When Cimarosa's opera of Matrimonio Segreto was performed before the Emperor Joseph, he invited all the singers to a banquet, and then in a fit of enthusiasm, sent them all back to the theatre to play and sing the whole opera over again!Foreign Review.

Napoleon was once present at the performance of one of Pasiello's operas, in which was introduced an air by Cimarosa.

At length, when the air by Cimarosa was played, the emperor turned round, and taking Pasiello by the hand, exclaimed, "By my faith, my friend, the man who has composed that air, may proclaim himself the greatest composer in Europe."

"It is Cimarosa's," feebly articulated Pasiello.

I care no more for Cimarosa, Than he did for Salvator Rosa, Being no painter; and bad luck Be mine, if I can bear that Gluck! Old Tycho Brahe, and modern Herschel, Had something in them; but who's Purcel? The devil, with his foot so cloven, For aught I care, may take Beethoven;

CIMAROSA, DOMENICO, a celebrated Italian composer; composed between 20 and 30 operas, mostly comic, his masterpiece being "II Matrimoneo Segreto"; he was imprisoned for sympathising with the principles of the French Revolution, and treated with a severity which shortened his life; said by some to have been poisoned by order of Queen Caroline of Naples (1754-1801).

En arrivant derrière la haie du bois des Chevreuils, j'entends une voix qui chantait les premières mesures d'un air de Cimarosa, mais une voix charmante, une méthode pleine de goût....

Vous exposer sans cesse à être découvert ou par Léonie ou même par un de mes gens ... aller chanter un air de Cimarosa dans le parc; et le bien chanter encore.... HENRI.

[Footnote 29: #Cimarosa# (1740-1801), Italian composer, noted for the graceful charm of his vocal music, especially in light opera.

The 'jouissances d'ange,' with which at his first entrance into Italy he heard at Novara the Matrimonio Segreto of Cimarosa, marked an epoch in his life.