Sheet Music, Second Waltz: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, Second Waltz: date made: 1909. maker: Goddard. Object Name: sheet music.
The object in the museum catalogue
The works of a musician are often numbered by order of composition. The French composer Benjamin Godard (1849-1895) wrote seven waltzes. This sheet music,listed on the cover as by "Benjamin Goddard" and on the first page of the music is the "Second Valse" of "Benjamin Godard" is most probably Benjamin Godard's "Valse No. 2." This version was "revised and fingered" by Rudolf Thaler.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1909
- maker: Goddard
- Object Name: sheet music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 26.7 cm x 35 cm; 1/32 in x 10 1/2 in x 13 25/32 in
- place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.089
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- catalog number: 1988.3086.089
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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