Crotch, in his professorial lectures at Oxford, named no less than twenty-nine composers whom Handel had "quoted or copied.
He made almost yearly tours to the Continent for concert-giving purposes, and kept his friendship with the great composers of the Continent green by personal contact.
But, with all of Gottschalk's limitations, he must be considered the most noticeable and able of pianists and composers for the piano yet produced by the United States.
There were many composers of genius and numerous orchestras scattered over Italy, Germany, and France, and there must have been a demand for bow instruments of a high order.
Of the younger composers for the piano, Mendelssohn and Schumann were the only ones with whose works he had any sympathy, though he often complains of the latter on account of his mysticism.
The latter of thesecomposers was then almost unknown in Germany, and Clara Wieck, young as she was, contributed largely to making him popular.
Even famous composers and musical theorists did not disdain to teach singing.
It is altogether likely," continues this writer, "that composers would begin to write florid works again if they were assured of competent interpretation, for there is always a public eager for music of this sort.
Inventors, a large number of artists, musicians, and composers are found among people of this type, but almost without exception they have a love of mystic and occult things, and their dreams and visions are tangible and clear.
A great number of literary people, composers and artists are born in this period and exhibit all the qualities that it represents.
They were (it is evident upon examination) originally composed with the others, but sent too late for insertion in the set; after which their respective composers had no opportunity of publishing them until the dates above given.
This fact is curiously shown in the relations between the temper of the great composers and the modern pathetic school.
I have alluded, elsewhere, to the principle on which all the best composers act, of supporting these lofty groups by some vigorous mass of foundation.
This latest work deals with a class of musical compositions, midway between the opera and the oratorio, which is growing rapidly in favor both with composers and audiences.
Possibly the little work would never have been written but for the ambitions of Leah Mendelssohn to see her son take his place among the successful opera composers of the day.
Now, stop and listen, all of you", he writes home in an early missive which forms part of one of the finest series of letters any of the great composers has left posterity.
He perceived that the composers had catered too much to the vanity of singers and had permitted a richly ornamental style of song, antagonistic to broad dramatic expression, to become the type of operatic music.
Neither had they at their command a rich enough materia musica, for until their day composers had devoted themselves to the expression of contemplative religious feeling and the musical symbols of human passion were yet undeveloped.
It should be noted that occasionally composers arose who had some sense of their obligations to dramatic art and who endeavoured to improve the aesthetic nature of the opera.
Most of them rested with accusing Wagner of assailing rival composers because they were Jews.
We, however, hope everything from music schools though we have nothing to offer our composers or our singers when, in a theoretical sort of way, they have once been formed.
The money wasted in establishing the Royal College of Music might have been usefully spent in founding a permanent lyrical theatre for which our young composers might have worked, on whose boards our young vocalists might have sung.
Thus only, by practice in presence of the public, can composers and singers perfect themselves in their difficult art.
Yet there is at this moment more chance of a fifth music school being established than of an Opera-house being founded at which the shoals of composers and vocalists shot out every year would have an opportunity of pursuing their profession.
Spaniards are exacting critics, and the best musicians of other countries are as well known and appreciated as their own composers and executants.
As late as 1540, we find that the principal composers and musicians in Rome were still foreigners.
Learned composers in the style developed by the Flemish masters had grown tired of writing simple music for four voices and a single choir.
What among musicians and composers would be regarded as a grand boon seemed to me, before the uninitiated, as a profanation.
However, he towers above all French composers for earnestness of purpose and strength of intellect.
He has aimed at a connected recital, and, for its sake, has treated of creative epochs and epoch-making works, rather than groups of composers segregated by the accidents of time and space.
Bech was a rare specimen of that rapidly disappearing order--the artist who knows all composers equally well.
You composers dare to say all manner of wickedness in your music, but it is idealized by tone, isn't it?
He disappeared and many composers and critics were not sorry; his was a too commanding personality: he menaced modern art.
As most of our country choirs consist at the best of but partly-trained voices, composers and choirmasters should bear this in mind.
For this voice our composers of the English cathedral school wrote, carrying the part much lower than they would have done if they had been writing for women or boy-singers.
The composers who have lived since Weber, even if they differed on every other subject and did not agree as to the value of his instrumental music, united to sing a common song in praise of the operas.
He was divinely gifted with a greater richness of invention than was given to any other composers excepting two, Bach and Mozart; and death would not take his gifts as an excuse when he was thirty-seven.
