The letters of the great eighteenth-century historian of music and man of letters, Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814), friend of Samuel Johnson and Joseph Haydn, are here collected and published in chronological order for the first time. This initial instalment of a projected four-volume edition of the Letters, edited from manuscript and other sources, opens with the earliest surviving letter, written in 1751 when Burney was an obscure country organist. It concludes in December 1784 with the death of Samuel Johnson. These are ...
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The letters of the great eighteenth-century historian of music and man of letters, Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814), friend of Samuel Johnson and Joseph Haydn, are here collected and published in chronological order for the first time. This initial instalment of a projected four-volume edition of the Letters, edited from manuscript and other sources, opens with the earliest surviving letter, written in 1751 when Burney was an obscure country organist. It concludes in December 1784 with the death of Samuel Johnson. These are the letters of the active years which saw Burney's remarkable rise to the head of his chosen profession, music. They chronicle his musical travels in Europe, and his literary activities as a scholar and author of the Continental Tours, the first two volumes of his famous History of Music, and the Commemoration of Handel, written at the behest of George III. They also document Burney's membership in the celebrated literary coterie at Streatham, and the emergence as a novelist of his daughter Fanny, whose Evelina and Cecilia appeared in these years.
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Book. Octavo, x, xi, xii, xviii, xxi, xxix, xxxiv, 501 pages. In Very Good minus condition, lacking the issued dust jacket. Spine dark blue with gilt lettering. Boards show slight sunning to the spine with mild wear to front/rear, faint sticker residue to lower spine and light wear to the head/tail edges. Text block has ex-library name stamped to fore edge, small brownish stain to tail edge and several instances of ex-library markings interiorly. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Volume One. First Edition, First Printing. 1371193. FP New Rockville Stock.
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