[68] How much good music is to be found in our libraries, that is utterly unknown to the public! It is a curious fact, that an entire opera by Haydn, the full score in his own hand-writing, and which not only has never been performed, but has never been seen, except by very few persons, is now in the possession of a gentleman in London! It was composed for the King’s Theatre, but never paid for, therefore never delivered.—Editor.
[69] The composer’s intention is, to bring to mind this consolatory promise, by a musical phrase familiar to all lovers of Handel’s sublime Messiah.
[70] The musical critic in the Examiner makes himself merry with our opinion of RUBINI’s singing. To differ from so profound a judge is, no doubt, a proof of great hardihood, not to say presumption, but our temerity is not without other abettors besides the Spectator; a Sunday print of the very day on which the Examiner is pleased to be jocular, had the boldness to handle the Signor rather roughly; and two, if not three, other papers—not contemptible ones—have been rash enough to hint that he is not quite so perfect a singer as a few French journals and our facetious friend so unhesitatingly assert. Moreover, if the sprightly critic will condescend to consult some of those who have made music the chief study of their lives, and have a due portion of cerebral matter in their craniums, he will find that our opinion is tolerably well backed though certainly it differs much from that entertained by many members of CROCKFORD’s, and by divers lady-singers who are deeply learned in the opera songs of the last dozen years.
[71] We have inadvertently stated this to be from the 4th Grand Concerto.
[72] Treatise on the Construction, Preservation, Repair, and Improvement of the Violin, and all Bow-Instruments, together with a Dissertation on the most eminent Makers, pointing out the surest marks by which a genuine Instrument may be distinguished, by Jacob Augustus Otto, Instrument Maker at the Court of the Arch-Duke of Weimar. Translated from the German, with Notes and Additions, by Thomas Fardely, of Leeds. 66 pages in 8vo. (Longman, Rees, Orme and Co.) 1833.
[73] Repairing a damaged one would have been a more logical expression; but whether the author or his translator is answerable for the phrase, we cannot pretend to say.
[74] What mathematics had to do in the matter, we cannot guess. (Reviewer.)
[75] An amateur of Liverpool.
[76] Of Liverpool.