When he became embroiled in litigations over various patent rights, he approached Emile Berliner, and founded the Victor Talking Machine Company on October 3, 1901. However, the worldwide importance of the recordings and related activities of the Victor Company impels the writer to present a detailed study of the matrix number systems used by them.Įldridge Reeves Johnson founded the Consolidate Talking Machine Company in August 1900. The Victor releases of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas were imported and repressed from the original Gramophone Company matrices. None of these have discernible matrix numbers. Pinafore, the Civic Light Opera Company's Mikado, and the 1932 Pirates of Penzance. The Victor Company and its successors made no Gilbert and Sullivan recordings of any note, except the three sets on so-called long playing discs of the Victor Light Opera Company's H.M.S. See Also: Matrix and Catalog Numbers in G&S Discography Gramophone Company Matrix and Catalog Numbers Matrix Numbers in Recordings of Gilbert & Sullivan Summary of Recording Histories Table of Contents Victor's Use of Matrix Numbers Matrix Numbers on Other Record Labels Bibliography This is the third part of a four-part article on Matrix and Catalog Numbers in G&S Discography.
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