Characteristic Tribute to the Men Ti) ty' Malitran ; a
Fantasia for the PiJnofrte. By I. 3I0sarELEs.
C' Thou art an angel now ;" a Tribute to Me Memory of Madame Malibran De Beriot.
It WilS to be anticipated that such an event as the death of MALT. nu AN would set to work the wits of those who deal in musical wares. It was a subject likely to make a song sell, and therefore songs must be written. .Most of these are even by this time faded and forgotten; but the "tribute" of 3Ioscitri.es has not this merely shop origin, and deserves, as every thing of his deserves, notice. The pianoforte is his vehicle of expression—his language. By no form of words could lie discourse so emphatically and eloquently of 3Imantrasrs character as he thus speaks. But to ninny his language is a hidden one ; and though we believe every phrase and every transition to have had an immediate reference in its author's mind to the subject of his composi- tion, it is difficult to trace it with uniform accuracy. From the con- clusion, it would seem intended to describe the last scene of Mau- nitaX'S professional and of her mortal existence ; the former terminat- ing with that "marvellous shake at the top of her voice" on which the newspaper critics have descanted so learnedly, the latter expressed by a plaintive succession of harmonies. The song purports to be an air composed by MALIERAN, and given to the publishers. It is simple and expressive, and the words are cle- verly adapted.
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