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Simon McVeigh, Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxi + 300 pp. ISBN 0 521 41353 2.

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Simon McVeigh, Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxi + 300 pp. ISBN 0 521 41353 2.

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Christina Bashford
Christina Bashford*
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Oxford Brookes University
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Journal of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 121 , Issue 2 , 1996 , pp. 252 - 258
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