The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TVESDAY EVENING, MAY IS, 1869.

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LITERATURE.

The Life of Rossini. By 11. Sutherland Edwards.

One Vol. Pp. 314.

Hurst and Blackett.

Rapidly sketched though this biography of the
greatest of all Italian Composers has obviously
been, it has still, quite as obviously, been produced
with all the conscientious care in any way possible,
bearing in mind the remarkable rapidity of its pro-
duction. Mr. Sutherland Edwards, as a musical
critic of undoubted ability, has, in that,xespect, one
good qualification at least, for becoming the bio-
grapher of the great maestro. Beyond that, however,
he has other hardly less recoguiza'tle qualifications.
He was already " up" in his theme before its treat-
ment, thus, was by him fortunately unilertaken. He is
a skilled man-of-letters. He has the journ &it's rea-
diness of pen. 1-13 has a wide acquaintance with
the Lyrical Drama. He has an exquisite appre-
ciation of the divine art—mere particularly of
inu_ic of a dramatic or oinratic character. The
present work is ole almost coufessedly of no par-
ticular elaboration. It in no way affects to be ex-
haustive. It is a rapidly produced portraiture of the
dead musician—a portraiture as rapidly produced
as that pencilled by Gastave Dore. With this wel-
come difference, however, that Sutherland Edwards'
sketch is one of Rossini as he was in life, not—
as with Dore's almost painful deline ttion—a limning
of Rossini as he lay in death. The Frenchman's
tribute partakes of the indecorous, partakes of the
irreverent. Not so our author's. Here, there is no
thought of irreverence or of indecorum. The Italian
Composcrpar excellence is revealed to us successively
in the three great phases of his genius, or rather in
the three great stages of its manifestation. Naturally
enough, therefore, his " Life" is sketched in three
divisions. Part One—relates to " Rossini and his
Early Works." Part Two—to "Rossini at Naples."
Part Three—to "Rossini's French Career." By an
astounding misprint on the first page of the first
chapter it is ludicrously set forth that " when in
1709 (sic) Paer's Camilla' was brought out at
Bologna, Rossini, then little more than an infant,
took the part of the child." Su that, according to
this lapses, supposing Ros-,4ni then to have been
literally an infant, he would, at the period of his re-
cent demise, h.tve been about 160 years of age. Born,
as Rossini was, and as Mr. Edwards correctly states
upon the very next page, on the 29th of Feb., 1792
just two mouths after the death of Mozart--he hail
at the period of his demise reached the age of 70, or
was, in other words, four years less than an octoge-
narian. During th:.: first half of his life he was wonder-
fully industrious. During the second be was compara-
tively the reverse—reposing upon his laurels, as the
phrase is, or enjoying his reputation. When ho was
tiirty• seven, for example, he had composed thirty-
seven operas. ;Be, then, if afterwards he produced,
in quantity, comparatively little, in the quility of his
compositions, in their ripened and perfected beauty.
as masterpieces, he surpassed himself, or at any rate
the masi of his earli.:r achievements. Beginning the
long and radiant list of his operas in 1810 with La
Canibiale di Matrimonio, an opera in one act, for
whic't the composer (then Lig'iteen) received £8
Ro.sini iu 1829 (when thirty S3VCII ye trs of age)
ended his career as a composer for the lyrical stage
with Guillaume Tell. After that he wrote in 1832
(when forty) the Stabat Mater, and, later on, (when
upwards of seventy) the Mcsse Sollenelle. Restrict-
ing one's attention, however, exclusively to the
list of his operas—what operas that list of seven and
thirty comprises! Ifs first grand sucee,.s in that
way in 1813 —Tancredi ! His opera of operas,
three years afterwards, namely, in 1816—the most
in: ea.cly characteristic of all the productions of his
enius—ll Barbiere Siciglia! Another master-
piece,, produced in that same year, -1816 —Otello !
Two famous operas in the following twelvemonth,
1817—to wit, Cenerentola and La G'azza Ladra !
In the next, 1818— Mose is Egitto ! In the next,
1819—La Donna del Lago ! In 1823--Semiramide !

