Charles C.F. Greville in Stafford House, London - 13 July, 1835, at night
from Journal entry, 15 July 1835, page 278:
The night before last there was a great concert on the staircase at Stafford House, the most magnificent assembly I ever saw, and such as I think no crowned head in Europe could display, so grand and picturesque. The appearance of the hall was exactly like one of Paul Veronese’s pictures, and only wanted some tapestry to be hung over the balustrades. Such prodigious space, so cool, so blazing with light; everybody was comfortable even, and the concert combined the greatest talents in Europe all together—Grisi, Malibran, Tamburini, Lablache, Rubini, and … more >>
Charles C.F. Greville, Journal entry, 15 July 1835. In Henry Reeve (ed.), The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, volume 3 (London, 1874), p. 278. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1529919339730 accessed: 17 November, 2024
Listeners
Clerk-in-ordinary to the Privy Council, Political and social diarist, Private secretary Listening to
hide composers| Unspecified vocal music | performed by Antonio Tamburini, Giovanni Battista Rubini, Giulia Grisi, Luigi Lablache, Maria Malibran, Nicola Ivanoff |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 13 July, 1835, at night |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |