## Title: Gerard Manley Hopkins an Robert Bridges in London. St. Joseph's, Bedford Leigh, Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 1879
## Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
## Version: 4.9.1
## Origin: https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A044817
## License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

[…] Do you like Weber? For personal preference and fellow feeling I like him of all musicians best after Purcell. I feel as if I c[oul]d. have composed his music in another sphere. I do not feel that of Handel or Mozart or Beethoven. Moreover I do not | think his great genius is appreciated. I sh[oul]d. like to read his life. He was a good man, I believe, with no hateful affectation of playing the fool and behaving like a blackguard. […]