Fourth Earl of Orford in In the neighbourhood of Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham - early September, 1795, at night
from Letter from Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 6 September 1795, page 366:
I am a little tired of the clan at Pope’s, of the formality and cribbage, and formality again! T’other night there was an Irish miss, who is thought a prodigy in music; and indeed she did belabour the harpsichord as if it had no more feeling than a kettledrum.
cite as
Horace Walpole, Letter from Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 6 September 1795. In Mrs. Paget Toynbee (ed.), The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, volume 15 (Oxford, 1905), p. 366. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1535025593982 accessed: 29 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| Music for harpsichord | performed by An young Irish woman |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | early September, 1795, at night |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:59:55 +0100
Approved on Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:49:28 +0100