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Charles Burney

Charles Burney FRS (7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814) was an English music historian, composer and musician. He was the father of the writers Frances Burney and Sarah Burney, of the explorer James Burney, and of Charles Burney, a classicist and book donor to the British Museum. He was a close friend and supporter of Joseph Haydn.

Charles Burney by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1781

Early life and career

Charles Burney was born at Raven Street, Shrewsbury, the fourth of six children of James Macburney (1678–1749), a musician, dancer and portrait painter, and his second wife Ann (née Cooper, c. 1690–1775). In childhood he and a brother Richard (1723–1792) were for unknown reasons sent to the care of a "Nurse Ball" at nearby Condover, where they lived until 1739. He began formal education at Shrewsbury School in 1737 and was later sent in 1739 to The King's School, Chester, where his father then lived and worked. His first music master was a Mr Baker, the cathedral organist,[1] and a pupil of Dr John Blow. Returning to Shrewsbury at the age of 15, Burney continued his musical studies for three years under his half-brother, James Burney, organist of St Mary's Church, and was then sent to London as a pupil of Dr Thomas Arne for three years.[2]

Burney wrote some music for Thomson's Alfred, which was produced at Drury Lane Theatre on 30 March 1745. In 1749 he was appointed organist of St Dionis Backchurch, Fenchurch Street, with a salary of £30 a year. According to the voting book, he secured the post against six other candidates with votes 50 to 4. He was also engaged to take the harpsichord in the "New Concerts" then recently established at the King's Arms, Cornhill. It was for his health that he went in 1751 to Lynn Regis in Norfolk, where he was elected organist, with an annual salary of £100. He lived there for nine years. During that time he began to entertain the idea of writing a general history of music. His Ode for St Cecilia's Day was performed at Ranelagh Gardens in 1759. In 1760 he returned to London in good health and with a young family. His eldest child, Esther, a girl of eight, surprised the public with her achievements as a harpsichord player. The concertos for harpsichord which Burney published soon after his return to London were much admired. In 1766 he produced, at Drury Lane, a translation and adaptation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's opera Le Devin du village, under the title of The Cunning Man.

Family and social life

In 1749, while working as an organist and harpsichordist in London, Charles married Esther Sleepe (c.1725-1762). The couple had six children: Esther or Hetty, who later became Mrs Burney on marrying her cousin Charles Rousseau Burney,[3] the explorer James Burney, the celebrated writer Frances Burney (often called Fanny), the correspondent Susan (Susy),[4] Charlotte (later Mrs Francis), and Charles Burney, a classicist and school headmaster.

As vividly recorded by Fanny, the family moved in a lively cultural circle in London, which included the portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, the lexicographer Samuel Johnson, the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the composers Harriet Wainwright and Joseph Haydn, the essayist Edmund Burke and the MP for Southwark Henry Thrale, whose wife Hester Thrale was a close friend of Fanny's.

Charles's first wife Esther died in 1761. In 1767 he was married a second time, to Elizabeth Allen (Mrs Stephen Allen) of Lynn. From this union he had a son, Richard Thomas, and a daughter, Sarah Harriet Burney, who became a novelist.

Later career

The University of Oxford honoured Burney, on 23 June 1769, with the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Music, and his own work was performed. This consisted of an anthem, with an overture, solos, recitatives and choruses, accompanied by instruments, besides a vocal anthem in eight parts, which was not performed. In 1769 he published An essay towards a history of the principal comets that have appeared since 1742. Amidst his various professional avocations, Burney never lost sight of his main project, his History of Music. He decided to travel abroad and collect materials that could not be found in Britain. He left London in June 1770, carrying numerous letters of introduction, and travelled to Paris, Geneva, Turin, Milan, Padua, Venice, Bologna (where he met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father), Florence, Rome and Naples. The results of his observations were published in a well-received book, The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771). In July 1772 Burney again visited the continent to do further research, and on his return to London published an account of his tour under the title The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands and United Provinces (1773). In 1773 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1776 appeared the first volume (in quarto) of Burney's long-projected History of Music.[5] In 1782 Burney published his second volume; and in 1789 the third and fourth. The History of Music was generally well received, although criticized by Forkel in Germany and by the Spanish ex-Jesuit, Requeno, who in his Saggj sul Ristabilimento dell' Arte Armonica de' Greci e Romani Canton (Parma, 1798) attacked Burney's account of ancient Greek music and called him lo scompigliato Burney (the confused Burney). The fourth volume covers the birth and development of opera and the musical scene in England in Burney's time.[6] Burney's first tour was translated into German by Christoph Daniel Ebeling, and printed at Hamburg in 1772. His second tour, translated into German by Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, was published at Hamburg in 1773. A Dutch translation of his second tour, with notes by J. W. Lustig, organist at Groningen, was published there in 1786. The Dissertation on the Music of the Ancients, in the first volume of Burney's History, was translated into German by Johann Joachim Eschenburg, and printed at Leipzig, 1781. Burney derived much aid from the first two volumes of Padre Martini's very learned Storia della Musica (Bologna, 1757–1770).

