FOREIGN MUSICAL REPORT.
ROSSINI’s Italienerinn (Italiana in Algeri) has been produced on the Josephstädter Theater, but the admirers of his music were less satisfied with this composition than with the former operas of the maestro. This may in some degree have been owing to the sudden indisposition of one of the principal singers, whose part was but indifferently filled by a substitute.
The fourth and last Concert of the Society of the Friends of Music in the Austrian dominions took place on the 24th of March.
Mr. Klein, member of the Hofoperntheater, gave a concert on the 8th of April. The musical world already recognizes him as one of the first virtuosi of the present day on the clarinet, and his performance on this occasion added if possible to his former fame.
Spring festivals have been given in all our public gardens, and our most celebrated composers of dances have contributed thereto their latest labours. Strauss’ and Lanner’s orchestras are certain of attracting the public in crowds. The finest weather adds to the popularity of these entertainments, and the influenza, with which we are still visited, does not prevent the jovial Viennese from seizing upon pleasure wherever it is to be met with.
The celebrated violinist, Lafont, performed before the Imperial Court on the 18th of May. He executed the two compositions of his own which he had previously given at a concert in the Hall of the Musical Society. Of all the violinists that we have heard, he possesses most true taste. He has the secret to touch the heart, and executes forcible and rapid passages with neatness and certainty, without that capricious violation of the rules of art, which ends in the surmounting of difficulties only.