6/16 This has been provided with Latin words and is sung in churches. This aria was assigned to a Creon who does not appear in the other fragments. One scene shows Eurydice running up and down the banks pursued by demons. This score is a curiosity and nothing more, and a reading causes no regret that the work was not completed. He did not reach the height of his genius until an age when the finest faculties are, ordinarily, in a decline. |