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Charles Burney

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Charles Burney 1726-1814, English music historian, composer, and organist. His General History of Music (1776-89; 2d ed. 1935) was one of the first important music histories in English. He wrote The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771) and The Present State of Music in Germany (1773). They were published together as Dr. Burney's Musical Tours in Europe (1959). The work describes European society, life, and customs as well as music and important musicians. His daughter, Fanny Burney , compiled his memoirs (1832). Bibliography: See biographies by P. A. Scholes... Read more

Burney, Charles
Burney, Charles ( b Shrewsbury, 1726; d London...novelists Fanny and Sarah Harriet Burney, of the writer on South Sea exploration, Rear-Admiral James Burney (one of Cook's officers in...circumnavigation), and of the Gr. scholar, Charles Burney, jun. Read more

Burney, Charles
Burney, Charles (1726–1814). Musical...composer, and organist, Burney was educated in his birthplace...whom he met Handel . In 1746 Burney was introduced to Fulke Greville...Oxford doctorate in 1769. Burney travelled widely in Europe... Read more

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	SUSANNA, THE CAPTAIN & THE CASTRATO: SCENES FROM THE BURNEY SALON, 1779-80 ; ...SUSANNA, THE CAPTAIN & THE CASTRATO: SCENES FROM THE BURNEY SALON, 1779-80 by Linda Kelly Starhaven, 42 Frognal, London NW3 6AG, 9, pp. 139, ISBN 0936315210 Susanna Burney was the younger sister of the more famous Fanny (one of...unpublished) tell us less about the personalities in the Burney circle ... Read more
	The epistolary passions of sympathy: feeling letters in Persuasion and Burney's The Wanderer.(AGM 2005: Milwaukee) ; ...Modern criticism has explored the significant influence of Burney's fiction on Austen's own novels as well as her letters...might serve as a consistently ambivalent interest for Burney's novels, critics conventionally have assumed that it...enlivens Austen's work in contrast to that of her beloved ... Read more
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