ORGAN.
SELECT ORGAN PIECES, from Masses, Motets, and other sacred works of MOZART, HAYDN, BEETHOVEN, CHERUBINI, PALESTRINA, and other classical composers of the German and Italian schools, arranged by VINCENT NOVELLO. Nos. 31 to 36. (A. Novello.)
WHAT the preceding numbers of this work contain, we have had no means of judging, having only received those now under notice, and must confine ourselves to them. By means of very close engraving, twenty-two pieces are included in these numbers, principally from Haydn’s and Mozart’s sacred compositions, but some few are by Novello, Portogallo, and Bonno. We are not among those who think that the Masses, &c. of Haydn and Mozart are, taken altogether, equal to their secular works; many of them, we are persuaded, would never have been published by the consent of the composers, but parts of them make very good organ pieces. These Mr. Novello has culled, and, with his well-known ability, converted them to a very useful purpose. He certainly calculates his adaptations for superior organists, and is not sparing of notes. Sometimes there will be found too many, by second-rate performers; and we take the liberty to mention to Mr. N. that in the country, nay even in the metropolis, are several respectable organists, very well qualified to do the duty of parish churches, who think his arrangements too much crowded for ordinary players, and too full of harmony for country congregations.