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[Most Votes] Dibdin, Charles. (1745-1814). The Parachute, SIGNED. . London: Printed and Sold by the Author. [1802]. First edition. Unbound folio. 3 pp. For voice and piano, with an additional arrangement for two flutes. Engraved throughout. Signed at the foot of the first page by the prominent English composer, dramatist, impresario and singer.
The song was sung by Dibdin himself in the context of "Most Votes," one of his "table entertainments" written and composed by him and first performed on the 9th of October, 1802.
"He gave his ‘Table Entertainments’ (generally a mixture of narration and singing by a single person seated behind a table and facing an audience, but their title apparently had little significance in Dibdin's case) from January 1789 until the middle of 1805 when he retired, having been promised a pension; when the pension was cut off he returned to his table entertainments for a few more disconsolate seasons. He had started them in the King Street auction rooms, Covent Garden, to an audience of not much more than a dozen, but they soon became popular, and on 31 October 1791 he proudly opened a tiny theatre off the Strand, the Sans Souci, specially built to his own requirements." (Grove Online)
The song was sung by Dibdin himself in the context of "Most Votes," one of his "table entertainments" written and composed by him and first performed on the 9th of October, 1802.
"He gave his ‘Table Entertainments’ (generally a mixture of narration and singing by a single person seated behind a table and facing an audience, but their title apparently had little significance in Dibdin's case) from January 1789 until the middle of 1805 when he retired, having been promised a pension; when the pension was cut off he returned to his table entertainments for a few more disconsolate seasons. He had started them in the King Street auction rooms, Covent Garden, to an audience of not much more than a dozen, but they soon became popular, and on 31 October 1791 he proudly opened a tiny theatre off the Strand, the Sans Souci, specially built to his own requirements." (Grove Online)
[Most Votes] Dibdin, Charles. (1745-1814). The Parachute, SIGNED. . London: Printed and Sold by the Author. [1802]. First edition. Unbound folio. 3 pp. For voice and piano, with an additional arrangement for two flutes. Engraved throughout. Signed at the foot of the first page by the prominent English composer, dramatist, impresario and singer.
The song was sung by Dibdin himself in the context of "Most Votes," one of his "table entertainments" written and composed by him and first performed on the 9th of October, 1802.
"He gave his ‘Table Entertainments’ (generally a mixture of narration and singing by a single person seated behind a table and facing an audience, but their title apparently had little significance in Dibdin's case) from January 1789 until the middle of 1805 when he retired, having been promised a pension; when the pension was cut off he returned to his table entertainments for a few more disconsolate seasons. He had started them in the King Street auction rooms, Covent Garden, to an audience of not much more than a dozen, but they soon became popular, and on 31 October 1791 he proudly opened a tiny theatre off the Strand, the Sans Souci, specially built to his own requirements." (Grove Online)
The song was sung by Dibdin himself in the context of "Most Votes," one of his "table entertainments" written and composed by him and first performed on the 9th of October, 1802.
"He gave his ‘Table Entertainments’ (generally a mixture of narration and singing by a single person seated behind a table and facing an audience, but their title apparently had little significance in Dibdin's case) from January 1789 until the middle of 1805 when he retired, having been promised a pension; when the pension was cut off he returned to his table entertainments for a few more disconsolate seasons. He had started them in the King Street auction rooms, Covent Garden, to an audience of not much more than a dozen, but they soon became popular, and on 31 October 1791 he proudly opened a tiny theatre off the Strand, the Sans Souci, specially built to his own requirements." (Grove Online)