Mr. DUDLEY V. HOWELLS : March in the Garden'

AMY SAMUEL (soprano)
IDA FREIDEMANN (pianoforte)
CAMILLO RITTER (violin)
THE ROMANTIC TRADITION of German liederthat virtually began with Schubert and was later developed by Schumann, Franz, and Wolf, owes nothing to Mendelssohn, who preferred to carry on the classical song. Whereas the Romantic Song composers often exploited pictorial effects in their piano accompaniments and made the latter of equal importance to, and to some extent independent of, the melodic line, Mendelssohn was chiefly concerned with the writing of a beautiful and a singable melody more or less lightly harmonised. His best songs are melodious, graceful, and perfectly finished in form and evoke the general mood of the poem without any attempt at illustrative or psychological details.