Music in eighteenth-century Britain

Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on MUSIC IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM, 40 BRUNSWICK SQUARE, LONDON, WC1N 1AZ

FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2022

10.00 Registration

10.15 Thomas McGeary (Champaign, IL) — Music and Britons on the Grand Tour

10.45 Michael Cole (Cheltenham) — ‘The First Piano in England’

11.15-11.30 Refreshment break

11.30 Anita Sikora (Bath) — Margherita Durastanti's Roman mothers in London

12.00 Yeo Yat-Soon (London) — First Encounters - Musical Journeys between Europe and Asia from the dawn of the global world

12.30 Performance — First Encounters: programme of performance including music by Sancho, Montéclair, Rameau and Amiot

13.15-14.00 Lunch and Charles Jennens: Patron and Polymath exhibition viewing

14.00 Graham Cummings (Huddersfield) — Hasse’s Siroe in London (1736–37)

14.30 Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson (Brentwood, Essex) — The composer Maria Hester Park and the poet Robert Bloomfield: some musical connections

15.00 Roz Southey (Newcastle) — The Music Trade and Domestic Music-Making : two Sheet Music Collections from late-Georgian North-East England

15.30-16.00 Refreshment break / Reports (from 15.50)

16.00 Alan Howard (Cambridge) — Eccles’s Collection of Songs (1704) and John Walsh’s Publishing Model in the Early Eighteenth Century

16.30 Gesa zur Nieden and Berthold Over (Greifswald) — John Walsh’s Favourite Songs between Local Markets and European Perspectives

17.00 Conference ends

REGISTRATION FEE, including lunch £21 / excluding lunch £15

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