Donizetti was a genuine descendant of the true line of opera-composers upon whom Gluck laid his curse, and he spent his life in devising pleasant noises to make his patrons' evenings pass agreeably.
And though this, perhaps, is only to call it a link in a chain, yet it is curious to note how very closely other composers have followed Mozart, and how greatly they are indebted to him.
Another important point is this: whereas the church composers took a few Latin sentences and made no endeavour to treat them so as to make sense in the singing, but made the words wait upon the musical phrases, in Dr.
I have told how the earliercomposers spun their web, and how Lawes attained to loveliness of a special kind by pure declamation.
For that new technique the new composers went back to the oldest technique of all.
Now, far be it from me to depreciate the works of the composers who are supposed to form the "English school.
If the repeat had not been a favourite resort of lazy composers before his time he would have invented it, not because he was lazy, but because he wanted to go on and could not afford infinite music-paper.
Hummel, Field, and Moscheles were the pianoforte composers who seem to have given Chopin most satisfaction.
To trace his influence we must transport ourselves back fifty or sixty years, and see what the state of music then was, what composers expressed and what means of expression they had at their disposal.
Clementi, Bach, and Field being always the composers most laid under contribution in the case of debutants.
His opinions of composers and musical works show that he had in a high degree les vices de ses qualites.
E fiat major) have been made so common by fashionable salon composers that one cannot help suspecting that it is not quite a natural tone--not a tone of true feeling, but of sentimentality.
His influence on composers for the pianoforte, both as regards style and subject-matter, is generally understood; but the same cannot be said of his less obvious wider influence.
I shall now mention some of thosecomposers with whom Chopin was less in sympathy.
The impresarii chose the libretti for the composers they had engaged, partly according to the applause the subjects had already received, but more to suit the singers they had at command.
The composers treated the oratorio in the same way as the opera seria,[14] only that the want of dramatic variety favoured the adoption of the concert style of music.
The majority of dramatic composers have tried their hand at opera buffa; besides Nic.
The musical forms of the opera seria were modified and remodelled by the comic composers with very unequal skill and success.
The many-sidedness of musical performances in Mannheim had helped to form a very original taste, and Karl Theodor himself was careful to encourage composers and virtuosi of all kinds.
Composers learned to look upon the Credo as material to be worked up into an artistic musical form, even when it did not lend itself easily to the process.
In Germany thecomposers of the Mannheim Kapelle, who were of the first rank, introduced this kind of composition with great success;[27] but Jos.
Almost everywhere in Germany the idea was firmly rooted that the reputation of the musical establishments could only be upheld by summoningcomposers and virtuosi from Italy.
If Mozart does not turn out to be a hothouse-reared plant, he will undoubtedly be one of the greatest composers that has ever lived.
Such an evident tendency to emphasise details at the cost of the whole, only shows how composers took refuge in whatever was capable of musical expression, in order to extricate themselves as far as they could from the burden of the rest.
XII MUSIC The foremost name on the roll of Negro composers is that of a man whose home was in England, but who in so many ways identified himself with the Negroes of the United States that he deserves to be considered here.
Few composers have been so overweighted with poverty or so gifted with loneliness as Franz Schubert.
It was in 1853 that his old enthusiasm for new composers broke forth in his ardent welcome to Brahms (who was then twenty years old), who became a devoted friend and was of much comfort to Frau Schumann after Schumann's death.
One of the few other British composers who attained distinction was John Field, who, like Balfe, was Dublin-born.
He was one of the many composers who should have been kept in a cage.
There are composers of whom few ever heard, whose magnum opus was some romance that still makes the heart-strings tingle by the acoustic law of sympathetic vibration.
There are composers whom to neglect argues oneself ignorant, yet who composed no love affair of immortal charm.
While his father, the elder Garcia, was at Naples, one of the old Italian composers came to produce a new opera.
We have seen the admiration which Pauline Viardot had aroused in many composers besides Brahms.
In 1893, the year of Gounod's death, opera lovers at Covent Garden made the acquaintance of the younger school of Italian composers in Mascagni and Leoncavallo.
This custom, it may be well to point out, was quite in accordance with the tastes and actual wishes of the composers of that time.
Sir Charles Stanford and Sir Hubert Parry (lucida sidera) are rare instances of musical composers with an instinctive appreciation of the fitness and adaptability of poetry offered for musical treatment.
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