Dr Burney's Concerts (1832) [ Practices / People ]
… his epistolary intercourse with his young correspondent. CONCERT.—ABSTRACT FIRST. “To Samuel Crisp, Esq. “ Chesington, Kingston, Surrey. “Let me now try, my dear Mr. Crisp, if I cannot have the pleasure to make you dolorously repent your … Mrs. and Miss Ord; and a good many others, agreeable enough, though too tedious to mention, having nothing either striking or odd in them. But the pride of the evening, as neither you, my dear Mr. Crisp, nor Mr. Twining, could be with us, … the great gun of the evening, Müthel’s duet for two harpsichords; which my father thinks the noblest composition of its kind in the world. “Mr. Burney and the Hettina now came off with flying colours indeed; nothing could exceed the general …
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