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SUMMARY:Madame Florentine Besson and the Birth of the Modern Trumpet
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr Sabine Klaus as she explores the role of Madame Florentine Besson in the invention of the modern trumpet\, with live demonstrations.\n \n\n\nThe origin of the modern piston-valve trumpet—the trumpet used in most countries today—is often associated with the French firm of Besson. But when and by whom was this iconic trumpet design invented? French patents\, issued to Florentine Besson née Ridoux (1829-1877)\, wife of founder Gustave Auguste Besson (1820-1875)\, unambiguously shine light on her role in the invention of the modern trumpet. Married to Gustave Besson in 1847 at the age of 18\, Florentine was not only the mother of his four children (three daughters and a son) but clearly an equal business partner who was likely trained in the trade by her husband. Be transported into the mid-nineteenth-century world of a competent\, technically savvy\, international businesswoman\, mother and inventor of one of the most influential instruments of the modern age\, the trumpet. Dr Sabine Klaus will be assisted by curator Dr Sarah Deters\, who will demonstrate various trumpets from the St Cecilia’s Hall collections.\n \nDr Sabine K. Klaus is Professor Emerita from the University of South Dakota and most recently served in the role of Mirrey Keyboard Instrument Cataloguer at the University of Edinburgh’s Musical Instrument Museum. From 1999–2023 she was Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Curator of Brass Instruments at the National Music Museum\, University of South Dakota. She is the author of a five-volume book series\, Trumpets and Other High Brass\, published between 2012 and 2024.\n \nPart of the Women’s History Month Celebration Series 2026.\n \nPlease note that\, due to the temporary closure of St Cecilia’s Hall\, this talk will be held at the Centre for Research Collections\, located within the University of Edinburgh Main Library\, NOT at St Cecilia’s Hall.\n \n\n\n\nBook Your Tickets Here
URL:https://www.stcecilias.ed.ac.uk/event/madame-florentine-besson-and-the-birth-of-the-modern-trumpet/
LOCATION:Centre for Research Collections\, 6th Floor\, Main Library\, George Square\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LJ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Hidden Women of St Cecilia's Hall
DESCRIPTION:Dr Jenny Nex explores and examines the roles\, lives and stories behind the often overlooked women who were instrumental in the making\, selling and collecting of some of the instruments in the collection. \nJenny Nex is Curator of the Musical Instrument Collection and Lecturer in Musical Instruments at the University of Edinburgh\, where her research interests focus on the financial and business operations of 18th– and 19th-century instrument makers. Publications include work relating to London-based firms such as Longman & Broderip and to specific types of manufacture\, including the gut string making trade\, as well as highlighting the roles of women in the instrument business. Following her degree in Music from the University of Edinburgh\, Jenny studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music and continues to sing as much as possible\, notably in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus. \nPart of the Women’s History Month Celebration Series 2026. \nPlease note that\, due to the temporary closure of St Cecilia’s Hall\, this talk will be held at the Centre for Research Collections\, located within the University of Edinburgh Main Library\, NOT at St Cecilia’s Hall.   \n\n\nBook Your Tickets Here\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.stcecilias.ed.ac.uk/event/the-hidden-women-of-st-cecilias-hall/
LOCATION:Centre for Research Collections\, 6th Floor\, Main Library\, George Square\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LJ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Dressing for a Concert at St Cecilia's Hall 1763-1787
DESCRIPTION:Enlightenment Edinburgh. The Social Season is in full swing. \nAre you a wealthy landowner in town for the duration? Are you one of Edinburgh’s social or intellectual elite? Are you a lady of fashion or a young man in want of a wife? \nIf so\, you will certainly be attending the Ladies’ Concert at St Cecilia’s Hall –‘One of the most elegant and genteel entertainments of anywhere in Britain’. Everyone who is anyone will be there. \nThere is only one question left to ask\, ‘What will you wear?’ Come and find out! \nDona Easton is a long-time volunteer at St Cecilia’s Hall. She is a former music teacher and has been researching the fashion and shopping in Edinburgh around the time St Cecilia’s Hall opened. Drawing on writings and newspaper adverts from the period\, Dona will explore how our concert goers might have dressed\, with reference to Hair\, Cosmetics\, Hygiene\, Undergarments\, Fabric and Fashion. \n\n\nBook Your Tickets Here
URL:https://www.stcecilias.ed.ac.uk/event/dressing-for-a-concert-at-st-cecilias-hall-1763-1787/
LOCATION:St Cecilia’s Hall\, 50 Niddry St\, Edinburgh\, Scotland\, EH1 1LL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Instrumental Women of Fender
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, 4th September at St Cecilia’s Hall for one of our informal talk series lectures with historian Jayme Kurland. In 1946\, the electric guitar company Fender began its operations in southern California and relied on a small group of Mexican American women to wire amplifiers\, wind pickups\, and assemble their products\, among other tasks. In this talk\, historian Jayme Kurland discusses who the women of Fender were\, the unique skills that they brought to their work\, and their impact on American popular music. Jayme Kurland is a Ph.D. candidate in history at George Mason University in Virginia\, US. She has worked with musical instrument collections in curatorial positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC\, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston\, and the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. Her dissertation project\, “Instrumental Women: Amplifying Women’s Labor at Fender Electric Instruments Company (1946-1965)\,” examines the contributions of Mexican American women workers to the manufacturing of electric guitars and amplifiers in Fullerton\, California. Jayme also founded the digital history website Instrumental Women which highlights the contributions of women to musical instrument making\, past and present. \n\n\nBook Your Tickets Here
URL:https://www.stcecilias.ed.ac.uk/event/talk-instrumental-women-of-fender/
LOCATION:St Cecilia’s Hall\, 50 Niddry St\, Edinburgh\, Scotland\, EH1 1LL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Jacobites\, Italians and Music in Edinburgh
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, 14th August at St Cecilia’s Hall for one of our informal talk series lectures\, with Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland who will explore the story of the first generation of the Corris through images\, storytelling and song.\n\nFrom the Italian Jacobite court to Edinburgh’s St Cecilia’s Hall\, in 1771\, Charles Edward Stuart’s personal musicians\, Domenico and Francesca Corri\, travelled with their brother/brother-in-law\, John\, to start a new musical life in Scotland. Despite their Jacobite links Roman Catholic faith\, and many scandals that included bankruptcy and legal battles\, they emerged as one of the most important and powerful musical families in Scotland. Indeed\, their story reveals much about Edinburgh’s musical history. Join Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland as she explores the story of the first generation of the Corris through images\, storytelling and song.\n\nDr Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland is a Lecturer in Historical Musicology at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland . She has sung in master classes and private lessons with early music specialists including Emma Kirkby\, Nicholas Clapton and Robert Toft and regularly performs lecture-recitals at conferences and events.\n\n\n\nBook Your Tickets Here
URL:https://www.stcecilias.ed.ac.uk/event/jacobites-italians-and-music-in-edinburgh/
LOCATION:St Cecilia’s Hall\, 50 Niddry St\, Edinburgh\, Scotland\, EH1 1LL\, United Kingdom
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