WeGA, Briefe, Digitale Edition
author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
source date: 1955
language: en
availability: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (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 could. 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 should. 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. [...]