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CONTENTS:

1. An Almanack, with musical data.

2. A List of Musical Societies throughout the Kingdom.

3. The Musical Doings of the past year.

TER HALL.-On Wednesday Evening, January 31st, Haydn's Oratorio, CREATION. Vocalists: Mrs. Sunderland, Mr. Donald King, and Mr. H. Phillips. The Oratorio will be preceded by the Anthem, "In that day," composed and conducted by Dr. Elvey, dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness Prince Albert. The Solo parts will be sung by Mr. Dyson, of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. The Band and Chorus will consist of nearly 800 performers. Conductor, Mr. Surman (founder of the Exeter Hall Oratorios). Tickets: 2s., 38., 5s., and 108. 6d. each. The Subscription to the Society is One, Two, or Three Guineas per annum Members and Subscribers now joining may receive Two or Six Tickets for this performance. Book of Words, with 16 pages of the Music, 6d. each; or the Handbook Oratorio, complete, price 3s.; or 5s. bound in cloth, with an authentic portrait of the composer. Office, No. 9, Exeter Hall.

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HER MAJESTY'S PRIVATE BAND. To the Editor of the Musical World. SIR,-You will I hope excuse my trespassing upon your valuable space; but, in consequence of the appearance of a letter in the Musical World of the 20th inst., signed "Truth" (a letter which all acquainted with the facts must acknowledge merited its signature), Mr. Anderson has, in his endeavour to find out the author, thought fit to rest his suspicions upon me, and to accuse me to others of being the writer; resting his suspicions upon an assumed similarity of remarks in that letter and certain remarks contained in a private correspondence which took place between us last autumn relative to professional affairs. That correspondence I must, if necessary for my own exoneration, make public; since, if uncontradicted, Mr. Anderson's present declarations amount to a direct attack upon my character. Mr. Anderson threatens that if the letter in your Journal should be traced to myself or any member of H. M's. P. B., he (Mr. Anderson) shall immediately give orders that such person is refused further admittance into the Queen's Palace. Whether such an extent of power is vested in the office Mr. A. occupies I know not; but from the tone in which the threat was conveyed, I have no reason to doubt his inclination to put it into execution. Therefore, as an act of courtesy no less than of justice, I trust you will kindly insert this note, and deny (as you have the power of doing) that I have ever had communication with your Journal previous to this date. I am, Sir,

JULLIEN AND THE CRYSTAL PALACE.-The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Daily News by a correspondent :-" Sir, your correspondent "X" (of Jan. 31st), considers that music is essential to the prosperity of the Crystal Palace. In that case the Company would do well to think of the words of William Cobbett: There is but one man in the world who can save the country; why don't you send him to Parliament? Now there is one man in the musical world to whom the middle, and what is vulgarly called the lower order of society, owe a debt of gratitude, for affording them the opportunity of hearing first-rate music at a price suited to their means-it is Jullien. Could he and his well-trained band be engaged but a few months, thousands would visit Sydenham. Such an arrangement need not interfere with the present band, which for the garden is perfection.-Y."

(From our own Correspondent.)

