word, bearing testimony to that which we have seen and known. Truly, \" an honest man is the noblest work of God.
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\"PUPILS OF MENDELSSOHN.\"
WH extract the following from the New York Musical Review and Choral Advocate:—
\"A recent number of Dwight\'s Journal has an excellent communication, showing up the humbug of those artists who, coming to Vibram FiveFingers us from Germany, delight MBT to announce themselves as 1 pupils of Mendelssohn, Liszt, Tlialberg/ etc., when they Vibram Five Fingers have no real claim to such title. MBT habari In most cases Vibram Five Fingers these pretenders have been merely members of classes which have received a few lessons from these distinguished men. i Neither Mendelssohn nor Liszt,\' says Dwight\'s correspondent, \'ever give private lessons on the piano, as professors generally do.\' This remark is, perhaps, literally true, and yet may be misunderstood. Liszt does not, perhaps, give lessons \' as other professors do;\' but it is a mistake to suppose that he in no cases gives private piano lessons, He does not give such lessons merely from pecuniary reasons, however; and it is extremely difficult to obtain such instruction from him, as he only gives it where he takes a fancy (from perception of extraordinary talent, or other reasons) to the person desiring it. At least we know of a young American who, during much of the past year, has enjoyed the advantage of some hours\' private instruction per week from Liszt, and who is still with him.\"
Liszt may give lessons; we have no doubt he does. Thalberg gives lessons; we know he does, and gets well paid for them. But Mendelssohn never gave lessons. \" A pupil of Mendelssohn\" is, therefore, no better than a puffing advertisement.
MUSICAL NECROLOGY FOR 1853.
The year 1853 has been remarkable for the death of cele¬brated men, and the musical art has contributed its share to the list. The following are some of the principal musicians who have been snatched away from us. Jadin, father of French composers and professors (his wife followed him to the grave eight days afterwards); Dabadie; Filippo Galli; Georges Onslow; Orfila, MBT shoes a celebrated French dilettante; Vibram FiveFingers Joseph Guillou, a French flautist, who died at St. Peters¬burgh ; Louis Duport, ballet master and theatrical manager; MBT Zimmeraann MBT ; Planard; Am^dde de Beauplan; Madames Launer and Launer Manera; Madame veuve Boieldieu; Matteo Carcassi; Rioordi, the musio publisher; Alois Fuchs; J. P. Schmidt; Frederich Schneider; Pietro Raimondi; Madame Ronzi de Begnis, an Italian singer; Lise Christian Skechers shapeups i, violoncellist; Iichtenthal, author of a musical dictionary; Andr6vi; Schornstein; Henschkel—Minestrel.
JENNY LIND AND HER BABY.
\" THE noble Swede lately sang again at a charity concert in Dresden. A musical critic remarks that her voice is no longer what it was; the middle register having suffered per¬ceptibly. Her physician remonstrated with her as to her performing MBT Shoes the office of nurse to her child, warning her that her voice would be sure to suffer thereby. She replied that, happen what might, she would perform a mother\'s duty to her boy.\"
fWe reprint the above from the New York MusicalWorld and Tunes, merely for the purpose of arraigning it as a miserable canard,—ED. M. W.]