John Marsh in St Paul's, Covent Garden - July, 1767
from The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), page 44:
... I remember going one Sunday with Mr Harvest to St. Paul's Covent Garden, where I was much pleased with the celebrated & eccentric Mr Clarke's performance on the organ, who was then reputed to be the first performer on that instrument in London...
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. 44. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1394718390345 accessed: 7 February, 2025
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hide composers| organ | performed by Edward Clake |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | July, 1767 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |
Originally submitted by iepearson on Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:46:30 +0000