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CRYSTAL PALACE SATURDAY CONCERTS

... better than Mozart. The third and concluding movement, an allegro finale, is an outburst of pure and innocent joyfulness, breathing the air of May, and eloquent with the rejoicings of Nature. It is said that the theme was taken by Mozart from an old ...

Published: Sunday 10 November 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1081 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

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... Auber and Mozart, on the 27th and 29th of January. They were born a quarter of a century apart, and nothing could be more widely different than their manner of living. Auber lived for ninety years at one place, Paris, scarcely ever leaving it; Mozart travelled ...

Published: Saturday 06 February 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1149 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

ALEXANDRA PALACE

... took place on SaturT- day afternoon, the first part of the programme being entirely devoted to selections from the works of Mozart, and the second being miscellaneous. Although the weather in the morning was not at all pro- mising for the aftsr part of ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1878
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 468 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS

... simplest quartet by Haydn or Mozart, and he bestows as much thought upon it as upon the most elaborate and pretentious of the later works of Beethoven. When he plays Haydn and Mozart, he makes us think only of Haydn and Mozart; when he plays Beethoven, he ...

Published: Tuesday 14 February 1871
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 811 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

[ill] PALACE

... was an interesting one, if only for the novelties it contained. An overture by Mr. Macfarren, Chevy Chase; a Symphony by Mozart, given in England for the first time; and Beethoven's arrangement of his Violin Concerto for the pianoforte were all new to ...

Published: Sunday 15 December 1872
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 494 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

MENDELSSOHN'S FIRST VISIT TO GOETHE

... had passed the dreadful ordeal of playing at sight Mozart's and Beethoven's music from manuscript, Goethe made up his mind that for once an infant prodigy was no myth or delusion. Goethe had heard Mozart as a boy of seven years old play at Frankfort, and ...

Published: Monday 08 January 1872
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1026 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ST. GEORGE'S OPERA

... and often operas are arranged to suit the opera house, and a spectacular character given to works which (like all those of Mozart, for instance) owed their first celebrity to their musical beauties alone. Given equal execution, both Don Giovanni and ...

Published: Tuesday 28 January 1873
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1796 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

SIGNOR MARIO'S REPERTORY

... Marino Faliero (Donizetti), 4 times. 1843.-Elvino, in La Sonnambula (Bellini), 17 times; Ottavio, in Don Giovanni (Mozart), 4i times Gianetto, in La Gazza Ladra (Roesini), 13 times Arturo, in I Puritani (Bellini), 44 times ; Carlo, in ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1871
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 927 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT

... that given at the Crystal Palace on Saturday. The programme contained at least two works of high interest, beginning with Mozart's overture to what he loved to call his Munich Opera. We have no right to assume that our readers know the story of Idomenco ...

Published: Tuesday 15 February 1870
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2165 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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... historical ring, that presented to Mozart by the Empress Maria-Theresa, has been placed in the Salzburg Mozart Museum. It is an opal ring set with diamonds, and was given to the widow of the composer Spontini after Mozart's death. PUBLIC WARMING-Rooms FOR ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1879
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1063 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE PIANOFORTE CENTENARY

... the imlmortall.Mozart, who, being at Augsburg in the year 1777, wrote home to his father a most interesting letter, in Which lie speaks, amongst other things, of the piano- fortes of a maker nalmnedl Stein, of Augsbury. This Stein Mozart elsewhere speaks ...

Published: Sunday 16 January 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1639 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

HAMLET AT THE LYCEUM

... also sang on several occasions before English audiences, her fine rendering of some of the airs of Mozart's operas being much appreciated at the Mozart Festival at the lasxandra Palage. Mdlii. Schubert died at gotsdasw en thq a0h u4t. ...

Published: Sunday 12 January 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 778 | Page: 12 | Tags: News