Cobbett Association
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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 of merit; chamber music which is no longer in the standard repertoire.[1]
The Cobbett Association publishes a quarterly periodical, The Chamber Music Journal, 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, Respighi, Saint Saens, the piano trios of Richard Strauss, the chamber music composed in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Joseph Rheinberger, Eric Zeisel, Max Bruch, Willem Pijper, Zdenek Fibich, Glazunov, Edmund Rubbra, Luigi Cherubini, Wilhelm Stenhammar 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 in Canada.
The Cobbett Association also offers a research and locator service of rare chamber works.
The association is named after Walter Willson Cobbett, an amateur violinist and author/editor of Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music.
