Lady Burghersh. Mozart & Haydn
Die Worte des Erlœsers am Kreuze / Haydn -- Orfeo e Euridice / Haydn -- Don Giovanni / Mozart -- Faniska / Cherubini
Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole (1793-1879) who became Lady Burghersh, later Countess of Westmorland, was a niece of the Duke of Wellington, and as her father, William Welleseley-Pole (later Lord Maryborough and 3rd Earl of Mornington) and his brothers all held high political, military and diplomatic offices, she was from childhood associated with many of the great figures of the day. In 1811, at the age of eighteen, she married John Fane (=Lord Burghersh) one of the future Duke of Wellington's A. D. C.'s, and later 11th Earl of Westmorland and founder of the Royal Academy of Music in 1822. He was a great music lover who devoted most of his leisure hours to the study of music, was a good violinist and a prolific composer.Lord Burghersh served in Florence as Minister to Tuscany between 1814 and 1830, giving lavish entertainments at his residence in the Borgo Pinti, and had six operas of his own performed, whole or in part, at his palazzo by an assorted company of amateurs, mostly English, strengthened by the occasional professional, including at one point the great castrato Giambattista Velluti (he wrote 6 operas: ‘Bajazet,’ ‘Fedra,’ ‘Il Torneo,’ ‘L'Eroe di Lancastro,’ ‘Catarina, ossia L'Assedio di Belgrado,’ ‘Il Ratto de Proserpina,’ and ‘Lo Scompiglio Teatrale.’)https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Fane,_John_(1784-1859)
Keywords: Fane, Priscilla -- Countess of Westmorland -- Lady Burghersh -- 1793-1879