It was sitting by the fire, in a mysterious and magnificent retreat, - now a thing of the past but surviving in our memory, - whence our eyes commanded a view of Paris from the heights of Belleville to those of Belleville, from Montmartre to the triumphal Arc de l'Etoile, that one morning, refreshed by tea, amid the myriad suggestions that shoot up and die like rockets from your sparkling flow of talk, lavish of ideas, you tossed to my pen a figure worthy of Hoffmann, - that casket of unrecognized gems, that pilgrim seated at the gate of Paradise with ears to hear the songs of the angels but no longer a tongue to repeat them, playing on the ivory keys with fingers crippled by the stress of divine inspiration, believing that he is expressing celestial music to his bewildered listeners.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
only for musicologists!,
By sally tarbox (aylesbury bucks uk) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gambara (Paperback)
Novella of some 70 pages (in my edition).This starts off well enough with an Italian count falling in love with a poor woman in Paris. On making her acquaintance he finds she is married to a delusional musician/ composer. Despite talking grandly about his music, the husband only produces rubbish, unless drunk. The count nobly decides to try and help him achieve success before trying to seduce his wife. There now follow PAGES of deep musical conversation which will alienate all but the musicologists among us. They compare Rossini and Beethoven; the composer talks us through the opera he has written; they criticise a work by Meyerbeer... 'And are you not struck by the glory and horror of those long-held notes to which the words are set?...We find here all the sinister spells of Jerusalem Delivered just as we find all chivalry in the chorus with the Spanish lilt and in the march tune. How original is the allegro with the modulations of the four cymbals (tuned to C, D, C, G) ! And MUCH MUCH MORE of the same. Unexpected end but that cant make up for the musical tedium!
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Don Giovanni, Rue Froid-Manteau, Signor Giardini, Angel Gabriel, Count Andrea Marcosini, Spirit of Evil New!
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