" "6 Abt, Franz, His compositions,.....Cocks's Misc. ii. 195 ... 115 American Musical Fund Society,. A. W. T. i. 169, 179 Auber, D. F. E., Account of,........ ..i. 147 Bach, J. S., and his Works, by Dr. Marx, i. 203; Head 64 66 Bellini, Vincenzo, By H. T. Tuckerman,. ...i. 153 Christmas,.. Church Music,..... 66 65, 73, 81 Complimentary to Signora de Ribas,. Ole Bull,. ....... .1. 38 INDEX. .ii. 13, 39, 47, 183 Mlle. Caroline Lehmann's,.. Mme. Sontag's,. ii. 21, 30 Musical Fund Society,. 46 66 New York.-From "HAFIZ "-The rival operas; Mme Thil- From A. W. T.-Philharmonic Concert; Beethoven's 8th From C. C. P-Muiic in Leipsic; Mlle. Lehmann; Operas of London.-From C. C. P-The Opera; Chamber music; "6 Cuzzoni, Signora, The Lind of her time,... Foster, ii. 67 England, Statistics of Music in.......... FINE ARTS: The Dusseldorf Gallery,. ..ii. 68 Brackett's Group and Mr. Greenough's Letters.. Academy of Design in New York. .i. 3, 62 .148 .148 The Walhalla,. 66 FROM MY DIARY." Funeral Marches; Notices of Beethoven more sentimental .H. F. Chorley, ii. 130 64 "and Piccini,.. Goldschmidt, Otto,.. 64 ......................1. 125, 133 66 Absurd Rumors of.... ...... ..i. Haberbier, M., the pianist,. .ne 66 "6 ...by Zur, in her art only. nds her, aban- 151, .118, 134 Pergolese's Stabat Mater, (G. P. Reed & Co.).. i. 3 i. 12 .i. 15 .i. 15 .i. 29 i 45 .i. 45 . 45 ..93 ..93 .i. 109 118 .149 .189 ii. 31 .31 37 37 76 76 .76 Night's Dream ;" 2. Elegie, by Ernst; 3. Eight Melo- . ii. 110 ... 73 ii. 188 -76, 110 Haydn, Joseph, Facsimile of his visiting card,.... ii. 132 ..ii. 172 ...i. 193 ... 4 .. ii. 198 .. (See Musical Intelligence.) ... ii. 19 Lehmann, Mlle. Caroline,. ....... 94. 206; ii. 13, 39 Music in,.. (see Correspondence and Intelligence.) i. 1.-As an Artist, J.'S. D., i. 42.-Compared with Sontag and Alboni, ii. 67. ..... 110 ... 123 .i. 173 ..i. 54 ü. 19, 28, 41 .Hogarth, ii. 155 Words, i. 45; His Posthumous works, i. 159; ii. 182, 129 ; His Birthday Festival in Boston, ii. 149. Public rehearsals, i. 37.-(See Concerts.) *ji. 107 26, 33, 42 ; his “Don Juan," i. 33; ii. 9; his Sympho. guage, (T. H) 1. 201; in the past Half Century, an for the Million, (H. W.) 1. 63. Musical Conductors,........ Lond. Mus.' World, ii. 148 ... 111 3; ii. 70. (See Concerts.) 78, 95, 101, 111, 118, 126, 135, 143, 150, 158, 106, 174, 182, 102, 111, 119, 126, 135, 151, 159, 166, 175, 183, 191, 199, 203. 126, 143, 166, 174, 143, 151, 168, 167, 175, 183, 191, 199, 207 ; ii. 7, 39, 119, 127, 135, 159, 167, 199, 135, 199. Miscellaneous. .ii. 159, 183, 199. 21, 119 land, ii. 147. ......, 180 · Albany Register, i. 124 .E. i. 202 ..., 101 pondence, and Musical Intelligence.) ..... 158 ; ii. 39 i. 37 ..A. W. T. i. 84 Onslow, George, Sketch of,...........T. R. ii. 179, 196 abroad, ii. 199; before Mozart, from Oulibichett, i. 121, 130, 138, 145. 158 Boston, 77, 182. Raimondi, ii. 3-letter on the practice of, from A. W. T. i. 170 the Enharmonic, 84, 100. ...D. R. S. i. 51 ..ji. 119 (See Correspondence and Musical Intelligence.) .i. 83 ... 23 .P. ii. 2 ..C.P. C. i. 1 i. 10 Tennyson, i. 18 J. S. D. i. 36 .... 43 .R. H. Stoddurd, i. 51 .i. 60 .C. P. C. i. 68 Tennyson's Princess, i. 74 ......C. P. C. i. 83 .... London Leader, 84 Anon. 84 J. S. D. 107 ..C. P. Cranch, 124 ..... Robert Herrick, 132 J. S. D. 132 Thomas Hlood, 140 0. G. Hughan, 147 0. W. W. 148 148 H. W. Herbert, 165 R. II. Stoddard, 179 ..J. G. Whittier, 137 W. W. M. 202 C. T. B. 12 .J. 59 ..J. G. Whittier, 68 ..C. P. C. 73 .C.P. C. 82 .J. S. D. 138 London Leader, 154 Old English Verses, 196 .ü. 123 ... 90 ... 94 .i. 3, 44, 93 .i. 3 ....ii. 87 9 ... Salieri, Antonio,..... .......A. W. T. i. 190 .ji. 84 his Symphony, ii. 6; his Mass in G, 100; (See " From our Diary.") 82, 83, 84, 92, 99, 108, 115; his Album für Jugend, 133 ; Schumann and Wagner, by H. F. Chorley, ii. 121. ....j. 98 137; in America, i. 142; ii. 37, 38, 46, 54; copied no- Musical Intelligence.) hus" Faust,” (ibid), i. 143. .... 156 .E. H. ii. 20, 28, 58, 68 ....i. 193 ...ii. 99 ... ii. 115 ... A. W. T. i. 89 (From the French), ii. 66. 173; Translations from, ii. 137, 185, 193, 200: Letter 186 .....ji. 50 .ji. 186 .ii. 140 . 130 BOSTON, APRIL 10, 1852. PROSPECTUS. Dwight's Journal of Music, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, 21 SCHOOL STREET, BOSTON. TERMS.— Two Dollars per annum, or One Dollar for six months, always in advance. BY C. P. CRANCH. Its contents will relate mainly to the art of Music, but with occasional glances at the whole world of Art and of polite Literature, indeed at every thing pertaining to the cultivation of the Beautiful; including from time to time: 1. Critiral reviews of Concerts, Oratorios, Operas; with timely analyses of the notable works performed, accounts of their composers, &c. 2. Notices of new music published at home and abroad. 3. A summary of the significant Musical News from all parts, gathered from English, German, French, as well as American papers. 4. Correspondence from musical persons and places. 