Chopin in Berlin - September, 1828
from Selected Correspondance of Fryderyck Chopin, page 17:
I am well, and from Tuesday onwards there has been something new at the theatre every day, as though put on especially for me. Best of all, I have already heard one oratorio at the Sing-Akademie and also, with great satisfaction, Cortez, Cimarosa's Secret Marriage and Onslow's Colporteur. However, Handel's oratorio St. Cecilia came nearest to the ideal which I had formed of great music. None of the most cried-up singers were there except Mile Tibaldi (contralto) and the young, seventeen-year-old Schatzel whom I previously heard at the Sing- Akademie and … more >>
Bronislaw Edward Sydow (Comp) and Chopin, and Arthur Hedley (ed.), Selected Correspondance of Fryderyck Chopin (Prescot, 1962), p. 17. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1425668079503 accessed: 10 October, 2024
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Colporteur
written by Onslow |
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Cortez | |
Secret Marriage
written by Domenico Cimarosa |
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St. Cecilia
written by George Frideric Handel |
performed by Mile Tibaldi, Miss Schatzel |
Experience Information
Date/Time | September, 1828 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |