Ignatz Moscheles in London - 31 March, 1832
from Recent Music and Musicians, page 176:
Ninety-two of us musical men attended the dinner; the ladies occupied the gallery. Barry Cornwall wrote a song in praise of the great musician, and Neukomm introduced into his commemorative ode a number of his old master's most beautiful airs. Field, Bohrer, and I played; we had choruses out of the 'Creation', and the music was worthy of the occasion, but the endless toasts spoilt everything. Not only did we drink to the memory of the 'immortal Haydn', but all musical celebrities, living and dead, absent and present, were toasted; the consequence was that some of the executants' fingers were … more >>
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Ignatz Moscheles, and Charlotte Moscheles (ed.), Recent Music and Musicians (New York, 1879), p. 176. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1429956958382 accessed: 15 October, 2024
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Choruses from the Creation
written by Joseph Haydn |
performed by Bohrer, Field |
a song by Cornwall
written by Barry Conrwall |
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airs by Haydn
written by Joseph Haydn |
performed by Neukomm |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 31 March, 1832 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
A banquet celebrating the centenary of Haydn's birth.
Originally submitted by mallen on Sat, 25 Apr 2015 11:15:58 +0100