The Great Organ in the Boston Music Hall
An anonymous 1865 descriptive pamphlet on the celebrated Boston Music Hall organ, of the kind institutions issued without named authors.
- Original byline
- Anonymous
- Published
- Date not recorded
- Form
- Other works
- Authorship
- Still unknown
- Reason for anonymity
- Unrecorded
- Copyright
- Public domain
The authorship story
The Great Organ in the Boston Music Hall belongs to the promotional and descriptive literature that surrounded the instrument installed in 1863, then the largest organ in America and a civic wonder. Such pamphlets, describing the organ's construction, specifications, and inauguration, were issued for visitors and subscribers without named authors, as institutional publications usually were. No attribution has entered the record for this one. It stands in this collection for the vast class of anonymous occasional literature, written by someone, signed by no one, surviving because the thing it described was famous.
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