Excerpt from Cherubini, Memorials Illustrative of His Life and Work
The idea of undertaking this work was suggested to me by the circumstance that the information hitherto published about Cherubini lies for the most part scattered in pamphlets, periodicals, and dictionaries. My main object, therefore, has been to bring together the facts of his life. I hope that in quoting from the various criticisms that have been from time to time made upon the composer's productions, as well as in venturing to express some opinions of my own, chiefly where others have not spoken, I have adopted a course that will commend itself to the judgment of my musical readers. They must not expect to find in the present memoir that fulness of description and that scientific treatment in detail which are essential to any thoroughly adequate review of compositions so elaborate and magnificent as are those of Cherubini.
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