Recent Music and Musicians
Recent Music and Musicians (written work, Diary)
| Listening experiences | 1425988152984: One day when Weber had given my father repeated as... 1426001607908: Thoroughly convinced of his [Meyerbeer's] masterly... 1426002748374: At a matinée in the ‘Römischen Kaiser,’ I heard a ... 1426003380061: [...] at Beethoven's concert at noon, in the large... 1426004070679: St. Stephen's tower in a blaze of fire-works at th... 1426067204988: The first concert I heard in Leipzig was given by ... 1426849192528: At the house of Schulze, Professor of Music, I hea... 1426850126289: [At Classig's coffee-house he falls in] daily with... 1426850459716: We had Romberg's Capriccio for Violin, played by M... 1426851277539: The director is called Polledro, the singers Madam... 1426851801016: When the military band performed parade music in f... 1426852122334: During her pianoforte lessons, I used to stand, mo... 1426858975503: I found in August Klengel an interesting acquainta... 1426864202840: He was a sentimental artist, not only as a violin ... 1427115903579: [The 'concerts spirituels' delight him]. Who would... 1427116714995: In an adjoining room were musicians and actors, am... 1427117424519: Horace Vernet entertained us with his ventriloquiz... 1427117780671: I drove early with Lafont to the Hotel de Ville, w... 1427118611186: On the morning of 30th of April, present at anothe... 1427119246611: The Interméde given in a brilliant manner in the S... 1427119285085: His interpretation of Mozart, and his own Mozart-l... 1427210996332: Those thin, well shaped fingers are best suited fo... 1427211078112: He took me to hear the young people who study with... 1427476384979: It was a fortunate thing for me [...] to have to l... 1427476987176: Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony was very fairly exec... 1427477545117: Heard the famous flute player Tulou at his own con... 1427478750595: In the evening, at a concert given by Vaughan the ... 1427478813217: At the ancient concert (in the Hanover Square Room... 1427479871896: A grand evening musical party at the Rothschilds',... 1428491041540: He played to me a part of his new pianoforte quint... 1428491719588: What are all concerts compared with that given by ... 1428494325739: I was at a so-called Oratorio Concert; one part co... 1428495011204: [what I admired most was] the charming Ronzi de Be... 1428934593495: The C minor symphony of Beethoven, for the first t... 1428935432110: The moment when the whole host of them stand up to... 1429003429330: At this first hearing of 'Olympia' I found much th... 1429003755542: The opera is not suited for uninitiated ears, it i... 1429101707113: I must have seen the little Clara, afterwards the ... 1429104074937: On the 23d November, I heard a Psalm by Naumann, a... 1429524569827: Music in the morning at the Mendelssohns'. C minor... 1429525214682: Music at Zelter's. Fanny Mendelssohn played the D ... 1429525629907: At Geheimrath Crelle's Felix accompanied Mozart's ... 1429525916540: Music at Mendelssohns'. Felix F minor Quartet. I p... 1429526354564: Returned to Felix his album, in which I yesterday ... 1429529517490: At midnight, when we are in the drawing-room, my a... 1429531035075: Mori, the London artist, did all that possibly cou... 1429531606037: At Christmas time, a band of wind-instruments play... 1429531948932: Some good pieces, as well as a terzetto for two gu... 1429533141815: Several glees were sung, and as a finale I improvi... 1429533478052: M. Allan, son-in-law of Logier, gave a public perf... 1429533702001: Kiesewetter played beautifully, it is true, but he... 1429534119108: What emotion he must have felt on his first appear... 1429534694220: Although it was rot a remarkable exhibition of his... 1429535227953: On the 11th of April I was present at the dress re... 1429540610592: Weber conducted the never-failing overtures to ' O... 1429541716009: We artists assembled for the funeral at nine o'clo... 1429542257707: Fanny's fourteenth birthday celebrated with music ... 1429542808822: How delighted I was when he and his sister Fanny p... 1429609685176: Can you do me the favor to slip away for a little ... 