Cobbett Association
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The Cobbett Association for Chamber Music Research was founded in 1990. Its purpose, goals and functions are follows:
"The preservation, dissemination, performance, publication and recording of rare and neglected chamber music of merit; chamber music which is no longer in the standard repertoire. The Association publishes a periodical, The Chamber Music Journal, and maintains a copying library."
The Chamber Music Journal is the only periodical devoted exclusively to non-standard, rare or unknown chamber music of merit. (i.e., not Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms etc.). In less than 10 years, it has become one of the leading chamber music reference sources and has begun to achieve the kind of influence that Schumann's Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung once had during the 19th Century. Articles have appeared in The Chamber Music Journal with information that has been published nowhere else-- For example, the 13 part series, the only study anywhere in any language, of the 36 string quartets of the important 19th Century French composer George Onslow. Other issues have featured in-depth articles on the chamber music of Borodin, Respighi, Saint Saens, the piano trios of Richard Strauss, the chamber music of the Terezin Composers, Joseph Rheinberger, Eric Zeisel, Max Bruch, Willem Pijper, Zdenek Fibich, Glazunov, Edmund Rubbra, Luigi Cherubini, Wilhelm Stenhammar and many more. Players, performers, listeners and scholars cannot find this information anywhere else.
The Association possesses a large library of non-standard chamber music works. The library is a copying, not a lending, library. Its purpose is to provide copies of chamber music works which are out of copyright and not in print. It is housed and maintained by the University of Western Ontario, located in London, Ontario in Canada.
The Cobbett Association also offers a research and locator service helping individuals find works for which they are looking.
