The History of Music in Twelve Lectures

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*** Through his powerful artist-personality Gluck succeeded, after a comparatively unsuccessful career as opera-com- poser in Italy and Germany, in finding in Paris the suitable soil for his musico-dramatic reformatory efforts. Again, at his appear- * "Ces cadences parfaites sont toujours la mort de lexpression", so we read in the work here referred to. ** "Si je voulois m'^tendre sur cet article, je pourrois peut-etre vous faire voir encore que les inversions de la langne italienne sont beauco...up plus favo- rables a la bonne melodie que I'ordre didactique de la n6tre, et q'une phrase musicale se developpe d'une maniere plus agreable et plus interessante, quand le sens du discours, longtemps suspendu se resout sur le verbe avec la cadence, que quand il se developpe a mesure, et laisse affoiblir ou satisfaire ainsi par degres le d^sir de I'esprit, tandis que celui de I'oreille augmente en raison contraire jusqu' k la fin de la phrase", etc. *** Gluck owed his title of "Chevalier" to the decoration, received from the Pope, of the Cross of the Golden Spur, a distinction afterwards conferred on MozAET also.

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