Elizabeth (Bessy) Moore et al. in Sloperton Cottage, Bromham, Wiltshire - 20 September, 1818, at night
from Diary of Thomas Moore, 20 September 1818, page 170:
Went (Bessy, Mary D., Woolriche, and I) to breakfast with Bowles, and attend his church. [...] In the evening played and sung out of Latrobe and my own “Sacred Songs.”
Thomas Moore, Diary of Thomas Moore, 20 September 1818. In Lord John Russell and Lord John Russell (ed.), Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore, volume 2 (London, 1853), p. 170. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1593612282193 accessed: 8 October, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersmusic from Latrobe's 'Collection of Sacred Music' | performed by Thomas Moore |
music from Thomas Moore's 'Sacred Songs'
written by Sir John Stevenson, Thomas Moore |
performed by Thomas Moore |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 20 September, 1818, at night |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Notes
Christian Ignatius Latrobe (1758-1836), a minister in the Moravian Church, compiled a six-volume 'Selection of Sacred Music' (London, 1806-26), which introduced to the British public the church music of mainly Catholic European composers such as Graun, Hasse, Pergolesi, Haydn and Mozart. The 'Sacred Songs' to words by Moore himself, and music composed and selected by Moore and Sir John Stevenson, was published in 1816.