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M,DCC,LXXX.
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LTBMRY
PREFACE.
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"PNGLAND
protection
affords the
warmeft
of
all
to
abilities
Whether
we
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decide on.
to
extend
talents,
how
It is ftrange
in
this
country,
where
fo
ail objects
of amufement are
that
freely
canvarTed ?
its
hitherto
Mufic,
and
Profeffors,
:
fhould
under the
To
Ill
To
this
this
remove
this veil,
and detect
conto
imposition,
the
Editor gives
Pamphlet
of the
to the Public,
writer's
fcious
abilities
to true
and found
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Dario Mufico.
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jfc. Wfts
A'jtfl'E,
DOCTOR.
all
ALTHOUGH
tisfaclion
pofthumous
difcufiions are
we
can-
mory of
the
name of Arne
hold
its
rank
in merit,
as
He
compofed
da*
)
poflefTes
da, written at an
the
fire
The
detached fongs, which he wrote throughout a long life. As we can't pafs over the celebrated
openj of Artaxerxes,
that there
is
we
are obliged to
remark,
a palpable
want of
originality
from
A
Son of
but for
former.
E,
HA
He
L.
early
firft
made
his
as a finger,
ftile is -lingular,
latti,
and
by powerful execution.
As
cOrripofer,' if
much
-intovthe fugeing
to
AR
D,
AR..;D, DOCTOR.
Educated
Barnard Gates;
in
Mr.
unlefs
"
we fhould point out his pretty rondo " If 'tis joy to wound a lover" As the Dotor has
we mull
fetts
declare that
any
man who
many
of leffons as
former of
Arnold.
much
He has
fon,
'We can't
fhould
at,
fufficiently exprefs
caufe the
or
place thej
"
a ridiculous point
of view.
L.
A
,
1-jf
in this country,
public by a
fet
though we
yet
betray an un-
by rendering the
Mr. Abel
knowledge to
;
write fome
though we
A Y L
An
ham
Englishman
D,
ProfefTor- of
Mufic
at Gref-
A T T
An
anglilhman
R E
the
Y.
Goliaii of Mufic.
As
but
(
>ut, as
t
a Compofer,
we vehemently recommend
to
him
and the
reft
B.CH,
his earlief!
Of
late
;ars
he has changed
of playing, and
manner.
The
tafte,
which
is
is
fo
conbe-
not a
little
fome
years.
would
fill
B A
T E
R.
little
An
judgment
mufic
B.RTHX.M.N.
to
B
'
R T H
N,
A Spaniard.If we
himfelf, that he
was an
SpaniOi
fer
pronounce the ufe h< vice, then indeed we muft fron made of the inftrucYions he received
Barfanti,
lingular.
the
prieft
in
this
city,
as
^ver
of
tl
As
a compofer,
his
his
Maid
his
Oaks, and
fome of
fob concertos,
performer,
entitljj
him
to praife.
As
execui
tion and
expreffion are
warmly
to be applauded
His Adagio
ftands unrivalled,
we may
fay,
h;<
Some
latent caufc
mu
hi
in pre
is
M
1
comprefied into
overflows
;
fo fmall a
compafs
as his
frame,
lefs Kid
we have given
his
po
"
BATTISHILL.
:
An Englifhman,
'.nee
ganic ftyle.
His
bngs,
ilyle.
fc
his
are
a raoft
beautiful
and exprefilve
R T
N.
An
las
Englifhman, an harpfichord-mafter,
leflbns in a ftrange
who
his
compofed fome
ftyle,
and un-
couth
"cholars.
lis
this
gentleman to chriften
fantaftically,
muficmoft
of
prettily
and
mayhap
:o
tunities
R T
N.
A
the
German, organift of the Lutheran chapel at Savoy, where he exhibits great fl<ill in moduand a thorough knowledge of the powers
lation,
|f his inftrument.
is
good,
.1*
is
languid and
fpiritlefg.
compofitions of
that
we
Garden
theatre,
R T
1.
An
Italian,
in Italy
many
years ago.
