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MUSICAL AND LITERARY MISCELLANY.
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PECULIARITIES AND ECCENTRICITIES
OF COMPOSERS.
Gluck, to rouse his imagination, used to place
himself in the middle of a meadow, under the heat
of a burning sun, with his piano before him, and
two bottles of champagne by his side. In this way
he wrote his two " Iphigenias," his " Orpheus," and
" Paris."
Sarti, on the contrary, chose a large empty room
for the held of his labours, dimly lighted by a single
lamp hung from the ceiling. His musical spirit
was summoned to his aid only in the middle of the
night, and in the midst of the most profound silence.
Thus he produced the " Medonte," and the well-
known beautiful air, " La dolee campagna."
Ciraarosa loved noise, and preferred, when he
composed, to be surrounded by his friends. After
this manner did he write " Les Horaces," and the
"Matrimonio Segreto."
Pa^siello could not tear himself from his bed.
From between the sheets were produced " Nina,"
the " Barber of Seville," the " Moli nara," and others.
It is said that the reading of a passage in some
holy Latin classic was necessary to inspire Zinga-
relli to the composition in less than four hours of
an entire act of " Pyrrhus," or of " Romeo and
Juliet."
Anfossi, a Neapolitan composcrof great promise,
who died young, could not virite a note until sur-
rounded by roast capons, hams, sausages, &c. &c.
(Heaven help us, our English composers are puzzled
where to get the hams and capons !)
It is related of Haydn, that, for the sake of in-
spiration, he used to dress himself with as much
care and elegance as if he were about to be pre-
sented at Court; and that then, after putting on the
ring given him by the King of Prussia, he was in a
state to write. He often used to declare that if he
sat down without this ring not a single musical
idea w ould come into his head.
Grfitry states, in his Memoirs, that his own me-
dium of inspiration was the sipping of tea or
lemonade.
Rossini cannot hear to hear his onn music. His