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    Sketch of Handel and Beethoven: Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864
    Sketch of Handel and Beethoven: Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864
    Sketch of Handel and Beethoven: Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864
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    Sketch of Handel and Beethoven: Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864

    By Thomas Hanly Ball

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    "Sketch of Handel and Beethoven" are the two lectures prepared by the author for the discussion in "The Wimbledon Village Club." The purpose of the club was the education of the working class. In the evenings, people from the neighborhood were invited to join interesting reading, conversations, and thought exchanges on different topics – from politics to art. These two lectures were created for discussion in the Wimbledon Club.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 10, 2019
    ISBN4064066223854
    Sketch of Handel and Beethoven: Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864

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      Sketch of Handel and Beethoven - Thomas Hanly Ball

      Thomas Hanly Ball

      Sketch of Handel and Beethoven

      Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066223854

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE.

      A SKETCH OF HANDEL.

      A Lecture.

      A SKETCH OF BEETHOVEN.

      A Lecture.

      PREFACE.

      Table of Contents

      A brief account of The Wimbledon Village Club will explain the origin and object of the two following Lectures.

      The design of the Institution is to afford to the inhabitants, and more especially the working and middle classes of Wimbledon and its vicinity, opportunities of intellectual and moral improvement, and rational and social enjoyment, through the medium of a Reading Room and Library, Lectures and Classes.[A]

      The Reading Room is supplied with Daily and Weekly Newspapers, Periodicals, and Books.

      The Library contains upwards of Six Hundred volumes, all which have been presented to the Institution.

      The Lectures are on various literary and scientific subjects.

      To these have been recently added, Readings and Chat Meetings.

      Readings, are three short readings from some popular author, by different readers, on the same evening.

      "Chat Meetings are simplifications of a soirée, or a conversazione. They originated in the idea that many parishioners, having in their homes interesting objects, the examination of which would afford pleasure and instruction to their fellow-parishioners, would on certain occasions gladly take these objects to a room appointed for the purpose, and display and explain them."[B]

      Mr. Toynbee, the Fidus Achates of the Club, has, in his admirable Hints on the Formation of Local Museums, well said—"The Wimbledon Club is admirably calculated to meet the wants of the working classes, as regards their recreation and instruction. While it furnishes amusement and instruction to all classes, it brings them together at its various meetings in friendly intercourse; the management of the Institution, and the organization of its several proceedings, afford a valuable experience to the Committee, who portion among themselves their respective work; and the preparation of the Lectures, &c., proves a healthy mental stimulus to those intelligent inhabitants who desire to take part in one of the most delightful of duties, viz., the conveyance to the minds of others an interest in those pleasing and elevating subjects from which, happily their own minds derive gratification.—Hints," pp. 8, 9.

      Should these Lectures again interest any of the large and attentive audiences with which they were honoured, I will consider myself justified in having consented to their publication, and feel happy to be the medium of imparting information, even on a secular subject, to those whom it is my duty, and is my pleasure, to profit and please.

      It is scarcely necessary for me to say, biographical lectures are chiefly the result of reading and research;[C] I have, however, somewhat fully expressed my opinions on the advantages of music, and very freely on one or two cognate subjects, and others incidentally alluded to.

      Footnote

      Table of Contents

      [A] Rules and Regulations of the Wimbledon Village Club, p. 1.

      [B] Hints on the Formation of Local Museums, by the Treasurer of the Wimbledon Museum Committee, p. 27.

      [C] Works referred to, and extracted from, in the following Lectures:—Besides those mentioned in the Lectures, the following works are alluded to, or quoted;—Beattie's Essays; Burnet's History of Music; Hogart's Musical History; Edwards's History of the Opera; The Harmonicon; Schlegel's Life of Handel; Holmes' Life of Mozart; Moschele's Life of Beethoven.

      A SKETCH OF HANDEL.

      Table of Contents

      A Lecture.

      Table of Contents

      Before I say of that great composer and extraordinary man whose life I have undertaken to sketch, it will not be out of place, I hope, to make a few remarks on the History and Utility of Music.

      I.—The History.

      It has been well said by Latrobe, that—though the concise and compressed character of the Mosaic history admits no data upon which to found this supposition, yet we may readily conclude from the nature of music, and the original perfection of the human powers, that the Garden of Eden was no stranger to singing and the voice of melody.

      We read in Scripture that before the Fall, the state of our first parents was a state of unmingled happiness. Now, it is the very nature of joy to give utterance to its emotions. Happiness must have its expression. And thus it may well be supposed that man in his primal felicity would seek to express, by

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