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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- WEIMAR AND LEIPSIC
- DR. SPOHR'S MUSIC
- A GLANCE AT VIENNA
- MUSIC IN THE RHINE LAND
- CHAP. I Rhine Scenery
- CHAP. II The Opera at Frankfort, 1844. Cherubini's “Medea”
- CHAP. III The Beethoven Festival at Bonn, 1845
- CHAP. IV Beethoven's Music at Bonn
- CHAP. V Beethoven as an Influence
- CHAP. VI Music at Liege and Cologne, 1846
- CHAP. VII Mademoiselle Lind in Opera
- THE LAST DAYS OF MENDELSSOHN
CHAP. VI - Music at Liege and Cologne, 1846
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- WEIMAR AND LEIPSIC
- DR. SPOHR'S MUSIC
- A GLANCE AT VIENNA
- MUSIC IN THE RHINE LAND
- CHAP. I Rhine Scenery
- CHAP. II The Opera at Frankfort, 1844. Cherubini's “Medea”
- CHAP. III The Beethoven Festival at Bonn, 1845
- CHAP. IV Beethoven's Music at Bonn
- CHAP. V Beethoven as an Influence
- CHAP. VI Music at Liege and Cologne, 1846
- CHAP. VII Mademoiselle Lind in Opera
- THE LAST DAYS OF MENDELSSOHN
Summary
The early summer of 1846 was a great year for the Rhine Land and its adjacent district; since then the Lower Rhenish Festival at Aix la Chapelle was conducted by Mendelssohn, and starred by Mddle. Jenny Lind; and within a fortnight afterwards was celebrated at Liege the “Fête Dieu” for which Mendelssohn's “Lauda Sion” was written.
The latter, as distinguished by the performance of a new and important composition, could entice H – and myself out of London, though the date was the middle of June; and though, owing to the carelessness and apathy of continental announcement on like occasions, our sudden journey had to be risked without any clear idea whether or not we might arrive in time for the first performance of the new work. All, however, went well. A more lovely midnight never shone on Italy than the one which lighted us down the brimming Thames, among a fleet of vessels, rapidly gliding down to the sea in the broad moonshine. Ostend looked less shabby, less extortionate, less rudely comfortless than usual, in the early afternoon; and Louvain, with its fantastically rich Town Hall overhanging our quiet, comfortable inn, made a capital sleeping- place. On reaching St. Martin's, at Liege, the next morning, in time for the commencement of the show, all sense of flurry and fever was at once dissipated by our hearing that the new hymn was reserved for the vesper celebrations of the day.
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- Modern German MusicRecollections and Criticisms, pp. 320 - 350Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009