John Marsh in Gosport - in the middle of 1768

from The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), pages 52-52:

About this time Mr Peachy our neighbour got a small organ for his drawing room which immediately attracted my notice. being impatient to hear it & giving Mr peachy a broad hint one day (tho' we did not visit) he imediately [sic] invited my sister to come & play upon it & all of us to come & hear it, on w'ch a morning was fix'd & my sister play'd some of Handel's concertos, during which my delight was to shift the stops for the forte & piano parts, there being no pedal for that purpose. The youngest Miss Peachy also play'd, but not near so well as my sister.
cite as

John Marsh, The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828). In John Marsh, and Brian Robins (ed.), The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), volume - (Stuyvesant, New York, 1998), p. 52-52. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1394718445091 accessed: 29 March, 2024

location of experience: Gosport

Listeners

John Marsh
Gentleman, violinist, Composer, Music criticism […]
1752-1828

Listening to

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organ concerto
written by George Frideric Handel
performed by sister of John Marsh

Experience Information

Date/Time in the middle of 1768
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Originally submitted by iepearson on Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:47:25 +0000