Frances Calvert in Royal Pavilion, Brighton - July, 1813, at night

from Journal entry, July 1813, page 204:

The only ladies besides myself at the Pavilion were Lady Charles Somerset, and her daughter, Mrs. Hervey Aston (a sister of Lady Hertford’s), and her daughter, Lady Burrell, (a very pleasing woman, natural daughter to Lord Egremont,) Lady Sarah Bailey, a Mrs. Paulet, wife to a son of Lord Paulet’s in the Navy, Catalani, and Madame Bianchi were there. I forgot also the Countess Lieven, the Russian Ambassadress. She played on the pianoforte, which she does very finely, principally voluntaries. She played the march the Russians march to battle with; it is beautiful.

cite as

Frances Calvert, Journal entry, July 1813. In Mrs. Warrenne [Alice E.] Blake (ed.), An Irish Beauty of the Regency: Compiled from “Mes Souvenirs”—the unpublished journals of the Hon. Mrs. Calvert 1789–1822 (London, 1911), p. 204. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1530181919503 accessed: 25 November, 2024

location of experience: Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Listeners

Frances Calvert
Wife of Nicolson Calvert MP
1767-1859

Listening to

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Voluntaries and a Russian march performed by Countess Lieven

Experience Information

Date/Time July, 1813, at night
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Originally submitted by lcc5 on Thu, 28 Jun 2018 11:32:00 +0100
Approved on Sun, 01 Jul 2018 16:02:58 +0100