Abstract: Though a more oddly assorted quartett of authorities could hardly be picked out than Voltaire, Dr. Burney, Zelter, and the musical editor of “The Atlas,” — each of them gives his drachma or his mite of information to those who seek the causes of the present state of Berlin Opera in its past history. From the philosopher-courtier, the friend of Johnson and Garrick, the worshipper of Goethe, and the pleasant man of modern art and letters, who mingles in his speculations the Hummels of Germany and the Hunts of Cockayne with a graceful and good-humoured individuality, we learn different parts of one and the same history.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-07-20
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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