{"id":12410,"date":"2019-08-13T14:48:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/?post_type=kbe_knowledgebase&p=12410"},"modified":"2019-08-13T14:48:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:48:02","slug":"jane-austens-music","status":"publish","type":"kbe_knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/?kbe_knowledgebase=jane-austens-music","title":{"rendered":"Jane Austen’s Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For information on what JA played ,we suggest you try and get hold of a copy of\u00a0The Innocent Diversion<\/em>\u00a0by Patrick Piggott. This is a fascinating book (sadly out of print , but available second hand.) which discusses the type of music JA’s characters would have played (he makes an informed guesses as to exactly what Marianne’s “magnificent concerto” would have been ,for example.) and examines JA’s taste as reflected in her own manuscript music books (now held at the Jane Austen Museum in Chawton).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her music books contain pieces by such composers as Pleyel (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ignaz_Pleyel)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and Clementi (http:\/\/www.carolinaclassical.com\/clementi\/)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

who are still\nknown today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she also liked works by some who are relatively obscure now, but who were the popular composers of her day: men such as William Shield, Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, the famous Linleys of Bath (both father and son),and Frantisek Kotzwara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed,\u00a0The Battle of Prague<\/em>\u00a0composed by Kotwara is the work thought by Patrick Piggott to be Marianne\u2019s \u201cmagnificent concerto.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JA also had a collection of songs by Charles Dibdin , who was a prolific composer of music for the theatre in late 18th century England. You can if you search hard enough you can find CDs of these composer\u2019s works today (Try the Hyperion label as they specialize in somewhat forgotten works and composers. (www.hyperion.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also liked\nIrish and Scottish songs, which were very popular at the beginning of the 19th\ncentury, and some of these can be found in her music collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in reading about what music was performed in Britain during Jand Austen’s lifetime ,then I can highly recommend Concert Life in Eighteenth Centruy Britain<\/a><\/em>\u00a0edited by Susan Wollenberg and Simon McVeigh <\/a>and\u00a0Concert Life in London from Mozart to Hayden<\/a><\/em>, also by Simon McVeigh. These are both scholarly but readable books which will help you discover the type of music that was played at concerts throughout JA\u2019s lifetime both in London and in the provinces..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For information on what JA played ,we suggest you try and get hold of a copy of\u00a0The Innocent Diversion\u00a0by Patrick Piggott. This is a fascinating book (sadly out of print , but available second hand.) which discusses the type of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","kbe_taxonomy":[256,262],"kbe_tags":[393],"class_list":["post-12410","kbe_knowledgebase","type-kbe_knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","kbe_taxonomy-arts-leisure","kbe_taxonomy-jane-austens-life","kbe_tags-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/kbe_knowledgebase\/12410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/kbe_knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/kbe_knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/kbe_knowledgebase\/12410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12411,"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/kbe_knowledgebase\/12410\/revisions\/12411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbe_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkbe_taxonomy&post=12410"},{"taxonomy":"kbe_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pemberley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkbe_tags&post=12410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}