MrPunch's history of modern England . g. He only anticipated the com-plaint of a later satirist who wrote : — Spare, execution, spare thy victims bones—Composed by Mozart, decomposed by Jones. Specimens of fashionable musical criticism have already beengiven under the head of opera. Punch had the root of the 292 Pnnc/is^^ Taste in Music matter in him but was lacking in technique, and confesses him-self unable to make out what a critic meant by alluding to a newtenors admirable portamento. He was on much more sureground when he attacked Balfe for mangling Beethoven atthe Grand National Concerts
MrPunch's history of modern England . g. He only anticipated the com-plaint of a later satirist who wrote : — Spare, execution, spare thy victims bones—Composed by Mozart, decomposed by Jones. Specimens of fashionable musical criticism have already beengiven under the head of opera. Punch had the root of the 292 Pnnc/is^^ Taste in Music matter in him but was lacking in technique, and confesses him-self unable to make out what a critic meant by alluding to a newtenors admirable portamento. He was on much more sureground when he attacked Balfe for mangling Beethoven atthe Grand National Concerts at Her Majestys Theatre in1850, when trivial rubbish was sandwiched between move-ments of the Eroica Symphony. A second visit, however,enabled him to withdraw his censure, as the Eroica and C minorSymphonies were performed without being cut in two. Punchhad no use for Wagner, as we have seen, but he fully appre-ciated his romantic forerunner Weber; his salutation of Spohrand Hummel as classics was perhaps a trifle premature. The. ji;?= TASTE IN 1854—VILLIKINS AND HIS DINAH IN THEDRAWING-ROOM Young Lady (who ought to know better) : Now. William, you are not lo^enough yet. Begin again at he took the cold pizen. Mr. PuncJis History of Modern England names of the various musical celebrities who figure in thepages of Pujich in this period afford a striking illustration ofthe transitoriness of the fame of the executant. Who butexperts in musical biography know of Sivori and Ole Bull now ?Even the laurels of the great Thalberg, the most gentlemanly of all the great pianists, author of the most fashionable varia-tions, have withered sadly in the last half century. Punchdoes not seem to have been specially impressed by Liszt, thegreatest of them all, and misspells his name Listz on theoccasion of a perfunctory reference to him in 1843. Thefavourite composers of waltzes were Strauss, the founder ofthe dynasty of the Viennese waltz-kings, and Labitzky. Tothe present generation the
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