Great Italian and French Composers

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The note speaks of the task of compressing into one small volume suitable sketches of the more famous Italian and French composers. The note says the plan pursued has been to devote the bulk of space to composers of the higher rank. The text says that between 1637 and 1700 there were performed three hundred operas at Venice alone.

The text says that what musicians did not dare undertake out of dread of the thunderbolts of the church, a company of literati at Florence commenced in 1580. The text says Les Deux Journées, produced in 1800, is the opera on which Cherubim's fame as a dramatic composer chiefly rests. The text calls the letters of Berlioz, in which he scourges the fickleness of his countrymen in returning again to their false gods, masterpieces of pointed invective. The text says Miss Smithson was speedily involved in great pecuniary difficulty, and, to add to her misfortunes, she fell down stairs and broke her leg.