Charles Burney in Venice - 12 August, 1770

from Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney, pages 78-9:

Sunday was spent in musical matters related elsewhere. I have only to observe that at an academia to which I was carried at night by Signor Marin Giorgi, al Casa Grimani where I heard Signora Bassa perform, it was a company of the chief of nobility of Venice, the 3 persons I have named being among the first class here. This lady who is now passèe has still beaux restes – she plays neat and with taste but her fingering as well as that of a professor who played on the harpsichord there was miserable. In running up the keys it was always with the 2 or 3 …   more >>

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Charles Burney, and Herbert Edmund Poole (ed.), Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney (London, 1974), p. 78-9. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444216173600 accessed: 28 March, 2024

location of experience: Venice

Listeners

Charles Burney
musicologist, Musician, Writer
1726-1814

Listening to

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Harpsichord music performed by Signora Bassa

Experience Information

Date/Time 12 August, 1770
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Originally submitted by Gorwel Owen on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:09:33 +0100
Approved on Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:20:39 +0000