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Grabut was more ingenious as a business man than as a musician, but not all his ingenuity served to prevent the English discovering that he could not write pleasing tunes and that Purcell could.
His was an age when genius inspired confidence both in others and in its possessor, not, as now, suspicion in both; and Purcell was believed in from the first by many, and later, by all even by Dryden, who began by flattering Monsieur Grabut, and ended, as was his wont, by crossing to the winning side.
The works of Purcell and of Mozart are the sweetest music ever composed, yet both composers filled their music with discords "that give delight and hurt not." In 1691 Purcell and Dryden did King Arthur together. The poet had by this time forsaken Monsieur Grabut, who had in his eyes at one time stood for all that was commendable in music.
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