... the plot, and the music is not above his comprehension. He considers the old operas a bore he prefers Verdi and Donizetti to Mozart, Weber or Gounod; he is not enthusiastic about the music of the future but his excessive fondness for Verdi's, and Offenbach's ...

... musicians. Still more welcome is the duet of Falstaff and Ford, a work worthy of Mozart, both as regards spontaneous melody and masterly orchestration. It has been truly said that Mozart is revived in the new music of Verdi, although he has never been guilty of ...

... and has had experi ence in conducting at Ko- nigsherg and other Gorman cities, though yonng (twenty-nine years), won the Mozart prize at Lcipsie, and is likely to prove an excellent conductor in Scotland. Crystal Palace Concerts. Mr. August Manns has ...

... to this day none knows the burial place of Wolfgang Mozart. It is a triumphantly sad commentary, therefore, to learn that next year a memorial to the tune of 90,000 florins is to be set up in Mozart's honour in the Albrechtsplatz of Vienna. The work lias ...

... the dance music he has played a trio on three pianos with Schumann, then in 1838 but little known, and Mozart's son; he has known and visited Mozart's widow, then an old lady of eighty; he has heard Mendelssohn, Moscheles, and Thalberg play a triple concerto ...

... music set to the rhythms of that writer must necessarily remind one of former music set to precisely the same rhythms. Ilad Mozart followed Sir Arthur Sullivan as piper to Mr. Gilbert s poet it would probably have been said that he had imitated Sullivan ...

... not appear. His place was most efficiently filled by Mr. W. E. Whitehouse, who had plenty of scope to distinguish himself in Mozart's Quartet in F major, in which the 'cello part is decidedly prominent. The finale, in particular, was delightful everyone ...

... Cologne to receive a complete musical education. Here he soon showed talent, and, for original compositions, he gained the Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Meyerbeer prizes. From 1876-1881 he studied in Munich, at the Royal School of Music, and in Italy, and for ...

... little Augusta Holmes had already mastered a vast pianoforte repertory, comprising the works of Baeli, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, &c. Strange to say Mine. Holmes mire had a profound dislike for music, which she considered as so much unpleasant ...

... and even pleasure-seekers their ennui, as the strains of Verdi or Meyerbeer, Wagner or Gounod, Bizet, Bo'fto, Bellini, of Mozart or Rossini, Auber or Flotow, Gluck or Bach, of Ambroise Thomas or Goring Thomas, of De Lara or Leon cavallo, of Massenet or ...

... Patti is not altogether a great artist, she has very distinguished artistic qualities you cannot deny that her rendering of Mozart is the most admirably restrained, the purest, the most delightful warbling you ever heard. It has been granted to very few ...

... think? Mr. Barnett, here, has just discovered and arranged to new words an obscure, in fact, an almost unknown, piece ot' Mozart's. Ha indeed exclaimed the Doctor, smacking his lips some thing very choice, no doubt; let's hear if vlnv if. nvpr fnr mp ...