1429610444175: The 'Concerto in A minor' contains chaotic beautie... 1429612644084: We artists gave a dinner and musical entertainment... 1429612932444: During this season 'Oberon' was frequently given a... 1429613298313: Truly a prodigy for power, purity of tone, and exe... 1429613884026: As I was taking my evening stroll, I saw a party o... 1429617848176: The cousin played me the subject; I extemporized u... 1429618829430: Some ladies are bent on galloping through my compo... 1429619216145: She sang to us repeatedly in private, and with her... 1429620830926: Today we attended a fashionable fete at Vauxhall, ... 1429621185422: Velluti's shrieks in the opera were absolutely une... 1429621387317: He extemporized with all the freshness of youth an... 1429622450340: One of the choicest entertainments this season was... 1429623538465: I heard for the first time Weyse, the musical theo... 1429695293782: A part song was performed by one amateur, 'the ref... 1429695809977: Songs were sung, they did not much edify me; as fa... 1429695973776: She always sings exquisitely, and with true inspir... 1429696492190: What musical follies are daily perpetrated, for on... 1429696997333: I wish he had not his feet so perpetually upon the... 1429697343508: 'David's Lament for Absalom' declaimed in deep tra... 1429697757278: [The] conductor still sitting at the piano, and tu... 1429698448771: A new opera by Pacini 'Pompeii'; the beautiful sce... 1429698657204: Lablache, with the grandest of all voices - the 'v... 1429699295745: His legato playing delights me, but his compositio... 1429703118269: The crowd in the Opera House was wild with excitem... 1429704367535: The mixture of sacred and secular music was rather... 1429956071389: F. Cramer, Lindley, and Dragonetti, radiant with c... 1429956520706: I attended one such mongrel representation, and fo... 1429956958382: Ninety-two of us musical men attended the dinner; ... 1429957541491: All his music breathes spirit and life; the Lieder... 1429958060640: Mendelssohn, Klingemann, Meyerbeer, and Madame Sch... 1429958416890: In the evening we joined Meyerbeer in his box at t... 1429959162733: Today with Mendelssohn at a dinner party, where he... 1429959473275: In Meyerbeer's box to see the first German represe... 1429959843671: Our grand soirée; we had a happy union of German a... 1429960064445: First representation of 'Fidelio' for the début of... 1430062009267: After giving my inevitable nine lessons I was perm... 1430062408120: My wife had prepared a pleasant surprise for me. M... 1430063323597: Again we agree about Paganini; he has just returne... 1430063887630: This morning I listened, as I was dressing, to lit... 1430064514496: Neukomm's arrival in Berlin was generally welcome.... 1430131714517: [Moscheles found two hundred subscribers' names do... 1430132070675: Great crowds in the street on account of the impen... 1430132677901: Miss Novello and Miss H. Cawse did their best. The... 1430135997535: We had but one solo-singer, a few glees, some mise... 1430136666896: [At a concert given by the Royal Society of Musici... 1430137306571: There probably never was a happier christening fèt... 1430137786710: How deadly slow and monotonous was H. in his Fanta... 1430138280378: The music, to which I contributed my mite, was per... 1430138851650: I swallowed my dinner hastily, so as not to miss a... 1430138881619: What a melancholy evening last Thursday, when I he... 1430143636917: We saw there for the first time Thomas Moore, the ... 1430144165590: What a pity, that a bevy of lady-lodgers in the ho... 1430144559893: The music is often deafening, but often piquant, t... 1430144871262: The distribution of the vocalists forming the gran... 1430145552257: Sir George Smart for the first time raised his ba... 1430146465720: My own impression, far exceeded all that I ever dr... 1430213626784: Mendelssohn's Octet, in which you complain of an a... 1430213930770: This winter Byron's 'Manfred', with choruses set b... 1430214280991: This able conductor [Sir George Smart], succeeded ... 1430214691879: We pianoforte players had selected Cramer's compos... 