[83] Memoirs of Dr. W. Hayes, Dr. Arne, Lord Mornington, Dr. Cooke, Dr. Nares, and Dr. Callcott, will be found dispersed throughout the eleven volumes of the Harmonicon.
[84] In a memoir of Mr. Spofforth, written by a friend, and prefixed to a collection of his glees now publishing, it is stated that he became actually organist of Lincoln Cathedral, an error which the author will doubtless be happy to rectify.
[85] Outre-meuse, at Liége.
[86] Orlando di Lasso, as the Italians and English call him.—Editor.
[87] A circumstance which had escaped our recollection when we stated this to be the first attempt since Dr. Cooke’s.
[88] Zelter was brought up as a builder. It may be interesting to mention, that Felix Mendelssohn was his pupil. Goethe speaks of ‘the incredible talent of Zelter’s most astonishing pupil.’ This was written when Mr. Mendelssohn was a child.—Translator.
[89] ‘Charles Sackville, eldest son of Lionel, Duke of Dorset, a Lord of the Treasury,’ (in 1746).
[90] ‘Sapperment’ is a very common and rather homely German exclamation of sudden surprise, scarcely susceptible of translation, but somewhat similar to the English word ‘zounds.’ The Germans, moreover, as Mr. Russell correctly states in his Travels, observe a regular degree of decimal gradation in the use of their ‘Sapperment;’ viz.—Sapperment (simply) 1 Sap, Hundert Sapperment, 100 ditto. Tausend Sapperment, 1,000 ditto. Hundert Tausend Sapperment, 100,000 ditto: which latter term, as may be supposed, is only applicable to a state of amazement a hundred thousand times greater than what would be expressed by the simple exclamation of ‘Sapperment.’ The Germans are a calculating people, even in their oaths.