Author: Thomas Busby

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781230404622

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... pal professors, assisted by the pupils of the conservatory. The same day, every theatre in the city performed some favorite piece of his composition: it was the picture of the Transfiguration, exhibited at the funeral of Raphael. giordanl's musical frauds. Giordani, who flourished in this country during the latter part of the last century, had, for several years, been connected with a troop of Italian strollers, with whom he traversed Italy and Germany, in their way to England. Though the possessor of some talents, he was the most daring plagiarist of his time. A passage from this master, another from that, a bit of one song and a scrap from another, constituted his sonatas, concertos, and vocal productions, which by a misnomer as bold as excentric, he called original compositions. From England he went to Ireland, where he became acquainted with Tenducci; who, shortly after, was confined for eloping with a lady of that country. Presuming that his new friend would not very quickly be liberated, Giordani seized the opportunity the circumstance offered him, of pilfering some of his manuscripts, of which he no sooner got possession, than he published them in his own name. But among these, there happened to be three trios, with copies of which the composer had obliged an Iri-.h nobleman, who the moment he saw them published as the compositions of another master, exposed the fraud to the Irish public; and Giordani fled back to England, followed by the repute he had earned, and treated with the scorn he so well merited. lafont. Charles-Philippe Lafont, one of the most excellent of living violinists, was born at Paris, where the beauties of his execution now draw numerous audiences to the concerts he is in the habit of giving. His first lessons...