1784—London, England

At the Handel Festival, Charles Burney comments on “tuneful blasts of trumpets and sacbuts in the Dead March” from Saul (Burney Westminster 33). He also speaks of the augmentation of the orchestra with trombones in Saul: “Indeed, the powerful manner in which this subject was delivered, singly, by the other parts, as well as the ingenuity of the accompaniment, and united force of the whole band, augmented throughout by the tromboni, when every voice and every instrument was employed, must have astonished, by the novelty of the effects, not only the unlearned lovers of Music, but the most scientific and experienced Musicians present” (Burney, Westminster 104).