Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

As a student she sang in the Oxford Bach Choir . Mozart was then unfashionable, and Kennedy boldly defended him against the prejudice of the choir's director.

In the years between the 1926 staging of The Constant Nymph and the appearance of Escape Me Never!, MK co-wrote with Basil Dean the play Come With Me (1934), and adapted Charles Dickens 's...

AK sang Susanna in Mozart 's The Marriage of Figaro in London.

The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen , though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau on the topic of the sensitive...

Like many of EJ 's collections, this includes tributes to some of her favourite artists, like Mozart and Hopkins . It ranges beyond private life to public life and the relation between the two. Behind...

Characters in this book (stereotypes all, according to Paul Bailey) include Haydn , Mozart (a little, white-faced genius), Casanova (possessor of a strange, twisted smile), and the Young Pretender .

Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .

FH was a musician before she was a writer. She was performing for family guests by 1798, when her father's diary says a great deal about her ability, and mentions her being the principal performer...

The range of allusion in these poems is extraordinarily wide although the tone is never pretentious. Gluttony is described as a ballad after the manner of Bert Brecht . For the title piece—which speaks...

EF has carried out a great deal of scholarly commentary of a kind best calculated to be useful to readers (though she did not finish her MA thesis on nineteenth-century sexual fantasists like Ouida and...

The Two Bouquets, An Operetta sets out to be very Victorian and also to parody Mozart 's Marriage of Figaro.An Elephant in Arcady, set in the eighteenth century, revolves around the...

Vincent Novello , MCC 's father, was a music teacher, choirmaster, composer, and music publisher, who played the organ for the Portuguese Embassy Chapel at South Street, Grosvenor Square, London, for twenty-six years. There...

At Salzburg in 1879 MCC heard Hans Richter conducting the Vienna Orchestra (now the Vienna Philharmonic), and thought him the best conductor she had ever heard, superior even to Mendelssohn. In London in 1881...

The labours that she details include not only regular artistic creation and routine performance and teaching duties, but also such matters as getting up a subscription to rescue from poverty Madame Sonnenberg (Mozart 's...

When artist and critic Henry Lamb viewed the image of the last, he apparently heard or saw music in it. He informed her: I think there is something so very good about your head of...