THE Movement by Haydn is from his Œuvre 41me., published at least forty years ago in Paris, and scarcely known here: the beauty of the melody, and the original manner in which it is treated, will not fail to strike our readers, and excite their surprise at its having been so long neglected.
THE Minuet of Handel, from the fifth of his twelve Grand Concertos, is known to the frequenters of the Ancient Concerts, and to none else! Wonder is often expressed, on the exhumation of such music, that it so long should have remained buried; but the wonder on this subject will at once cease, when it is considered that music is now a trade, carried on between professors and the shops.
THE Andante of Beethoven has found its way to few piano fortes in England. It is one of the composer’s early works, written when his genius was in full vigour, and before he had got into the habit of crowding his pages with passages which only few can execute.
WE are not aware that any one composition by Kirnberger has ever before been printed in this country. In fact, he was more distinguished as a theorist than as a composer: as the former he ranks, among those who read on the subject of music, who really study the science, as the greatest writer Germany ever produced. The present trifle is from Reichardt’s Musicalisches Kunstmagazin, there set to German words. Kirnberger, born at Saalfeld in 1721, was a pupil of Sebastian Bach, and died at Berlin in 1783. To him the world is indebted for most of the articles on music in the first volume of Sulzer’s Theory of the Fine Arts.
THE lovely quartet of Mozart is from one of his Motets.