It is furprizing that a
gen-
tleman of Signor
B.rt.ni's
judgment
in,
mufic
ehord an
fert that
this country
we might venture
in Italy, nor
to af-
performer
phenomenon
is
that
Though we
tions,
iyfurance, Anglice,
imp
......
ce of fuch
publica-
we will not be
his
particularly fevere
on Signor
ample of
(Both of whom
c'hbrd as
].: -1
know jut
as
much
of the harpfi-
of our ariim'adverfion,
B,RN,Y,
B.RN.Y, DOCTOR.
Has
Mufic.
written a learned/and elegant hiftory of
We
can't fay
much
in his
praife
as a
which
we think
rather ill-adapted to
the
harpfichord.
He
fince
firft
fome
R N
Y.
Nephew to the Doilor. A performer on the harpMchord of moll capital and original execution, particularly neat in the
trick
performance of the
above alluded
to,
ability of
We are
fur-
any
leffons, as they
only.
BTL.R;
H
T L
>
.
B
This gentleman
(which
is
R.
will tell
we
are afto-
nifhed that
Whether
to
we know
get fix
not* but
in
lejfons
mufic for F.
Horns
P.
He
in
by the
it
zephyrs of a loveajfetted-
turn ti-ring
throughout moft
We
teaches
to
play
the
harpfi-
CR.M.R.
15
R V
R.
German.
own, though
the lovers of
'tis
whom
mu-
are
much
)
gentleman
him
ear.
firrc
to melodize, as well as
As
of the very
rank.
full
His execution
is
good
to
matter Giardini
new model
bow of his
playing
inftrument.
We
at fight
with great
facility.
C
An
T
As
R.
up
in the ca-
which he difplays
-
in his
performance.
Two
ex-
cepted, 3d and 6th Op. prima, the beft in the cantabile ftyle fince
Domenico
Alberti's days.
is
His
(
flill
>
a favourite
-,
in that opera
a Vauxhall fong beginning " Tally ho," the bed defcripNanny/' and
know of.
We
of
it
hope he
betwixt
will
little
Mr.
As
particu-
on the piano
forte.
The
chronicles of his
and could
nay tranfpofe,
at fight,
the
'
book being
turned topfy-turvy,'^ at
Irifli
ten
years old.
The
-
relied on,
much to be we can't implicitly believe all of this t though we acknowledge his great readinefs, at
legends being in general not
prefent, in
playing
at fight.
COKE, DO
:
XO
R.
Handel was afked why he did not take his deVat de'dyfil I trow my he replied gree " money avay-fur dat de blockhead wi(h,
c<
<c
no
" no
vant."
Far be
it
from us
thet to Doctor
C ke;
degree,
we
wifli
formance.
He
is,
and
is
an organifc of Weftminfler
his induftry to
Abbey,
in
fubfcriptions,
and fecure
are
the reverfions
of organift
places,
fuper-
eminent.
C&.
.
rik e-rld-L-
CL.M.NTI.
Has compofed Tome
fetts
An
fons,
Italian.
of lef-
which abound
ficult, that it is
We particularly allude
Mr. C. executes
crammed
his
lefTons.
is
mod
brilliant performer.
CR.SD.LL.
18
R
,-
L.
arrival
Aw
try,
ties.
Englifhman
of
in this
coun-
was efleemed
by the
he has
We wifh
him
to
C.'RV.TTO,
A
R-is
We
difagreeable noife.
D
An
B
firrt
N.
to
Englifhman,
It is
that petite
piece*
piece, fuch as
" Dear
hurry
?"
heart !"
"
Gh
wherefor
"
this terrible
Say,
I
littles
u
**
a fhep-
The
in the
fame predica-
ment
whole piece,
is
" Then
" ah
J"
my
al-
moit unnoticed.
" Blow high, blow low," C Sweet Willy " O," and many others, bear great marks of original genius,
which
it is
im-
D U P U
consideration, he
King's organijf.
S.
yet,
upon due
he
is
\ T
Z.
