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At dessert the musician and the cook both abjured every heresy; one was humming a cavatina by Rossini, and the other piling delicacies on his plate and washing them down with Maraschino from Zara, to the prosperity of the French cuisine. The Count took advantage of this happy frame of mind, and Gambara allowed himself to be taken to the opera like a lamb.
Furberia e Puntiglio, which is a second-hand imitation of GOLDONI. The music, by Signor MARCELLO DI CAPUA, is agreeable, particularly a quartetto and a cavatina. RAFFANELLI shines in this piece as a first-rate actor. Il Matrimonio Secreto, the chef-d'oeuvre of CIMAROSA, and of its kind, perhaps, the most charming opera extant.
The next day he wrote the cavatina "Ecco ridente in cielo" to take the place of Garcia's unlucky Spanish song, borrowing the air from his own "Aureliano," composed two years before, into which it had been incorporated from "Ciro," a still earlier work. When night came, he feigned illness so as to escape the task of conducting. By that time his enemies had worn themselves out.
"Do you know Raff's 'Cavatina'?" asked Jessica a trifle shyly. "By heart," answered Eleanor. "I love it. Wait and I'll get the music for you." After a moment's search she produced the music, picked up her violin, and, after tightening a string, announced herself ready. The girls listened, spellbound. It seemed as though Eleanor's very soul had entered into the violin.
In these last impassioned utterances of the master, we find a strain holier, more profound, different from anything which the art of music has yet produced. The Cavatina on its first performance, on March 21, 1826, was received with indifference, and the finale, which was an exceedingly long and difficult fugue, fared even worse.
The apartment he called his "den" where he now sat practising the "Cavatina" for about the two-hundredth time was perhaps the most fascinating nook in the whole house, inasmuch as it contained a little bit of everything, arranged with that perfect attention to detail which makes each object, small and great, appear not only ornamental, but positively necessary.
She followed him with nimble step, at times humming a cavatina, at others addressing him fresh instructions as to the manner of holding her bouquet, or touching him lightly with the end of her cane, to make him admire some birds perched upon a branch. Clotilde and Monsieur de Moras were waiting for them, seated upon a bench outside the gate of the chateau.
She possessed deep feeling and correct judgment. Her shake was most beautiful; Signor Pacini's well-known cavatina, "Il soave e bel contento" the peculiar feature of which consisted in the solidity and power of a sudden shake, contrasted with the detached staccato of the first bar was written for Mme. Pasta.
Single songs are almost exploded.... Even the prima donna, who formerly would have complained at having less than three or four airs allotted to her, is now satisfied with having one single cavatina given to her during the whole opera."
It should find a good place among those violin ballads of which Raff's Cavatina is the best-known example. Another violin solo in A is more florid, but is well managed. The two show a natural aptitude for composition for this favorite of all instruments. For full orchestra there is a suite, "The Lady of the Lake," also arranged, for piano and organ. It is smooth and well-tinted.
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