![]() ![]() ![]() Visitors streamed into London, to the theatre, to restaurants, to the opera, and searching for a good time, where it was always to be found. As with all such events, there was just as much demand for entertainment away from Kensington. In 1853, London was overrun with visitors to the Great Exhibition. ![]() Catalani’s musical director, after her tenure at the the Paris Opera, was Franz Clement, better known for premiering the Beethoven concerto, and sharing rooms with him in the ‘Tearter an der Wien. Leigh Hunt called her, ‘a Roman with the regular Italian antelope face’.Ī link to Beethoven. Initially inspired by the new instrumental virtuosi of the post revolutionary generation, she, in turn, was imitated by them two decades later. Paganini writes down one of Catalani’s ‘roulades’ in concert 18th June 1823:Ĭatalani/transcribed Paganini-‘Allegro Moderato’ Ĭlick on Higlighted words to follow LinksĬatalani’s career and notoriety was extraordinarily long. ![]()
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