A German,
20
if
piano
forte,
Thatchedharpfi-
improvement on the
how
or
mended him
lar,
is
to the notice of
a
one lady
in particu-
who, from
well
R,
DOCTOR.
If the
Bred up
ihould
fail
in the
Doctor
it
become
a great compofer,
will-
is
We are
therefore the
lefs
inclined
fcrupled not to
fay,
To
this
we
ihall
only
remark, that
we
As
and
a performer, the
is
fire
daily
that,
if
improving
in
his
tones
we
think
(
if lie
21
command
all,
his. forte,
but above
never
rules of accompariying,
by playhirrij
R.
German
the hautboy.
original* often
As
outree, and
could
cover.
very
L O R
He
we
O;
3
Saxon.
elfe.,
As
a per-
former on the
flute, his
tone
is full
fometimes forced.
If he did not
into the
common
fur-
it
furprize
more than
to pleafe,
we mould
give
him
ment
-,
is
execution;
G
An
above
Italian,
A R D
L
London
has
who, from
years
-thirty
fince,
into
London,
he
is
fo well entitled to
and as a performer,
ivhofe mellifluous
tone,
knowledge of bowing,
violin,
This
is
when he judicioufly permitted Giardini to change his firings and bow; a circumilance attended with fuch good fenfe and modefly on
one
fide,
we
can't fufficiently
commend it.,
i
We know G
harmoniil
j
is
he pofTeiTes, ought,
bajs
which
may
fame-
23
fometimes occur
in a folo, or a feries
of thin har-
monies
in a concerto.
He has
found,
compofed an Oratorio.
are con (trained to fpeak
But, as per-
fection flike
we
of
it
Rafter
HandeU
as a pretty Italian
He has
lity
compofed
leflbns
we dare
It
to
have forgot-
He is
who, to
attain *he
a paf-
who
bow
alike
and thefe
flirong proofs
of his feelings
His commands
it
are fo abfolute,
as criminal to
yet
convincing, that
lect his
would be
neg-
G I O R-
24
fi^0-~^&l
O^n^
G
An
Italian.
O R D A
For
feveral years connected with
With
thefe he tra-
way
to
Eng-
Signior picked up and retained many of thofe motivos and passages, which he has fince prefented to the public.
From England
he.
would not be
libe-
to
produce three
trios
of
undeceived them.
He
bit of
one long,
a fcrap
of another,
form of
lejfons
j
and
concertos,
which he
term.
CALLS.-ComDofing
*5
term
is
put to-
gether,
Thefe he
retails
*tis
faid
though*
when he
of
into
my
lady,
or
the
Foundiing-hofpital of
flolen.,
defaced
mufic.
left
the brat be
known,
for his
then claiming
ffC
.
own*
-< Cur
G
Of Durham.
leffons
R T
H,
fetts
of
for the
which,
for
the
amount of their
<f
the Harpsichord,
*
.
>
H
Master
Y.
in Ireland,
He
violin in Italy
firft
by
im-
it
would feem
were
much
He
is,
on the
whole,
a very neat
performer,
and
a tolerable
H
An
one of the
R R
P.
She
is
pofTefFed
of
Her knowledge
of mufick
gentleman of great
Handel
in a
and
mufick.
Her
moil
Irifh
the'affettuofo,
eminent
and
expreffive
manner
in
the
HARPER
27
HARPER.
An
now
Englifh lady, a finger,
firfl
apprentice to
of Sacchini.
ilyle
Her
voice
is
is
but her
and manner
will,
exceedingly pleafing.
Mifs Harper
H
Bred up to trade
at
K.
Norwich.
He
all
early
dif-
occasions,
traces of miific,
Ark
Indeed Mr.
Hook
merits
more
praife
than
fome of
him, for
<c
been unceafing.
On
" the
(
ct
25
Opening of the Artifls Room in the Strand" an Ode was performed, compofed by Mr. Hook. When the performance was over, fome of the conofcenti, difcuffing its merits, apthe
cc
was the
C
had heard.