In 1774 he had written A Plan for a Music School. In 1779 he wrote for the Royal Society an account of the young William Crotch, whose remarkable musical talent excited so much attention at that time. In 1784 he published, with an Italian title page, the music annually performed in the Pope's chapel at Rome during Passion Week. In 1785 he published, for the benefit of the Musical Fund, an account of the first commemoration of George Friedrich Handel in Westminster Abbey in the preceding year, with a life of Handel. In 1796 he published Memoirs and Letters of Metastasio.

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A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds's.[7] Left to right: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Pasquale Paoli, Charles Burney, a servant (possibly Francis Barber), Thomas Warton, Oliver Goldsmith. (select a detail of the image for more information)

Towards the close of his life Burney was paid £1000 for contributing to Rees's Cyclopædia all the musical articles not belonging to the department of natural philosophy and mathematics.[8] The latter were written by John Farey, Sr and Jr. Burney's contribution to Rees included much new material which had not appeared in his earlier writings, particularly about the London music scene then.[9] In 1783, through the treasury influence of his friend Edmund Burke, he was appointed organist to the chapel of Chelsea Hospital. He moved there from St Martin's Street, Leicester Square and remained there for the rest of his life. He penned and published a sonnet in honor of Joseph Haydn, who he had been in correspondence with throughout his two trips to London, and his admiration for Handel greatly influenced Haydn's decision to focus on oratorio upon his return to Vienna which would eventually turn into The Creation. In 1810, he was made a member of the Institute of France and nominated a correspondent in the class of the fine arts. From 1806 until his death he enjoyed a pension of £300 granted by Charles James Fox. He died at Chelsea College on 12 April 1814, and was interred in the burial ground of the college. A tablet was erected to his memory in Westminster Abbey.

Burney's library was sold at auction by John White of Westminster beginning on 8 August 1814.[10]

Likenesses and accounts

Burney's portrait was painted by Reynolds in 1781 for Henry Thrale's library. His bust was cut by Nollekens in 1805. He also appears in James Barry's The Thames (also known as Triumph of Navigation), which was painted in 1791 for the Royal Society of Arts. He had a wide circle of acquaintance among the distinguished artists and literary men of his day. At one time he thought of writing a life of his friend Dr Samuel Johnson, but retired before the crowd of biographers who rushed into that field.

Burney's eldest son, James Burney, was a distinguished officer in the Royal Navy, who died a rear-admiral in 1821, having accompanied Captain Cook on his last two voyages. His second son was the Rev. Charles Burney, a major donor of books to the British Museum, and his second daughter was Frances or Fanny, the novelist, later Madame D'Arblay. Her published diary and letters contain many minute and interesting particulars of her father's public and private life, and of his friends and contemporaries, including his initial opposition to her marriage to the French refugee Alexandre D'Arblay in 1793 and to her sister Charlotte's remarriage to the pamphleteer and stock jobber Ralph Broome in 1798.[11] A life of Burney was compiled by Madame D'Arblay and appeared in 1832, but it has been criticized consistently for being eulogistic.[12] His daughter by his second marriage, Sarah Burney, was likewise a novelist. Her letters provide interesting, less adulatory information about her father. Although Sarah looked after him in his old age, their personal relations remained poor.[13]

Cultural references

Dr Johnson drew inspiration from The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771), according to later writers: "Dr. Burney published an account of his tour... which was extremely well received, and deemed by the best judges so good a model for travellers who were inclined to give a description of what they had seen or observed, that Dr. Johnson professedly imitated it in his own Tour of the Hebrides, saying, 'I had that clever dog Burney's Musical Tour in my eye.'"[14]

Burney appears in a story by Lillian de la Torre (Lillian Bueno McCue, 1902–1993), a US writer of historical mysteries, entitled "The Viotti Stradivarius", part of her series featuring Samuel Johnson as a "detector" (detective). The story features a fictitious meeting between Burney, his daughter Fanny, Giovanni Battista Viotti and his Stradivarius, and Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov, along with Johnson and James Boswell, in connection with the theft and recovery of the Orlov diamond.[15]

