 on the same harpsichord ; but she is now at her summit, which is not marvellous; ' and,' says the writer of the letter, ' if I may judge of the music which I heard of his composition in the orchestra he is one further instance of early fruit being more...  The Foreign Quarterly Review - Page 3981846Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 lehte
...great master of his instrument. I went to his father's house, to hear him and his sister play duetts on the same harpsichord ; but she is now at her summit, which is not marvellous; and, if I may judge of the music, which I heard of his composition in the orchestra, he is one further instance... | |
 | 1818 - 590 lehte
...great master of his instrument. I went to his father's house, to hear him and his sister play duetts on the same harpsichord; but she is now at her summit, which is not marvellous; and, if I may judge of the music, which I heard of his composition in the orchestra, he is one further instance... | |
 | George Hogarth - 1835 - 486 lehte
...of his instrument. My correspondent went to his father's house to hear him and his sister play duets on the same harpsichord; but she is now at her summit,...which I heard of his composition in the orchestra, he is'one further instance of early fruit being more extraordinary than excellent!'" This remark, now... | |
 | George Hogarth - 1838 - 316 lehte
...in Germany, vol. ii. sister play duets on the same harpsichord; but she is now at her summit,which is not marvellous; 'and,' says the writer of the letter,...further instance of early fruit being more extraordinary t/ian excellent f " This remark, now absolutely ludicrous, was foolish even at the time it was made;... | |
 | 1882 - 858 lehte
...find distinctly expressed in Barney's information—given when Wolfgang Mozart was sixteen — that "he is one further instance of early fruit being more extraordinary than excellent." Some years later Leopold Mozart had an opportunity of entirely effacing this prejudicial impression.... | |
 | Henry Edward Krehbiel - 1884 - 128 lehte
...of the young musician who had long ago outgrown his prodigy years, contained a sentence like this: " If I may judge of the music which I heard of his composition...early fruit being more extraordinary than excellent." The sincerity of Dr. Burney, however, and his devotion to the truest and best art of his time, are... | |
 | Henry Edward Krehbiel - 1884 - 128 lehte
...of the young musician who had long ago outgrown his prodigy years, contained a sentence like this: "If I may judge of the music which I heard of his...early fruit being more extraordinary than excellent." The sincerity of Dr. Burney, however, and his devotion to the truest and best art of his time, are... | |
 | Edward Joseph Dent - 1913 - 476 lehte
...put faith in the letter of his anonymous Salzburg correspondent, who said of Wolfgang at sixteen, " If I may judge of the music which I heard of his composition,...early fruit being more extraordinary than excellent." At the age of eight he was in Paris writing harpsichord sonatas, which Leopold sent off at once to... | |
 | Stanley Sadie - 1996 - 538 lehte
...Ki 33 , he wrote: ‘Young Mozhard, too, is of the band, you remember this prodigy in England. . . If I may judge of the music which I heard of his composition,...early fruit being more extraordinary than excellent'. 76 Some years later, Michael Haydn's earliest biographers wrote that the Salzburg church symphonies... | |
 | Simon P. Keefe - 2003 - 324 lehte
...composition of K. 133, he wrote: Young Mozhard, too, is of the band, you remember this prodigy in England... If I may judge of the music which I heard of his composition,...early fruit being more extraordinary than excellent. 35 Possibly it was reactions such as these that led Mozart to write to his father: I confess that in... | |
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