" Why,'*
True,"
re-*
fays one,
own"
that
is
<f
"
it is Jo
" good:*
Mr. Bach's
la-
his fellow
a variety
of inftances, and
thefe libleft re-
treat" at Vauxhall,
How
at
Coat
we
wilh to forgot;
us not
omit to record
Vauxhall.
his
H.W.RD.
H.W.RD, DOCTOR.
The compofer
thirty years part.
of feveral favourite
airs
about
much
world uni-
ackhowledge
N.
efTays
Of
Exeter.
This gentleman's
and pre-
faces to his
awakened
he dreamt
r
many
a very
pecularities,
His
in a
is
pathetic ftyle
the canzonet,
in
it>
" Time
pleafing,
my
K
An
Englifh
N N
Y.
to the
woman, apprenticed
htc
Doctor Arne.
many
years.
Nature has
been
3
to her,
been
count,
fo
bountiful
that,
on
her
ac-
we hardly have
Y.
Harpsichord Matter Extraordinary to the Queen. Some leffons of his compofition, which
fell
But
his
at
St.
Martin's in the
Such
exquifite flights,
fancies,
or pra&ife,
attempted,
It
is
reported
that
KE.B.E.
3*
K E
Organist of
St.
E.
who
but
chromatic
ftyle,
madman.
Mr. Keeble's
firfr.
fett
very good.
His entremets, or
flute-fwell,
;
and
they are
vals,
which
amazing the
fwell
or eccho flop
M M
L.
German, formerly ( he
Pruffian fervice.
He has
which Mr. Bach has, with great good-nature, af~ filled him in, as he has done for others. As a
perfomer on the violin his talents are below me-
diocrity
(
diocrity
;
3*
harpfichord,
we know
his
talent for
that inftru-
ment
is
on a par with
N L
Y.
the Patentees
vours
may
man's
ftyle is
undoubiedly
his
own ;
w~
are
hippy to commend
He had
a long time.
Of his
we
are
entirely uninformed.
much
affifted
by the na-
powers of
his daughters.
L
Daughter
Linlevj
Y,
MISS.
in
lifter
Mifs
and
who
retired
33
and we think that fhe may poffibly approach the inimitable and expreffive manner of her eldeft lifter,
Mrs. S
n.
LA M
Born
years in
in France,
E.
earlie**
England
five
turned
years
We
whom
feem
but rarher an
mod
difficult
and
ill-fuited paffages
on the violin.
We
he
is
advife
Mr.
La Motte
think
it is
We
power.
And
if
defirous of
he mull not
from odtave
common
L E
N.
A Frenchman,
boy
in
j
his folos
and cadences,
that, whilft
he perfeveres
34
it
will
prove an invincible
LE BR.N, MADAME.
A
mer.
five,
German woman,
The compafs of
we have
her voice
is
more
exten--
other female
fully inftruc~r.ed,
inftructions, as
me
plainly proves
by her excel-
L E
I.
A Jew,
feigned voice
entirely
modelled on an imitation
If he could paraphrafe. the
of the Italian
caftrati.
we would applaud
his
en-
retail
of
S.
3S
N.R.S,
A very
man.
DOCTOR.
a very refpectable
its
now
organift
N
An
turity,
R R
S.
Englishman, a finger.
Organift at Oxford.
had arrived
at
ma-
Oxford Chriftmas
much
fattened his
London Lent
P
Bred up
S.
in the choir
of Weftminfter.
Here-
fome time.
(meaning
his
voice
and
as
we
prefume
prelume
all
is
he
thinks^
fufEcient
to
monopolize
he
merit.
This
we
are
it
apprehenfive
Jo well Jatisfied
of,
that
fometimes
lefTens
As a Tinging
matter
we look on
y
him
to be eqnal to any in
London,
tho
he
is
not a foreigner.
P An
Italian.
I.
Came
about
is
falfetto,
though not
He
though
'tis
the thou-
we hear from
Italians in
ge-
expreftion,
Why
this
is fo,
we
is
With
in general poffeft
of
of
little
For the
to the recollection
the
37
may be
heard
manner of catching at a note, inftead of coming to it at once, the fame cadences, and in a word
fo little variation
not a
fup~
This remark
to Signor
being a general
FiOzzi.
not directed
He
harpficliord.
