THE WREATHS GASLIGHT SONATAS I BITTER-SWEET Much of the tragical lore of the infant mortality, the malnutrition, and the five-in-a-room morality of the city's poor is written in statistics, and the statistical path to the heart is more figurative than literal.

"They touch an air of Petrarch's sonatas!

He wrote a few sonatas, but the majority of his works are short pieces such as are characteristic of the modern romantic school.

She improvises sonatas and gallopades, oratorios and mazourkas.

The next year she issued ten sonatas and a "Collection of Ayres."

After dedicating a set of sonatas to the queen, and experiencing great patronage from the nobility, Mozart, with his father and sister, in July, 1765, crossed over into the Netherlands.

Charlotte looked for the sonatas which they generally played together, and they were not to be found.

And who that has a modicum of the imaginative would assert of one of Haydn's Sonatas, that its effect on him was no other than sensuous?

Schumann wrote three sonatas for his three daughters, and other compositions for them.

Tartini's compositions are very numerous, consisting of above a hundred sonatas, and as many concertos.

He looked upon the great array of rollssymphonies, sonatas, concertos, fantasies, rhapsodies, overtures, prayers, requiems, meditations, minuetsand something of that rising power of gratitude overcame him, as only once before in his lifewhen he had realized that the Bible was all words, and they were for him.

Stephen Whitelaw cared about as much for roses and lilies as he cared for Greek poetry or Beethoven's sonatas.

SEE Pierront, N. Deux sonatas, pour deux violons, viole de gamba et basse.

SEE Pierront, N. Deux sonatas, pour deux violons, viole de gamba et basse.

He published two good operas of sonatas for two violins and a bass, and joined Clayton and Dieupart in the service of the opera, until Handel's success superseded them.

Here I have, in this pile, the nine symphonies of the great manhis innumerable sonatas, his masses, and together with him, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, in fact all the great writers.

Does ever a piano, be it of the choicest workmanship of Ehrbar or Steinway, burst forth into the Rhapsodies of Liszt or the Sonatas of Beethoven, without a master's hand?

Once, it is true, a very long time ago, one of his friends and admirers, also a German, and also poor, published at his own expense two of Lemm's sonatas.

The great white and red roses of the Aubusson carpet are spread enigmatically about her feline feet; a grand piano leans its melodious mouth to her; and there she sits when her visitors have left her, playing Beethoven's sonatas in the dreamy firelight.

Meantime, the claims of music could not be ignored: there were frequent rehearsals for the public concerts; lessons to pupils; the composition of glees and catches, and the like; the superintendence of the practice of the chapel choir; and the study of sonatas and concertos for public performance.

ARNE, THOMAS AUGUSTINE, a musical composer of versatile genius, produced, during over 40 years, a succession of pieces in every style from songs to sonatas and oratorios, among others the world-famous chorus "Rule Britannia"; Mrs. Cibber was his sister (1719-1778).

The good effect of the course pursued by Neefe with his pupil is visible in the next published productionsave a song or twoof the boy;the "Three Sonatas for the Piano-forte, composed and dedicated to the most Reverend Archbishop and Elector of Cologne, Maximilian Frederick, my most gracious Lord, by LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, Aged eleven years.

" We cannot resist the temptation to add the comically bombastic Dedication of these Sonatas to the Elector, which may very possibly have been written by Neefe, who loved to see himself in print.

" "These Sonatas," says a most competent critic,[B] "for a boy's work, are, indeed, remarkable.

"What sort of music do you care for?" "Oh, anything, from Christmas carols to sonatas.