Music in the Canon, Part 1: Composers and Their Works

From the very beginning of the Sherlock Holmes stories, we know that Sherlock Holmes plays the violin. It's one of the personality traits he admits to Watson and that Watson later chronicles.

In addition to Holmes's own performances, we come across a number of other composers and their works in the Canon. Who and what were they? It's just a Trifle.

 

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Links / Notes

• Series: Music

• Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer (Wikipedia)

• "That little thing of Chopin" (Camden House)

• Offenbach - "Barcarolle" from The Tales of Hoffmann (YouTube)

• Other episodes mentioned in this episode:

  • Episode 78: Where Are They Now? Inspector Gregson

  • Episode 89: Stradivarius

  • Episode 98: The Gramophone

 

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• The Baker Street Journal

 

Music credits

Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra

Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band

Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

 

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