Ibbs and Tillett

Ibbs and Tillett, “one of the legendary names in classical music artist management,”cite web |url= http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19960126/ai_n9641040 |title= Obituary: Wilfred Stiff |author= Andrew Green |work= The Independent |date= 26 January 1996 |quote= Having developed a classical music wing to London Management through the simple expedient of buying up an existing music agency, the Wilfrid van Wyck office, Stiff then proposed acquiring Ibbs & Tillett, one of the legendary names in classical music artist management. When the deal fell through at the very last moment, Stiff had already moved into Ibbs and Tillett's offices at 124 Wigmore Street. So there he stayed, invited to become a company director by Emmie Tillett, widow of the firm's co-founder and one of the world's best-known managers. ] was a London-based classical music artist and concert management agency which flourished from 1906 through 1990 in the United Kingdom.

Ibbs and Tillett was founded by Robert Leigh Ibbs and John Tillett, who trained under impresario Nathaniel Vert (Narciso Vertigliano).cite web |url= http://www.musicweb-international.com/classRev/2005/June05/Ibbs_Fifield.htm |title= "Ibbs and Tillett: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire," by Christopher Fifield |author= Jonathan Woolf book review |work= MusicWeb |date= 5 June 2005 |quote= Vert, whose Conradian name also carried a hint of Conan Doyle, had been born Narciso Vertigliano and is one of the foundation stones of Christopher Fifield’s engrossing story and whose retrieval here is a welcome reminder of the powerful base of musicians Vert established in the late nineteenth and very early twentieth centuries. ] It was Vert who, as Edward Elgar's concert manager,Michael Kennedy. "The Life of Elgar," pp. 66, 73. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Hardcover: ISBN 0-52181-076-0. Paperback: ISBN 0-52100-907-3] sent Elgar's Enigma Variations to another of his concert management clients,cite web |url= http://www.ashevillesymphony.org/concerts/masterworks1/program-notes-masterworks-1 |title= Program Notes - Masterworks 1 |author= Kenneth H. Meltzer |work= Asheville Symphony |date= 15 September 2007 |quote= ] Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Hans Richter,cite web |url= http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=45&EventId=615 |title= The Growing Significance of Elgar |author= Simon Mundy |work= Gresham College lecture transcript |date= 29 June 2007 |quote= [Elgar] had a manager called Nathaniel Vert, who decided to send it not to any of the rising stars of English music like Henry Wood, but to Hans Richter in Vienna. By sending it off to Richter, he really bounced Elgar into an international reputation, because Richter was the man who had given the first performances of Brahms's symphonies and Wagner operas; he was the principal conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic. ] who premiered the work in London 1899.

John Tillett's wife, Emmie Tillett,cite web |url= http://www.musicweb-international.com/Ashgate/Ibbs.htm |title= "Ibbs and Tillett: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire" |author= Christopher Fifield |work= MusicWeb |date= 2005 |publisher= Ashgate Publishing, London, in association with [http://www.thetilletttrust.org.uk/ The Tillett Trust] . ISBN 1 84014 290 1 |quote= From 1906, the success of the company was due to the dedication of its founders, Robert Leigh Ibbs and John Tillett. After their deaths, the agency was run by the latter's wife, Emmie, who, dubbed the ‘Duchess of Wigmore Street,’ became one of the most formidable yet respected women in British music. ] known as the ‘Duchess of Wigmore Street’ and one of the world's best-known managers, managed the agency after the deaths of the founders.

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* Classical music of the United Kingdom