February 24 - Arnold Dolmetsch (The Musical Birthday Series)

Arnold Dolmetsch (24 February 1858 – 28 February 1940) was a pioneer of the performance of early music on authentic instruments.

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Arnold Dolmetsch played recorder,

Played the lute, and played the viol,

Instruments he made to order

In Elizabethan style.

Thus he changed our paradigms

Of musick from ye olden times.

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