Harmony in an uproar: a letter to F-d-k H-d-l, Esq; M-r of the O-a-H-e in the Hay-Market, from Hurlothrumbo Johnson, Esq; composer extraordinary to all the theatres in G-t-B-t-n, excepting that of the Hay-Market. In which the rights and merits of both O-s are properly consider'd

People / Organizations

• Samuel Johnson (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for R. Smith, in the Strand, 1733 [i.e. 1734].

Added name

Johnson, Samuel, 1691-1773, attributed name.; Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735, attributed name.

Publication year

1734

ESTC No.

T166589

Grub Street ID

204797

Description

23 [i.e. 27], [1] p. ; 4°.

Note

Page 27 misnumbered 23

Variously attributed to Samuel Johnson, author of Hurlothrumbo, or John Arbuthnot, in some of whose collected works this is reprinted

F-d-k H-d-l = Frederick Handel

Below imprint in square brackets: Price one shilling

Though dated on the title page 1733, and at the end "From my apartment in Moorfields-Palace [i.e. the asylum at Bedlam, or Bethlehem Hospital], Feb. 12, 1733", the work was advertised as just published in February 1734, and deals with a performance in late December 1733. See James Wierzbicki, "'Execrable music' for an 'Exquisitely bad' play", Musical quarterly 99 (fall-winter 2016), 386-432, at p. 414, and notes 111-113.