Part 20 (1/2)

from its Origin in Italy to the present Time.

WITH ANECDOTES

OF THE MOST CELEBRATED COMPOSERS AND VOCALISTS OF EUROPE.

BY

SUTHERLAND EDWARDS,

AUTHOR OF ”RUSSIANS AT HOME,” ETC.

”QUIS TAM DULCIS SONUS QUI MEAS COMPLET AURES?”

”WHAT IS ALL THIS NOISE ABOUT?”

VOL II.

LONDON:

WM. H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE.

1862.

(_The right of translation and reproduction is reserved._)

LONDON:

LEWIS AND SON, PRINTERS, SWAN BUILDINGS, (49) MOORGATE STREET.

CONTENTS VOLUME II.

CHAPTER XI.

PAGE

The Opera in England at the end of the Eighteenth and beginning of the Nineteenth Century 1

CHAPTER XII.

Opera in France after the departure of Gluck 34