PARADIES.

MARIA THERESA PARADIES, a remarkable composer and eminent pianiste, was born at Vienna, the 15th May, 1759. Stricken

MR. R. HARROLD Tree, Madily

R. R. HARROLD THOMAS begs to announce his re

with blindness at the early age of five years, she found in the ORGANIST.-The office of Organist of the Church of

study of music a consolation for her great misfortune. She evinced the most singular aptitude for this art, and was moreover endowed with marvellous facility for the acquirement of languages and sciences. Mdlle. Paradies was equally familiar with Italian, German, French, and English, well versed in the inductive sciences, a proficient in geography and history, danced with grace, and possessed such extraordinary facility of conception, and so tenacious a memory, that she played at chess, regulating her own moves according to the play of her adversary, as if she could have seen the board herself. Kozeluck and Righeni were her masters for the pianoforte and singing; and she learned composition from the chapel-master, Friebert, receiving the advice of Salieri in the dramatic department. She was only eleven years of age when the Empress Maria-Theresa granted her a pension of 250 florins, after having heard her play some of the sonatas and fugues of Bach, with rare perfection. In 1784, Paradies set out on her travels, visited Linz, Salzburg, Munich, Spire, Mannheim, Switzerland, and Paris, in which latter city she played with extraordinary success at one of the Concerts Spirituels in 1785. From Paris she proceeded to London, where she achieved a decided triumph. The most celebrated artistes of the period among others, Abel, Fischer, and Salomon-considered it an

honour to assist in her concerts. On her return from England, Paradies went to Holland, then to Brussels, Berlin, and Dresden, and was everywhere received with marked approbation at her public performances. In 1786, she returned to Vienna. She there applied herself to composition and teaching, published a variety of instrumental pieces, and wrote several operas, which were favourably received at Vienna and at Prague. Her house became the rendezvous of the most eminent and distinguished persons of Vienna; foreigners solicited, as the highest favour, to be introduced to her; and all were equally captivated by the charms of her conversation and the amenity of her manners. This remarkable woman died at Vienna on the 1st of February, 1824, at the age of sixty-five. In 1791, she produced at Vienna Ariadne at Naxos, an opera in two acts; and this was followed by Ariadne and Bacchus, a duo-drama in one act, a continuation of the foregoing opera. In 1792, Madame Paradies gave, at the National Theatre of Vienna, Le Candidat Instituteur, an operetta in one act; and in 1797, a grand opera, entitled Rinaldo and Armida, at Prague. A grand cantata of her composition, on the death of Louis XVI., which was printed with pianoforte accompaniment, was brought out at Vienna in 1794. She had already published her funeral cantata on the death of the Emperor Leopold. Among the other compositions of Paradies, may be mentioned Six Sonatas for the harpsichord, Op. 1 (Paris, Imbault); Six Sonatas, Op. 2 (ditto); Twelve Italian Canzonets, with accompaniment, for pianoforto (London, Bland); and Leonora de Burger (Lieder, Vienna).

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FÉTIS.

MISS BLANCHE CAPILL (Pupil of Louis Leo-Voice,

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MR.

R. LAND begs to announce his Removal to 12, Hindestreet, Manchester-square,

Saint James, Bermondsey, Surrey, having become vacant, the Trustees of such church will meet at the Workhouse in Russell-street, on Thursday the 3rd of May next, at Eleven o'clock in the morning precisely, to receive applications, with testimonials, from persons desirous of becoming candidates for the appointment, and to have interviews with them. The Salary is 40 per annum, payable quarterly. No blind person or female is considered capable of the duties. Further particulars may be known at the Clerk's Office, 185, Bermondsey-street.— By order of the Trustees, B. and G. DREW, Clerks.

TO COUNTRY PROFESSORS.-An Associate and engaged at the Philharmonic Societies, Royal Italian Opera, &c., and who has a Professor of the Royal Academy of Music, who has been several years moderate practice as a Teacher of the Piano and Harmony, is desirous (on account of ill health) to remove into the country, and would be glad to purchase a connection or a partnership, or to exchange connections on recíprocal terms.-Address E, at the office of this paper.

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SIR HENRY B. BISHOP.-Mr. MITCHELL feels
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