John Gunn: Musician Scholar in Enlightenment Britain Kennaway George
John Gunn: Musician Scholar in Enlightenment Britain Kennaway George The Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) is unique among British writers on music in the late eighteenth and…
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John Gunn: Musician Scholar in Enlightenment Britain Kennaway George
The Scottish cellist and antiquarian John Gunn (1766-1824) is unique among British writers on music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. His published output was large and diverse: a cello treatise in two quite different editions; two books on the flute and one on the piano; a treatise on figured bass; a history of the harp in the Highlands; and a translation of a French work of music theory. Learned and practical, at home in classical and modern languages, knowledgeable in a wide range of musical topics and with even wider-ranging interests, and committed to the ideal of progress through rational thought, he typified the Enlightenment.
He married Anne Young, a well-known Edinburgh piano teacher, and his letters cast new light on the circumstances and date of The list of his unrealised publications is even longer, including a proof of the oriental origins of the Scots.
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