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The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a flower. In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes by Haydn. Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to nearly conceal him.
Upon that basis you will soon build quartettes and symphonies. What is the good of rushing ahead? The pyramids were not begun at the top. Your symphonies at present are trunkless heads, ideas without any stuffing. Oh, you fair spirits, become incarnate! There must be generations of musicians patiently and joyously and piously living in brotherhood with these people.
When, many years afterward, Haydn was crossing the Straits of Dover to England, amid his sufferings he could not help laughing at the ludicrous recollections of this early experience of his. To his prompting it is that we owe the lovely series of quartettes which Haydn wrote still as fresh and full of serene beauty as when first tried over by the virtuosi of Weinzirl.
But it is not alone as the writer of graceful and beautiful music that Haydn has a claim on our remembrance; he has been truly called the "father of the symphony." Mozart once said: "It was from Haydn that I first learned the true way to compose quartettes;" and "The Creation," which must ever be counted one of the masterpieces of oratorio music, was his work.
Don't you play cards at all?" "Mother won't have them in the house. We have `Quartettes, but they are different. ... Can you lose much at shilling points?" "A fair amount, if you're unlucky, but you can win it, too! I generally do win, as a matter of fact!" "What is the most you ever lost in a night?" Geoffrey grimaced expressively.
Bones, and to his curiously hideous offspring, Miss Bones and Master Bones. The same holds good with regard to the other families, those of Mr. Bun the Baker, Mr. Pots the Painter, and their friends, and we can only hope that these families make up in moral worth for their painful lack of physical attractions. "Educational Quartettes" were played in exactly the same way.
At last the company thinned, leaving but a few couples and quartettes lingering over new wine and old stories. And then came Mr. Brunelli to Katy's secluded table, and drew a chair close to hers. Katy smiled at him dreamily. She was eating the last spoonful of a raspberry roll with Burgundy sauce. "You have seen!" said Mr. Brunelli, laying one hand upon his collar bone. "I am Antonio Brunelli!
Gaynor is possessed of the sympathetic insight that enables her to win the utmost popularity with them. Her work is not confined to this vein, but includes some more ambitious songs for older performers, and even vocal quartettes.
Adair was passionately fond of music, and when he found that Miss Colwyn really knew something of it he was in his element. They discoursed of fugues, sonatas, concertos, quartettes, and trios, until even Lady Caroline raised her eyebrows a little at the very technical nature of the conversation; and Sir Philip exchanged a congratulatory smile with Margaret over her friend's success.
His Highness has, to my great delight, intrusted me with the errand of sending to you these 60 ducats. We have been playing your quartettes again, and his Highness was even more charmed and delighted than at the first hearing, three months ago. Yet he cannot take it amiss if I find in them a compliment to myself also.
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