excerpt from 'Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney' pp. 105-6 (168 words)
excerpt from 'Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney' pp. 105-6 (168 words)
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[…] I travelled all night with Count Hagen to Figline about 20 miles from Florence where I was told all the 1st rate musicians of Italy were assembled to celebrate a sort of jubilee held every 25 years in honour of the protectress of that town, Santa Massimina. We arrived about 7 in the morning, found the roads and town very full of country people as at a wakes but very few gens comme il faut. Great preparations were making in the great square for the diversions of the evening. At 11 was a great musical performance but not what I expected as to performers - the heat, that of the black hole at Calcutta - such a crowd and such a hive. The music of the mass was really pretty, full of new and elegant passages - there was however but one good singer, Abate Fibietto, a tenor whose voice and taste were charming. He sung a motet with such execution, precision and taste as I never remember to have heard.
[…] I travelled all night with Count Hagen to Figline about 20 miles from Florence where I was told all the 1st rate musicians of Italy were assembled to celebrate a sort of jubilee held every 25 years in honour of the protectress of that town, Santa Massimina. We arrived about 7 in the morning, found the roads and town very full of country people as at a wakes but very few gens comme il faut. Great preparations were making in the great square for the diversions of the evening. At 11 was a great musical performance but not what I expected as to performers - the heat, that of the black hole at Calcutta - such a crowd and such a hive. The music of the mass was really pretty, full of new and elegant passages - there was however but one good singer, Abate Fibietto, a tenor whose voice and taste were charming. He sung a motet with such execution, precision and taste as I never remember to have heard. |
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