Letters of Dr Charles Burney

This second volume of the letters of Dr Charles Burney follows directly from the first, published in 1991, and contains roughly two hundred letters written between 1785 and 1793. In these years, Burney consolidated his reputation as a musicologist, publishing his account of the Commemoration of Handel (1785) and completing A General History of Music (1789). Continuing to teach, he had a busy sched...