Thomas Britton
Thomas Britton (born January 14, 1644 in Rushden , Northamptonshire , † September 27, 1714 in London ) was an English charcoal dealer, concert organizer and hobby musician.
Life
Britton himself played the recorder and viola da gamba . He also composed smaller pieces for alto flute . He became better known, however, through the chamber music concerts held at his home in Clerkenwell . Britton expanded the attic of his house in 1678, installed a harpsichord and a small organ . For the inauguration, the royalist publicist Roger L'Estrange gave a concert on the viola da gamba. At the weekly concerts u. a. Johann Christoph Pepusch , Matthew Dubourg , John Banister , Philip Hart and Abiell Whichelo (1683–1747), possibly also Georg Friedrich Händel .
literature
- FGE: Thomas Britton. The Musical Small-Coal Man. (1654? -1714) . in The Musical Times, Vol. 47, No. 762 (Aug. 1, 1906), pp. 529-534
- Arno Löffler: Thomas Britton, the "Musical Smallcoal-Man", Paragon of Englishness . In: Erfurt Electronic Studies in English 1999
Web links
- Works by and about Thomas Britton in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Britton, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English coal merchant and hobby musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1644 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rushden , Northamptonshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1714 |
| Place of death | London |