Crossword-Solution: ALVARS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

With regard to the programme, I await your reply, in which I shall be glad if you will tell me the four or five pieces you will choose, amongst which will be, I hope, Parish Alvars' Fantaisie on motives from "Oberon" and the "Danse des Fees." A distinguished amateur, Monsieur Lindemann of Hanover, has promised me to play one or two violoncello solos, and the rest of the programme will be easily made.

CHAPTER XXXV--VIRTUOSITY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY--PAGANINI, BERLIOZ, CHOPIN, THALBERG, LISZT 428-454 Continuity of these appearances with those already recounted--Paganini--his playing--inspiring effect--Berlioz--works--place in art--progress of piano playing--virtuosi co-operating--Thalberg and his style--Parish Alvars--Pollini--Chopin--place in art--Liszt--early appearances--rivalry with Thalberg--style--Weimar--Bonn Beethoven monument--as teacher--as composer.

Parish Alvars, the harpist, had originated this device, and Thalberg adapted it to the pianoforte, for which instrument it was better suited and more effective than on the harp.

True, artists like Parish-Alvars have composed operatic fantasias for the harp, in which there are melodies; but this is rather forced.