William Beatty-Kingston in Pesth - 1866
from Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character, page 93:
[I] found myself included, through Hellmesberger's influence, in an invitation addressed to the "musical and literary celebrities honouring Pesth with a visit " by Heckenast, the leading publisher of the Hungarian capital, to a supper-party at his mansion in a street with a polysyllabic, and, to any tongue save that of a born Magyar, unpronounceable name. Heckenast, an enlightened and liberal patron of the arts, had at that time but recently "discovered" Robert Volkmann, and taken the luckless composer under his protection. He happened to … more >>
William Beatty-Kingston, Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character, volume 1 (London, 1887), p. 93. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1446671892140 accessed: 7 December, 2024
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hide composersG minor quatour | performed by Viennese quartet party |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1866 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |