Charlton Byam Wollaston in Einsiedeln - late July, 1791
from Letter from C.B. Wollaston, 27 July 1791, page 58:
From Zurich we took horses, and rode along one side of that singularly pretty lake to Richterschwyll, and from thence, the next morning, to Einsiedeln, the famous Benedictine monastery, containing the black image of ‘Notre Dame des Ermites.’ We met pilgrims in plenty. The convent is very large, and the situation in a deep valley between mountains which are there very high, and backed by true alps, is very romantic. The church within is very large, and you would not have expected in these distant parts to have heard … more >>
C.B. Wollaston, Letter from C.B. Wollaston, 27 July 1791. In Harriet Georgiana Mundy (ed.), The Journal of Mary Frampton, from the Year 1779, until the year 1846 (London, 1885), p. 58. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1535470663519 accessed: 7 November, 2024
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hide composersMass | performed by Monks |
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Date/Time | late July, 1791 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |