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1827 – Meeting Samuel Wesley
In the summer of 1827, back in England, Sir George took me to Norwich to take part in the fashionable Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Festival. He had been…
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1825 – My bizarre encounter with Beethoven
My new association with Sir George Smart, and his playing of me, profoundly resonated with the pervasive and new ‘Romantic’ way of thinking sweeping across Europe in the…
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Moving on after 1815 – Changing Hands
I was played very little during the next few years – left in my velvet-lined case and feeling distinctly redundant! Lady Priscilla was heavily engaged in social parties,…
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A Variation – Beethoven’s God/Faith/Spirituality
I was profoundly affected by the sight and the sounds of the deaf composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, struggling through that evening at the grand Congress concert in the…
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1814 -1815 – Beethoven & the Congress of Vienna
Enter Ludwig van Beethoven, the monumental musician of the age. My remarkable encounter with him came about after Lord & Lady Burghersch had travelled from Berlin to the…
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A Dangerous Journey to Germany
Late in 1813, Lord Burghersh was appointed Commissioner (‘Military Attache’) to the headquarters of the Austrian Army in Berlin, where the ‘allied sovereigns’ (the Emperors of Russia and…
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