Baroness von Bunsen in Gloucester Cathedral - March, 1839
from Letter from Baroness Bunsen to Heinrich Abeken, 4 March 1839, page 503:
I stayed over Sunday [in Gloucester] at the Bishop's, saw my good cousin [the Bishop], in robes, lawn sleeves, and wig, go into the cathedral, and enjoyed the cathedral service in perfection in that magnificent building. The organ was fine, the choir good, and the chaunting left nothing to wish for but that it had been (after the fashion of S. Salvatore in Maximis) much slower than the custom retained with too much exactness from Roman-Catholic times.
cite as
Baroness von Bunsen, Letter from Baroness Bunsen to Heinrich Abeken, 4 March 1839. In Augustus Hare (ed.), The Life and Letters of Frances Baroness Bunsen, volume 1 (London, 1879), p. 503. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1382974638588 accessed: 9 October, 2024
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hide composersAnglican choral music |
Experience Information
Date/Time | March, 1839 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:29:30 +0000