We
this
with
ability
own
of fuch a
talent.
MCH..R.TTL
An
years
lis
Italian, firft
feriou's
many
their
bed
finger
in this
extraordinary talents.
Signor Pachierotti
j
is
not
young; he
is
his voice
cracked
and
his
manner
is
indifferent.
We
fuper-
that, if ever
he was fo
3*
his
fuperlatively
elapfed.
great,
prime
is
long
fince
K.
excellent performer
An
Englishman.
A very
his
on the hautboy.
He
he owes. much of
improvement
to Fifcher.
We
inftrudtions
from Fifcher
he has made
but hearing
fo great a
peformer,
towards perfection.
His accompanying
a voice
is
particularly delicate.
He often
is
Whoever
hilt, for it
hilt
he
is
begirt,
and
through the
the folo
hilt
is
crowd
into
the
is
oreneftfal
When
difarmed,
and the
folo player.
Wrighten tugged
P.NTO,
39
N T
A
O.
A
ers
Portugueze.
violin.
One of
on the
bold-fpirited leader,
and
in the
common
way.
With uncommon
lazy,
was indolent,
cefs, as to
We lament his
banifh-
ment
to Ireland.
PO Z
I,
G N O R A.
and
is
An
Italian.
One of
flie
fine voice,
wo-
mam
men
of
Though
many
wants instruction.
R A
An
at
the.
I.
Italian.
Formerly
and
fir ft
ferious
finger
Opera,
Guaex-
dagni.
tent,
As he
exprefiion,
pOiTeiTes
no
in
uncommon
his
or
tone
voice,
we
are
4o
He now
to exhibit
teaches
to fing
fine
and, as the
teeth,
he takes
them
exhorts
as
much
his
as pofiible, as
by
the
mouth
wide at
and
his
pupils
to
do
fame,
Sig-
nor
Rauzzini
duos,
his
is
an at-all
in
compofition.
Songs,
flow
can
trios,
quartettos,
and
j
operas,
but
from
pen,
equally
good
how
we
fraife his
accompanied
recitativos ?
hi*
harpfichord UJJonsl
s>
H.
Composer of an opera
herd,
Co vent -garden
theatre.
Which
This
when we
v^ry
little
from
41
in
Giardini's opera of
many
years be-
Mr.
Rum
of
'his
powers
on that inftrument,
R
An
dini,
D
at
S.
Englifhman.
Firfl violin
Drury-lane
theatre.
We are
Mr. Giar-
and others,
who have
:
alphabetical prece-
we
therefore requeft
Mr.
Richards to accept
fincerity, in lieu
of
flattery.
We
ST.M.TZ.
42
Z.
A German,
fome overtures
a
fon of Stamitz,
the compofer of
1
in a fuperlative fryle.
The Ton
is
good
theorift,
and
fome
little
it
things which do
him much
His tenor
playing
is
to
make
ca*
His
violin performance
is
very inferior.
N V
W.
on the harpfias indifputIt
is.
An
Englifhman.
A performer
amazing
tion
that, whilft
Mr. Snow,
in
and others
whom we
and
S.CCH.NI.
43
C
The
H
deity
N
of
I.
An
melody,
Italian.
the
Orpheus of
talents
this
compofer,
his
are
immenfe.
the
the
The
yet
fublimity of his
his
choruffes,
recitativo's,
expreffion of
fulnefs,
accompanied
blended
harmony
beautiful
of
his
inftru mental
his
parts,
and
the
fimplicity of
fubjecls,
we wonder they
are pof-
by one man.
are
much
inferior.
I.
An
rinij
Italian
woman.
is
and the
N L
Y.
lately
An
ap-
His voluntaries
for the
organ are
not
44
not extraordinary.
preparations
feries
He
adagios
common
the
place
a
and
refolutions,
fugues,
of imitations,
the
Mute
fwel],
or
application,
and indifferent
SM.TH,
A
Jbop.
alias
S
in
H M D T.
.