Compositions

  1. The Cunning Man, an adaptation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's opera Le Devin du village (1766–67)
  2. Six Sonatas for the harpsichord (1761)
  3. Two Sonatas for the harpsichord or piano, with accompaniments for violin and violoncello; 2 sets (1769 and 1772)
  4. Sonatas for two violins and a bass, op. 4 (1759)
  5. Six Lessons for the harpsichord
  6. Six Duets for two German flutes
  7. Three Concertos for the harpsichord
  8. Six Cornet Pieces with an introduction and fugue for the organ
  9. Six Concertos for the violin, etc., in eight parts, op. 5 (c. 1760)
  10. Two Sonatas for pianoforte, violin and violoncello
  11. Four Sonatas or Duets for two Performers on One Piano Forte or Harpsichord (1777)
  12. Anthems, etc.
  13. 6 Songs composed for the Temple of Apollo, book 1, op. 2 (c. 1750)
  14. I will love thee, O Lord my strength (Psalm xviii), solo, chorus, orchestra, DMus exercise (1769)
  15. XII. Canzonetti a due voci in Canone, poesia deli' Abate Metastasio (c. 1790)
  16. Preludes, Fugues, and Interludes; for the Organ. Alphabetically arranged in all the keys that are most perfectly in tune upon that Instrument & printed in a Pocket size for the convenience of Young Organists, for whose use this book is particularly calculated & Published by Chas. Burney, Mus:D.

See also

References

  1. ^ ODNB entry for Burney [1].
  2. ^ A detailed family tree of the Burney family from the late 17th to the late 19th century appears in The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay). Vol. I. Edited by Joyce Hemlow et al. (Oxford: OUP, 1972), opp. p. lxix.
  3. ^ P. H. Highfill, K. A. Burnim and E. A. Langhans, A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800, 12 vols (Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville 1973), II: Belfort to Byzand, pp. 427–28 (Google).
  4. ^ Olleson, Philip (6 October 2016). "Phillips [née Burney], Susanna Elizabeth [Susan] (1755–1800), letter writer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/109741. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 24 July 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ Frank Mercer produced a modern edition of Burney's History in 1935 (reprinted 1957). This is the edition most scholars now use.
  6. ^ Burney, Charles (31 October 2010). A General History of Music. ISBN 9781108016421.
  7. ^ 'A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, D. George Thompson, published by Owen Bailey, after James William Edmund Doyle, published 1 October 1851
  8. ^ "The Rees's Cyclopaedia texts and plates". Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  9. ^ Scholes, Percy A. (1948). The Great Dr Burney. pp. Vol 2, pp 184–201.
  10. ^ Catalogue of the Music Library of Charles Burney, sold in London, 8 August 1814, edited by A. Hyatt King. Auction catalogues of music 2 (Amsterdam: Frits Knuf, 1973). ISBN 9789060272619.
  11. ^ The Journals and Letters..., Vol. IV, West Humble 1797–1801, pp. 116–25 ff.
  12. ^ "It is an account distorted by frequent inaccuracy and by Fanny's attempt, surely prompted by an over-zealous sense of duty, to paint her father in the best possible light. Almost from the moment of publication, the Memoirs of Doctor Burney was dismissed as a factual account, notably by John Wilson Croker in the Quarterly Review of 1833 (pp. 97–125)." John Wagstaff's ODNB entry for Charles Burney. Another review appeared in The Harmonicon (London: Longman etc., 1832), Vol. 10, p. 216.
  13. ^ Lorna J. Clark, ed.: The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press). ISBN 0-8203-1746-2.
  14. ^ W Pinnock (1832). "Memoir of Dr Burney". The Harmonicon.
  15. ^ Lambert, Bruce (19 September 1993). "Lillian de la Torre, 91, an Author of Mysteries From British History". The New York Times.

  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Burney, Charles". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Chronological list of sources

Many of the following refer to Burney's music articles in Rees's Cyclopaedia, (1802–1819).

