2-888-551 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

National Concerts at Her Majesty's Theatre - Herr Neithardt, Kapelmeister of the Berlin Choir, 1850. 'Neithardt has been distinguished as a composer of some 118 vocal and instrumental works, amongst which his psalms and part-songs are very remarkable. The Choir, so well trained under his careful and artistical superintendence, sing a capella - that is, without any instrumental accompaniment. The conductor simply gives the pitch with the common tuning-fork to the singers, who have their parts in hand, and then begins the most delightful combination of human voices that has ever been heard.' From "Illustrated London News", 1850.