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 >>
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: 1 September, 2024
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hide composersHarpsichord music | performed by Signora Bassa |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 12 August, 1770 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |