Note 95 — INTRODUCTION
Mary Blaiklock translation
"From Beethoven," says Berlioz, "dates the advent in art of colossal forms" (Mémoires, II, 112). But Berlioz forgot one of Beethoven's models—Händel. One must also take into account the musicians of the French revolution: Mehul, Gossec, Cherubini, and Lesueur, whose works, though they may not equal their intentions, are not without grandeur, and often disclose the intuition of a new and noble and popular art.