WeGA, Rezeptionsdokumente, Digitale Edition
author: Anonymus
source date: November 1826
language: en
availability: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

- 1. Variations on a favourite Russian Air for the Piano-Forte, by C. M. de Weber. (Cocks and Co., Princes St., Hanover Square.)
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The first of these is an air now well known amongst us: — M. Weber's variations to it shew his science and invention, and his introduction to them is in the fine romantic style of his overtures; but like nearly all the music written by him for the piano-forte, the performer is not considered for one moment; the passages are, with scarcely an exception, so ill-adapted to the hand, the skips are so unnatural, the notes are so crowded, and the necessary contrast of light and shade, — of unencumbered melody and full harmony — is so entirely neglected, that we cannot recommend our readers to torment themselves with this composition; except indeed such as are of the ultra party; those we must resign to their taste. [...]