William Beatty-Kingston in Vienna - mid 19th Century
from Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character, page 19:
In the course of an afternoon's musical chit-chat, with P.F. obbligato I have heard him [Herbeck] play through madrigals by Battishill and Wilbye, songs by Purcell and Ame, gigues and passepieds by Rameau and Couperin, fugues by Albrechtsberger, Scarlatti and the younger Bachs, selections from Verdi's least-known operas. Credos and Glorias by provincial Austrian, German, and Italian organists who might have been nameless for all the musical world knows of their productions —all these, besides bits and scraps of many others, as … more >>
William Beatty-Kingston, Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character, volume 1 (London, 1887), p. 19. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444164141302 accessed: 30 December, 2024
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Experience Information
Date/Time | mid 19th Century |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors |