Vincent Novello Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Vincent Novello NPG D5373
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by G. De Wilde, after Edward Petre Novello
From 1797 to 1822, he was organist at the Portuguese embassy chapel, where he directed the first English performances of masses by Joseph Haydn and W.A. Mozart. He worked as pianist and conductor at the Italian Opera, London and as organist at the Roman Catholic chapel at Moorfields. A founder of the Philharmonic Society, Novello had a distinguished circle of friends, including the Lambs, Leigh Hunt, P.B. Shelley and John Keats. Although he was a prolific composer, his work as... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