1430216354189: He played me three new 'Lieder ohne Worte', which ... 1430216725927: I visited the Wiecks, and Clara played to me a goo... 1430217033402: In the evening I was again at the Wiecks, to meet ... 1430217311069: He [Schrey] is a musical enthusiast, with a fine t... 1430217596576: His overture to the 'Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyag... 1430217908956: We were invited to Wieck's to meet Schumann and ot... 1430218416817: Among the new things which Felix played again to m... 1430218897242: Felix played me a Concerto by J. S. Bach, out of H... 1430219793652: I took my mother and sister to the subscription co... 1430220063423: I am just come from Wieck's, where Clara played ad... 1430221282865: Fanny Hensel pleased me immensely by the playing o... 1430235183827: The music light, after the manner of the composer ... 1430235390167: Did Balfe intend her to do battle with those incre... 1430235732108: We dined early, and immediately afterwards Malibra... 1430236316857: Malibran sat down to the piano and sang for an hou... 1430303443311: Malibran and De Bériot appeared at eleven o'clock,... 1430305251461: After a performance of the 'Maid of Artois', in wh... 1430305525267: We spent an hour with Malibran, by appointment; we... 1430310548396: I find his introduction of harp effects on the pia... 1430310954393: His playing, no less than his demeanor, at his own... 1430313003748: And how would you have liked a grand performance o... 1430313310287: On this evening, however, we had only a few select... 1430814152167: You can imagine my excitement before and during th... 1430815456926: Some German and some English symphonies and overtu... 1430816602163: how are they to get ways and means when their arti... 1430816861704: Everything was imposing, but most of all Handel's ... 1430817489857: We were rather roughly recalled from our poetical ... 1430819455090: On the very first evening Emily played the first a... 1430820043377: Yesterday, our Saturday soirée introduced us to so... 1430821364040: German and French artists, the latter with faultle... 1430821946821: Thalberg again astonished me at his concert; he is... 1430822191178: The ad libitum playing, which in the hands of othe... 1430823884656: Today he was quite a different Chopin from the Cho... 1430823967863: As for my poor Lafont, I saw him lying in his coff... 1430903948301: when deafened by such a mass of horns, bassoons, a... 1430904666952: We [...] heard the 'Huguenots' for the first time;... 1430904892153: Rossini's 'Barber of Seville,' with Pauline Garcia... 1430906441151: Duprez is an admirable Tell. ... 1430907014390: That glorious work could not be spoiled by the org... 1430907569163: Last week we heard the two new organs built by Gra... 1430907814046: On the last night of the old year we had charades,... 1430916831517: My eldest daughter, now twelve years old, contribu... 1430917424750: At one of the Philharmonic Concerts, he played thr... 1430918385016: I am greatly charmed with his composition, and as ... 1430918706297: He played with Emily his overture to the 'Fingals ... 1430919460394: For the two M.'s improvise together on themes for ... 1430920230037: The second part of the performance was devoted to ... 1431162402599: Felix, in the room next to me, is teaching his lit... 1431163023639: Yesterday afternoon I was a long time alone with M... 1431163441818: David played us after dinner his new violin 'Conce... 1431163935949: At 6.30 we went to the Gewandhaus, which was alrea... 1431165409134: I called on Schumann and Rochlitz; Madame Schumann... 1431165630854: The Mendelssohns gave an evening party, when David... 1431165980030: How gloriously he played again yesterday, enchanti... 1431166156782: His ear for music is the most subtle I have ever o... 1431166623217: Yesterday we were together at Schumanns', who gave... 1431167160786: Yesterday evening, at a party given by David, Mend... 1431167357910: And now a few words about Leipzig. At the Fête in ... 1431341608185: Today I have many congratulatory visitors after my... 1431341885514: Was the composition, or was the bad performance to... 1431342540850: Strangely enough, the 'Melusine' was coldly receiv... 