composing prolifically, and performing as an organist and conductor. In 1920 he returned home to Estonia. Don Carlos was first performed in Pavlovsk3, later in Moscow, in Astrakhan and in Tartu4. In the work the main feature of Kapp’s individual style for powerful dramatic tension associated with passionate lyricism was already developing. The score has an abundance of thematic material. The introductory theme begins with the doleful sounds of a French horn: Example 8. The strenuous singing main theme (Violins) is activated by chromatics and syncopation: Example 9. The subsidiary theme is also in a minor key and played as if in one exhalation of breath, this is a wide “vocalisation” (Flute, Clarinet and Violins): like the plaintive song of a lost soul: Example 10. In the slightly extended development section all the thematic material has been remarkably transformed
do insist upon it, that you, all of you, hold your tongues, and let me and Mr. Collins have a little conversation together." Elizabeth passed quietly out of the room, Jane and Kitty followed, but Lydia stood her ground, determined to hear all she could; and Charlotte, detained first by the civility of Mr. Collins, whose inquiries after herself and all her family were very minute, and then by a little curiosity, satisfied herself with walking to the window and pretending not to hear. In a doleful voice Mrs. Bennet began the projected conversation: "Oh! Mr. Collins!" "My dear madam," replied he, "let us be for ever silent on this point. Far be it from me," he presently continued, in a voice that marked his displeasure, "to resent the behaviour of your daughter. Resignation to inevitable evils is the duty of us all; the peculiar duty of a young man who has been so fortunate as I have been in early preferment; and I trust I am resigned