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

Charles Burney wrote that Arne introduced " a light, airy, original, and pleasing melody, wholly different from that of Purcell or Handel, whom all English composers had either pillaged or imitated ".

* Charles Burney, English musician and music historian

* April 12 – Charles Burney, English music historian ( born 1726 )

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

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.

Handel's own experience of Gluck pleased that composer less: Charles Burney reports Handel as saying that " he knows no more of contrapunto, as mein cook, Waltz ".

Jennens commented that the Sinfony contains " passages far unworthy of Handel, but much more unworthy of the Messiah "; Handel's early biographer Charles Burney merely found it " dry and uninteresting ".

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 ).

Of " Per questo dolce amplesso ", Charles Burney reports: " Senesino had the part of a furious tyrant, and Farinelli that of an unfortunate hero in chains ; but in the course of the first air, the captive so softened the heart of the tyrant, that Senesino, forgetting his stage-character, ran to Farinelli and embraced him in his own.

Music historian Charles Burney, a close friend of the Arne family, indicates that he was Thomas Arne's natural son but there is some speculation among modern scholars that he may have been adopted.

Charles Burney wrote that Michael's father " tried to make him a singer, but he was naturally idle and not very quick.

Elizabeth died on 1 May 1769 while he was in prison and Charles Burney blamed Arne for his wife's early death due to the overwork and stress he had subjected her to.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

Kidd was an intimate friend of Richard Porson and Charles Burney the younger.

Thus he came to sing alongside the great soprano castrato Farinelli, and their meeting on stage ( in the pasticcio Artaserse ) led to a famous incident, reported by the music historian Charles 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.

He was educated under Dr. Charles Burney, his mother's brother-in-law, at Greenwich, and remained there until he was articled in 1804 to his father, whose partner he became in 1811.

* Aluigi, Metastasio's life, ( Assisi, 1783 ), London: Charles Burney, 1796, and others.

Vinci's opere buffe, of which Li zite ' ngalera ( 1722 ) is generally regarded as the best, are full of life and spirit ; his opere serie, of which Didone Abbandonata ( Rome, 1728 ) and Artaserse ( Rome, 1730 ) are the most notable, have an incisive vigour and directness of dramatic expression praised by Charles Burney.

Charles Burney by Joshua Reynolds | Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1781

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