[4] For an able criticism of the composers and some of the performers mentioned, the reader is referred to Professor Ritter's very valuable History of Music, in two volumes.
[5] In the Library of Entertaining Knowledge, vol. iii. p. 76.
[6] Anonymously contributed to the Boston Folio for May, 1877.
[7] It would, perhaps, be better at present to except those of Wagner, upon the surpassing merits of which the best critics are as yet divided.
[8] It should also be here remarked, that there has been, too, a remarkable improvement made in the construction of most all musical instruments; they having been brought to a nicety and beauty of form and tone probably not dreamed of by the makers of the past.
[9] The church-bells of the city were also employed in rendering some of the music.
[10] From a writer in the New-York Herald.
[11] She was a vocalist of rare powers, and was considered the equal of the celebrated Miss Greenfield, or, as the latter was frequently called, the "Black Swan."
[12] Eugene L. Brown. He was possessed of very promising histrionic ability, had frequently taken a leading part in amateur theatricals at Dover and elsewhere in New Hampshire, and was the author of a drama which was highly spoken of by the press of Dover. Unfortunately, in 1875 he died.
[13] The writer considers it proper to precede the sketch of the virtuoso, Joseph White, by a brief account of that wonderful instrument to which the latter has given his chief study, and in the playing of which he has become in at least four countries so deservedly famous.