WeGA, Rezeptionsdokumente, Digitale Edition
author: Anonymus
source date: 1. Mai 1825
language: en
availability: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

MR. W. BANKES AND MR. BUCKINGHAM.

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Drury-lane has brought out another production of Weber's, Abon Hassan, by name. The manner of the composer of Der Freischutz is audible in the overture, but we cannot think it contains any thing particularly estimable. Indeed the more we hear of this latter wonder, the more we are surprised at its attraction. It has, it is true, a regular place. There are traits of fancy and strong originality, particularly in the overture; but as a whole, Der Freischutz is dull and invocal from the absence of melody, except where it appears in slight strains, and in detached parts which have no continuity. Weber, it seems, it is decreed to succeed to the empire of Rossini. Both houses, it is said, are employed on his Preciosa. It were to be wished that the purveyors of our musical pleasures would bear in mind the morning gun of the critic, and not spoil a good thing by that damnable trick of iteration.

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