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MUSICAL AND LITERARY MISCELLANY.
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will become the guardians of that fame which a
great master commits to the love and the discern-
ment of posterity.
All that we can be said to know well of Handel,
and with proper choral power, are the " Messiah,"
"Israel in Egypt," "Solomon," and the " Dettingen
Te Deum." We have lately had " Samson ;" and
how much remains behind to make the author's
bodily presence still as palpable to us, as when, not
■ long ago, he was domiciled in Lower Brook-street,
Grosvenor. square I Pleasant is the memory of
genius ; endeared is the locality which it has haunted
and rendered sacred by association ! That the pub-
lic should have existed for seventy or eighty years
upon three or four works, with some odd selections
— that it should yet have to come " Deborah," the
noble "Jubilate." the " Chandos Anthems," the
" Funeral Anthems for Queen Caroline," &c. &c.,
that " L'AUegro" and " II Penseroso," in which
Handel has not suffered by contact with the genius
of Milton, are yet partially unheard — that there exist
in the Royal Library, and, we believe, in the Fitz-
William Museum, noble remains of the industry of
the master still in MS., — aftords a cheering prospect
of the continued advancement of music. For it is
not to be denied by any, except those who unduly
appreciate the labours of such men as Mendelsohn
and Spohr, that the age is destitute of any one com-
manding spirit; and however it is sought, by creating
a factitious popularity, to place one or other of the
cleverest of living musicians on the throne of choral
music, the public are resolute in not being cheated
of their homage. The world of music is at present
a republic. — Monthly Chronicle.
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