 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1825 - 464 pages
...details of Joseph's private life ; a sketch of which the reader might not be displeased to peruse. 1 He .came almost every night to the opera, accompanied...morning, winter and summer, at five o'clock, wrote in his cancellina (study) until nine, then took a cup of chocolate, and transacted business with his ministers... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 468 pages
...details of Joseph's private life ; a sketch of which the reader might not be displeased to peruse. ' He came almost every night to the opera, accompanied...morning, winter and summer, at five o'clock, wrote in his cancellina (study) until nine, then took a cup of chocolate, and transacted business with his ministers... | |
 | Michael Kelly - 1826 - 394 pages
...footmen, having long poles, with knobs of silver at their ends. The Hungarian Prince Dietfessteen, the Grand Master of the Horse, was always the first...morning, winter and summer, at five o'clock, wrote in his cancellina (study) until nine, then took a cup of chocolate, and transacted business with his ministers... | |
 | Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1911 - 1306 pages
...display will provide an opportunity for the early beginning of the Spring wardrobe. many things, says he was "passionately fond of music and a most excellent and accurate judge of it." But we know that he did not like the music of Mozart. Joseph commanded from his composer Mozart no... | |
 | Detroit Symphony Orchestra - 1921 - 480 pages
...patronized the English who introduced horse-racing, and Michael Kelly, who tells us many things, says he was 'passionately fond of music and a most excellent and accurate judge of it.' But we know that he did not like the music of Mozart." Vienna was dance-crazy, and Joseph ordered dance-music,... | |
 | Charles Burney - Europe - 1927 - 304 pages
...1765. - Erected in 1702 and rebuilt in 1767. •Joseph II (1741-1790). Michael Kelly says: "He (Joseph) was passionately fond of music, and a most excellent and accurate judge of it." 4 Maximilian (1756-1801) subsequently became Elector of Cologne. - Marianne was the eldest daughter... | |
 | John A. Rice - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 688 pages
...Italian like a Tuscan, and was affable and condescending. He came almost every night to the opera. ... He was passionately fond of music, and a most excellent and accurate judge of it."5 Joseph was hardly a perfect manager. Within a few weeks of the debut of the company that he had... | |
 | Boston Symphony Orchestra - Concert programs - 1916 - 836 pages
...patronized the English who introduced horse-racing; and Michael Kelly, who tells us many things, says he was "passionately fond of music and a most excellent and accurate judge of it." But we know that he did not like the music of Mozart. Joseph commanded from his composer Mozart no... | |
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Tuscan, and was affable and condescending. He came almost every night to the opera, accompanied by his nephew, Francis, then a youth. He usually entered his box at the beginning of the piece, but if not there at the precise moment, the curtain was to... 