Aspects of this topic are discussed in the following places at Britannica.
...(1771) and The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Provinces… (1773). On his return he devoted every moment he could spare from teaching to his General History of Music, published between 1776 and 1789 in four volumes. Among the many musicians with whom Burney consulted on his trips to the continent were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his...
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