excerpt from 'Music and Friends: Or, Pleasant Recollections of a Dilettante' pp. 694 (63 words)
excerpt from 'Music and Friends: Or, Pleasant Recollections of a Dilettante' pp. 694 (63 words)
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At Mr. Wessel's German soirée I heard some songs of Shobert, a new author. His 'Erl King,' sung by Madame Schroeder, and accompanied on the piano-forte by Madame Dulcken, certainly was a most terrific thing of its kind. The alarming intonation of the vocalist, and the awful thunder which the pianist threw into the bass, had a dramatic effect purely German. |
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