The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-02 00:00:00

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with the oplaisai ghee by year repealer, I m estaatially
direst hem these whisk are pat kith by I. la the lost
piece, it is sapeeseogstery for Ito refuse to " admit that a
*whets is soul to the hawses* moss of the Crystal Pa.
bee." No ewe sould ever have dreamed theta saaasferte was
wahinstilling the whole of that vast arcs—ea the coatrary,
the elessaabie supposing& wee, that it inlaid have bees ta•
math at • haw yards' diatomite. Tim surprising result.
therefore, of the 'epodes/tut made on Thursday, wee the het
that the iastrument was net wall audible bat highly
idestlve he • vety large spats woad the Oaths. where
it was pieced—over so large • specie, Weed, was the semi
shady diffused, that as assemblage of several thawed par-
mss might have thoroughly enjoyed • perheasase of that
iseariptisa karma as • "'heather ormeart"—en eatertais-
mat tessally limited to andlowess of two or three tubbed.
Now, as to the abstract Ittatittes cad espabilitiss Gf the
021111110 M-011 which saliest 'phi's. are so pesalise
as to lead to the infers's' that he is not a performers that
loslrsmsat—his pennies, that the piano is "0.17 •
substitute for an admiral swigged bead," sad
"that it can never Gambino with the voice," are the re-
verse of the episioss of all who are oonversent with
the isstrumeat sad its sees. There are also • few truisms
which an quite beside the subject. For bosom* : tells
as that he wand not " re-anange the works of the old mato
ters"—" these productiess should be performed •esietly es
writtes"—" the weeks of tba great masters must be pre-
sented judiciously" • •—" but the piano is not a fitting
nudism for this purpose," Am.
If I be not an amateur of mule, he should sot have
written didactically co the subject—if he be, he ought to
have known that the greater part of the works of most of
the classical ossapseare epeeists of pianoforte music, which,
of Doane, requires no twarraoging. It is only ow:ovary to
name Sebastian Bach, Handel, Haydn, Masan, Clemson,
Beethoven, Weber, Hammel, Keadelseolta—to call to the
recollection of all instructed ateekdase an immense
mass of compositions of the very highest order,
spocially written for Ms pidnowforto. The opiates
that the instrument is "utterly defective In sae-
lode and expressioa " is peculiar to I. Surely be
could sever have heard an adagio from owe of Beethoven's
pianoforte sonatas, or a Lied Moe With of Mendelseohn.
In short, the pianoforte is a distbact sad individual lustre-
moat, for which all the vested amposen have written
volsenaessly ; and there can he se doubt that eoneerts is
which this instrumest is the chief haters may be effectively
given within the Crystal Palace. Of coarse variety ia the
programme would be easily attainable by the intro-
ductio• of pianoforte trios, quartettes, quintettes, sep-
tettes, &c., in whisk stringed and wind instruments SO
sailed into use. Noe awed the vocal music nocessarily, as
your correspondeat supposes, degenerate into " barb Gni
treaty moor." There is • tolerably *itemise repolobte af
vocal mans by the best composers, originally minim
with a pianoforte accempaslmeut. For my pert,
I am coachmen that marts of this description might be
sainesafally introdseed within the building ; while the wind
bead at protest engaged would be beard to mesh rester
advaatsge in the potash, whim its " sonorous metal
blowing martial sounds " would not be subject to that ea-
web, reverberatioo whisk its clangor now awakens beide
the glass soclosare.—Yours, to.,
HORIZONTAL GRAND.