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Thomas Linley the younger

Thomas Linley the younger Radio

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  • Genre: Classical / Classical Opera and Vocal

    Location UK

    Profile Views: 1483

    Last Login: 11/19/2009

    Member Since 10/19/2009

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    ....I lived during (1756-1778) and was the eldest son of the composer Thomas Linley the elder and his wife Mary Johnson, and was a remarkable singer, violinist and composer in my own right. I became known as "the English Mozart". .. .. I was apprenticed at a young age to Dr. William Boyce, the Master of the King's Musick, after which (between 1768 and 1771) I journeyed to Italy to study violin and composition with Nardini in Florence. The music historian Charles Burney wrote of his travels through Italy in 1770 that: "The 'Tommasino', as I am called, and the little Mozart, are talked of all over Italy, as the most promising geniusses of this age." Mozart and I both aged 14 in 1770 - met and had become warm friends earlier in 1770. On my return to England I performed in the concerts directed by my father in Bath and at the Drury Lane oratorios. I composed violin sonatas and concertos as well as choral works, and provided most of the music for my brother-in-law Richard Brinsley Sheridan's opera The Duenna (1775). My odes included an "Ode on the Spirits of Shakespeare". I assisted my father and our works (mainly madrigals and songs) were published together in two volumes. ....I unfortunately came to my end at age 22 in a boating accident at Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire and am buried at Edenham Parish Church. .. .. ..

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    Georg Fredrich Händel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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  • Horst-dieter

    Thanks forthe add. Have a peaceful time, best wishes and greetings from Germany

    1 year ago
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    YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR CHILDREN

    They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.
    They come through you but not from you,
    And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

    You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
    For they have their own thoughts.
    You may house their bodies but not their souls,
    For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
    which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

    You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
    For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

    Thanks for the friendship. Have a peaceful day my dear friend!
    Gibran

    1 year ago
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