Charles Burney in Venice - 3 August, 1770

from Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney, page 73:

The instant I got to the inn a band of musicians consisting of 2 good fiddles a violoncello and female voice stopt under the windows and performed in such a manner as would have made people stare in England, but here they were as little attended to as coalmen or oyster women are with us.

cite as

Charles Burney, and Herbert Edmund Poole (ed.), Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney (London, 1974), p. 73. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444214527762 accessed: 19 April, 2024

location of experience: Venice

Listeners

Charles Burney
musicologist, Musician, Writer
1726-1814

Experience Information

Date/Time 3 August, 1770
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by Gorwel Owen on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:42:08 +0100
Approved on Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:31:36 +0000