NIEDERRHEINISCHE MUSIKFESTE, i.e. Lower Rhenish Musical Festivals, now held in triennial turn at Whitsuntide, at either Düsseldorf, Aix-la-Chapelle, or Cologne, and from an artistic point of view perhaps the most important existing. The originator is said to have been Dr. Ludwig F. C. Bischoff, a very active musician and litterateur, who some seventy years ago assembled together the musicians in his province, and instituted a ‘Thuringian Musical Festival,
’ which was held at Erfurt in 1811. In 1817...
