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The present state of music in France and Italy: or, The journal of a tour through those countries, undertaken to collect materials for a general history of music

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This is a reproduction of a classic text optimised for kindle devices. We have endeavoured to create this version as close to the original artefact as possible. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we believe they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

434 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1771

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Charles Burney

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Charles Burney FRS 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.

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June 3, 2024
Disfruté muchísimo esta lectura.

En su viaje encontró personalidades legendarias del S. XVIII desde Voltaire a Rousseau a Farinelli y los Mozart (el padre con con el joven Wolfgang).

En cada ciudad conoció a los mas importantes músicos vivos de Italia y Francia y pudo ver los más grandes tesoros de cada ciudad desde tener acceso a la biblioteca Vaticana hasta las escuelas de música más importantes de Venecia y Nápoles. Es interesantísimo conocer cómo era el estado de las cosas en esa época y las grandes colecciones de arte y los teatros y las vicisitudes de viajar en esas épocas.

Conocí muchísimos compositores y nueva música gracias a este libro y creo ahora poder diferenciar la música del estilo italiano de la época del Rococo previo a la revolución francesa.

Burney, un crítico durísimo, con un gran sentido del humor, daría lo que fuera por ser un viajero como el. Ahora tengo que leer su viaje por Alemania y Holanda.

Pd: esta edición en español es excelente, calidad de notas y ni que decir de la impresión.
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May 15, 2023
Mostly skipped around this. It's a fascinating work, but this Kindle edition seems to have been scanned from an old book and converted quite badly to OCR. Useful if you only want certain parts, but difficult to read through.
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July 5, 2016
I read the 1771 edition at the British Library, so can't comment on this particular edition.
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