A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany, Giving Some Account of the Operas of Munich, Dresden, Berlin, &C. with Remarks Upon the Church Music, Singers, Performers, and Composers; And a Sample of the Pleasures and Inconveniences That Await the Lover Of
A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany, Giving Some Account of the Operas of Munich, Dresden, Berlin, &C. with Remarks Upon the Church Music, Singers, Performers, and Composers; And a Sample of the Pleasures and Inconveniences That Await the Lover Of...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... theiaudience were entirely indebted to the benevolence of a foreign ambassador, who most disinterestedly departed this life just at a time when a requiem had become a matter of great rarity. The little organ in the choir, a very sweet-toned instrument, was used with a full orchestra of instruments and voices. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... theiaudience were entirely indebted to the benevolence of a foreign ambassador, who most disinterestedly departed this life just at a time when a requiem had become a matter of great rarity. The little organ in the choir, a very sweet-toned instrument, was used with a full orchestra of instruments and voices. The multitude collected round the catafalco, which was blazing with wax-lights, while many beset the choir as though the music promised something great. This cathedral is of all others the place for a solemn dirge, on account of the fine dark hue with which its walls are encrusted, and at this performance it was partly hung with black, and the armorial bearings of the deceased were blazoned throughout it. An immense congregation of priests, divided into two choirs, chaunted the simple Gregorian office for the dead; but the music of Winter, which was afterwards, performed, though fine, struck me as being better adapted for tbe ordinary mass than for a requiem. The choruses in it are masterly, and the flow of harmony quite in the church style, but it wanted melancholy. I should not have imagined, in casually hearing the composition, that it was intended to accompany the last rites of the church over a corpse; the sympathy and interest we all naturally feel on such an occasion, is best heightened by an extreme simplicity in the music, which quality this wants. Nor does the admission of stringed instruments at these times add to the solemnity; the organ and voices alone are, to my taste, more impressive; but perhaps Mozart's and Cherubini's requiems are those which must form exceptions to the rule of extreme plainness. Winter's sweet movement in A flat was charmingly sung--After the requiem was finished, a whole procession of priests and choir...
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