By Fanny Burney (editor)
Charles Burney (1726-1814), the track historian, is healthier remembered for his basic historical past of tune and the debts of his musical excursions in Europe. He was once a pal of Samuel Johnson and David Garrick, corresponded with Diderot and Haydn and was once made Fellow of the Royal Society in 1773. even if he used to be a song instructor by means of career, it was once his writings on tune which introduced him frequent reputation. Following book of the final heritage, he begun his memoirs yet didn't whole them. it truly is most likely that he meant his daughter, the novelist Fanny Burney, to post the memoirs after his loss of life utilizing his manuscript and different papers. in its place she created her personal decorated model, including stylised money owed of occasions emphasising the literary and social, instead of the musical facets. quantity 2 is worried with occasions from the mid-1770s to mid-1780s, together with the Handel commemoration concert events in 1784.
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Dr. —' Your ladyship darts into all their hearts by naming Agujari! However, I have hopes you will hear her again. —' O, Dr. Burney! ' " I assure you, my dear Mr. Crisp, we all longed CONCERTS. 47 to embrace her ladyship. And she met our sympathy with a good humour full of pleasure. My father added, that we all doated upon Agujari. —'O! she is incomparable! —Mark but the difference, Dr. '— " Tat, tat, tat, tat, too. " Enter The HON. MR. and MRS. BRUDENEL. " Mr. Brudenell,* commonly called ' His Honour,' from high birth, I suppose, without title, or from some quaint old cause that nobody knows who has let me into its secret, is tall and stiff, and strongly in the ton of the present day ; which is anything rather than macaroniism; for it consists of unbounded freedom and ease, with a short, abrupt, dry manner of speech; and in taking the liberty to ask any question that occurs upon other people's affairs and opinions; even upon their incomes and expences;—nay, even upon their age !
30 MEMOIRS OF DR. BURNEY. brilliant, they almost made one dizzy from breathless admiration: her cantabiles were so fine, so rich, so moving, that we could hardly keep the tears from our eyes. Then she gave us some accompanied recitative, with a nobleness of accent, that made every one of us stand erect out of respect! Then, how fascinately she condescended to indulge us with a rondeau ! though she holds that simplicity of melody beneath her j and therefore rose from it to chaunt some church music, of the Pope's Chapel, in a style so nobly simple, so grandly unadorned, that it penetrated to the inmost sense.
But the rapture of Lady Edgcumbe was more lively than that of any other. ' Oh, Doctor Burney,' she cried, ' you have set me a madding! I would willingly practice night and day to be able to perform in such a manner. ' PRINCE ORLOFF. 5J " Her ladyship was now introduced to Prince Orloff, whom she had not happened to meet with before; and they struck up a most violent flirtation together. She invited him to her house, and begged leave to send him a card. He accepted the invitation, but begged leave to fetch the card in person.