Messrs. Watt and B____ et al. in Beaumont Street, London - 2 July, 1798, at night
from Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft: Written by Himself; and Continued to the Time of His Death, page 257:
Read Boswell after dinner. Visited by Messrs. Watts and B_____, and Mrs. Revely. Music, Mozart and Haydn, till ten, Fanny the principal performer.
Thomas Holcroft, and William Hazlitt (ed.), Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft: Written by Himself; and Continued to the Time of His Death, volume 2 (London, 1816), p. 257. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1656603226353 accessed: 25 April, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
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unspecified violin (?) music by Mozart and Haydn
written by Mozart, Joseph Haydn |
performed by Fanny Holcroft |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 2 July, 1798, at night |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Notes
The listening experience is taken from Holcroft’s diary, describing daily life 1797-1799. Hazlitt reproduced the diary at the end of vol. 2. Fanny Magaretta Holcroft (1780-1844), like her father, played violin and wrote poetry and for the theatre. She translated plays from German, Italian and Spanish for her father’s publication the ‘Theatrical Recorder’.