John Marsh in Romsey - April, 1769
from The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), page 64:
Here I met Capt Hooke who play'd the bass prettily enough, but as he profess'd not to like Corelli's sonatas, of which we play'd some I form'd no very high opinion of his judgement as a violoncello player w'ch part in Corelli's is at least of equal consequence with the first fiddle part...
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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. 64. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1395327234385 accessed: 30 January, 2025
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Sonatas by Corelli
written by Arcangelo Corelli |
performed by John Marsh, Captain Hooke |
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| Date/Time | April, 1769 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by iepearson on Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:53:54 +0000