Les Souvenirs de l'Italie; six Valses and Trios for the
Pianoforte. Composed by FREDERICK DE SEIGNEUX.
When a young lady is requested by the mistress of the house to sit awn to the pianoforte, partly from a wish to compliment the per- former, and partly from the -hope of entertaining her company, a valse " is an easy and judicious resource. It tickles the ear, catches the attention, and, better than all, is soon ended. This little collection may be safely recommended for such a purpose : the compositions are very good of their kind-pleasing without being commonplace, and correct without any pedantic display of learning.
The Monthly . Minstrel. Nos. I. II,
The professed intention of this work is to publish, monthly, the poetry of " some eminent lyrical writer " connected with the music of some- composer of celebrity. The publisher's notion of musical or poetical celebrity, may be judged of from the list of names-appearing on the titlepage ; among which we find BEETHOVEN and - BLOCK-- LEY! BvaoN and -- BAfix ! The contents of the work are-a popular waltz transformed into a song; the spirited Minuet in HAYDN'S. first :!:infonia, adapted to words; used a pleasing song by the above.- nained coadjutor of BEETHOVEN.
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