All that has gone before, all that is to be, is globed in his symphonies, is divined by the seer: a man, the first since handel.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
This love of music he indulged at the meetings of the Moray Minstrels, in the Crystal Palace Choir during the handel Festivals, and in the depths of the country, wherein he would bury himself in order to torture the bagpipes, without testing too severely the forbearance of his fellow-men.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
Well, I don't know exactly how she worked it out, but she managed to suggest that she was handel and Mozart in abeyance.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan