Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Who taught me, when a happy schoolboy--in the house of my beloved and venerated master, the Rev. Alfred Whitehead, M.A., and his dear wife--to sing at sight, who first fostered my passion for music; to that genial and highly accomplished man, who has vanished from my view for...
Mozart was a world's-wonder in his boyhood, and neglected--especially at Vienna, and by the court--in his manhood. He has been denominated the most abstract musician that ever l...
3. Part 3Part No. 2 suggests at the outset one broad general remark, which we hasten to make. It is this. Beethoven, herein not original, but imitative, generally confines himself--in th...
6. Part 6in these notes--whose indefinite dwelling seems to say, "I pause for a reply." Fate confronts man--a being _repleto di virtù_; a being bound by will, but with an unique sense of...
5. Part 5The Scherzo, with its _obbligato_ constituent element, the "Trio," is on the same great scale, and in the same epic spirit (we see no particular need, with Wagner, to seek a con...
8. Part 8The scherzo and finale ("a sort of Bacchus triumph"--?) we shall abstain from discussing (they are of much less intrinsic import than the first two movements); but conclude with...
7. Part 7What STRIKES us in this "household-word" work, especially in the first movement, is its significant simplicity. It is wonderful, as revealing to us how _profoundly_ simple a gre...
4. Part 4(as the manifestations named men have been called). The movement is rich both in the great strokes and tender touches of genius--of genius which is power; and what we call the p...
9. Part 9Finally, it is such thoughts as these, consciously or unconsciously expressed, which stamp and distinguish Beethoven's music as a whole, to which we now turn. In his jubilation...
1. Part 1Who taught me, when a happy schoolboy--in the house of my beloved and venerated master, the Rev. Alfred Whitehead, M.A., and his dear wife--to sing at sight, who first fostered...