SHERLOCK HOLMES AND MUSIC

Agenda

• Introduction• Sherlock’s Musical Instruments• Sherlock’s Favorite Violinists• Sherlock’s Favorite Music• Sherlock’s Influence on the Music World• Conclusion

Sherlock and His Violin – A First Look

The Stradivarius

• Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737

A Stradivarius

• Antonio Stradivari violin of 1703 at the Musikinstrumentenmuseum, Berlin

Gramophone

1887 – Emile Berliner Invents the Gramophone and records

Sherlock’s Favorite Violinists

• Wilhelmina Norman-Neruda 1838-1911

Pablo Sarasate

• Spanish violinist and composer• 1844-1908

Niccolo Paganini

• Italian violinist 1782 – 1840• Violinist, guitarist, violist and composer

Sherlock the Musicologist

• The monograph “The Polyphonic Motets of Lassus”

• Orlando di Lasso – 1530-1594

Sherlock’s Favorite Music

• Operas– HOUN – “I have a box for Les Huguenots”– REDC – “It is not eight o’clock, and a Wagner night at Covent

Garden!”– MAZA – “I shall try over the Hoffman Barcarole upon my

violin.”• Violin Music• German Music – REDH - "There's a good deal of German

music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than French or Italian. It is introspective and I want to introspect.”

Opera – Les Huguenots

Les Huguenot by Meyerbeer. Edouard de Reszke in the London production.

Other Music References

• SOLI – “There is a spirituality about {Violet Smith’s} face…which the typewriter does not generate. This lady is a musician.”

• RETI – – “Well, leave it there, Watson. Let us escape this weary workaday world by the side door of music. Carina sings to-night at the Albert Hall, and we still have time to dress, dine, and enjoy.”

Music Inspired by Sherlock Holmes

• Sherlock Holmes - The Musical – Leslie Bricusse.

• Baker Street – A Musical Adventure of Sherlock Holmes - music and lyrics by Marian Grudeff and Raymond Jessel.

• 221B Baker Street – Theme to Granada television Sherlock Holmes series. Patrick Gowers.

References

• Friedman, Ted. Music of Sherlock Holmes

• Mundy, Oliver. Sherlock Holmes and Music.

• Obrecht, Jas. Sherlock Holmes Favorite Music.

• Sherlock Holmes Virtuoso Violinist. http://www.librarything.com/topic/3437.

• Warrack, Guy. Sherlock Holmes and Music, 1947.

Conclusion

• One last reference of music in the Canon• “A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off

to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.” Sherlock Holmes; The Red-Headed League

• Thank you!