Anecdotes of Great Musicians: Three Hundred Anecdotes and Biographical Sketches of Famous Composers and PerformersWeekes & Company, 1896 - 301 páginas |
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Outras edições - Ver tudo
Anecdotes of Great Musicians: Three Hundred Anecdotes and Biographical ... W. Francis Gates Visualização integral - 1895 |
Anecdotes of Great Musicians: Three Hundred Anecdotes and Biographical ... Willey Francis Gates Visualização integral - 1905 |
Anecdotes of Great Musicians: Three Hundred Anecdotes and Biographical ... Willey Francis Gates Visualização integral - 1923 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration appearance applause artist asked audience Bach Bach's beautiful Beethoven Berlioz Bülow Buononcini called career celebrated Cherubini chorus church composer composer's composition concert conductor Czerny declared donna Emperor father favorite fiddle Franz Liszt Franz Schubert French frequently gave genius German give given Guarnerius hand Händel Hans von Bülow Haydn hear honor hundred incident instrument Italian king lady Liszt Lulli Madame Malibran manuscript Mapleson matter melody memory Mendelssohn ment Meyerbeer Mozart musical world musicians never night occasion once opera oratorio orchestra Paganini Paris Patti peculiar performance perhaps pianist piano piece play player prima donna Prince pupil replied Rossini royal sang Schubert score sing singer sonata song songstress Sontag Spohr stage story Stradivarius symphony talent teacher tenor theater thing thought tion Titiens told tone took turned Verdi Vienna violin violinist voice Wagner wonderful words writing wrote young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 42 - But that which did please me beyond anything in the whole world was the wind-musick when the angel comes down, which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife ; that neither then, nor all the evening going home, and at home, I was able to think of anything...
Página 294 - Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.' Strange all this difference should be Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Página 12 - Nature. 7. There is not any Musicke of Instruments whatsoever, comparable to that which is made of the voyces of Men, where the voyces are good, and the same well sorted and ordered. 8. The better the voyce is, the meeter it is to honour and serve God there-with: and the voyce of man is chiefely to be imployed to that ende.
Página 264 - I have found it impossible,' said Mozart, ' to keep my word ; the work has interested me more than I expected, and I have extended it beyond my first design. I shall require another month to finish it.
Página 141 - I felt when the whole house broke forth with enthusiastic shouts of applause, and what I thought when, after the curtain fell, I was told that this moment was the most effective and powerful of my whole representation! So, that which I could not attain with every effort of mind and imagination, was produced at this decisive moment by my unaffected terror and anxiety. This result and the effect it had upon the public taught me how to seize and comprehend the incident, so, that which at the first representation...
Página 140 - I studied and studied in vain, though I did all I could to place myself mentally in the situation of Leonora. I had pictured to myself the situation, but I felt that it was incomplete, without knowing why or wherefore. " Well, the evening arrived. The audience knows not with what feelings an artiste who enters seriously into a part, dresses for the representation. The nearer the moment approached, the greater was my alarm. When it did arrive, and...
Página 11 - First it is a knowledge easily taught, and quickly learned where there is a good Master and an apt Scoller. 2. The exercise of singing is delightfull to Nature and good to preserve the health of man. 3. It doth strengthen all parts of the brest, and doth open the pipes.
Página 88 - Mendelssohn seized me firmly by the arm, and whispered ' Hush ! ' He afterwards informed me that a large fly had just then gone buzzing by, and he wanted to hear the sound it produced gradually die away. When the overture was completed, he...
Página 11 - Reasons briefly set down by the auctor, to perswade everyone to learne to sing. First, it is a knowledge easely taught, and quickly learned where there is a good Master, and an apt Scoller. 2. The exercise of singing is delightfull to Nature & good to preserve the health of Man.
Página 12 - ... 2. The exercise of singing is delightful to nature, and good to preserve the health of man. 3. It doth strengthen all parts of the breast, and doth open the pipes. 4. It is a singular good remedy for a stutting and stammering in the speech.