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Our artist returned to Europe in 1846, and for five years led a wandering life of concert-giving in England, France, Holland, Germany, Italy, and Spain, adding to his laurels by the recognition everywhere conceded of the increased soundness and musicianly excellence of his playing. It was indeed at this period that Ole Bull attained his best as a virtuoso.
It was a story of the gods before the world was made, of love deep buried in far eternities of light, . . of vast celestial shapes whose wanderings through the blue deep of space were tracked by the birth of stars and suns and wonder-spheres of beauty, . . a fanciful legend of transcendent heavenly passion, telling how all created worlds throbbed amorously in the purple seas of pure ether, and how Love and Love alone was the dominant cloud of the triumphal march of the Universe...And with what matchless eloquence Sah-luma spoke the glowing lines! ..with what clear and rounded tenderness of accent! ... how exquisitely his voice rose and fell in a rhythmic rush like the wind surging through many leaves, . . while ever and anon in the very midst of the divinely entrancing joy that chiefly characterized the poem, his musicianly art infused a touch of minor pathos, a suggestion of the eternal complaint of Nature which even in the happiest moments asserts itself in mournful under-tones.
Charles Manners in 1903 for an English opera, and Mr. Nicholas Gatty's 'Greysteel, a very able and musicianly setting of an episode from one of the Norse sagas, which was produced at Sheffield in 1906. It is difficult to be sanguine as to the prospects of English opera.
Instead of racing onward with feverish haste to ever increased technical skill at the expense of other development, it were well for the student to pause until each composition attacked, be it but an exercise, could be interpreted with accuracy, intelligence, and feeling. We should then have more musicianly players and singers.
Among those who have written for the violin, Francesca Lebrun, one of the earliest, was born at Mannheim in 1756. A remarkably great singer and accomplished pianist, she won laurels in composition by her musicianly piano trios and her sonatas with violin accompaniment. Pauline Fichtner, born in 1847, became one of Liszt's pupils, and won many public triumphs as a pianist.
It was musicianly, it was melodious, it was sincere; the critics all praised it; but it never took on! The public wouldn't have it. What did it lack? I don't know. At last I couldn't even get it published invisible ink! And I had a wife to support.
His imagination must be kindled by it, and musical imagination is infinitely more precious than musical mechanism. It is by no means intended to underrate technical proficiency. No one can be a satisfactory exponent of music whose technique is deficient, however profound may be his musicianly understanding and feeling.
"Honetht, it wath a lalapalootha!" The pack broke into full cry. "Oh, Mr Saltzburg!" "Please, Mr Saltzburg!" "Do play the fox-trot, Mr Saltzburg!" "If it is as good as the varlse," said the duchess, stooping once more to the common level, "I am sure it must be very good indeed." She powdered her nose. "And one so rarely hears musicianly music nowadays, does one?"
The apparitions of Venus and Pallas, the one urging Helen upon her purposed flight, the other dissuading her from it, give variety to the action, but the work as a whole lacks dramatic intensity, though it rises to a climax of some power. Saint Saëns's music is interesting and musicianly from first to last.
The same may be said of 'Ascanio, a work produced in 1890, with only partial success. 'Phryné, which was given at the Opéra Comique in 1893, is on a much less elaborate scale. It is a musicianly little work, but in form follows the traditions of the older school of opéra comique with almost exaggerated fidelity.
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