What was the first recorded music?

Kainantu

In 1884 Emile Berliner, an American of German origin, recorded ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ on an Edison cylinder machine. The original recording is preserved by the BBC in London. If he sang it, it is music. http://www.soc.duke.edu/~s142tm01/history2.html Emile Berliner invented a gramaphone gramophone in 1888, at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. It was at this time he began to manufacture records. He invited musicians to record on zinc plates. http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/program/radio/berlin_e.html Mar 26 04, 2:21 AM

Arpeggionist

There is a recording which has survived from some time in the 1880's of Johannes Brahms playing the piano. He played the first of his Hungarian Dances and a Strauss polka, after identifying himself to the microphone in a not quite so fluent mixture of German and English (one could tell he was a bit nervous). To a friend of his he wrote: "You must have heard of these wonders, it's like being in a fairy tale." The next year the same friend at whose house Brahms recorded himself had an electric lightbulb installed in his home, to give Brahms a little token of Edison's inventions. Mar 26 04, 2:58 AM

mumby21

I can remember hearing on our Auntie ABC, a program called Mining the Archives, a recording from 1904 of Ave Maria by the last castrato (ouch) of the Vatican. It wasn't the first recording, but interesting. Mar 26 04, 7:32 AM

EbrioMono

The first thing Edison recorded on one of his cylinders was 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'. Sep 17 06, 10:57 AM

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