1431342600655: When he came forward to play in Hummel's Septet, o... 1431342851865: What an interesting and gifted family the Kembles!... 1431343919302: The other day Kemble, after reading some scenes fr... 1431344502102: Miss Kemble's version of the 'Erl-King' at her own... 1431345967086: Viardot is a musician to the core; she not only kn... 1431347214965: Her high, thin voice is like a violin with very th... 1431347522871: Meerti an excellent and sympathetic concert-singer... 1431348361640: Our Germans, Frau Stöckl-Heinefetter, Staudigl, an... 1431348423185: Staudigl often sings in our house, his sound Germa... 1431355805851: We saw Rachel in 'Les Horaces.' How noble, how gra... 1431356456567: While writing this, I hear Emily playing my 'Nurse... 1431360441261: Neukomm played on the 'orgue expressif.'... 1431361521155: I heard B.M. play a piece of his own composition, ... 1431361803630: How my ears suffered at a soirée, where Rode's Var... 1431362484174: Neukomm has in this music harmonised and arranged ... 1431362947647: The work has all the great qualities which one kno... 1431363387807: This Russian boy has fingers light as feathers, an... 1431423180724: But when the time came for serious music, then wer... 1431423827166: He played me his Choruses from 'Antigone,' singing... 1431424254492: The children were differently occupied, we have a ... 1431424959437: We had a long musical evening in Exeter Hall - too... 1431425633058: Without him no party is thought complete; I have a... 1431425926807: There was a strange scene the other evening, when ... 1431426413572: I feel very strongly Berlioz's want of melody, rhy... 1431427379270: Hallé, the pianist, has lately arrived from Paris.... 1431427793531: He is still young in the art, but his powers as an... 1431429004062: Spohr's 'Nonet' was a great treat so finely played... 1431439399172: Jullien still thrives; he has actually taken to Be... 1431439994658: Joachim, a boy of thirteen years of age, has come ... 1431440907437: At Caradori's morning concert I accompanied some t... 1431445641998: The mediocre performances were often a source of a... 1431446305689: Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Carlsruhe, are all visited ... 1431446786451: I went to the theatre to engage some vocalists. Th... 1431504105054: The artist's atelier consists of several rooms. In... 1431504499429: I heard Haydn's 'Seasons,' - Hasselt-Barth excelle... 1431504937738: There was an evening party at Court yesterday, whe... 1431505525443: Frau von Cibbini still lives, a remnant of the goo... 1431506918404: Heard Nicolai's opera 'Die Heimkehr der Verbannten... 1431507251249: At Saphir's concert Heindl opened with his flute v... 1431507682428: Young Strauss's playing of dance-music is allowed ... 1431508577578: Yesterday I had a quiet evening with David, who pl... 1431510940665: This morning, after rehearsing my Trio with David ... 1431511215698: Beethoven's C minor Symphony; the piano passages m... 1431511531815: I went to Dresden - attended Döhler's concert. He ... 1431520843634: Bach's Triple Concerto made a great sensation; Mad... 1431521503476: I got to Berlin in time for Meyerbeer's opera, 'Th... 1431684911317: My friend Hullah helped me by bringing some of his... 1431685286232: Vieuxtemps is admirable, so is Sivori; Teresa Mila... 1431685950819: I heard Félicien David's 'D'sert,' with its piquan... 1431686330662: I have heard [...] a 'Quadrille and Polka Opera,' ... 1431687041586: The Grand Mass in D major gave me certainly exquis... 1431688518342: Last day of the festival, which began with Liszt's... 1431689706434: Knots of people are seen disputing in every part o... 1431690010027: I assure you that a cup of coffee and some music a... 1431690342858: The music has plenty of flowing melody, it is not ... 1431690974210: When we arrived, the Queen, Madame Adelaide, the D... 1431695772266: The music is pleasing, and often dramatically effe... 1431696080601: Our party last night began with music, and ended w... 1431696262276: The beauties of the work become more apparent to m... 1431696723000: Mendelssohn achieved his most brilliant triumph in... 1431697049159: We had a miscellaneous selection; the chief featur... 