Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . layed at Paris,and he had made no further little more, and he would havewritten a second letter to the emp-eror—to thank him!Berlioz never heard La Prise de Troie, except a single fragment,—the duo between Chorebe and Cassandra,—sung by the barytone Lefortand Madame Pauline Viardot, at one of the concerts directed by the mas-ter at Baden in the merry season—that season in which Tout Pariscame together in the coquettish little town of the grand duchy. This firstpart of Les Troyens is superior to the second in the judgment of manymusicians.
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . layed at Paris,and he had made no further little more, and he would havewritten a second letter to the emp-eror—to thank him!Berlioz never heard La Prise de Troie, except a single fragment,—the duo between Chorebe and Cassandra,—sung by the barytone Lefortand Madame Pauline Viardot, at one of the concerts directed by the mas-ter at Baden in the merry season—that season in which Tout Pariscame together in the coquettish little town of the grand duchy. This firstpart of Les Troyens is superior to the second in the judgment of manymusicians. M. Pasdeloup first gave one act, then two; and lastly the wholework, on the same day on which it was given by M. Colonne at the Chatelet(December 7,1879). The star of the founder of popular concerts1 had begunto wane, and, besides, the execution was better, and much more careful, atthe Chatelet than at the Cirque dHiver. M. Colonne, however, was ableto give only four representations of the La Prise de Troie, while the 1M. CARICATURE BY Le Boulevard,- 1863. 174 HECTOR BERLIOZ success of La Damnation de Faust, after more than fifty performances,was far from being exhausted. Madame Rose Caron was the young artist who sang at Pasdeloupsthe little part of Hecuba in the fine ottetto of the second act. She hardlysuspected at that time that she would become a few years later the greatlyric tragedienne so applauded by Paris, for whom no rival need be sought,because there is none. Les Troyens complete, but played in two successive evenings,1 after-ward obtained an immense success at Carlsruhe. The Capellmeister, FelixMottl, a spirited Wagnerian, was the one who took the initiative in thisgrand manifestation. Unfortunately, it will doubtless produce a greaterstir in Grermany than with us in France. It is ever to be regretted that the attempt of M. Lamoureux to produce Lohengrin at the Eden Theatre failed on account of the threats andhisses of a troop of ra
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