WeGA, Rezeptionsdokumente, Digitale Edition
author: anonym
source date: 1825
language: en
availability: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Rondeau Brilliant for the Piano Forte; composed by Carl Maria Von Weber. London. H. J. Bannister.

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The music of this now popular composer is often said to be purely instrumental. Be this as it may, the lesson before us does not display that degree of original genius that beams through the greater part of his vocal compositions. We do not mean to infer that it is without originality, for we should consider it almost impossible for a free spirit like Weber’s to stoop to any sort of imitation. It is in his own forcible and nervous style, but it possesses neither the concentration, novelty, nor variety of expression that mark the school to which (if to any) he may be said to belong. Weber’s genius appears not of a kind to be confined to the narrower range of ideas necessary to writing for a single instrument; it is then cramped, and only gives a faint idea of what it is when unrestrained in its natural course. The rondeau is however adapted to afford most excellent practice to those who are not so far advanced in their pursuit as to render it rather a source of amusement than study.