1431789767716: Yesterday we heard Divine service in the Nicolai C... 1431790361936: Felix, with his usual thoughtfulness, had prepared... 1431790667368: Trial of candidates for the Conservatoire. Mendels... 1431790986960: Joachim played with him the 'Kreutzer Sonata.' ... 1431939540583: On the last occasion Joachim, our favorite, was th... 1431940113429: We had at our house (besides the Mendelssohns and ... 1431940587147: David's society and playing are never-failing sour... 1431940796073: After dining with Mendelssohn, I went with him to ... 1431941222340: Mendelssohn was standing by the conductor's desk i... 1431942001832: I have only now arrived at a perfect appreciation ... 1431942248723: Musical matters are in no way changed here. Beside... 1431942716254: By Benedict's desire, I have written a piece for e... 1431943138473: I heard Spohr's and Mozart's music at the Philharm... 1431944815808: After the Mendelssohns had dined with us, Felix an... 1431945430780: Delightful afternoon at Mendelssohn's and had much... 1431945554187: In the afternoon and evening we were at his house.... 1431951684885: The constant visits to Cécile and the dear childre... 1431952973262: On the 3d February, his birthday, the 'Elijah' was... 1431953135450: Behr sang the part of the Prophet with earnestness... 1431953426344: I have been to the theatre to hear a new opera, wh... 1431953618917: This work revealed new beauties to me, and this I ... 1431954113520: Formes as 'Leporello' the other night was very hum... 1432021284209: The unpublished music left by Mendelssohn is in th... 1432021424822: Only the professors and their wives were invited, ... 1432021803718: Unfortunately, in spite of my ten days' exertions ... 1432022362592: On a second hearing of Schumann's Symphony in C, I... 1432022719949: The Schumanns, Frau Schröder, and Frau Frege last ... 1432023179587: Paul Mendelssohn asked me, in the name of his sist... 1432023540671: Felix, when in London, had played me the whole of ... 1432024441131: Beethoven's Mass in C was a rare treat, and so was... 1432026445873: Yesterday, for the first time, we saw Halévy's 'Th... 1432026807215: Lortzing's opera 'Roland's Knappen,' reminds me of... 1432027046607: I found Spohr - he played in Voigt's house, that p... 1432027793915: [...] he played several things to a delighted audi... 1432028212945: Your letter found me at the Conservatoire, it put ... 1432028314898: Madame Viardot is not only an admirable Fides, but... 1432029374036: Madame Schumann played it through to me. In dealin... 1432118235747: Overture excellent, full of passion; choruses char... 1432118477723: At the quartet meetings we had a great variety: In... 1432118941954: We had a lovely performance of Mendelssohn's 'The ... 1432119624503: The fragments of the opera, 'Lorelei,' in which Me... 1432119977584: We have heard Mendelssohn's ' Œdipus;' the deep pa... 1432120521982: The all-merciful God has raised me from a bed of s... 1432128050046: He held his own bravely, just like a plucky boy ri... 1432128311434: Spohr is still complete master of his violin, and ... 1432128818238: We had the Cantata 'Ein' feste Burg,' by J. S. Bac... 1432129589309: 'Papa' Haydn's Symphony was as fresh and healthy a... 1432130376009: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, 'in the whirlwind of i... 1432130536299: I admire his light-fingered bravura, his weird lik... 1432130733939: We have also heard at the theatre Mendelssohn's op... 1432131017884: Liszt directed the admirably trained orchestra; th... 1432131352636: Today at the rehearsal of the Pupils' Concert I wo... 1432131840852: Few of the pianists appearing at the Gewandhaus th... 1432133731796: I found Schumann's Overture to the 'Bride of Messi... 1432133908440: Sontag appeared this winter in Leipzig,a little ol... 1432134938518: I am delighted when I hear her sing my 'Lieder,' w... 1432135108864: The old music room, in which Sebastian had his pra... 1432135335926: On Good Friday the 'St. Matthew Passion' was perfo... 