Alcestis [by B.W.Cornish]. |
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Page 233 - Baron ; and he seized his violin from the table, throwing down his letters, and begae playing vigorously, sitting up on his bed, when there was a knock at the door ; and before he had time to answer, it was opened, and Charles entered. ' What, at it already ? this is just as I like to find you, schwarmer : expressing your sensations of last night, I suppose ? Heavens ! what an original — I am dying to hear you play.
Page 272 - ... was given for the first time, the enthusiasm of all Germany drowned the voices of the Italian masters and singers, who exclaimed against the barbarism of the new writing for the voice. Already Gluck was a favourite with the Court, so that the theatre was filling with a gay crowd as our friends take their seats, and Josquin's eyes were roaming among the fashionable boxes to see the arrival of the Lichtenbergs, when a slight applause filled the house, greeting the arrival of the composer, who took...
Page 271 - ... raised him above his conventional contemporaries. Perhaps Gluck had not more genius than the other composers of operas of his time, but why has he survived them ? why does he still delight us when even the giant Handel has ceased to live in his operas ? Where are Hasse's astounding...
Page 272 - ... with the Court, so that the theatre was filling with a gay crowd as our friends take their seats, and Josquin's eyes were roaming among the fashionable boxes to see the arrival of the Lichtenbergs, when a slight applause filled the house, greeting the arrival of the composer, who took his post at the harpsichord. He had missed seeing the great Gluck's face, but the overture began ; he settled himself to listen with an effort — but in another minute Josquin was absorbed . . . .he was drinking...
Page 1 - Die wie ein Meteor verschwindet? Zeig mir die Frucht, die fault, eh man sie bricht, Und Baume, die sich taglich neu begriinen!
Page 272 - Piccinists and Gluckists was carried on; but in 1762, in Vienna, when Orfeo ed Eurydice was given for the first time, the enthusiasm of all Germany drowned the voices of the Italian masters and singers, who exclaimed against the barbarism of the new writing for the voice. Already Gluck was a favourite with the Court, so that the theatre was filling with a gay crowd as our friends take their seats, and Josquin's eyes were roaming among the fashionable boxes to see the arrival of the Lichtenbergs,...
Page 273 - ... unearthly power of sound ! To our musician, the first rush of instruments in the majestic allegro was a spell to break him away from himself, and the strong, fresh overture prepared the hearers for the sublime story of the old Greek. The curtain rose; there was the tomb of Eurydice, dead, spite of her husband's mighty power; shepherds strewed it with leaves and flowers, and Orpheus himself was stretched in despair over the funeral stone, his great lyre fallen from his hands. Now loud swelled...
Page 277 - These were living waters into which he had plunged dry and thirsty, and new possibilities seemed opening to him. An over-mastering emotion and great joy seized him, and he kept his face averted from Charles, for he felt that his eyes were welling over with strange tears. The audience were now worked up to enthusiasm, and there yet remained the great song, the chef-d'ceuvre of Gluck, 'Che faro senza Euridice.
Page 288 - They take their harps from the willows, and cry like the ancients, "our soul is escaped, as a bird from the snare of the fowler; the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Page 245 - His cousin had been greatly excited beforehand, for the tiny virtuoso had had a success at Court ; but Josquin had not shared his expectation. But as the child played some compositions of his own, he was reminded of his own childhood of promise in Paris, and found himself listening with filling eyes. The little player, he felt prophetically assured, had a great future before him, and he longed to embrace him, and rejoiced to think that he, too, had known as a child something of that intuition which...