... MOZART AS • BOY. _ From a letter of Court Irumpeter Andress Schachtner to Mozart's sister. I take the following details. I may first be allowed to say that a trunspetPr then was not what be may be now, and that this Mr. B,3hachtner was a man not only ...

... Ptat. BARTLETT. —on the 19th inst., at Strathearn, Henry Mozart, Son of H. W. Bartlett, of Shepherds Bush, London, aged 34 years. ...

... children and making them march to a t une, either singing it himself or else getting somebody to play t he violin for him. Mozart could never bear to hear the trumpet played, as a tiny child, and it was not till he outgrew his early childhood that he liked ...

... orchestra is doing two overtures—Mendeissohn' s and Stranger, a charming work and pr o n. ably never performed here before, and Mozart's ever fresh Zyauberflote, overture to his last opera. A symphony, Haydn's Military, which is one of the best, will be ...

... Mr. Wills sang with much declamation and effect, Jerusalem, by Parker, with choral refrain. The other choral pieces were Mozart's Gloria, and Sullivan's evening hymn, 0 Gladsome Light, which was sung by permission of Messrs. Novella and Co. This ...

... augmented for the occasion, sang Baruby's 0 Lord how manifold, and Hutfoe's Like as a father, and Glorious is Thy name, by Mozart. Evidence of Mr. Wills' good training was visible in these choral pieces, which were delivered in a very excellent manner ...

... at Hereford last autumn, will be included in the programme. The standard works selected for performanoe are the Elijah, Mozart's Requiem, Baoh's Mass in B minor, and Mendelasohn's 'Hymn of Plain. Modern German will be worthily represented by II ...

... compoeed almost as soon as he had learned to read and write. Neither of these children, however, is such a marvel of precocity as Mozart was, for he composed &symphony in his eighth year, and at the time when he was forbidden to use the pianoforte because his ...

... programme with the overture to Mozart's Magic Flute or Zauberflote. This was the last opera the composer wrote. It was first produced in Vienna in 1791 and said to be one of the masterpieces of this clever musician's works. Mozart was a Freemason and an ...

... the version of Robert Franz, which excited so muei controversy, was discarded in favour of the conventional edition, with Mozart's accompaniments. Birmingham amateurs seem to have taken very kindly to Bach's St.. Matthew Passion music, which was given ...

... of the Churoh, accompanied throughout the entire service, giving in addition three organ solos— March, Handel ; Adagio, Mozart; and an Offertoire Lefebure. Mr. F. Wills very kindly assisted in leading the heavy choruses, &c. Many thanks are due ...

... twelve selections, in groups of three each. &et included Bach. Handel's Harmonious Blacksmith. Pantails in D minor (Mozart), and 'Rondo Brilliant (Hummel). He was warmly applauded after each piece by the large audience assembled to hear hula, and ...