then, instead of stepping forw: urd as a reformer, he ought, as a true disciple of honored and to effect nothing but what Gluck and Mozart; Cimarosa and Pacsicllé, Méhul and Boieldieu, Chert ahint and Spontini, Beethoven and= Weber, Spohr .and Weigl, Meyerbeer and Lortzing, also tried to effect, and which they succeeded more or less in doing.