In conjunction with the Museum’s recent acquisition of a pastel by Anna Tonelli, this free lecture and concert will offer a glimpse into women’s participation in both art and music-making in late eighteenth-century England. The program will feature repertoire composed or favored by women of the time, performed on the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards’ 1799 London Broadwood fortepiano and a Clementi Square piano from the Sigal Music Museum in Greenville, South Carolina. The event will also be live streamed (the webinar link will be posted here).
Cosponsored by the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.
Image: Anna Tonelli (Italian, ca. 1763–1846), Portrait of Amelia and Harriet Harding-Newman of Nelmes, Essex, at their Music Lesson (detail), ca. 1800. Pastel on paper. Newly acquired through the Joseph Martino, Jr., Class of 1953, Fund.