Charles Burney

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born April 7, 1726, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Eng. died April 12, 1814, Chelsea, Middlesex British music historian. After being apprenticed to Thomas Arne, he taught music and played the organ. In 1770 he set off on European travels, undertaken to research his seminal General History of Music, 4 vol. (1776-89). His accounts of the many famous musicians and others he met, including Christoph Willibald Gluck and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, provide an entertaining and invaluable account of 18th-century European musical life and of intellectual life in general. The novelist Fanny Burney was his daughter
Charles Burney

    Hyphenation

    Charles Bur·ney

    Turkish pronunciation

    çärlz bırni

    Pronunciation

    /ˈʧärlz ˈbərnē/ /ˈʧɑːrlz ˈbɜrniː/
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