The famous Musard, the originator of the Promenade Concerts, died
a few days ago at Autueil near Paris in his sixty-eighth year. The famous Musard, the originator of the Promenade Concerts, died a few days ago at Autueil near Paris in his sixty-eighth year.
Herr Kroff, the professor of vocal music, well known in London for many years for his talents as well as his amiable and inoffensive character, died a few weeks ago in the south of France.
It is affirmed by several Parisian journals that Itossini has engaged to write a grand five-act opera for the Academic Imperiale. It is also said that Verdi has undertaken to compose an opera for the English stage. We give these reports, valiant quantum.
M. Flotow, the author of the favourite opera of Martha' has just com- pleted another opera, Le Meunier de Maran, which is about to be produced in a few days at Hanover. An illustrious dilettante, Prinoe Emilede Wittgenstein' has composed a Cantata on Uhland'a Ballad, The Blind Ring, which has been performed with great éclat at Hanover.
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