[24] See “La Revue de Paris,” March 1, 1856.
[25] There are opera-goers still living who have heard Cimarosa’s “Matrimonio Segretto,” but no opera seria by an Italian composer anterior to Rossini has been heard even by the oldest habitué.
[26] Rousseau wrote the “Dictionnaire Musicale” in 1754.
[27] Preface to Victor Hugo’s libretto of “Esmeralda” (set to music by Mademoiselle Bertin).
[29] Ferdinand Hiller’s Conversations. M. Azevedo says it was in conformity with Rossini’s advice that Habeneck produced Beethoven’s Symphonies.
[30] Conversations with Rossini by Ferdinand Hiller.—Musical World, 1856.
[31] This letter was made public at a sale of autographs which took place in Paris last March, and was printed by most of the French papers immediately afterwards.
[32] D. F. E. Auber, sa Vie et ses Œuvres. Par B. Jouvin.
[33] See the contract for the production of this work, p. 128.