John Marsh in St Alfege Church, Greenwich - the 1750's
from The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), page 9:
The next Sunday the organ was played by Mr Wheatley, who gave us a Cornet piece both morning and afternoon for his voluntaries, & tho' he had by no means a good finger, yet his style being new to me, as was the Cornet stop, I was pleas'd with his playing, tho' not so much as I had been with Mr Hudson the preceeding Sunday.
cite as
John Marsh, The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828). In John Marsh, and Brian Robins (ed.), The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), volume - (Stuyvesant, New York, 1998), p. 9. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1394227051813 accessed: 14 January, 2025
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| anonymous organ music | performed by Wheatley |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | the 1750's |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Part of the church's selection process for a organist to replace the 'old superannuated dancing master' Mr Dyer, p.9.
Originally submitted by iepearson on Sun, 09 Mar 2014 18:45:24 +0000