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Excerpt from The Opera, Past and the Opera Past and Present, an Historical Sketch
Only in two instances have I departed from this general plan: in the cases of Mozart and Beethoven. The puissant genius of these men was too closely in harmony with the funda mental idea of the Opera for them to be negli gible, although they exerted infinitely little in ?uence upon either their contemporaries or their successors in this field of composition. Of two other men, again, -alessandro Scarlatti and Handel, - I have said extremely, perhaps surprisingly, little. Though the greatness of their genius is beyond doubt, the part they played in the history of Opera was at once un important and, as far as it went, antagonistic to the real evolution of the form.
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