  • P. A. Scholes, The Puritans and Early Music in England and New England, OUP, 1934. Makes occasional references to Burney's articles in Rees.
  • P. A. Scholes, The Oxford Companion to Music, 1938 (and later eds), makes frequent citations from Burney's Rees articles and includes some illustrations from the work.
  • P. A. Scholes, "A New Enquiry into the Life and Work of Dr Burney", Proceedings of the Musical Association 67th Session, 1940–1941, pp. 1–30. pp. 24–25 has a section entitled "Burney an Encyclopaedist".
  • P. A. Scholes, The Great Dr Burney, 1948, Vol. 2, pp. 184–201, Chapter LVIII, "Virtues and vagaries of a septuagenarian encyclopædist" References to and quotes from Burney's articles in Rees
  • P. A. Scholes, Dr Burney's Musical Tours in Europe, 2 vols, OUP, 1959. References to and quotes from Burney's articles in Rees
  • C. B. Oldman, "Dr Burney and Mozart", Mozart Jahrbuch 1962/63. (1964), pp. 73–81, includes extracts from Burney's Rees articles about Mozart.
  • Roger Lonsdale, Dr Charles Burney: a Literary Biography, OUP 1965, pp. 407–431, Chapter X, "Burney and Rees's Cyclopædia"
  • Roger Lonsdale, "Dr Burney's 'Dictionary of Music", Musicology Australia, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 159–171, 1979. Account of Burney's Rees articles with criticism of Scholes's discussion of them
  • Jamie Croy Kassler, The Science of Music in Britain: A Catalogue of writings, Lectures and Inventions, 2 vols, Garland, 1979. Both Burney and Farey Sr appear often in the Index. Rees's Cyclopaedia and music are discussed on pp. 1200–1204.
  • Kerry S. Grant, Dr Burney as Critic and Historian of Music. UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1983. Frequent references to and some quotes from Burney's articles in Rees
  • Slava Klima, Gary Bowers and Kerry S. Grant, Memoirs of Dr Charles Burney, 1726–1769, University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln and London, 1988. Frequent references to and quotes from Burney's articles in Rees
  • A. P. Woolrich, Dr Burney and Rees's Cyclopaedia, Burney Letter, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 1–2 and 10–11. Discusses Burney's music contribution to Cyclopaedia. Burney Letter published by the Burney Society. ISSN 1703-9835.
  • A. P. Woolrich, "Consolidated edition of the Music Biographies from Rees's Cyclopaedia, (1802–1819)", Burney Letter, Vol. 23, No. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 6–7. Edited version of fuller introduction to biographies
  • A. P. Woolrich, The General music articles in Rees's Cyclopaedia by Dr Charles Burney, John Farey, Sr. & John Farey, Jr., Burney Letter, Vol. 25, No. 2, Spring. 2019. pp. 1, 6–7 and 12
  • A. P. Woolrich, Dr Charles Burney and Hymn Tunes, Burney Letter, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring. 2021. p. 5

Own publications

  • An Essay towards a History of Comets that have appeared since the year 1742..., London, 1769
  • The Present State of Music in France and Italy..., London, London, 1771
  • The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Provinces..., London, 1773
  • Modern editions:
    • Dr Burney's Continental Travels, 1770–1772, ed. C. H. Glover, 1927
    • Dr Burney's Musical Tours in Europe, ed. P. A. Scholes, Oxford, 2 vols, 1959
    • Music, Men, And Manners in France and Italy, 1770, ed., from the original manuscript by H. Edmund Poole, London, 1969
  • A General History of Music, London, Vol. 1, 1776; Vol. 2, 1782; Vols 3/4, 1789
  • Modern edition:
    • A General History of Music... by Charles Burney, ed. Frank Mercer, 2 vols, London, 1935, reprint New York, 1957
  • Account of an Infant Musician [William Crotch] London, 1779
  • Account of Mademoiselle Theresa Paradis, of Vienna... London, 1785
  • An account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey... In Commemoration of Handel, London, 1785
  • Numerous book reviews in the Monthly Review, London, 1785–1802 [1]
  • Verses on the Arrival in England of the Great Musician Haydn, London, 1791
  • Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio... London, 3 vols, 1796
  • Hymn for the Emperor. Composed by Doctor Haydn, translated by Burney, London, 1799
  • Numerous musical articles for Rees's Cyclopaedia c. 1801–1808, published 1802–1819. These may be found online at the Burney Centre: https://www.mcgill.ca/burneycentre/resources/online-texts (scroll down).

Burney's papers

After his death in 1814, Burney's daughter Frances destroyed many manuscripts, including his journals, and obliterated passages in others.[2] Surviving papers are widely scattered: in the Osborn Collection at Yale University, the Berg Collection at New York Public Library, the British Library and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and in smaller public and private collections. (See Roger Lonsdale, Dr Charles Burney, a Literary Biography, Oxford 1965 pp 495–497.) The Burney Centre at McGill University, Toronto, Canada, has long been publishing the papers of the Burney family, including those of Charles and his daughter, Francis (Fanny Burney).

The Letters of Dr Charles Burney (1751–1814) General Editor: Peter Sabor

A scholarly edition of the Letters of Dr Charles Burney is being published in six volumes by Oxford University Press:

  • Vol 1 1751–1784 edited by Alvaro Ribeiro, SJ, ISBN 0-19-812687-5
  • Vol 2 1785–1793 (forthcoming) edited by Lorna Clark
  • Vol 3 1794–1800 (forthcoming) edited by Stewart Cooke
  • Vol 4 1801–1806 (forthcoming) edited by Stewart Cooke
  • Vol 5 1807–1809 (forthcoming) edited by Nancy Johnson
  • Vol 5 1810–1814 (forthcoming) edited by Peter Sabor

External links

  • Burney Centre at McGill University
  1. ^ Roger Lonsdale, "Dr Burney and the Monthly Review", Review of English Studies, xiv (1963), pp. 346–348 and xv. (1964), pp. 27–37.
  2. ^ Introduction to Salva Klima, Garry Bowers & Kerry S. Grant, Memoirs of Dr Charles Burney, 1726–1869, University of Nebraska Press, 1988.

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For other people named Charles Burney see Charles Burney disambiguation Charles Burney FRS 7 April 1726 12 April 1814 was an English music historian composer and musician He was the father of the writers Frances Burney and Sarah Burney of the explorer James Burney and of Charles Burney a classicist and book donor to the British Museum He was a close friend and supporter of Joseph Haydn Charles Burney by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1781 Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Family and social life 3 Later career 4 Likenesses and accounts 5 Cultural references 6 Compositions 7 See also 8 References 8 1 Chronological list of sources 8 2 Own publications 8 3 Burney s papers 9 External linksEarly life and career EditCharles Burney was born at Raven Street Shrewsbury the fourth of six children of James Macburney 1678 1749 a musician dancer and portrait painter and his second wife Ann nee Cooper c 1690 1775 In childhood he and a brother Richard 1723 1792 were for unknown reasons sent to the care of a Nurse Ball at nearby Condover where they lived until 1739 He began formal education at Shrewsbury School in 1737 and was later sent in 1739 to The King s School Chester where his father then lived and worked His first music master was a Mr Baker the cathedral organist 1 and a pupil of Dr John Blow Returning to Shrewsbury at the age of 15 Burney continued his musical studies for three years under his half brother James Burney organist of St Mary s Church and was then sent to London as a pupil of Dr Thomas Arne for three years 2 Burney wrote some music for Thomson s Alfred which was produced at Drury Lane Theatre on 30 March 1745 In 1749 he was appointed organist of St Dionis Backchurch Fenchurch Street with a salary of 30 a year According to the voting book he secured the post against six other candidates with votes 50 to 4 He was also engaged to take the harpsichord in the New Concerts then recently established at the King s Arms Cornhill It was for his health that he went in 1751 to Lynn Regis in Norfolk where he was elected organist with an annual salary of 100 He lived there for nine years During that time he began to entertain the idea of writing a general history of music His Ode for St Cecilia s Day was performed at Ranelagh Gardens in 1759 In 1760 he returned to London in good health and with a young family His eldest child Esther a girl of eight surprised the public with her achievements as a harpsichord player The concertos for harpsichord which Burney published soon after his return to London were much admired In 1766 he produced at Drury Lane a translation and adaptation of Jean Jacques Rousseau s opera Le Devin du village under the title of The Cunning Man Family and social life EditIn 1749 while working as an organist and harpsichordist in London Charles married Esther Sleepe c 1725 1762 The couple had six children Esther or Hetty who later became Mrs Burney on marrying her cousin Charles Rousseau Burney 3 the explorer James Burney the celebrated writer Frances Burney often called Fanny the correspondent Susan Susy 4 Charlotte later Mrs Francis and Charles Burney a classicist and school headmaster As vividly recorded by Fanny the family moved in a lively cultural circle in London which included the portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds the lexicographer Samuel Johnson the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan the composers Harriet Wainwright and Joseph Haydn the essayist Edmund Burke and the MP for Southwark Henry Thrale whose wife Hester Thrale was a close friend of Fanny s Charles s first wife Esther died in 1761 In 1767 he was married a second time to Elizabeth Allen Mrs Stephen Allen of Lynn From this union he had a son Richard Thomas and a daughter Sarah Harriet Burney who became a novelist Later career EditThe University of Oxford honoured Burney on 23 June 1769 with the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Music and his own work was performed This consisted of an anthem with an overture solos recitatives and choruses accompanied by instruments besides a vocal anthem in eight parts which was not performed In 1769 he published An essay towards a history of the principal comets that have appeared since 1742 Amidst his various professional avocations Burney never lost sight of his main project his History of Music He decided to travel abroad and collect materials that could not be found in Britain He left London in June 1770 carrying numerous letters of introduction and travelled to Paris Geneva Turin Milan Padua Venice Bologna where he met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father Florence Rome and Naples The results of his observations were published in a well received book The Present State of Music in France and Italy 1771 In July 1772 Burney again visited the continent to do further research and on his return to London published an account of his tour under the title The Present State of Music in Germany the Netherlands and United Provinces 1773 In 1773 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society In 1776 appeared the first volume in quarto of Burney s long projected History of Music 5 In 1782 Burney