BRESLAU.
OUR music-director, Mr. Mosevins, whose influence on the taste of the public, and especially of the singers of our city, is universally and gratefully acknowledged, has gained a fresh claim on our thanks by the production of Handel’s oratorio of Samson, on the eve of Palm Sunday, in which the vocal solo pieces, as well as the choruses, were chiefly performed by amateurs; the execution showed a careful and zealous rehearsal, and was received with universal satisfaction. In the Passion week we had abundance of musical performances. On Ash Wednesday, Graun’s Versöhnungslerden Christi, (the Redeeming Sufferings of Christ,) under the direction of Mr. Siegert; on Holy Thursday, Haydn’s Creation; on Good Friday, Graun’s Tod Jesu (the Death of Jesus); all these performances, however, were more or less deteriorated by the prevailing epidemic, the influenza. A variety of obligato cough accompaniments between the songs were, alas! too prevalent. Of our theatre we have but little to report. Herold’s Zampa was received with approbation. Meyerbeer’s Robert the Devil did not meet with success. Madame Piehl is, since the departure of Demlle. Wüst, our first and last singer. In the Autumn the meeting of natural philosophers to be held here is to derive additional interest by a musical festival, at which Handel’s Jephtha, and several vocal compositions of Spohr, Mozart, Hesse, and other eminent masters, are to be produced.