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Six years later, when Ole Bull was staying at his country home, near Bergen, where he always tried to pass the summers, the two formed a more intimate friendship. They played frequently together, sonatas by Mozart and others, or trios, in which Edward's brother John played the 'cello parts. Or they wandered together to their favorite haunts among mountains, fjords or flower clad valleys.
On the terrace in front of the big red house were other tables with white covers under awnings like huge sunshades, where people who could afford the terrace sat in splendor and in isolation and listened to the music, played on the veranda, of violins and cello and piano. Ransome and Winny and the children chose a pink-covered table on the lawn under a holly tree in a place all by themselves.
Her chamber music includes a nonette and sextette for strings, two quintettes, several piano trios, in two of which clarinet and flute replace the usual violin, a number of sonatas and other pieces for violin and piano, several 'cello sonatas, some flute and piano pieces, and numerous piano works and songs.
And they had tea there, such a tea as stands out forever in memory, beautiful and solitary. What the children didn't have for tea, Ranny said, was not worth mentioning. And after tea they sat in luxurious folding-chairs under the terrace and listened to the violins, the cello, and piano.
Suddenly an inspiration came to Ronnie. Brightness returned to his face. He stood up. "Darling," he said, "I told you that an even greater moment was coming for us." She rose also, and faced him, expectant. He put out his hand and lifted the Infant. "Helen, let's go to the studio, where I first told you I felt sure I could play a 'cello.
Ronnie's rough tweed suit and shooting boots, were a curious contrast to the satin knee-breeches, silken hose, and diamond shoe-buckles he remembered in his vision; yet his manner of holding the 'cello, assumed without conscious thought, and the positions of his knees and feet, were so precisely those of that quaint old-time figure, that Ronnie never doubted that when he raised the bow and his fingers bit into the strings, the flood of harmony would be the same.
And all the company drank wine from oddly shaped bottles, or beer out of stone or pewter "krugs." At the end of the long, narrow room stood two huge casks, one on either side of a small stage where three men in the costumes of Tyrolese peasants played a zither, a 'cello, and a violin, for a gaily dressed boy and girl to dance.
"That is a pity; our choir is so excellent two violins, a viola, clarinet, 'cello, double bass, the trumpets and drums, and of course the organ. Our organist himself " At that moment a young clergyman came into the room, making apologies and bowing subserviently. "Ah, this is Mr. Golightly the-h'm Hon. and Rev. Mr. Storm. You will take charge of Mr.
"And skate well and play the 'cello a little and that's nearly all you know about me. You don't even know whether I can teach well or talk well or what is stored away in my mind. And I know just as little about you." "I've learned one thing about you in this last minute," he muttered. "You can keep your head." "Why not?" There was a note of laughter in her voice.
"Mozart showed what the 'cello was able to do in the quartets he dedicated to the ''cellist king, Frederick William of Prussia. And then, the 'cello has always the musical importance which attaches to it as the lower of the two 'outer voices' of the quartet ensemble.
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