April 7 - Charles Burney (The Musical Birthday Series, 8th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for April 7th may be found here: Charles Burney (2019),  Percy Faith (2020), Billie Holiday (2021), Domenico Dragonetti (2022), Ravi Shankar (2023), Percy Faith (2024), and Percy Faith (2025)

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Charles Burney (7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814) is best remembered for his monumental History of Music, but his usefulness to us is in his detailed consideration of the music of his contemporaries as found in the last volume of his History and in two books of travel observations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Memoirs

 

The results of his travels abroad were published in The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771) and The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands and United Provinces (1773). -- adapted from Wikipedia

Imagine if young Charles Burney

Had decided to be an attorney,

There'd be less to report

From his days in the court,

Than there was on a musical journey.

 

 

 

 

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