Amy Fay in Dresden - August, 1870
from Music-Study in Germany: The Classic Memoir of the Romantic Era, pages 86-87:
I suppose that C. has described to you in full our Dresden visit, and what a lovely time we had.....We used to wak until we came to the Belvidere, which is a large restaurant with a gallery up-stairs running all round it. There was a band of music, and here we sat and took our tea, and spent two or three hours, always. The moonlight, the river flowing along and spanned with beautiful bridges, the thousands of lamps reflected in it and trembling across the water and under the arches, the infinity of little steamers and wherries sailing to and fro and brilliantly lighted up, the music, and the … more >>
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Amy Fay, Music-Study in Germany: The Classic Memoir of the Romantic Era (2011), p. 86-87. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1422911262652 accessed: 14 December, 2024
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Experience Information
Date/Time | August, 1870 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |
Originally submitted by Meg Barclay on Mon, 02 Feb 2015 21:07:42 +0000