Burney

[ bur-nee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Charles, 1726–1814, English organist, composer, and music historian.
his daughter Frances or Fanny Madame D'Arblay, 1752–1840, English novelist and diarist.

Burney

/ ˈbɜːnɪ /

BurneyCharles17261814MEnglishMUSIC: composerHISTORY: historian Charles . 1726–1814, English composer and music historian, whose books include A General History of Music (1776–89)
BurneyFrances17521840FEnglishWRITING: novelistWRITING: diarist his daughter, Frances . known as Fanny ; married name Madame D'Arblay . 1752–1840, English novelist and diarist: author of Evelina (1778). Her Diaries and Letters (1768–1840) are of historical interest

And Burney says in 1772 that the instrumental performers had been some time previously of the first class.

It's a big class, you know, over two hundred, under Dean Burney.

Miss Burney is quite sensibly frank in her inability to fathom this imbecility.

The secret of this attachment was soon discovered by Fanny Burney, but Johnson at most only suspected it.

Other men bereft of a pleasure might have recourse to other delights, but Burney had only two comforts in life.

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