Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… (Goodman, p. 330). The move from Queen Square to St Martin’s Street in 1774 was a strategic decision, as his daughter Frances admitted several decades later in the Memoirs of Dr. Burney : the house had once belonged to Sir Isaac Newton and … enthusiastic amateur astronomer, had begun to make a name for himself with his volumes on The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771), but only with his second book, The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and the … Letters of Fanny Burney, ed. Lars Troide (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1988), xxi-xxii. 5 . Frances Burney, Memoirs of Doctor Burney, arranged from his own Manuscripts, from Family Papers, and from Personal …
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