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282 TRAVELS
as well as the fatisfaction we enjoyed from a fympathy with their -
feelings. |
Uleaborg, during the time of our ftay, had a concert every
evening, open to every one that chofe to attend. Our audience
increafed in number to fuch a degree, that we were obliged to
hire an apartment larger than any room in our houfe; and our
quartetto was conftantly honoured by a numerous circle of ladies,
and almoft all the gentlemen of the town. It is impoffible for
me to convey an adequate idea of the impreffion our mufic made
upon our hearers. In order to make a trial of their fenfibility, and
the effe& of mufic on their paffions, we compofed on purpofe a
few pieces of an eafy harmony, the movement of whofe modula-
tions was natural and intelligible even to perfons unaccuftomed to
the artificial refinements of mufic. We ftudied to alternate the
movements of grand effect, paffing from the higheft forte to the
loweft piano, and vice verfa, by tranfitions of furprife. We pre-
fently faw the tears trickle from the eyes of our feeling audience.
As we realized the fabulous times of Greece, our f{pectators pre-
fented a moft interefting picture, worthy of the pencil of the moft
celebrated painter. The eyes of all our hearers were turned upon
us; fome feerned to follow with every feature of the face the
movements of the melody : we could read in the phyfiognomy of
the Finlanders the character of the mufic we had played; every
look became ferious at forced and {trong modulations, while foft
and melodious paflages feemed to difperfe the cloud, and their
countenances ref{umed their tranquillity. It was curious to obferve
the
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