A history of English sexual morals / by Ivan Bloch ; translated by William H. Forstern.

  • Iwan Bloch
Date:
1936
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Credit: A history of English sexual morals / by Ivan Bloch ; translated by William H. Forstern. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    h hly they are praised, lack all manliness and capacity for a kon, which is after all the basis of dramatic expression1.' [n addition to the Italians, German musicians and com- pters also played a prominent role in England from the end 0 the seventeenth century. Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, V)l0 Saw an opera in London in the year 1710, wrote: ' The C3hestra could not be better constituted. But the musicians J|e foreigners, mainly Germans, for the English are not much l|tter as regards music than the Dutch, that is to say, ither bad.' The most acclaimed German musicians in England were jLndel and Weber, the former of whom lived in England for jrty-nine years, from 1710 till 1759, and is buried in West- minster Abbey. Carl Maria von Weber went to London in hbruary 1826 to attend the first performance of his Oberon, ad died there on the 5th June of the same year. Weber was ivered by the British public as a musical demigod, and his 1 usic was played and sung all over London. In addition to the big opera-houses there were also minor mples of music in the form of music-halls of various sizes, n interesting precursor of the music-hall in the seventeenth nd eighteenth centuries was the popular show-boat on the hames. I The show-boat was a large barque, built in the form of a ouse, which lay in the Thames between Somerset House nd the Savoy. The boat was called the 'Folly'. It con- ained a number of saloons, while the entire deck was used ,s a promenade. The four corners of the deck were decorated vith turrets. This 'comic piece of architecture', as Thomas 3rowne described it, was constructed shortly after the Restoration. The ' Folly' was visited by Pepys on the L3th April 1668, under which date he records in his Diary i 1A Frank Description of the Idlers and Scamps of London (London, 1787), Part I, pp. 98-99. |H [603]