Elizabeth (Bessy) Moore et al. in Sloperton Cottage, Bromham, Wiltshire - 27 September, 1818, at night
from Diary of Thomas Moore, 27 September 1818, pages 175–176:
After dinner and after tea copied out a Benedictus of Mozart and the “Et incarnatus est” of Haydn—both the merum sal of music; and before supper played and sung them and many others to and with Bessy and Mary D. Poor Bessy cried at my Sacred Song, “Oh how sweet to think hereafter,” and at the conversation we had after it about the consoling prospect of meeting the spirits of those we love in another world: she was thinking of her dear Barbara.[*] When they went to bed, tried over some more sonatas of Clementi: … more >>
Thomas Moore, Diary of Thomas Moore, 27 September 1818. In Lord John Russell and Lord John Russell (ed.), Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore, volume 2 (London, 1853), p. 175–176. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1593614120793 accessed: 10 October, 2024
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Benedictus
written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
performed by Bessy Moore, Mary Dalby, Thomas Moore |
'Et incarnatus est'
written by Josef Haydn |
performed by Bessy Moore, Mary Dalby, Thomas Moore |
sonatas
written by Muzio Clementi |
performed by Thomas Moore |
'Oh how sweet to think hereafter'
written by Sir John Stevenson, Thomas Moore |
performed by Bessy Moore, Mary Dalby, Thomas Moore |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 27 September, 1818, at night |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, solitary |