A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany, Giving Some Account of the Operas of Munich, Dresden, Berlin, &c: With Remarks Upon the Church Music, Singers, Performers, and Composers; and a Sample of the Pleasures and Incoveniences that Await the Lover of Art on a Similar ExcursionHunt and Clarke, 1828 - 286 Seiten |
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Seite 144 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint...
Seite 227 - Sontag has a distinct articulation, and deals in all the minutiae of refinement; but in a sustained cantobile, that sort of movement in which the soul of the singer looks out, she is lamentably deficient. It is the leaven of Catalani's bad style which has deteriorated the taste of the present day, and directly opposes it to a simple and natural mode of expression.
Seite 111 - Lead us on, thou wandering Gleam, Lead us onward far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But see, how swift advance and shift Trees behind trees, row by row, — How, clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go. The giant-snouted crags, ho ! ho ! How they snort, and how they blow...
Seite 227 - Schnee, (The Snow), Mademoiselle Sontag turns the heads of the whole town : in this piece the audience is charmed with every flourish, enraptured with every look, movement, or gesture ; and as to her playfulness, it is seen with ecstasy. The fact is, that Mademoiselle Sontag is not tried at the severe tribunal of the German opera in Berlin, but sings at a theatre where three parts of the people come to see her alone, and among her admirers are certainly not to be reckoned those whose judgment in...
Seite 133 - ... at, and also how certain habits of thinking allow a man in the hastiest composition to defy with safety the sternest and most unrelenting criticism to find a fault, and to which indeed, were it the subject of a lecture, the professor's exordium might be, "This is perfection of its kind.
Seite 38 - ... the Frankfort Theatre, takes his stand with the score before him and his baton of office, and sees that the musicians attend to their parts, though there seems to be little fear that they will be omitted through carelessness and indifference. The musicians in London, particularly the wind-instrument players, often exasperate a composer by omitting the solos which are set down for them, and from the lenience of the leader towards these mistakes, the poor author frequently receives the most unjust...
Seite 147 - felt for his friends, and which all should feel for those who have given them great pleasure. Beethoven resided in one of a row of tall white houses overlooking the city walls, on the road to Wahringe, the prettiest outlet of Vienna. In the cemetery of this quiet little village, in a corner against a low wall, from whence an infinite deal of country may be seen, he reposes, close to the nephew of an English ambassador, who was suddenly killed upon the Prater by falling from his frightened horse....
Seite 111 - Und die Klippen, die sich biicken, Und die langen Felsennasen, Wie sie schnarchen, wie sie blasen!
Seite 186 - ... the cast of his genius, to leap at once into the most extraordinary favour throughout Europe, not only gaining credit for that he had done, but a certain passport for what he might do ; to be invited to foreign countries, wreathed with laurel in concert-rooms, deafened with applause, and made a show of everywhere, is a wonderful concatenation of events in the life of a middle-aged gentleman.
Seite 47 - 71. discharge of this important duly he meets with few struggles, much less an imitation of the classic flight of Arethusa from Alpheus, The road to promotion and court favour in this little state lies in musical skill, for an aide-de-camp of the duke's gave the time to the choruses ; so that with this exalted assistance the capellmeister, M. Mongald, had nearly a sinecure.