Charles Burney in Paris - 13 June, 1770
from Music, Men and Manners in France and Italy, page 12:
At night the Comedie Italienne where there was a Harlequin piece, in which 2 thirds of the characters spoke Italian which I was glad to find I understood full as well as the French. Carlin the Harlequin wonderfully comic and entertaining - the rest, who sung now and then, but too French for me, Italian airs I could not much relish. This was succeeded by a new piece called [illegible in original MS]. One of these pieces was new and meant as a comic opera in all its modern French form of Italian music (that is music composed in the Italian Stile) to French words: no recitative, all the dialogue … more >>
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Charles Burney, and H. Edmund Poole (ed.), Music, Men and Manners in France and Italy (1969), p. 12. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1395749660473 accessed: 1 September, 2024
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Date/Time | 13 June, 1770 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |
Originally submitted by Robert Fraser on Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:14:20 +0000