In 1829—Guillaume Tell! Then—the Stubat
Mater! Then—the Messe Solennelle ! To say
nothing of all the intermediate operas, the sym-
phmies, the quartettes, the cantatas, the choruses !
Here, indeed, was musical fecundity. Here, in
truth, and in the fullest degree, was the blending
together of originality and creativeness. The
astonis'aing rapidity of some among Rossini's most
remarkable improvisations has been vividly in-
stanced by his English biographer. Due mention
is made, as a ma:ter of course, for example of the
famous aria di nzi, the immortal "Di Tanti Pal-
phi," which was composed by him while a dish of
rice was being fried for his dinner, as the Venetian
substitute for macaroni. The amusing inci-
dent of the maestro being threatened with assas-
sination by au infuriated drum-hater by reason of the
duet for drums opening the overture to La Gazza
Ladra, is duly notified. Mention is also made
laughably of Sigismondi's whimsical indignation at
the introduction, into the score of Otello, of horns
and trombones—Sigismondi, that foe of brass in-
struments, exclaiming, with a shulder, " Four
horns 1 are we a hunting party ?" And actually
mistaking the mention in the score of the Ist, 2nd,
and 3rd trombones (so the ludicrous story runs) for
123 trombones! As to the marvellous effect produced
by Rossini's performance of his own music on the
piano nothing can well be finer than Auber's cele-
bration of it in his record of their first interview.

Rossini had gone to the piano at Auber's request of ter
dinner, and there sang to his own accompaniment
Figaro's cavatina Largo al factotum della I
shall never forget," said M. Auber, " the effect pro-
duced by his lightning-like execution. Rossini
had a very beautiful baritone voice, and he sang
his music with a spirit and verve which neither
Pellegrini, nor Galli, nor Lablache approached in
the same part. As for his art as an accompanyist,
it was marvellous. It was not on a keyboard,
but on an orchestra that the vertiginous hands of
the pianist seemed to gallop. When he bad finished
I looked mechanically at the ivory keys—l fancied
I could see them smoking ! On arriving home I
felt much inclined to throw my scores into the fire.
It will warm them, perhaps,' 1 said to myself ;
besides, what is the use of composing music, if one
cannot compose like Rossini.' " Throughout the
whole volume Mr. Sutherland Edwards sustains the
interest of his theme. As a biographic4l sketch of
Rossini the work is clever and vivacious, and—not
the least of its merits—delightfully anecdotal.

THE MURDEROUS ATTACK ON TIIE POLICE AT
LEA BRIDGE.

The cowardly ruffian who committed the brutal assault
upon Ward, a constable of the N division, at Lea-
bridge, on Sunday night last, and which it is probable
may terminate fatally, was apprehended last night. His
name is David alias Thomas White, a " brickie," or
labourer in brick yards, and his past career affords abun-
dant evidence of his brutal nature. He was examined
to-day at Worship-street, and remanded. The magis-
trate refused to take bail, as it was not improbable the
man might die.

AN UNFOR7 UNA 7 E WHITSUN

EXCURSION.

A number of Gravesend excursionists attended at Bow-
street Police-court, before Mr. Flowers, this morning, to
make application for assistance under the following extra-
ordinary circumstances:—

One of the holiday-makers, named Higgins, said they
were told when they took their tickets at Charing-cross
that there would be a return train at 12 at night, but at 11
there was no means of returning from Gravesend to Lon-
don. About 300 were left behiud, and had to remain there
till this morning.

Mr. Flower advised the spokesman of tho unfortunate
holiday-makers to write to the directors or else proceed
against them in the County Court.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(7IiIs Day.)
ROLLS' CITAMBERS.
(Before Mr. Church, Chief Clerk.)
THE GREAT CONTENT CASE.-SAURIN V. STARR.

In this casa an application was made to the vaca •
tion Chief Clerk on the part of the defendant for
further time to answer the bill of complaint. The
Chief Clerk inquired whether the plaintiff would
give further time. On the part of the plaintiff it was
stated that whatever time the chief clerk thought proper
would be granted. The Chief Clerk allowed fourteen
days further time for the defendant to answer the plain-
tiff's bill of complaint, on payment of 6s. Bd. costs. Order
accordingly.

The Flora Theatre at Cologne has been totally
destroyed by a fire 'which broke out just after the per-
formance had been concluded. The catastrophe is sup-
posed to have been the work of an incendiary.