published his second volume and in 1789 the third and fourth The History of Music was generally well received although criticized by Forkel in Germany and by the Spanish ex Jesuit Requeno who in his Saggj sul Ristabilimento dell Arte Armonica de Greci e Romani Canton Parma 1798 attacked Burney s account of ancient Greek music and called him lo scompigliato Burney the confused Burney The fourth volume covers the birth and development of opera and the musical scene in England in Burney s time 6 Burney s first tour was translated into German by Christoph Daniel Ebeling and printed at Hamburg in 1772 His second tour translated into German by Johann Joachim Christoph Bode was published at Hamburg in 1773 A Dutch translation of his second tour with notes by J W Lustig organist at Groningen was published there in 1786 The Dissertation on the Music of the Ancients in the first volume of Burney s History was translated into German by Johann Joachim Eschenburg and printed at Leipzig 1781 Burney derived much aid from the first two volumes of Padre Martini s very learned Storia della Musica Bologna 1757 1770 In 1774 he had written A Plan for a Music School In 1779 he wrote for the Royal Society an account of the young William Crotch whose remarkable musical talent excited so much attention at that time In 1784 he published with an Italian title page the music annually performed in the Pope s chapel at Rome during Passion Week In 1785 he published for the benefit of the Musical Fund an account of the first commemoration of George Friedrich Handel in Westminster Abbey in the preceding year with a life of Handel In 1796 he published Memoirs and Letters of Metastasio A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds s 7 Left to right James Boswell Samuel Johnson Joshua Reynolds David Garrick Edmund Burke Pasquale Paoli Charles Burney a servant possibly Francis Barber Thomas Warton Oliver Goldsmith select a detail of the image for more information Towards the close of his life Burney was paid 1000 for contributing to Rees s Cyclopaedia all the musical articles not belonging to the department of natural philosophy and mathematics 8 The latter were written by John Farey Sr and Jr Burney s contribution to Rees included much new material which had not appeared in his earlier writings particularly about the London music scene then 9 In 1783 through the treasury influence of his friend Edmund Burke he was appointed organist to the chapel of Chelsea Hospital He moved there from St Martin s Street Leicester Square and remained there for the rest of his life He penned and published a sonnet in honor of Joseph Haydn who he had been in correspondence with throughout his two trips to London and his admiration for Handel greatly influenced Haydn s decision to focus on oratorio upon his return to Vienna which would eventually turn into The Creation In 1810 he was made a member of the Institute of France and nominated a correspondent in the class of the fine arts From 1806 until his death he enjoyed a pension of 300 granted by Charles James Fox He died at Chelsea College on 12 April 1814 and was interred in the burial ground of the college A tablet was erected to his memory in Westminster Abbey Burney s library was sold at auction by John White of Westminster beginning on 8 August 1814 10 Likenesses and accounts EditBurney s portrait was painted by Reynolds in 1781 for Henry Thrale s library His bust was cut by Nollekens in 1805 He also appears in James Barry s The Thames also known as Triumph of Navigation which was painted in 1791 for the Royal Society of Arts He had a wide circle of acquaintance among the distinguished artists and literary men of his day At one time he thought of writing a life of his friend Dr Samuel Johnson but retired before the crowd of biographers who rushed into that field Burney s eldest son James Burney was a distinguished officer in the Royal Navy who died a rear admiral in 1821 having accompanied Captain Cook on his last two voyages His second son was the Rev Charles Burney a major donor of books to the British Museum and his second daughter was Frances or Fanny the novelist later Madame D Arblay Her published diary and letters contain many minute and interesting particulars of her father s public and private life and of his friends and contemporaries including his initial opposition to her marriage to the French refugee Alexandre D Arblay in 1793 and to her sister Charlotte s remarriage to the pamphleteer and stock jobber Ralph Broome in 1798 11 A life of Burney was compiled by Madame D Arblay and appeared in 1832 but it has been criticized consistently for being eulogistic 12 His daughter by his second marriage Sarah Burney was likewise a novelist Her letters provide interesting less adulatory information about her father Although Sarah looked after him in his old age their personal relations remained poor 13 Cultural references EditDr Johnson drew inspiration from The Present State of Music in France and Italy 1771 according to later writers Dr Burney published an account of his tour which was extremely well received and deemed by the best judges so good a model for travellers who were inclined to give a description of what they had seen or observed that Dr Johnson professedly imitated