CLASSICAL MUSIC MEDALS OF COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS

Prize medals and commemoratives of musical events from various periods in history to the present

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Updated June 2011

Please consult the photos for condition, click on underlined titles for enlarged images. Some medals are almost as made, others have wear.

Photographs are not actual size so please take note of the measurement.

Mozart bois durci portraitreverse of Mozart Bois Durci medal

Mozart - a portrait in Bois Durci (literally reconstituted wood made by thermal process with the addition of a glue/plastic) - artist unknown - 114mm. EF

GBP 90

Mozart - commemorative bronze

 

Left: Mozart by Hartig, uniface bronze gVF 54mm GBP 15

Right: Mozart by Hartig large uniface bronze 75mm.nEF GBP 35

 

 

Handel by W J Taylor, Centenary Commemoration Crystal Palace 1859 bronze 51mm. engraved J Ellen Performer on edge. EF but slightly edgy GBP 40

Strauss bronze

Johann Strauss by ? Stiasny (Austrian manufacture), large format 90mm bronze, VF

GBP 40

Beethoven by F Stiasny bronze plaquette 80x69mm. has been cleaned. uniface

GBP 18

Right: Le Bulletin Musical (France) a first prize medal for monthly competitions 1882 gilt bronze,57mm EF GBP 35

Left: Trinity College London - Liverpool Centre Arms of the City of London, prize for proficiency in music, oval bronze 41x32mm. gEF for Violin playing 1896-7 80 marks engraved on edge GBP 15

Trinity College of Music Birmingham Centre - piano prize 29mm silver with loop GBP 16

Chopin with laurelsChopin manuscript 1980 medal

Franz Chopin by AC (Warsaw, Poland) modern bronze medal 1980 , Chopin wearing laurel crown; rev. an impression of his manuscript and signature. 70mm bronze EF boxed

GBP 20

Left: International Union of Musicians named to Florence Siddall, blue ribbon - distressed, bronze EF 39mm,

GBP 10

 

London College of Music founded by Samuel Raphael Belilios, with engraved picture of biblical Miriam with cymbals, tambourine, trumpet rev. awarded 1903 silver with gilt silver star surround 68mm EF - photo can't do justice as the engraving is low relief and light bounces off the rounded surface. EF

GBP 85

John Hopkinson Medal Royal College of Music silver 48mm. looped, awarded,

VF 45

Massenet portrait by Marcel RenardMassenet medal reverse - names of operas

Massenet by Marcel Renard 1842-1912 - portrait head left with clavier; reverse list of his operas, such as Cendrillon, Werther, Don Quichotte, his melodies and suites d'orchestre. Art Deco style: 64x75mm. rare Monnaie de Paris, EF

GBP 125

Portrait of Haydn by Goetzreverse of Haydn by goetz - manuscript

Joseph Haydn by Karl Goetz (Germany) centenary 1809-1909 commemorative, reverse music manuscript - Vivace sequence surrounded with floral wreath; bronze 66mm EF rare

GBP 180

Martin Wegelius portrat medal composerWegelius medal reverse - hand and harp

Martin Wegelius, musicologist, composer and founder of the Helsinki Music Institute, now the Sibelius Academy. He was also the founder of the Helsinki symphony Orchestra. Medalist Essi Renvall commemorative 1946 for the centenary of Wegelius' birth - bronze 56mm. EF

GBP 35

Guildhall School of Music London Local Centres Examinations 1922, Southampton, silver 30mm.

GBP 15

 

College of Organists (instituted 1864) by Topman, pewter uniface, looped, 60mm.

GBP 45

 

Switzerland: Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve music prize, silver 53mm. by Bovy lovely!

EF 90

 

Handel 1685-1759 portrait; rev. titles of most famous choral works, by Christiane Cochet (MP) 68mm dual patina bronze EF

GBP 50

E. Reyer by J Guerin rev. Conservatoire de Musique et de Declamation Marseilles (Music and Elocution) 50mm silver (marked Argent on edge) boxed VF

GBP 75

 

Richard Wagner portrait medalWagner's opera characters Bayreuth - reverse of medal

Richard Wagner by Charles Wiener, portrait right, reverse bridge at Bayreuth with characters from the Ring cycle; bronze 71mm issued by Thieme, Leipzig, nEF

GBP 90

Bellini portrait medalreverse Bellini medal Bones transferred to Catania Cathedral text

A. Vincenzo Bellini creatore d'Italia Melodie 1876 by Speranza -Italian opera composer of Norma and La sonnambula - medal to commemorate the removal of his bones from Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris to the Cathedral of Catania, his birthplace. bronze 57mm. gVF

GBP 70

London Academy of Music 50mm gilt and enamel on base metal gVF

GBP 25

France: De la Musique avant toute chose (a quote from Verlaine) by Roger Bezombes marked cuivre on edge, 1968 dual patina, 81mm. (MP)

GBP 95

Portrait of Schubert 25th anniversary of Schubert SocietySchubert medal reverse with Harp

Franz Schubert portrait - 25th anniversary of the Schubert Society, Vienna 1888 - reverse harp Dem Wissen Treu - Im Liede Frei bronze 46mm EF

GBP 40

Franz Schubert by George Simon; roses within heart surrounded by stars 68mm hammered edge bronze (MP)

GBP 25

Bartok medal by Shagin portraitBartok medal reverse with dates

Bela Bartok (Hungarian composer), 1881-1941 by Alex Shagin (USA), 1995, cast bronze approx. 70mm square, EF

GBP 60

JS Bach by Coudray  portrait (France)Church Organ

Johann Sebastian Bach by Coudray/Lindauer, 1685-1750, portrait/ church organ, bronze 50mm, early 20th century nVF

GBP 30

J S Bach by Annette Landry, 1938, reverse: Le Concerto - 2 violinists celebrating the composer's work. 68mm bronze (MP) gEF

GBP 35

 

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Condition is described in numismatic terms and is generally extremely fine unless specified.  
EF almost as issued extremely fine, VF some wear very fine, F fine or worn n=near as in nVF nearly very fine; Condition if it isn't specified is extremely fine or as cast. Metals: AV = gold, AR = silver, AE = bronze homepage
   
   

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