found in other composers, give him a lasting claim on the admiration of the lovers of music. No other composer has united so many glaring defects with such splendid power; and were it not that Meyerbeer strained his ingenuity to tax the resources of the singer in every possible way, not even the mechanical difficulty of producing these operas in a fashion commensurate with their plan would prevent their taking a high place among popular operas.

GOUNOD AND THOMAS.

I.

MOSCHELES, one of the severe classical pianists of the German school, writes as follows in 1861 in a letter to a friend: "In Gounod I hail a real composer. I have heard his 'Faust' both at Leipsic and Dresden, and am charmed with that refined, piquant music. Critics may rave if they like against the mutilation of Goethe's masterpiece; the opera is sure to attract, for it is a fresh, interesting work, with a copious flow of melody and lovely instrumentation."

Henry Chorley in his "Thirty Years' Musical Recollections," writing of the year 1851, says: "To a few hearers, since then grown into a European public, neither the warmest welcome nor the most bleak indifference could alter the con

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even the mechanical difficulty of prodec'ng Sonoras in a fashion commensurate with their pon would prevent their taking a high pliec ang popular operas.

MosCIPLES, one of the severe classical pianist. of the German school, writes as follows in 1861 in a letter to a friend: "In Gounod I hai! 1 real coraposer. I have heard his Faust' both a‘ Leipsic and Dresden, and am charmed with that refined, piquent music. Critics may rave if they like against the utilation of Goode's masterpiece; the opera is sure to attract, for it is a freh. interesting work, with a capions flow of meloi and lovely instrumentation."

Henry Cheriey in his Thirty Yous' Y. Recollection, writing of the year 1851, e "To a few hearers, rince then grown into a Fro bean pupie, ither the warmest welcome no. the most blak indiffer-nce could alter the