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Novello, Ewer and Co.'s Pianoforte Albums

1885; Volume: 26; Issue: 510 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3356104

2397-5326

Berthold Tours, H. A. Wollenhaupt,

Musicology and Musical Analysis

Servieres lays great stress, is that whereas Wagner's vulgar and pitiful farce, " Une Capitulation," should have excited such boundless animosity, his notorious broch1ere " Gernzan art and German politics," in which ten times severer things are said of the French, passed so entirely unnoticed as not to be made the ground of any hostile demonstration against " Rienzi," which was produced soon after its publication.But then the French and Germans had not been at war, as they were when " Une Capitulation " was written.Not the least interesting part of the book is the preface, which contains a great many shrewd remarks on the present opposition to Wagner.He sums up the motives by which many of his fellow-countrymen are actuated, as the pseudo-patriotic, the commercial, and the motive of anxiety or dread of detection-adroitly drawing a parallel between the composers of to-day and the dramatists who would not listen to Shakespeare as interpreted by Henrietta Smithson.We close our account of M. Servieres' excellent book with the following spirited passage:-" If French composers were to succeed in keeping in checli the invasion of German music, they would stand alone in hindering that intellectual reciprocity which prevails nowa-days between the races of Europe.Is the merit of our savanfs lessened because they have profited by the chemical or physiological discoveries due to the investigations of English science ?Are our painters less admired because the annual salowz opens its doors to many Italian, Spanish, Swedish, or American artists who live in Paris ?" Choral Mczrch; Advance, Britaalnia !Composed for the Grand Colonial Procession in the Dome Entertainment of the Brighton Grammar School, by C. T. West.Ileather Bells.Two-part Song for ladies' voices.