References
- Arundell , D. 1957 . The critic at the opera London (, p. 286.
- Fenner , T. 1808–1821 . Leigh Hunt and opera criticism: the ‘Examiner’ years 168 – 9 . Lawrence , Kansas See, (, 1972), pp.
- Ibid. pp. 207–10, 310–11. Also Leigh Hunt Dramatic criticism, 1808–31, ed. L.H. and C.W. Houtchens (New York, 1949), pp. 214–18. Hunt doubted whether Die Zauberflöte would ever be so popular as Figaro or Don Giovanni: ‘It is, we suspect, too poetical to be so—too much referring to indefinable sentiments and sensations out of the pale of common experience….’ It was analogous to The Tempest in the Shakespeare canon. Hunt's comments on the 1819 production may be compared with those in The Times (27 May) and Morning Chronicle (27 May), the former generally favourable, the latter not.
- Norwich Mercury, 2 August 1823.
- Norwich Theatrical Observer no. 14, March 1827. Also Norfolk Chronicle, 24 May 1828.
- Norwich Mercury, 7 June 1828.
- A surviving copy of the pamphlet is in the Colman Collection, Norwich Public Library, which also preserves a copy of the theatre bill for the production.
- Quoted in T. D. Eaton, Musical criticism and biography, (London, 1872), p. 253, Taylor was in correspondence with Spohr as early as 1829 when making arrangements for the first English performance of the composer's Die Letzten Dinge at the Norwich Triennial of 1830. The concert at which Spohr's work was performed also contained a scene from Die Zauberflöte, adapted by Taylor to a sacred text under the title ‘The Dedication of the Temple’ and sung by him. R.M. Bacon publicly condemned this tampering with Mozart in the Norwich Mercury‘s review of the concert.
- I. Moscheles, Recent music and musicians (reprint New York, 1970), p.128. See also A. Einstein ‘The first performance of Mozart's Entfúhrung in London', Music Review, vii (1946), pp. 154–60.
- The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review, ix (1827), pp. 520–9.
- Norfolk Chronicle, Norwich Mercury, both 6 June 1829. It is odd that the Mercury showed no more enthusiasm. Its editor, R.M. Bacon, had until 1828 also edited the important Quarterly Musical Magazine
- Rohlffs published The germ of fine piano forte playing from Norwich in 1835. Possibly he abetted Mueller in his choice of Die Zauberflote
- Norwich Mercury 28 March 1835.