Amy Fay in Berlin - April, 1873

from Music-Study in Germany: The Classic Memoir of the Romantic Era, page 312:

I have at last heard Fannie Warburg in a Mozart concerto, for she has got back from England. How she did play it! To say that the passages "pearled," would be saying nothing at all. Why, the piano just warbled them out like a nightingale! The last movement had the infectious gayety that Mozart's things often have, with a magnificent cadenza by himself. She rendered it so perfectly, and with such naïve light-heartedness, that none of us could resist it, and we all finally burst into a laugh! There was a little orchestra accompanying, which Deppe had got together and was …   more >>

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Amy Fay, Music-Study in Germany: The Classic Memoir of the Romantic Era (2011), p. 312. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1425072783897 accessed: 19 April, 2024

location of experience: Berlin

Listeners

Amy Fay
Pianist
1844-1928

Listening to

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Concerto
written by Mozart
performed by Fannie Warburg

Experience Information

Date/Time April, 1873
Medium live
Listening Environment indoors, solitary

Originally submitted by Meg Barclay on Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:33:04 +0000
Approved on Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:56:24 +0100