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- Letter from Charles Burney, 26 March 1808
Letter from Charles Burney, 26 March 1808
item26 March 1808MS Burney-0071
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- Held by
- Rare Books and Special Collections via McGill University Archival Collections
- Creator
- Burney, Charles, 1726-1814
- Dates
- 26 March 1808 (indexed as 1808)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- 2 leaves ; 22 x 18.5 cm
- Scope & content
- Consists of autograph letter from Charles Burney to Lady Banks, dated 26 March 1808 and written from Chelsea College. The letter is written in brown ink and has remains of wax seal. The letter contains in particular lengthy discussion of the Italian Ariettes of Vincenzo Righini, printed in English in 1791 and muses upon how they managed to arrive in England, their merits, and the poetry of Dryden, Gray, and Pope. Also mentions the music of an "Italianized German of the name of Pfeiffer."
- Location
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- Subjects
- Righini, Vincenzo, 1756-1812; Musicians -- Correspondence.; Music -- 18th century.
- Genre / form
- Correspondence.
- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-15T16:13:35Z · source datestamp 2023-05-16T19:20:22Z · ead