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The letters of the great eighteenth-century historian of music and
man of letters, Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814), friend of Samuel
Johnson and Joseph Haydn, are here collected and published in
chronological order for the first time. This initial instalment of
a projected four-volume edition of the Letters, edited from
manuscript and other sources, opens with the earliest surviving
letter, written in 1751 when Burney was an obscure country
organist. It concludes in December 1784 with the death of Samuel
Johnson. These are the letters of the active years which saw
Burney's remarkable rise to the head of his chosen profession,
music. They chronicle his musical travels in Europe, and his
literary activities as a scholar and author of the Continental
Tours, the first two volumes of his famous History of Music, and
the Commemoration of Handel, written at the behest of George III.
They also document Burney's membership in the celebrated literary
coterie at Streatham, and the emergence as a novelist of his
daughter Fanny, whose Evelina and Cecilia appeared in these years.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Burney is recognised as the great musical writer of his day. This
is a facsimile reprint of the first edition in 1771.
This is a facsimile reprint of the 1773 edition. Originally in two
volumes but now bound as one. There is a small bibliography
provided by the publisher.
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