it in his own Tour of the Hebrides saying I had that clever dog Burney s Musical Tour in my eye 14 Burney appears in a story by Lillian de la Torre Lillian Bueno McCue 1902 1993 a US writer of historical mysteries entitled The Viotti Stradivarius part of her series featuring Samuel Johnson as a detector detective The story features a fictitious meeting between Burney his daughter Fanny Giovanni Battista Viotti and his Stradivarius and Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov along with Johnson and James Boswell in connection with the theft and recovery of the Orlov diamond 15 Compositions EditThe Cunning Man an adaptation of Jean Jacques Rousseau s opera Le Devin du village 1766 67 Six Sonatas for the harpsichord 1761 Two Sonatas for the harpsichord or piano with accompaniments for violin and violoncello 2 sets 1769 and 1772 Sonatas for two violins and a bass op 4 1759 Six Lessons for the harpsichord Six Duets for two German flutes Three Concertos for the harpsichord Six Cornet Pieces with an introduction and fugue for the organ Six Concertos for the violin etc in eight parts op 5 c 1760 Two Sonatas for pianoforte violin and violoncello Four Sonatas or Duets for two Performers on One Piano Forte or Harpsichord 1777 Anthems etc 6 Songs composed for the Temple of Apollo book 1 op 2 c 1750 I will love thee O Lord my strength Psalm xviii solo chorus orchestra DMus exercise 1769 XII Canzonetti a due voci in Canone poesia deli Abate Metastasio c 1790 Preludes Fugues and Interludes for the Organ Alphabetically arranged in all the keys that are most perfectly in tune upon that Instrument amp printed in a Pocket size for the convenience of Young Organists for whose use this book is particularly calculated amp Published by Chas Burney Mus D See also EditGott erhalte Franz den Kaiser a verse translation by BurneyReferences Edit ODNB entry for Burney 1 A detailed family tree of the Burney family from the late 17th to the late 19th century appears in The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney Madame D Arblay Vol I Edited by Joyce Hemlow et al Oxford OUP 1972 opp p lxix P H Highfill K A Burnim and E A Langhans A Biographical Dictionary of Actors Actresses Musicians Dancers Managers and other Stage Personnel in London 1660 1800 12 vols Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville 1973 II Belfort to Byzand pp 427 28 Google Olleson Philip 6 October 2016 Phillips nee Burney Susanna Elizabeth Susan 1755 1800 letter writer Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 ref odnb 109741 ISBN 978 0 19 861412 8 Retrieved 24 July 2022 Subscription or UK public library membership required Frank Mercer produced a modern edition of Burney s History in 1935 reprinted 1957 This is the edition most scholars now use Burney Charles 31 October 2010 A General History of Music ISBN 9781108016421 A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds s D George Thompson published by Owen Bailey after James William Edmund Doyle published 1 October 1851 The Rees s Cyclopaedia texts and plates Retrieved 12 July 2020 Scholes Percy A 1948 The Great Dr Burney pp Vol 2 pp 184 201 Catalogue of the Music Library of Charles Burney sold in London 8 August 1814 edited by A Hyatt King Auction catalogues of music 2 Amsterdam Frits Knuf 1973 ISBN 9789060272619 The Journals and Letters Vol IV West Humble 1797 1801 pp 116 25 ff It is an account distorted by frequent inaccuracy and by Fanny s attempt surely prompted by an over zealous sense of duty to paint her father in the best possible light Almost from the moment of publication the Memoirs of Doctor Burney was dismissed as a factual account notably by John Wilson Croker in the Quarterly Review of 1833 pp 97 125 John Wagstaff s ODNB entry for Charles Burney Another review appeared in The Harmonicon London Longman etc 1832 Vol 10 p 216 Lorna J Clark ed The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney Athens Georgia University of Georgia Press ISBN 0 8203 1746 2 W Pinnock 1832 Memoir of Dr Burney The Harmonicon Lambert Bruce 19 September 1993 Lillian de la Torre 91 an Author of Mysteries From British History The New York Times This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Chisholm Hugh ed 1911 Burney Charles Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed Cambridge University Press Chronological list of sources Edit Many of the following refer to Burney s music articles in Rees s Cyclopaedia 1802 1819 P A Scholes The Puritans and Early Music in England and New England OUP 1934 Makes occasional references to Burney s articles in Rees P A Scholes The Oxford Companion to Music 1938 and later eds makes frequent citations from Burney s Rees articles and includes some illustrations from the work P A Scholes A New Enquiry into the Life and Work of Dr Burney Proceedings of the Musical Association 67th Session 1940 1941 pp 1 30 pp 24 25 has a section entitled Burney an Encyclopaedist P A Scholes The Great Dr Burney 1948 Vol 2 pp 184 201 Chapter LVIII Virtues and vagaries of a septuagenarian encyclopaedist References to and quotes from Burney s articles in Rees P A Scholes Dr Burney s Musical Tours in Europe 2 vols OUP 1959 References to and quotes from Burney s articles in Rees C B Oldman Dr Burney and Mozart Mozart Jahrbuch 