Anecdotes of Great Musicians: Three Hundred Anecdotes and Biographical Sketches of Famous Composers and PerformersT. Presser, 1895 - 309 páginas |
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Anecdotes of Great Musicians: Three Hundred Anecdotes and Biographical ... W. Francis Gates Visualização integral - 1895 |
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Anecdotes of Great Musicians: Three Hundred Anecdotes and Biographical ... Willey Francis Gates Visualização integral - 1905 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration appearance applause artist asked audience Bach Bach's beautiful Beethoven Berlioz Bülow called career celebrated Cherubini chorus church composer composer's composition concert conductor critic Czerny declared donna Emperor English Farinelli father favorite fiddle Franz Liszt Franz Schubert gave genius German give Guarnerius hand Händel Hans von Bülow Haydn hear incident instrument Italian Jenny Lind king Lablache lady Liszt Lulli Madame Malibran manager manuscript Mapleson matter melody memory Mendelssohn ment Meyerbeer Mozart musical world musicians night occasion once opera oratorio orchestra overture Paganini Paris Patti peculiar performance perhaps pianist piano piece play player prima donna Prince pupil rehearsal remark replied Rossini royal Schubert sing singer sonata song songstress Sontag Spohr stage story 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 - Orator. 6. It is the onely way to know where Nature hath bestowed the benefit of a good voyce: which guift is so rare, as there is not one among a thousand, that hath it: and in many, that excellent guift is lost, because they want Art to expresse Nature.
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.
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 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 140 - I could not attain that which appeared to me to be the desired and natural expression at the moment when Leonora, throwing herself before her husband, holds out a pistol to the governor, with the words ' Kill first his wife !' 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...