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Excerpt from Mozart
OF the few noteworthy treatises relating to Mozart and his work that are accessible to the English reader, the most important is far too bulky for ordinary requirements. In this work I have aimed at both interesting and informing the reader: in the first place, by a summary of the great master life-story and, nextly, by some account of his chief and (in their respective classes) variedly representative compositions. It has been my care throughout to make the style of treatment as agree able - and, therefore, as untechnical and non-academical -as possible.
As regards opinion, I claim to have been independent of previous labourers in this field. In all matters of historical and biographical fact, one could not possibly treat Mozart at all now, as their subject, Without owing much to the splendid effort of the late Otto Jahn. Jahn, however, was strictly an amateur in music certainly of the best and most enlightened type; and, conscientious Teutonic savant as he was, it was perhaps only to be expected (though none the less regrettable) that the vast material he had to deal with should be unloaded, so to speak, without much concern for artistry in literary shaping and presentation. His critical pronouncements are admirably sound and clear but they were bound to be personal: for'the requisite data I have had perforce to go to Jahn very often but for whateveraesthetic views and sentiments, general or particular, here pronounced, I may accept the full responsibility.
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