The great pretender

From: Musical Times | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Monsieur le Comte de Saint-Germain

DAVID HUNTER seeks out the gifted yet enigmatic 18th-century musican and Handel Opponent'

AMONG THE VARIOUS opponents of Handel set up by his biographers, the most enigmatic is the Comte de SaintGermain. Though his status as a musician has never been in doubt (John Walsh junior issued several of his works), we have so far lacked any description of his capabilities other than Horace Walpole's 'He sings, plays on the violin wonderfully, composes, is mad, and not very sensible.'1 Charles Burney wrote that Saint-Germain contributed some of the songs to ...

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