not just an instrument; it is a gateway into realms unknown—a magical journey through time and emotion that will forever enchant those who dare listen.