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 Symphony, the overture on the name of, the music for Grillparzer's Melusina, for Körner's Odyssey and Goethe's Faust, the Biblical oratorio of Saul and David, all shew that he was attracted by the mighty serenity of the old German masters—Bach and Handel—and more still to the light of the South—the South of France or Italy, where he hoped to travel.