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Upcoming Exhibitions

FEBRUARY 13–AUGUST 29, 2010





This collection will be displayed
in a bookcase adjacent to the
Albany Institute Research Library.

George William Warren:
The Sacred and the Secular

Recent discoveries in the collections of the Albany Institute of History & Art yielded several pieces of sheet music authored by George William Warren (1828–1902), a little-known Albany composer who enjoyed success in the composition of both popular and spiritual music. Following the purchase of several additional pieces of Warren’s sheet music, historians at the Albany Institute discovered scrapbooks containing broadsides, announcements, and reviews of concerts related to Warren’s music. Further research identified the only known photo of Warren, in the New York Public Library’s Gottschalk Collection, as well as more material on both sacred and secular music, reviews, obituaries, family genealogy, and family business. New material donated by the Trudeau family includes letters of testimonial for Boardman and Gray Albany Pianos. A selection of these items will be exhibited in a small display debuting at the Albany Institute in February 2010.

Above right: A Requiem, in Memory of (Col. Elmer) Ellsworth, 1861, composed by George William Warren; Firth, Pond & Co., New York, Library of Congress; Above left: Photograph of Louis Moreau Gottschalk with George William Warren (seated), taken at Saratoga, summer 1864, courtesy New York Public Library, Gottschalk papers.

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