Excerpt from A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany: With Remarks Upon the Church Music

As the preface to a little book of this kind will denote what Shakespear calls "a foregone conclusion, " and appear to the reader like the summing up of the judge, and the verdict of the jury, before the cause is tried, I must beg that (unless he be of unusual faith and trustingness) he withhold his concurrence with the opinions here expressed of German music and professors until he has read the following account of the writer's experiences in an expedition undertaken last summer to see what Germany now produces in the art. If he doubts then, he must travel and hear for himself.

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