1432135735104: One of my lady pupils, on the examination day, pla... 1432136152766: We arrived late in the evening at Tetschen, hungry... 1432288977399: my expectations were not at a high pitch but he ce... 1432289398860: The music given to Queen Mab in 'Romeo and Juliet,... 1432289608552: I was delighted by the flow of melody, and the occ... 1432290120729: One plays in a style cold and clear as a bright De... 1432290281625: Gade,conductor of the Gewandhaus Concerts, has pro... 1432290915762: I examined a new pupil for the Conservatoire, Fran... 1432290944431: The constant rain disappointed us yesterday of our... 1432291852927: At sunset we hear from the Palazzo Foscari (now a ... 1432292319648: The only good music we have is that of the Austria... 1432375535221: Fortunati comes, occasionally as a hearer, sometim... 1432376397230: On the eve of the 'Festa di San Rocco' a 'Musica a... 1432377002564: Fumagalli played a song by Gordigiani, 'O santissi... 1432377727079: The Teatro Radegonda has a second-rate theatre ban... 1432378142648: At David's we heard him play a pianoforte arrangem... 1432378997287: Today I write to you during the examination of our... 1432379234682: Our friend F., with his bumptious ways, is particu... 1432379708035: I have heard a good deal of Berlioz, and give him ... 1432459673046: Madame Lind-Goldschmidt sang for the 'Pension Fund... 1432460233257: Goldschmidt played us a great deal of beautiful mu... 1432460774890: We have passed some delightful hours with the Gold... 1432460974024: The Goldschmidts paid us a visit at the Conservato... 1432461373826: Madame Goldschmidt repeatedly expressed her esteem... 1432461611203: I heard 'Don Juan' the other night; Miterwurzer wa... 1432462471995: Bodenstedt has written some words for me; I have s... 1432466275625: Rubinstein, whom we heard fourteen years ago in Lo... 1432467491557: In her very young days I heard her play in Paris, ... 1432467557268: Spohr's Symphony for double orchestra, 'Irdisches ... 1432467900056: It was remarkable in the Gewandhaus yesterday that... 1432468809708: I chose Beethoven's trio in D, and heard for the f... 1432469050853: Such a curious Fantasia I heard today. It was a mi... 1432469399143: I heard Wagner's overture to Faust, which I place ... 1432478739657: In compliance with the wish of several members of ... 1432479165887: Julius Stockhausen's first appearance here has giv... 1432485881059: Ernst Pauer is here, a star in our musical firmame... 1432486704918: The influx of pianists is as large as ever. I conf... 1432486851841: The Weimar folk have fought a battle with the Leip... 1432487416986: Behr gave for his benefit the 'Tannhauser,' under ... 1432487892559: At every not quite orthodox bar he stands stock-st... 1432488088061: We had a new overture by Reinecke, and heard his T... 1432544567035: Our journey might have been very unpleasant, for t... 1432545633987: My duty as a Juryman rather taxed my powers of end... 1432546110710: Liszt sat down to the piano, and I heard, to my no... 1432546534303: Liszt's genius seemed to culminate when he played ... 1432547241216: When I next came, Rossini, yielding to my request,... 1432547764583: Clara, who was with me, had already mustered up co... 1432548089661: 'Whatever I am,' I replied, 'is due to the old sch... 1432548290550: Felix and Clara figuring in the duet which I had w... 1432548613533: My pupils, Dannreuther, Lienau, and Miss Schiller ... 1432549618542: Sullivan's music to Shakespeare's 'Tempest' sounde... 1432551824857: Madame Goldschmidt's voice is as fine as ever; if ... 1432551852814: When I hear one of old Sebastian Bach's glorious f... 1432552345936: In Gounod I hail a real composer. I have heard his... 1432552586503: Beethoven's Quintet was played the other day in th... 1432552924543: Today all the Guilds turned out, and I followed th... 1432553255456: As the procession came under our windows, the Paul... 1432553550076: Our great musical episode was the Handel Festival ... 1432553985923: I was very much pleased with this music, after pla... 1432631168976: It was a great undertaking, but I have at last rea... |
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