German.
and
Formerly
fince
the fuite of
efpoufed
tells
Lord
a
Bi-
Rivers,
warmly
by
us of his
rma Opera 2 da ad infinitum , but this is all we know of his works. Inafmuch as his Mufical
without the
tendance
of amafrer, we think
his atit
at the
was
written, implies
fome
trifling-contradiction.
E T
R.
German.
He has
:
part of fome concertos; the accompaniments are they are neither very new, written by Mr. Bach
The
45
-,
his ca-
and
if his
penchant
he
on the piano
T
A
flute,
T.
heceflafy
as
number of
keys.
We decide on them
at leaft
an
He
nor
is
his
tone
T
An
Italian,
N D
appeared
in this
country.
His
ftyle
is
formed on
that of Caffarelli,
by
whom
he was inftrudted.
Tho'
'
As
4^
As
The
Trios (which
Prince
Pilferini
purloined from
T R
'
I.
The
firft
voice, and
is
an excellent finger
-,
mirable actor.
N.
A Frenchman,
Monf.
fador.
le
who came here in the fuite of Comte de Guines, a late French ambafare in the
His compofitions
moft pecu-
liar ftyle,
bow of Mr. V This peculiarity is n. by leffened hearing much his mufick frequently.
the
It
and
Vachon
to fecure a comfortable
many
able
But
his politicks
and
each other.
V.RN.N*
47
V
An
voice.
R N
When
N.
had
to.
Englifhman.
a boy,
it is
fins
When
its
much
is
be re-
gretted
lofs
was not
compenfated
by one
by
much
years
many
He
is
afliduous,
and always
perfect.
WESTLEY.
Sons of the celebrated
J.
known
difciple of the
famous Whitfield.
The
who,
may
be plainly
traced in the
though they
rules of mufic,
ly reiteration of
gloomy
dominate
grief
in
all
their compofitions
and as joy or
happen
do
4S
do
their productions
of fanatic defperation.
Ipecies of
to qualify
harmony which they think mofl likely them for cherubimical or feraphimical
hallelujahs.
W
An
Englifh
HT
E
in
is
N,
fpite
woman, who,
of a bad
by an extenfive, well-toned.,
Mrs.
and
Miss
a
W..CHS.L
She fings
at
Mrs. Weichfel,
hall.
German.
an
Vaux-
Ker
voice
if
is
excellent,
and capable of
great exertions,
Her daughter
plays
on the harpfichord.
former of her age
-,
She
an extraordinary peroia
the
49
the knowlege of
good
fingering,
has produced
her merit.
W
An
toned
happily
R.
Englishman.
falfetto to a
good
our the-
l-eadinefs
his
know-
and the
flexibility
Such an
pleafing,
acquifition
was
as
unexpected
it
as
it
was
be
ought
to
cherifhed.
W.RG.N, DOCTOR.
An
Englifhman.
Received the
firft
rudiments
book, above
fifty
Mr.
When
long.
ani.
He
But
fays he
that
is
The Doctor
endeavors to
being fenfible of
conceal miniani
it,
';
his
adopting the
to think
him
and
all
jnfane.
The Doctor
which
was
and a
fuch a fublime
:
is-
the compofer of an
once,
oratorio,
performed
ftyle,
fett
is
was
in
as to
be above
alfo, at
comprehenfion
cc
<c
of leffons
the
Whereas there
of
air
and harmony
is
the per-
" former
fC
of their effect."
!
Bravo,
Scarlatti
braviffimo,
Cogand
his
lioniiTimo Dottore
pared
to
you
for
in
though
a
great
to
original -mailer,
fenfible Preface
of perfect
fifths
N-
si
N Z E
operator
great
N;
has, by employment
his
A
thofe
German,
mailers
an
who
inflructions,
furnifhed
for
who have
We
name,
if it
CATLEY, MISS.
(Omitted
in
her
alphabetical place)
An
ago
Englilh woman,
years
firft
fhe diftinguifhed
female
attire.
Her
fine,
of wonderful
in diametrical
oppofition to
all
FINIS.
.*+*