Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . rest pupils in the Conservatory, who laughed at him ? Anddid not Handel say of Grluck, the author of Alceste and of Armide, He is as much of a musician as my cook ? Poor Berlioz ! He heard things to make him wince after he wrote his Troyens a Carthage. True, at this period of his life invective was notused against him with such violence as in the earlier contests, but themost unjust and bitter criticisms were not wanting. I have cited a fewof the amenities that Scudo indulged in every time he had occasion tomention a composition of Berlioz. I add a
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . rest pupils in the Conservatory, who laughed at him ? Anddid not Handel say of Grluck, the author of Alceste and of Armide, He is as much of a musician as my cook ? Poor Berlioz ! He heard things to make him wince after he wrote his Troyens a Carthage. True, at this period of his life invective was notused against him with such violence as in the earlier contests, but themost unjust and bitter criticisms were not wanting. I have cited a fewof the amenities that Scudo indulged in every time he had occasion tomention a composition of Berlioz. I add another emanating from a penless authoritative than that of the critic of the Revue des Deux Mondes,but a pen wielded by a man who commanded a much larger number ofreaders through his position on one of the most widely circulated journalsof Paris. Having characterized the score of Les Troyens as a mountain ofimportance compared with the chefs-d*mivre that shine in the heaven ofmusic, he gave M. Carvalho a piece of good advice: Why not replace. A CONCERT OF THE by Gustavo Dore, published in Le Journal pour rire. 1*30. the specters of Priam, CJwrebe, Cassandra, and Hector, too little known tothe public, by four others which should address Berlioz in the followingwords ? The first: I am Grluck; you admire me, you spoke of myAlceste in rare terms of eloquence, and to-day you dishonor my recita-tive, so strong in its sobriety, so grand in its simplicity. The second : Iam Spontini; you loved my Vestale more than Licinius did; you say 171 172 HECTOR BERLIOZ you are my disciple, and you extinguish its burning rhythm with thestagnant waters of your sluggish melopoeias. Lay aside those fillets whichI have bequeathed to my fellow-countryman Rossini. The third : 11 amBeethoven, author of so many immortal symphonies, rudely torn fromthose visions which attend the illustrious dead, as they lie on the couch oftheir glory, by your symphony La Chasse Royale. And the fourt
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