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Title: Saint Cecilia's Hall in the Niddry Wynd: a chapter in the history of the music of the past in Edinburgh. (With plates, including portraits, and plans.)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, David Fraser
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Publisher: Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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eur members of the chorus. As amateur musicians we shall be probably quitesafe in including Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore,and that Earl of Hopetoun who was the patron ofTenducci; but whether these noblemen ever played aninstrument in St. Cecilias Hall we have no evidence.Lord Drummore seems to have been held in highesteem by the Musical Society of which he was theGovernor, for on his death in 1755, the Society, saysGrant, performed a grand concert in honour of hismemory, when the numerous company were all dressedin the deepest mourning. The announcement for thisis in the Caledo7iian Mercury of June 24th, 1755 :—The Directors of the Musical Society have appointeda Funeral Concert in Marys Chapel on Friday the 27thinstant, on the death of the Honourable Lord Drum-more, their Governor. No member can have morethan two ladies Tickets. N.B.—The general meetingof the Society is adjourned till Wednesday the 2nd ofJuly at 3 P.M. We make further reference to thisFuneral Concert at page 206.
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THOMAS ALEXANDER ERSKINE, SIXTH EARL OF KELLY. (From an E^igraving by R. Blyth, after Hovie^ The Players and the Singers 157 Thomas Alexander Erskine, sixth Earl of Kelly,was born ist September 1732, and died at Brussels9th October 1781, in the fifty-first year of his age.Lord Kelly was an enthusiastic musician, of whomDr. Burney wrote that he was possessed of moremusical science than any man he had ever known.His mother was Janet Pitcairn, a daughter of thewell-known wit, poet, and physician. Dr. ArchibaldPitcairn, and from her he probably inherited hisartistic bias. His musical taste was early developed,so that, as soon as he could, he went over to Manheimto study composition and violin-playing under theelder Stamitz, which he did to so much purpose thaton his return to Scotland he was accounted the mostproficient theoretical musician and instrumentalist ofhis time. He composed with astonishing rapidity, andpreferably for wind instruments, but was quite carelessabout collecting and

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