Georg Henschel in Wrocław - the 1850's
from Musings & memories of a musician, pages 10-11:
To these gardens mothers would, in the afternoon, take their work and their children, and many an enjoyable and profitable hour I spent there, listening to selections from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Auber, Bellini, Boieldieu, Donizetti, Verdi, not to forget the then popular dance-music of Lanner and Joh. Strauss the elder. I well remember standing for hours at a time on the pebbles before the pavilion in which the band played, wondering why the man up in front there, who kept beating the air with a short ebony stick with ivory … more >>
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Georg Henschel, Musings & memories of a musician (London, 1918), p. 10-11. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1452197298690 accessed: 9 December, 2024
Listeners
Experience Information
Date/Time | the 1850's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |
Originally submitted by Meg Barclay on Thu, 07 Jan 2016 20:08:18 +0000
Approved on Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:23:48 +0000