concert-like

Updated: August 2, 2026

When Gluck and Mozart transported tragedy from the church to the stage and concert hall, concert-pitch naturally had to assume the rôle of church-pitch, and thus the former has in fact gradually become higher than the latter. There is still another fact connected with this. Händel's operas seem to us concert-like; the arias of Bach's church cantatas often appear operatic.

- The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English