Deliguoro et al. in London - 1876
from Thirty Years of Musical Life in London, page 60:
[In 1876] there happened to be residing in London an elderly Italian musician named Deliguoro, upon whom fortune had not smiled very kindly, and who frequently enjoyed the hospitality of my parents' house. An admirable contrapuntist, stuffed full of musical learning, he had the technique of composition at his fingers' ends; but of individual or fresh ideas his brain was utterly devoid. Like most disappointed geniuses, he was unable to perceive his own lack of originality. Once he played me a melody in mazurka rhythm a commonplace enough Neapolitan tune which he … more >>
Hermann Klein, Thirty Years of Musical Life in London (New York, 1903), p. 60. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1439030670734 accessed: 2 November, 2024
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Date/Time | 1876 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |