Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-9q27g Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-19T18:20:12.336Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
This chapter is part of a book that is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core

Chapter 6 - Mister Liszt in London, 1827

from LISZT AND ENGLAND

Get access

Summary

SYNOPSIS

Probably the most remarkable aspect of Liszt's public music-making during his time in London in 1827 was the significantly high number of chamber performances he is known to have engaged in with over a score of instrumentalists and within a period of twenty-six days. Of the twelve 1827 London concerts that Liszt is known to have taken part, nine or more included performances of chamber works by him. This fact becomes clear when one considers that three of the twelve concerts were entitled “Séance Musicale,” chamber music events, when Liszt would surely have played on at least one occasion with violinists Anthony Oury and Charles de Beriot, violists John Moralt and Samuel Lyon, ‘cellist “Mons Poignie,” and harpist Théodore Labarre.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

8 April Liszt and his father arrive in London.

19 May Liszt performs at a Philharmonic Society concert rehearsal at the New Argyll Rooms.

21 May First “Séance Musicale” at the address of violinist, Antonio James Oury, 15 Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, commencing at 3 p.m.

21 May Liszt's Philharmonic Society Concert.

25 May Liszt performs at Nicholas Mori's New Argyll Room Concert. Performed were a set of “New Grand Concertante Variations for Voice, Violin, Pianoforte and Guitar” performed by “Miss Stephens, Mr. Mori, Master Liszt and Mr. Huerta.”

28 May Second “Séance Musicale” at 15 Wigmore Street, commencing at 3 p.m.

2 June Liszt and Mori perform a duo at the Royal Society of Musicians Grand Festival at the New Argyll Rooms.

2 June Liszt plays at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.

4 June Third “Séance Musicale” at 15 Wigmore Street, commencing at 2.30 p.m.

5 June Liszt and Minasi perform a duo at Braham's “Benefit” at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

8 June (a.m.) Liszt performs at Nicholas Bochsa's New Argyll Room Benefit concert.

8 June (p.m.) Liszt performs at Catherine Stephens's Benefit Concert at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

[?9 June] Liszt distributes tickets at the Edward Théleur Dancing Academy, 46 Great Marlborough Street, for all wishing to attend his New Argyll Room Benefit Concert on 9 June.

9 June Liszt's Argyll Room Benefit Concert.

14 June Liszt visits Charles Kensington Salaman at 19 Charing Cross.

14 June Liszt performs at a New Musical Fund Festival Dinner.

14 June Liszt performs at Trinidad Huerta's Argyll Room Benefit Concert.

Type
Chapter
Information
Liszt and England
, pp. 83 - 98
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2016

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×