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    348 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    The Life Clarke And Labours London Of Vi...

    his hard earnings . At the same time he had almost to create the taste for such music among- the public , by the production and execution of them in

    his own choir , at South Street . " Portuguese In the cho Embassy ir alluded _Novello to , that took attached the to t of the organist Chapel for of the six

    and twenty years , being , - absent but one par Sunday during the whole term

    . or Happy less gifted too , in th a" music famil y capaci choir , " ty , whil l his e chi the ldren first being musicians more

    as well as the greatest literary celebrities of the period , friends including and Shelley visitors , Keats the , Hurs erformance t , Hazlitt , & c , h were -class among music in

    his domestic circle , , was one of his chief g home pleasures , 4 affordi e Life hymn , n " ) wh him com ich positions was delig afterwards ht , ( the int music ense sung , ye of da t l which l so y b sacred y his is , g famil iven that one in as t he of

    appended after-dinner note grace , u , was commemora written as tion he himsel of a f tes t tifi deli ed g htful an musical evening , which the Composer had passed in company

    rare with musicians Malibran . , De As Beriot soon as , Willman he awoke , M nex endelssohn t morning , , he wro other te

    "p leas Th above ese ure which musical little he composi had evenin enj tion oyed s" , in . t - ' an ack exam nowled l gmen e whic t h was the w great idel y

    followed . It was seen how g cheaply and p easily one of the pures a manner t and which most refined would st of pleasures then the mi bonds ght be of procured famillove , and b y

    uniting every member in reng a common pursuit . The exp y eriment , for was th t f ried resh emula other tors homes until , and the each erform success ance f ul f classica attempt l music called

    could b coun y famil try be . done But choirs what still has better , was become done by fri p common so endl well y reunions by thing the ; throug famil and y _Novello hou alone t the , ,

    feeling consisti - this , was a one number of the o chief f ladies promoters and of Choral tlemen Societies meetin , periodical ng ly for the combined practice of good gen vocal and instru g -

    mental music . The reunions of this kind which he assisted in assembla founding i n L ondon a simi , aff l orded ar lan aga and in an thus examp musical le for provincial taste and

    knowledge g were still further p diffused , . awaken Somet a hi desire ng more for , good howe music ver , w but as he req who uired had than done merel so much y to

    indefati to creat gable e demand labours , was for read this y end also , to Vince afford nt N supp ovello ly , and indee by his d

    h earned ands or the voice gra s t t o tude d uce f millions but all , , who not have only of ears al to l wh hear o h and ave

    delight in the melod pro y of well , -tuned sounds . By rendering , the

    348 Notices Of Books.

    348 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/60/