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Updated: June 4, 2025
And when Leslie had informed her of Phyllis's talent she eagerly demanded that they be given an immediate concert. And it was Phyllis's sudden whim to render a very charming and touching program, ending with the Chopin "Berceuse."
Johns has also written a few part songs and some instrumental works, which maintain his characteristics. A delightful "Canzone," a happy "Promenade," and "Mazurka" are to be mentioned, and a number of pieces for violin and piano, among them a finely built intermezzo, a berceuse, a romanza that should be highly effective, and a witty scherzino.
Lind, who was present at the first, seems to be the most enthusiastic. We were not present at either, and, therefore, have nothing to say on the subject. From an account of the first matinee in the Athenaeum we learn that Chopin played nocturnes, etudes, mazurkas, two waltzes, and the Berceuse, but none of his more developed works, such as sonatas, concertos, scherzos, and ballades.
"Yes, certainly it was; but with such a temptation to error" and she smiled towards Lady Florence "it is not wonderful that you made a mistake, and, as you look so contrite, you shall be forgiven. Agatha, there's a dear, just ask that man to go up to the band, and tell them to play another waltz, 'La Berceuse, before 'God save the Queen."
Alexandre Dumas fils speaks in the "Affaire Clemenceau" of the "Berceuse" as None of Chopin's compositions surpass in masterliness of form and beauty and poetry of contents his ballades. In them he attains, I think, the acme of his power as an artist.
The publisher on being applied to answered that not only would he not renew the contract, but that he would not even print Chopin's compositions if he got them for nothing. Among the pieces offered was the Berceuse.
Here is the programme: Programme. Andante et Impromptu. 2. Etudes. 3. Nocturne et Berceuse. 4. Grande Valse Brillante. 5. Andante precede d'un Largo. 6. Preludes, Ballade, Mazurkas et Valses. To commence at half-past eight o'clock. Tickets, limited to number, half-a-guinea each. To be had, &c. Mrs. Lyschinski told me that this concert was chiefly attended by the nobility.
She watched the straight thin rain, and thought about Rorie chiefly to the effect that she hated him, and never could, by any possibility, like him again. Gradually the trickle of the rain from an overflowing waterpipe took the sound of a tune. No berceuse by Gounod was ever more rest-compelling.
The nocturnes including the Berceuse and Barcarolle should seldom be played in public and not the public of a large hall. Something of Chopin's delicate, tender warmth and spiritual voice is lost in larger spaces. In a small auditorium, and from the fingers of a sympathetic pianist, the nocturnes should be heard, that their intimate, night side may be revealed.
With regard to this story of Gutmann's it has, however, to be stated that, though it may have some foundation of fact, it is not true as he told it; for Wessel certainly had published the Berceuse by June 26, 1845, and also published in the course of time the five following works. Then, however, the connection was broken off by Wessel.
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