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GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL
The Largo is resumed. There is in this little poem a melancholy which seems to revive Handel's personal remembrances.—The allegro ma non troppo with which it finishes is, on the contrary, of a jovial feeling, entirely Beethovenish; it sings joyfully as it bounds along in well-marked three-four time, with a pizzicato-like rhythm.
In the middle of this march a phrase occurs on the two violins of the Concertino which is like a hymn of reverent and tender gratitude.
