A Musical Tour Recollected in Company—Tracing Burney

As one of the first great music historians, Charles Burney met many of the most famous musical personages of his time, while actively seeking out “old music.” His tours across Europe in the early 1770s culminated in the writing of the four-volume A General History of Music, the first work of its kind in the English language and still an invaluable resource about the tastes and interests of late-eighteenth-century audiences. In this recital, reno...