The Cobbett Association for Chamber Music Research is an organization dedicated to the rediscovery of works of forgotten chamber music. The association was founded in 1990, with the objective of

"The preservation, dissemination, performance, publication and recording of rare and neglected chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

 of merit; chamber music which is no longer in the standard repertoire.

The Cobbett Association publishes a quarterly periodical, The Chamber Music Journal

Chamber Music Journal

The Chamber Music Journal is published by The Cobbett Association for Chamber Music Research.It is a quarterly periodical devoted exclusively to non-standard, rare or unknown chamber music of merit. . ISSN 1535 1726. It is considered one of the leading chamber music reference sources in English...

, and maintains a copying library.

The Chamber Music Journal is devoted exclusively to nonstandard, rare or unknown chamber music of merit. Past articles include a 13-part series on the 36 string quartets of the 19th-century French composer George Onslow; in-depth articles on the chamber music of Borodin

Borodin

Borodin , or Borodina is a Russian last name and may refer to:*Alexander Borodin , Russian composer and chemist*Alexander Parfeniyevich Borodin, Russian scientist in the field of rail transport...

, Respighi

Ottorino Respighi

Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...

, Saint-Saëns, the piano trios of Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...

, the chamber music composed in the Theresienstadt concentration camp

Theresienstadt concentration camp

Theresienstadt concentration camp was a Nazi German ghetto during World War II. It was established by the Gestapo in the fortress and garrison city of Terezín , located in what is now the Czech Republic.-History:The fortress of Terezín was constructed between the years 1780 and 1790 by the orders...

, Joseph Rheinberger, Eric Zeisel, Max Bruch

Max Bruch

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch , also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.-Life:Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he...

, Willem Pijper

Willem Pijper

Willem Pijper ; Zeist, 8 September 1894 - Utrecht, 18 March 1947) was a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher.-Life:Pijper was born at Zeist, near Utrecht, on 8 September 1894 of strict Calvinist working-class parents. His father, who sometimes played psalm accompaniments on the harmonium,...

, Zdeněk Fibich

Zdenek Fibich

Zdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works , symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas , melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia,...

, Glazunov

Alexander Glazunov

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...

, Edmund Rubbra

Edmund Rubbra

Edmund Rubbra was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak of his fame in the mid-20th century. The most famous of his pieces are his eleven...

, Luigi Cherubini

Luigi Cherubini

Luigi Cherubini was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries....

, Wilhelm Stenhammar

Wilhelm Stenhammar

Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist.-Biography:Stenhammar was born in Stockholm, where he received his first musical education. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in music. He became a glowing admirer of German music, particularly that of Richard...

 and many more.

The Association possesses a large library of nonstandard chamber music works. The library is a copying, not a lending, library, providing copies of chamber music works which are out of copyright and out of print. It is housed and maintained by the University of Western Ontario, located in London, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

 in Canada.

The Cobbett Association also offers a research and locator service of rare chamber works.

The association is named after Walter Willson Cobbett

Walter Willson Cobbett

Walter Willson Cobbett CBE was a British businessman and amateur violinist, and editor/author of Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music. He also endowed the Cobbett Medal for services to Chamber Music....

, an amateur violinist and author/editor of Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music.

External links

• The Cobbett Association
• The Chamber Music Journal