5. Essays on musical styles, schools, periods, authors, compositions, instruments, theories; on musical education; on Music in its moral, social, and religious bearings; on Music in the Church, the Concert-room, the Theatre, the Chamber, and the Street; &c. 6. Translations from the best German and French writers 'upon Music and Art. 7. Occasional notices of Sculpture, Painting, Architecture, Poetry, æsthetic Books, the Drama, &c. 8. Original and selected Poems, short Tales, Anecdotes, &c. A brief space also will be devoted to ADVERTISEMENTS of articles and occupations literary or artistic. All communications, relating to the business or contents of the paper, should be addressed (post-paid) to J. S. DWIGHT, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BENEDICT, who has been of late in Naples, At the OFFICE OF PUBLICATION, 21 School St. preparing for the press a book of travels in By REDDING & CO., 8 State St. America, of which he has contributed some chap“ GEO. P. REED & CO., 13 Tremont Row. " SCHARFENBERG & LUIS, 483 Broadway, N. Y. ters to La France Musicale, ascribes the secret of " DEXTER & BROTHERS, New York. her triumphs to the fact “ that the great singer “ E L. WALKER, Philadelphia. makes a conscience of her Art.” We translate " JOSEPH SHILLINGTON, Washington, D. C. what follows: “ The child, brought up and fashioned in the school of adversity, and finding in music all the Persons willing to become Agents for procuring consolations which a cruel destiny had refused to subscribers, especially Music-Dealers and Teach- her; the young girl, who, thanks to the care of ers, are invited to correspond with the Editor, as her excellent masters and friends, Berg and Lindabove. Satisfactory references required, and lib- blad, learned in good season to identify herself eral commissions allowed. with the masterpieces of the great composers ; and finally JENNY LIND, at the apogee of her For Dwight's Journal of Music. glory, shunning the world and society, and know ing, loving, dreaming nothing but her Art, had cerSONNET TO MY PIANO. tainly some powerful elements of success. “ It would not be easy, in our time, to meet any cantatrice whomsoever, who could play and Surely there is a soul within these strings, sing to you from memory, from the first note to So deeply thrills my own, when 'mid thy chords, the last, the Armida of Gluck, the Chateau de Moving with eager hands, my whole frame rings With inner music, far transcending words. Montenero of Dalayrac, the Vestale of Spontini, As after absence long I open thee, the Deux Journees of Cherubini, the operas of Dear friend, and late here linger at thy side, Mozart, Weber and Meyerbeer, the oratorios of To conjure up thy hidden harmony, Handel and Haydn, all the melodies of MendelsA boundless joy runs through me, as a tide sohn, of Franz Schubert, of Schumann, the MaFilling the sandy channels and low shores zurkas and Etudes of Chopin, without counting a Left by the ebb of feelings that depart, very extensive dramatic repertoire, comprising And the duil slime of tame monotonous hours. Thy dear delicious voice, Harp of my heart, the scores of Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi. Hath won me back to thoughts of noble height, “It would perhaps be yet more difficult to And wrapped me in a reverie of delight. name an artiste, who could appreciate and com prehend these great schools, become penetrated Jenny Lind's Devotion to her Art. with their genius, preserve their local colors, and appropriate to herself their styles. It would be The prime donne of the opera are seldom great almost impossible to find a musicienne, who could musicians. Many of them have been well trained at sight decipher the most difficult pieces, retain in the use of the vocal organs, and in the style melodies of an irregular and unusual rhythm, and and spirit of their peculiar line of singing; they repeat them, after several days, as if she had know their oft-repeated rôles by heart and what created them herself. Malle. Lind unites these life to infuse into them; but to most of the im- precious qualities. But this is not all. The mortal creations of musical genius they are utter grand thing, I repeat it, is that she makes a constrangers. They have had no deep, broad musical science of her art; that in the smallest city of culture. The Swedish songstress, however, is an Germany or of America, she will put the same exception. No one knew the full measure of her zeal, the same verve into the execution of the power, and wherein she was greater than all airs she may have selected, or the roles she may others, until he knew her wide range of studies have undertaken, that she would if she were and her many-sided intimacy with all the styles making her debut in the Salle Ventadour, in her and masters of her Art. She is a musician as Majesty's Theatre, or in Tripler Hall; that she well as a singer; with her whole soul she has never concerns herself about what is said by studied Music, in all its noblest illustrations, as critics, friends, enemies, or the public in general, well as the mere art of giving effect to a certain but thinks of her art, and of her art only. limited range of operatic parts. “ Detached from what surrounds her, aban |
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