" According to Burney, her singing of this aria " fixed her reputation as an expressive and pathetic singer ", and her success was such that the price of half-guinea opera tickets reportedly shot up to four guineas.

Though 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 ), attacks Burney's account of ancient Greek music, and calls him lo scompigliato Burney, the History of Music was generally well received.

Charles Burney, Junior FRS, DD ( born at Lynn Regis, Norfolk December 4, 1757, died at Deptford, then in Kent, on December 28, 1817 ) was an English classical scholar, schoolmaster and clergyman.

* Charles Fox Burney, English biblical scholar

* Charles Burney FRS, music scholar

In October he was too ill to take the President's chair and in November Fanny Burney recorded that " I had long languished to see that kindly zealous friend, but his ill health had intimidated me from making the attempt ": " He had a bandage over one eye, and the other shaded with a green half-bonnet.

The Burney Relief is an unusual elaborate and relatively large ( 20 x 15 inches ) terracotta plaque of a naked winged goddess with the feet of a bird of prey, and attendant owls and lions.

In 1826, therefore, Siam concluded its first commercial treaty with a western power, the Treaty of Amity and Commerce ( Siam – UK ) ( also called the Burney Treaty ).

Venetia Burney ( later Venetia Phair ), who as an eleven-year-old schoolgirl had suggested the name Pluto for the planet, remarked in 2006: “ The name had nothing to do with the Disney cartoon.

Even as war seemed imminent he was working on military projects with his former Vickers boss Sir Dennistoun Burney.

Burney is located on State Route 299, about 4 miles west of its junction with State Route 89.

Burney has several areas for fly fishing, with wild brown and native rainbow trout in many nearby rivers and streams, including Burney Creek.

Farinelli surpassed the trumpet player so much in technique and ornamentation that he " was at last silenced only by the acclamations of the audience " ( to quote the music historian Charles Burney – this account cannot be verified one way or the other, since no surviving work which Farinelli is known to have performed contains an aria for soprano with trumpet obbligato ).

Burney described it thus: " The first note he sung was taken with such delicacy, swelled by minute degrees to such an amazing volume, and afterwards diminished in the same manner to a mere point, that it was applauded for full five minutes.

Under the guidance of Maurice Greene, composer and organist at St. Paul's Cathedral, he studied " with great diligence, and a success that was astonishing " ( Burney ).

In 1774 Dr Charles Burney and a Signor Giardini made an unsuccessful attempt to form in connection with the hospital a public music school, in imitation of the Pio Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, Italy.

The plot also shows some parallels with an earlier murder mystery story by the English novelist Sarah Burney The Hermitage ( 1839 ): the return of a childhood companion, the sexual symbolism of defloration implied in the crime, and almost catatonic reactions of the heroine to it, for instance but The Moonstone introduces in novel form, as opposed to Poe's short story form, a number of elements that were to become classic attributes of the twentieth-century detective story:

There was not a little scandal about her relations with Narbonne ; and this Mickleham sojourn ( the details of which are known from, among other sources, the letters of Fanny Burney ) has never been altogether satisfactorily accounted for.

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.

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.

Charles Burney wrote of her singing that " by a natural pathos, and perfect conception of the words, she often penetrated the heart, when others, with infinitely greater voice and skill, could only reach the ear.

Due to her husband's financial status, she was able to enter London society, as a result of which she met Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Bishop Thomas Percy, Oliver Goldsmith and other literary figures, including the young Fanny Burney, whom she took with her to Gay Street, Bath.

Fanny Burney eulogized her, going so far as to make a comparison with Germaine de Staël.

Burney demonstrated the technique with a recoilless 4-gauge shotgun.

Eighteenth century authors such as Colley Cibber, Frances Burney, and William Congreve, to name but a few, prefaced the majority of their poetic work with such apologies.

Most notably, they develop the British radical-democratic models of Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Holcroft and combine these with elements of German " Schauer-romantik " gothic from Friedrich Schiller, the enlightened sentimental fictions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Laurence Sterne, women's domestic novels by writers such as Fanny Burney or Hannah Webster Foster, and other genres such as captivity narrative.

At first they hit him with their sticks but he knocked them about till at last they were quiet & Burney very generously gave them the choice of being expelled or forgiven ; above 40 were forgiven and 2 expelled.

A new board of directors was then appointed and Derek Burney Jr., announced that the product line would be split into several brands — DeepWhite, ProCreate, and Corel.

His son Derek Burney Jr. was the president of Corel Corporation for several years and now works for Microsoft.

The complete list of his publications, E. H. Gombrich: A Bibliography, was published by Joseph Burney Trapp in 2000.

The name " Pluto " was reportedly suggested by Venetia Burney, then an 11-year-old English school girl, who died in April 2009, having lived to see the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.

Charles Burney expounded c. 1789, in A General History of Music: " The name, according to Bochart, who derives it from the Phoenician, implies a songstress.

Furthermore, the 1826 Burney Treaty ( formal name, Treaty of Amity and Commerce ( Siam – UK ) made Siam appear to be weak.

Burney commented on Galuppi's prodigious workload that in addition to his duties at St Mark's and the Incurabili, " he has a hundred sequins a year as domestic organist to the family of Gritti, and is organist of another church, of which I have forgotten the name ".

* Queen of the Night Relief, formerly known as the Burney Relief, a Mesopotamian terracotta plaque in the British Museum, who adopted the new name in 2003

Venetia Phair, née Burney ( 11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009 ) was the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the ( then ) planet ( now classified as a dwarf planet ) discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930.

A few months before Turner's death in 1930, the Lowell Observatory announced the discovery of a new minor planet, and an eleven-year-old Oxford schoolgirl, Venetia Burney, proposed the name Pluto for it to her grandfather Falconer Madan, who was retired from the Bodleian Library, Madan passed the name to Turner, who cabled it to colleagues at the Lowell Observatory in the United States.

Under the administration of Dr. Samuel Burney Hay ( 1948 – 1965 ), the school sought to expand into a senior liberal arts institution and in 1948 the name was officially changed to Stillman College.

* Burney Cars, the better-known name of Streamline Cars Ltd

Holman was born in St Pancras, London, England in 1871, the son of William Holman, an actor, his mother was also on the stage under the name of May Burney.

* 1726 – Charles Burney, English historian ( d. 1814 )

In 1771 Mozart's copy was procured and published in England by the famous traveler and music historian Dr. Burney.

Nathaniel Burney, 2007.

* 1752 – Fanny Burney, English novelist ( d. 1840 )

Never quite losing his Devonshire accent, he was not only an amiable and original conversationalist but a friendly and generous host, so that Fanny Burney recorded in her diary that he had " a suavity of disposition that set everybody at their ease in his society ", and William Makepeace Thackeray believed " of all the polite men of that age, Joshua Reynolds was the finest gentleman.

* 1918 – Venetia Burney, English girl who named of the dwarf planet Pluto ( d. 2009 )

However, National Rail continues to use BR's famous double-arrow symbol, designed by Gerald Burney of the Design Research Unit.

In 1825 the British sent another mission to Bangkok led by East India Company emissary Henry Burney.

* June 13 – Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist ( d. 1840 )

* April 12 – Charles Burney, English music historian ( d. 1814 )

* Burney, D. A., L. P. Burney, L. R.