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Charles Burney FRS (7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814) was an English music historian, composer and musician. He was the father of the writers Frances Burney and Sarah Burney , of the explorer James Burney , and of Charles Burney , a classicist and book donor to the British Museum .
Apr 8, 2024 · Charles Burney was an organist, composer, and the foremost music historian of his time in England. After attending Chester Free School (1739–42), Burney returned to Shrewsbury, assisted his half-brother, a church organist, and learned violin and French. In 1744 he began a musical apprenticeship.
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Charles Burney (1781) By Sir Joshua Reynolds Born: April 7, 1726 Died: April 12, 1814 National Portrait Gallery Works (musical): Six Sonatas for Two Violins, with a Bass for the Violoncello or Harpsichord (1748) Six Songs with a Cantata op. 2 Songs for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1763) The Cunning Man (1766) I will Love thee, O Lord my Strength ...
Jun 8, 2021 · Learn about the 18th-century musicologist who wrote the first English-language history of music, with George Grote's copy in Senate House Library. Discover how Burney researched, wrote and published his work, and how it influenced and entertained his readers.
Charles Burney (1726–1814), was the foremost music historian of his day. The General History, his most famous work, was published in four volumes between 1776 and 1789 and is still of great value today.
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This article explores how the subject of the opera – tracing the ‘progress of music’ from China to Britain – reflected the contemporary discussion about Chinese music, articulated most clearly by Charles Burney, who held a significant interest in the embassy's musical exchange.
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May 18, 2018 · views 3,038,312 updated May 18 2018. Burney, Charles (1726–1814). Musical historian, composer, and organist, Burney was educated in his birthplace Shrewsbury and in Chester. In 1744 he went to London as apprentice to Thomas Arne, the composer of ‘Rule Britannia’, through whom he met Handel.
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