 | 1899 - 478 pagina’s
...settle in this neighbourhood.' Mendelssohn, remember, was only twenty! The last evening was spent in a visit to Holyrood Palace, ' where Queen Mary lived...that old chapel the beginning of my Scotch symphony.' He was to find the beginning of something else later on, as we shall see. After Edinburgh came the... | |
 | Stephen Samuel Stratton - 1901 - 344 pagina’s
...written by Felix give a graphic account of what he Scotland has seen. Describing Holyrood, he says : " Everything around is broken and mouldering, and the...that old chapel the beginning of my Scotch symphony." The tour included visits to Abbotsford—just missing Sir Walter Scott—Blair Athol, the Hebrides—with... | |
 | Lawrence Gilman - 1907 - 396 pagina’s
...abundantly in it; and before the altar, now in ruins, Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland.1 Everything about is broken and mouldering, and the bright sky shines...that old chapel the beginning of my Scotch symphony." The symphony was planned in 1831. In a letter written from Rome in March of that year he says : " From... | |
 | James Cuthbert Hadden - 1913 - 356 pagina’s
...and loved." The chapel, he writes, " is now roofless ; grass and ivy grow there " ; and he adds : " I believe I found to-day, in that old chapel, the beginning of my Scotch Symphony." The Scotch Symphony was indeed a direct result of this visit, as was also the Hebrides overture. For... | |
 | Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1913 - 1308 pagina’s
...is wanting to the chapel, grass and ivy grow abundantly in it; and before the altar, now in ruins, Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland. Everything around...that old chapel the beginning of my Scotch symphony." A sturdy Englishman had visited the scene before Mendelssohn, and had been moved to poetic thought.... | |
 | Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1920 - 1570 pagina’s
...is wanting to the chapel, grass and ivy grow abundantly in it; and before the altar, now in ruins, Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland. Everything around...that old chapel the beginning of my Scotch symphony." A sturdy Englishman had visited the scene before Mendelssohn, and had been moved to poetic thought.... | |
 | Donald Nivison Ferguson - 1954 - 686 pagina’s
...that little room, pulled him out, and three rooms off there is a dark corner where they murdered him. The chapel close to it is now roofless ; grass and...Queen of Scotland. Everything around is broken and moldering and the bright sun shines in. I believe that I found today in that old chapel the beginning... | |
 | Roger Fiske - 1983 - 256 pagina’s
...that little room, pulled him out, and three rooms off there is a dark corner, where they murdered him. The chapel close to it is now roofless, grass and...today in that old chapel the beginning of my Scotch symphony.15 This is the first mention of a Scotch symphony and it implies that he had already told... | |
 | Michael Steinberg - 1995 - 708 pagina’s
...where they murdered him. The chapel beside it has lost its roof and is overgrown with grass and ivy, and at that broken altar Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland. Everything there is ruined, decayed and open to the clear sky. 1 believe that I have found there today the beginning... | |
 | Raymond Monelle - 2010 - 265 pagina’s
...we were first ac - quent, l^'i'l- ^ -. -- fr H (r *f l» r -V— 0: | j| g =g= r =t=^ =s= The chapel is now roofless; grass and ivy grow there, and at...mouldering, and the bright sky shines in. I believe I found there today the beginning of my Scotch Symphony. Roger Fiske, who quotes this passage (in his introduction... | |
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Rizzio in that little room, pulled him out, and three rooms off there is a dark corner, where they murdered him. The chapel close to it is now roofless, grass and ivy grow there, and at that broken altar Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland. Everything... 
