"Cherubin" Quotes from Famous Books
... Mozart's Nozze is quite different from Beaumarchais' Cherubin does not affect this question. He is a new creation, just because Mozart could not, or would not, conceive the character of the page in Beaumarchais' sprightly superficial spirit. He used the part to utter something unutterable except by music about the soul of the still adolescent lover. The libretto-part ... — Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds |