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Updated: May 18, 2025
I am sure you would like many things in it. Raff has made great changes in the instrumentation and arrangement of his "Alfred," and probably the opera in its new form will have better effect even than before, although the three or four first performances were much applauded. Altogether I look upon this opera as the ablest work that has been written by a German composer these ten years.
"No, no," sobbed Dame Brinker, lifting her apron to her eyes. "Tut, tut, woman, why do you cry?" said Raff kindly. "We will soon fill another pouch when I am on my feet again. Lucky I told you all about it before I fell." "Told me what, man?" "Why, that I buried the money. In my dream just now, it seemed that I had never said aught about it." Dame Brinker started forward. Hans caught her arm.
There are here no echoes of Raff, or Wagner, or Brahms, men that have each influenced mightily the musical thought of to-day.
"It's hard telling," he answered. "Was he so sick, Raff?" "No, not sick, I may say; but troubled, vrouw, very troubled." "Had he done wrong, think ye?" she asked, lowering her voice. Raff nodded. "MURDER?" whispered the wife, not daring to look up. "He said it was like to that, indeed." "Oh! Raff, you frighten me. Tell me more, you speak so strange and you tremble. I must know all."
"Your two Piano Suites are admirable," wrote Liszt from Budapest, in February, 1883, "and I accept with sincere pleasure and thanks the dedication of your piano Concerto." The passing of Raff, on June 25, 1882, was a severe blow to MacDowell. It was in memory of his revered teacher that he composed the "Sonata Tragica," the first of the four great sonatas he has left us.
Quite against my custom, I have just spent about ten days in bed fighting with a violent fever. As it is a very long time since I heard from you, I begin to be somewhat anxious as to the fate of my "Lohengrin" article, which, before leaving Weymar, I gave to Raff, asking him to send it to you as soon as he had read it.
"She was so tired that she went back to the Plaza before ten. No, I returned to the Groves'. It's no good being in New York alone. We'll have our party together there before Christmas." "I imagined you'd see a lot of her." "Of Mina Raff? What nonsense! She is working all day and practically never goes out.
The parting is heart-breaking; but, when she has married the banker and had eight children, and he has become, it may be, a prosperous barrister, it may be, a seedy raff who has gone twice or thrice into the Gazette; when, I say, in after years Strephon and Delia meet again, is not the meeting ridiculous?
There was Captain Raff, the honourable member for Epsom, who retired after the last Goodwood races, having accepted, as Mr.
"Raff showed himself a pupil of Mendelssohn in his earlier compositions; his symphonies will find more appreciation in the coming century which cannot be said of the Ocean Symphony, for instance."
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