By Edward Holmes
ISBN-10: 1108007007
ISBN-13: 9781108007009
This 1845 biography of Mozart by means of the tune journalist Edward Holmes used to be the 1st to be released in English. Holmes, who numbered the poet Keats and the writer Vincent Novello among his acquaintances, wrote broadly for periodicals together with the Musical occasions and The Atlas. A lifelong admirer of Mozart's paintings, Holmes's prepared realizing of its value is clear during the biography. it truly is in keeping with a radical learn of the then on hand published and manuscript assets, particularly a lot of Mozart's letters which Holmes translated and incorporated as he 'endeavoured all through to permit the composer inform his personal story'. He used to be additionally in a position to seek advice Mozart's personal catalogue of his works, that compiled by means of the writer Johann André, and the Mozart autograph manuscripts obtained through André from Mozart's widow Constanze. The paintings is written in a really approachable kind and may entice a person with an curiosity in Mozart.
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THE LIFE OF MOZART. " He wrote, in addition, an Easter cantata on the subject of the Passion, a symphony, and four concertos for the clavier. These last were probably composed in the prospect of a journey to Vienna, which was undertaken by the whole family on the 11th of September, 1767. One incident worth notice, occurs on this journey. At the monastery of Mb'lk the party went over the building without being known, but on touching the organ the organist immediately discovered Wolfgang by his play.
We trace the travellers from Dijon to Lyons, thence into Switzerland, taking Winterthurm, Schaffhausen and Donauschingen on their return. The principal events of the whole time consist in joyful visits and invitations, and pathetic adieus. But at length they are on the road home, and the father revolves the plan of the future education of his children, not without a certain misgiving of events that may disconcert all his plans. Speaking of their progress, he writes: 42 THE LIFE OP MOZAKT. " Every moment that I lose, is lost for ever, and if I formerly knew how valuable time is to youth, I know it more now.
I replied, that he could not expect that the boy should have the great trouble of writing an opera for nothing. I reminded him of his contract ; and gave him to understand that he had detained us four months, and led us into an expense of more than 160 ducats. I told him of my lost time, and assured him that I should expect not only the 100 ducats for which he had agreed with the Physician Laugier, but my expenses on his account. To this my just demand, he returned an unintelligible answer, which discovered his embarrassment, and with wliich he, I scarcely know how, endeavoured to break off the whole affair, till at last he quitted me with the most scandalous expressions, that if I wished to caricature the boy, he would not object to the opera's being piped, fiddled, and laughed at.
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