SOMEWHAT more than thirty years since, Carl Maria Von Weber produced an opera which holds the same place on the lyrical that The Robbers of Schiller fills on the dramatic stage. Der Freischütz is romantic, fantastic, and, above all, essentially German. The scene could properly be transferred to no other country. The Huntsman's Chorus, the Bridesmaids' Chorus, the drinking song, the incantation scene, are thoroughly German, and perfect pictures, in which proportion, shape, and colour are equally good. In the days when this opera was written, the romantic drama was unknown in France. Victor Hugo had not his name with a new school-Ruy Blas, Le Roi s'amuse, Lucrèce given to his countrymen those immortal works which associate Borgia, and many others. Tragedy walked in stately guise, with hoop and farthingale; and the barbarous Shakspere was shaven, trimmed down, begloved, and berouged, until he was shorn of those horrid excrescences, which made his name a bye-word in the country of Racine and Corneille. "Monsieur Macbeth! Monsieur Macbeth! Monsieur Macbeth! Prenez garde de Monsieur Macduff!" is a fair sample of the style of translation then in vogue. In those days then, and deeply imbued with the idea that there existed but one school for the drama, and that school the French, lived one Castil-Blaze. (He still lives-but, nent, and, as he himself informs us, had purchased at Florence happily, is harmless.) Castil-Blaze had travelled on the Contiand Frankfort eighty or ninety pounds' weight of the various modern compositions then most in vogue. Among the mass of operas so bought by M. Castil-Blaze, was Der Freischütz; and, finding himself possessed of a masterpiece in savage shape, he immediately determined to fit it with breeches, bag-wig, and sword, and make it worthy of the then French lyrical stage and of himself. Accordingly he at once transferred the scene to England, with the barbarous language of which country he fancied he had some acquaintance. The extent of his research may be imagined, by his transferring the scene to a forest, chez vous, and then translating Robin Hood (who was to replace the Zamiel of the original) into Robin of the Woods-Robin des Bois. The characters of Ottocar, Kormo, Agatha, Annette, Gaspar, nold, Anna, Nanci, Max, Kilian, Zamiel, in Der Freischütz, become Tony ReyRichard, Dick, Bill, and Robin des Bois, in the refined version of M. Castil-Blaze. He takes a song from one of Weber's operas, and substitutes it for the original; he adds, alters, amends (save the mark!) curtails, lengthens, and disguises in every possible variety and shape. Weber was furious, and wrote to M. Castil-Blaze, remonstrating on the base injustice done to his opera, and demanding to know why he was so treated. M. Castil-Blaze quietly replied, that the Germans having borrowed so much from his countrymen, it was time they should commence some payment on account. Der unfinished, rugged, and incomplete, that, when produced in Paris, Freischütz, though possessing some germs of merit, was yet so a French audience had refused to listen to it. Pitying its condition, and discerning the real merit it possessed, he (CastilBlaze) therefore took it in hand, redressed it, washed, cleansed and purified it, rouged and anointed it, and then presented it before a Parisian public, who flocked to the Odéon for some hundreds of nights, and acknowledged the merit of the adaptor to be superior to that of the author's. Robin des Bois, there

fore, has ever since kept the French stage, and those who would hear the music of Der Freischütz must do so through the medium of Castil-Blaze.

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Robin des Bois was revived at the Théâtre-Lyrique on Wednesday last; MM. Lagrave, Grignon, Colson, and Junca filling the principal male parts; those of Annette and Agatha being sung by Madame Deligne-Lauters and Madame Girard. I was curious to hear Madame Lauters in a classico-romantic opera. Possessed of a voice, which for compass, freshness, and has roundness, seldom been equalled the French stage, she had hitherto sung in no other opera than the Billet de Marguerite, of M. Gevaert. She had now to deal with music of a very different description, with melodies the most lively and refined, and with airs which required thought, intelligence, capacity and study. She was most favourably received, and sang the duet (in A) with Mdlle. Girard most charmingly, but, after that, her whole performance was slipshod and unsatisfactory; she had not sufficiently studied her part, and evidently thought that did she but remember the notes, and deliver them with that lovely voice which she possesses, no more could be reasonably demanded. Mad. Lauters is much mistaken, and I grieve to see that one so young and childlike, so gifted by nature with all that is required for a singer, should conceive that a composer like Weber could be treated with such levity. Mad. Lauters has the future in her hands. Eighteen years old, with a voice seldom equalled, with a pleasing face, and considerable intelligence, she is certain by steady perseverance to become an artiste; if she be contented with her present position, she remains a pleasant singer, and voilà tout. Madlle. Girard sang her music well, and displayed considerable intelligence in her acting; she was much and deservedly applauded. M. Junca, in the red cloak of Zamiel, made a magnificent "show" in Robin des Bois-a double cross between Ro in Hood, Robin Goodfellow, and Zamiel-in fact a nondescript. The choruses were excellent, and do credit to the steady perseverance of the director, who has trained them in a year. When M. Perrin took the theatre, there were never two in a chorus who sang together. The orchestra was also good, and the overture was encored. The decorations are fresh, gay, and charming, the scenes well painted, and the dresses picturesque; altogether, the success was unquestionable, and the public will flock for many a day to hear those delicions melodies which M. CastilBaze has kindly not excised from the opera.