1962 63 1964 pp 73 81 includes extracts from Burney s Rees articles about Mozart Roger Lonsdale Dr Charles Burney a Literary Biography OUP 1965 pp 407 431 Chapter X Burney and Rees s Cyclopaedia Roger Lonsdale Dr Burney s Dictionary of Music Musicology Australia Vol 5 No 1 pp 159 171 1979 Account of Burney s Rees articles with criticism of Scholes s discussion of them Jamie Croy Kassler The Science of Music in Britain A Catalogue of writings Lectures and Inventions 2 vols Garland 1979 Both Burney and Farey Sr appear often in the Index Rees s Cyclopaedia and music are discussed on pp 1200 1204 Kerry S Grant Dr Burney as Critic and Historian of Music UMI Research Press Ann Arbor Michigan 1983 Frequent references to and some quotes from Burney s articles in Rees Slava Klima Gary Bowers and Kerry S Grant Memoirs of Dr Charles Burney 1726 1769 University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London 1988 Frequent references to and quotes from Burney s articles in Rees A P Woolrich Dr Burney and Rees s Cyclopaedia Burney Letter Vol 23 No 1 Spring 2017 pp 1 2 and 10 11 Discusses Burney s music contribution to Cyclopaedia Burney Letter published by the Burney Society ISSN 1703 9835 A P Woolrich Consolidated edition of the Music Biographies from Rees s Cyclopaedia 1802 1819 Burney Letter Vol 23 No 2 Fall 2017 pp 6 7 Edited version of fuller introduction to biographies A P Woolrich The General music articles in Rees s Cyclopaedia by Dr Charles Burney John Farey Sr amp John Farey Jr Burney Letter Vol 25 No 2 Spring 2019 pp 1 6 7 and 12 A P Woolrich Dr Charles Burney and Hymn Tunes Burney Letter Vol 27 No 1 Spring 2021 p 5Own publications Edit An Essay towards a History of Comets that have appeared since the year 1742 London 1769 The Present State of Music in France and Italy London London 1771 The Present State of Music in Germany the Netherlands and the United Provinces London 1773 Modern editions Dr Burney s Continental Travels 1770 1772 ed C H Glover 1927 Dr Burney s Musical Tours in Europe ed P A Scholes Oxford 2 vols 1959 Music Men And Manners in France and Italy 1770 ed from the original manuscript by H Edmund Poole London 1969 A General History of Music London Vol 1 1776 Vol 2 1782 Vols 3 4 1789 Modern edition A General History of Music by Charles Burney ed Frank Mercer 2 vols London 1935 reprint New York 1957 Account of an Infant Musician William Crotch London 1779 Account of Mademoiselle Theresa Paradis of Vienna London 1785 An account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey In Commemoration of Handel London 1785 Numerous book reviews in the Monthly Review London 1785 1802 1 Verses on the Arrival in England of the Great Musician Haydn London 1791 Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio London 3 vols 1796 Hymn for the Emperor Composed by Doctor Haydn translated by Burney London 1799 Numerous musical articles for Rees s Cyclopaedia c 1801 1808 published 1802 1819 These may be found online at the Burney Centre https www mcgill ca burneycentre resources online texts scroll down Burney s papers Edit After his death in 1814 Burney s daughter Frances destroyed many manuscripts including his journals and obliterated passages in others 2 Surviving papers are widely scattered in the Osborn Collection at Yale University the Berg Collection at New York Public Library the British Library and the Bodleian Library Oxford and in smaller public and private collections See Roger Lonsdale Dr Charles Burney a Literary Biography Oxford 1965 pp 495 497 The Burney Centre at McGill University Toronto Canada has long been publishing the papers of the Burney family including those of Charles and his daughter Francis Fanny Burney The Letters of Dr Charles Burney 1751 1814 General Editor Peter SaborA scholarly edition of the Letters of Dr Charles Burney is being published in six volumes by Oxford University Press Vol 1 1751 1784 edited by Alvaro Ribeiro SJ ISBN 0 19 812687 5 Vol 2 1785 1793 forthcoming edited by Lorna Clark Vol 3 1794 1800 forthcoming edited by Stewart Cooke Vol 4 1801 1806 forthcoming edited by Stewart Cooke Vol 5 1807 1809 forthcoming edited by Nancy Johnson Vol 5 1810 1814 forthcoming edited by Peter SaborExternal links EditBurney Centre at McGill University Wikiquote has quotations related to Charles Burney Wikisource has original works by or about Charles Burney Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charles Burney Works by or about Charles Burney at Internet Archive Works by Charles Burney at LibriVox public domain audiobooks Hester Thrale s account of Charles Burney Archival material relating to Charles Burney UK National Archives Charles Burney at the National Portrait Gallery London Free scores by Charles Burney at the International Music Score Library Project IMSLP Free Books by Charles Burney IMSLP Roger Lonsdale Dr Burney and the Monthly Review Review of English Studies xiv 1963 pp 346 348 and xv 1964 pp 27 37 Introduction to Salva Klima Garry Bowers amp Kerry S Grant Memoirs of Dr Charles Burney 1726 1869 University of Nebraska Press 1988 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Charles Burney amp oldid 1134222517, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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