Vincent Novello, was an English musician and music publisher born in London. He was a chorister and organist, but he is best known for bringing to England many works now considered standards, and with his son he created a major music publishing house and was a friend to Felix Mendelssohn.
Clara Anastasia Novello was an acclaimed soprano, the fourth daughter of Vincent Novello, a musician and music publisher, and his wife, Mary Sabilla Hehl. Her acclaimed soprano and pure style made her one of the greatest vocalists, alike in opera, oratorio and on the concert stage, from 1833 onwards. In 1843 she married Count Gigliucci, and retired in 1861. Charles Lamb wrote a poem in her praise.
Percy Alfred Scholes OBE PhD was an English musician, journalist and prolific writer, whose best-known achievement was his compilation of the first edition of the Oxford Companion to Music. His 1948 biography The Great Dr Burney was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Alfred Robert Gaul was an English composer, conductor, teacher and organist.
Frederic Archer was a British composer, conductor and organist, born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He studied music in London and Leipzig, and held musical positions in England and Scotland until 1880, when he became organist of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York.
Sir John Frederick Bridge was an English organist, composer, teacher and writer.
Harvey Grace (1874–1944) was an English musician: a composer, conductor, editor and teacher, best known for the 26 year period he worked as editor at The Musical Times.
Edmund Thomas Chipp was an English organist and composer. His compositions were principally church organ music and oratorios.
Charles Macpherson DMus (Dunelm) FRAM FRCO was a Scottish organist, who served at St Paul's Cathedral.
Sir George Clement Martin was an English organist, who served at St Paul's Cathedral.
Felix Mendelssohn's six Organ Sonatas, Opus 65, were published in 1845. Mendelssohn's biographer Eric Werner has written of them: "Next to Bach's works, Mendelssohn's Organ Sonatas belong to the required repertory of all organists."
Henry Hiles was an English composer, organist, writer, and music educator.
Charles Harford Lloyd was an English composer who became a well-known organist in his time.
Joseph Alfred Novello was an English music publisher. He was the eldest son of Vincent Novello, and the creator of Novello and Company Ltd as a revolutionary force in music publishing.
Walter Battison Haynes was an English pianist, organist and composer.
John Edmund Cox (1812–1890), also Edmond, was an English cleric and antiquarian, best known as an editor of the works of Thomas Cranmer.
The Village Organist: a series of pieces for church and general use was a sequence of books of organ music published by Novello and Co between 1870 and 1907.
William Gray McNaught was an English music teacher, journalist and editor who became an adjudicator and inspector of music for schools.
The Musical World was an English music journal founded and published weekly by Alfred Novello during the Victorian era. The journal was predominantly music related but also included general interest items. It was Novello's first published journal and the first weekly music journal in England. It ran from 18 March 1836 to 24 January 1891, with a total of 71 volumes published over its lifetime. The journal was available for 4d and usually had 16 pages. It predates comparable publications like Novello's later published The Musical Times. James William Davison became owner and editor of the journal in 1844 until his death the year after. In 1888, the journal was purchased by Edgar Frederick Jacques, who became editor.
