Music -- 18th century.

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              Letter from Charles Burney, 26 March 1808
              CA RBD MS Burney-0071 · Item · 26 March 1808
              Part of Burney family manuscripts collection

              Consists of autograph letter from Charles Burney to Lady Banks, dated 26 March 1808 and written from Chelsea College. The letter is written in brown ink and has remains of wax seal. The letter contains in particular lengthy discussion of the Italian Ariettes of Vincenzo Righini, printed in English in 1791 and muses upon how they managed to arrive in England, their merits, and the poetry of Dryden, Gray, and Pope. Also mentions the music of an "Italianized German of the name of Pfeiffer."

               Burney, Charles, 1726-1814