The century illustrated monthly magazine . al declamation of the Greeks, by introducinginto the opera, recitatives which faithfully ex-pressed the sentiment of the words. Theirinfluence upon Italian music was slight andtheir names are mostly forgotten, except by thestudent who seeks them upon some remote page of history. The opera was ruled by thesingers, and these cared mainly to display therange and quality of their voices, while the in-dolent and pleasure-loving people of the south,wishing to be amused with the least effort,found the traditional arias strung upon a lightdramatic thread most
The century illustrated monthly magazine . al declamation of the Greeks, by introducinginto the opera, recitatives which faithfully ex-pressed the sentiment of the words. Theirinfluence upon Italian music was slight andtheir names are mostly forgotten, except by thestudent who seeks them upon some remote page of history. The opera was ruled by thesingers, and these cared mainly to display therange and quality of their voices, while the in-dolent and pleasure-loving people of the south,wishing to be amused with the least effort,found the traditional arias strung upon a lightdramatic thread most in accord with their tasteand temperament. But, transferred to Frenchand German soil, this germ of theory has de-veloped by a series of evolutions into the mag-nificent musical drama of to-day. The twonames which stand out most prominently inthis dramatic reaction are Gluck and foundation of the richness of orchestration,which forms one of its chief features, was laidin the dim organ-lofts of Germany, where for ?W ,,ip1 alii. MOZART AT NINE YEARS OF AGE.(FROM A PAINTING IN POSSESSION OF A. SANLLICH.) more than a hundred years threadbare organ-ists had been delving in the mysteries of coun-terpart and harmony — men who lived mostlyin their own palace of sounds, and died un-known, until one day Bach and Handel camebefore the world with their grand results. Bachwas content to work all his life in his modestplace for love of his art and a scant pittance,to go on weaving his incomparable harmoniesuntil they were merged in the eternal the web so simple and subtle was a webof gold on whose priceless treasures successivegenerations of artists have been nurtured. Han-del wrote for thirty years according to the Ital- 208 MOZART—AF1ER A HUNDRED YEARS.
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