Marie Cabel, by the grace of God and the will of the people, Queen of the Boulevard, of Léon, Castille, etc., still reigns supreme. Tenor after tenor has succumbed in the part of the muleteer, whereat I am not much astonished, for the music is harsh and the situations absurd. Young Achard now fills the part, and the tenor is worthy of the music, both are very "small beer." As to Marie Cabel, she has so altered, changed, and amended her music, that M. Adolphe Adam, "of the Institute," is deeply indebted to her and her husband, by whose advice she has, no doubt, profited. Nothing can exceed her success; night after night the theatre is crammed to the roof; she will probably play no other part during the remainder of the season. When she assumes her post at the Opéra-Comique I shall watch with great interest for her debut in the Domino Noir, the Diamants de la Couronne, and other gems of the French opera; for she is worthy of better Composers than MM. Adam, "of the Institute," and Clapisson "of the Institute." Mad. Stoltz will shortly appear as Fides in the Prophète, and Mad. Angles Fortuni will fill the part of Bertha in the same opera. I know that Mad. Stoltz has been studying her role with the greatest assiduity, and I shall be disappointed if she does not create an extraordinary sensation in a part so well suited to her great dramatic powers.

Signor Pacini has arrived in Paris expressly to superintend the rehearsals of his opera, Gli Arabi nelle Gallie (The Arabs in the Gauls-a queer name) which will be brought out forthwith, supported by the whole strength of the company. Mad. Ugalde still maintains possession of the chief part in Le Prè aux Clercs, and the public consoles itself remarkably well for the continued indisposition of Mad. Miolan, and M, Grisar's Le

Beethoven. Haydn. J. S. Bach. Mozart. Rossini.

4° Romance des Noces de Figaro 5° Overture de Guillaume Tell The solos in the choral part were sustained by Mesdames Boulart and Printemps, MM. Jourdan and Bussine. The air from Figaro was sung by Madlle. Boulart. The vocal department at these fine concerts is invariably the weakest, and such was the case on the present occasion. M. Girard, as usual, beat time mechanically to the orchestra, which would do as well, or better, without him. This gentleman is statuesque without being beautiful. Never did a more complete automaton hold stick in hand. The man of stone in Don Giovanni is quite life-like in comparison.

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sional correspondent" has lately said enough, and seeing that I About the orchestra your eloquent and discriminating don't feel equal to a notice on the Ninth Symphony, I cannot do better than hold my tongue-being warned, moreover, by the failure of the Duke of Newcastle, who has ventured, ultra crepidam, and not holding with Lord John, that such ambition is "commendable," I can only remark, that whereas I have twice, I think, heard the Ninth Symphony in England without being otherwise impressed than with its length and difficulty, I was yesterday delighted beyond in-asure. Surely, this is Beethoven's greatest work? What a giant he is! What infinite variety-what clearness of effect produced or educed from the most intricate combinations! What a lovely slow movement-and what a scherzo! Can anything be more gracefully playful than that passage in the last movement where the violins take up the air given out by the barytone, and toss it about, as it were, in bunches of mirthful triplets? And the whole finale, how joyous, yet how massive and

posing! That rentrée, too, where the oboe slily slips back from the trio into the opening subject of the scherzo! The whole composition appears to be first cousin to the Pastoral Symphony, poetic ideas. Papa Haydn, with his neatly-powdered wig, stood but on a still more grand scale-inexhaustible in fertility of no chance after Beethoven. It was like putting Hallé (be it said with all respect for his undoubted talent), to play after Mendelssohn. I don't know who made the programme, but he evidently is a bungler.

There has been some more of the Ronconi correspondence, Mad. Giovaunina has given a flat contradiction to some of the statements of her husband's solicitor.

"Paris, 24 January, 1854. "MONSIEUR LE RÉDACTEUR.-I have but one word to reply to the strange letter of my husband's solicitor, both the dates and the figures that he enumerates are perfectly incorrect. As M. Peigué pretends to have my receipts, I defy him to produce them; for the rest, M. Peigné in his letter only confirms what I stated in my request to His Majesty the Emperor of Russia-viz.: that for three months he had not sent me Your obedient, &c.,

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Paris, 25 Jan., 1855. "MONSIEUR LE RÉDACTEUR,-Madame Ronconi has denied the truth of my statement, and before publishing her letter, you were kind enough to communicate the contents to me. There is an account of by whom and by what means the 24,000 francs were paid:-1° by Mr. Blount, banker, Rue de la Paix. No. 3, 9,000 france: 2° by M. Rougement, banker, Rue Tantbout, No. 20, 10,000 francs; 3° by myself, as per the receipts I hold, and which I shewed to you this morning, 5,000 francs; total 24,000 francs. If I