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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. VII - Mademoiselle Lind in Opera
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
After the summer's music of 1846, which had included the “Fête Dieu,” at Liege, the great singing match at Cologne, and the memorable first performance of Mendelssohn's “Elijah” at our own Birmingham Festival,–it became almost a necessity to take a few weeks of rest, solitude, and silence ; before encountering new crowds and new enthusiasms.–My interregnum betwixt the English music-meeting and the Frankfort Fair, was spent in Holland; than which country a loitering place more accessible, more quaintly picturesque and more cheerfully engaging, could hardly be mentioned.–My short journey afid lonely sojourn there, however, are remembered not merely as a time of refreshment singularly grateful, but also for the sake of one or two of those whimsical passages of travel and persons enjoyed on the road, that might utterly have escaped me, had I had any better company than my own weary thoughts and languid memories of the sounds of the summer. I can never recall my journey to Holland without thinking also of the people I met on my way thither whb played upon “one string.”
We were five in the night mail-train from London to Dover: my companions, two gentlemen and as many ladies. Into more agreeable and polished society I could not have fallen.
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- Modern German MusicRecollections and Criticisms, pp. 351 - 380Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009