Anglo-Italian Connections: Haydn, Bianchi, Banti, the Hamiltons (and some others)

[...]they had met previously, in Naples: one of Emma's early letters from Naples to Charles Greville, her lover before William Hamilton, records that Banti had been present and even sung at a dinner party at the Hamitons' home. [...]the acquisition and refitting of Merton Place, a house in...

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Published inHaydn Society of Great Britain no. 36; pp. 2 - 10
Main Author Burton-Page, Piers
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Aldcliffe Haydn Society 01.01.2017
Subjects
19th century
Collaboration
Commissioned works
Composers
Musicians & conductors
Nelson, Horatio (1758-1805)
Opera
Singers
Theater
United Kingdom > UK
England
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Summary:[...]they had met previously, in Naples: one of Emma's early letters from Naples to Charles Greville, her lover before William Hamilton, records that Banti had been present and even sung at a dinner party at the Hamitons' home. [...]the acquisition and refitting of Merton Place, a house in what were then rural surroundings, but what is now the suburban South London sprawl. Suggestions of suicide, repeated from one reference source to another, and most likely deriving from the use of the word 'suddenly' in his obituary notice in the Gentleman's Magazine, remain obstinately unproven and unprovable. [...]by the turn of the first decade of the 19th century, the Anglo-Italian connections around Joseph Haydn had begun rapidly to dissolve. Since retirement, he has continued to write and talk on musical and occasionally on literáty subjects, and was Chair of his local orchestra in Petersfield (Hants.) for seven years.