Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART, Daines 1727/ Barrington / Miscellanies 1781

Description: Miscellanies Author: [MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791]. Barrington, Daines 1727/28-1800 Title: Miscellanies Publication: London: J. Nichols, 1781 Description: Quarto. Newly bound in quarter mid-brown calf with marbled boards, titling and rules gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), iii-iv, [ii], iii-viii, 278, 1f. (recto blank, verso engraved portrait of Mozart), [279]-342, 2ff. (half-title, engraved portrait of Sir John Wynne Baronet by W. Sharp)-472, 471*-477*, [i] (blank), 473-540 + pp. 533-540 repeated, 547-557, [i] (directions for placing the plates and corrections) pp. + 9 plates (2 portraits, 2 maps with one folding, 5 tables with one is folding). With a pencilled note to p. 547 stating that pp. 541-546 omitted from pagination, but text and register are continuous. Pp. 279-288 contains Barrington's "Account of a very remarkable young musician (the 7 year old Mozart) In a Letter to Mathew Maty ... re-printed from the LXth volume of the Philosophical Transactions, for the year 1770."Leaf facing the first page of the account of Mozart (p. 281) with fine engraving in an oval frame by T. Cook of Mozart playing the keyboard at age 7 entitled "Theoph: W: Mozart Compositeur, et Maitre de Musique agé de 7 ans" with 3 lines of text in Greek from Homer's Hymn on Mercury from the Odyssey below the image. Image size 75 x 67 mm; size to platemark 161 x 129 mm. The present engraving is after the engraving by Delafosse of Wolfgang, Leopold, and Nannerl making music together. Bory, p. 62. Deutsch, p. 297, 5.Pp. 289-310 contain accounts of Charles and Samuel Wesley; pp. 311-325 contain an account of William Crotch, and pp. 317-325 an account of the Earl of Mornington, all of whom were, like Mozart, musical prodigies.Other articles of interest include:- Tracts on the Possibility of reaching the North Pole- Whether the Turkey was known before the Discovery of America- On the rein-deer- On the bat, or reremouse- On the sudden decay of several trees in St. James's Park- On the periodical appearing and disappearing of certain birds at different times of the year- On the torpidity of the swallow tribe when they disappear- On the prevailing notions with regard to the cuckow- On the Linnaean system- Particulars of an agreement between the King of Spain and the Royal; Society, for an exchange of natural curiosities- Of the deluge in the Time of Noah- History of the Gwedir Family- Letter, intended for Dodsley's Museum, on the English and French writers- Dialogue on the ancient tragedies, written at Oxford in 1746- Ohthere's voyage, and the geography of the ninth century illustrated- Journal of a Spanish Voyage in 1775, to explore the Western Coast of N. America by Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle. An early account of the first Spanish voyage into Alaskan waters accompanied by an interesting full-page engraved map of the west coast of North America extending from approximately latitude 20 degrees north (the coast just below what is now known as the Sea of Cortez) up to 60 degrees north (today's the southern Yukon Territory). Place names in Spanish. The first and only contemporary account in English of the first Spanish voyage into Alaskan waters.A little minor foxing; lower outer blank corner of pp. 191/192 torn away.A very fresh and attractive copy. First Edition in this form. Sabin: Dictionary of Books Relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time, 3628. Library of Congress: Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1043. ESTC T39448. An English lawyer and writer on music, "Barrington’s writings on music are remarkable for their observations on two relatively new topics: child music prodigies and animal communication. The former contains valuable firsthand accounts of five ‘infant’ musicians (Mozart, Charles and Samuel Wesley, William Crotch and Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington), and the latter includes an article on birdsong that was cited by Charles Darwin some hundred years later." Jamie C. Kassler in Grove Music Online"No one in London seems to have paid any attention to the nature of [Mozart's] genius until June, when the Honourable Daines Barrington ... attempted to investigate it. ... Having heard Wolfgang play at some public concerts, he then visited the family in their lodgings at 20 Thrift (now Frith) Street, Soho. Barrington tested the child's powers in various ways. He put before him the score of a duet with string accompaniment and asked him to play it at the keyboard and sing the upper part, Leopold taking the lower. He also suggested to the boy emotive ideas such as 'Love Song' and 'Song of Rage' which induced him to extemporise, at the harpsichord, two short recitatives and 'arias'. Wolfgang also modulated at a keyboard covered by a cloth, and wrote a bass to a previously unseen treble. Barrington wrote a long, fascinating account of his investigation, but - rather oddly - did nothing with it for nearly four years. In 1769 he addressed a report, according to the convention of the day, in the form of a letter to Dr. Mathew Maty, one of the two secretaries of the Royal Society. (The report was read on 15 February 1770, and published in 1771 in the Philosophical Transaction, the Society's journal.)" Hyatt King: A Mozart Legacy. Aspects of the British Library Collections, p. 15. A very early account of the young Mozart. 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