We might like to see works spring from the author"s brain as complete as Minerva was when she sprang from Jove"s, but that is infrequently the case. When we study the long series of operas which Gluck wrote, we are surprised to meet some things which we recognize as having seen before in the masterpieces which immortalize his name. And often the Mp3 Music is adapted to entirely different situations in the changed form. The words of a follower become the awesome prophecy of a high priest. The trio in _Orphee_ with its tender love and expressions of perfect happiness fairly trembles with accents of sorrow. The Mp3 Music had been written for an entirely different situation which justified them. Massenet has told us that he borrowed right and left from his unpublished score, _La Coupe du Roi de Thule_. That is what Gluck did with his _Elena e Paride_ which had little success. I may as well confess that one of the ballets in _Henry VIII_ came from the finale of an opera-comique in one act. This work was finished and ready to go to rehearsal when the whole thing was stopped because I had the audacity to assert to Nestor Roqueplan, the director of Favart Hall, that Mozart"s _Le Nozze di Figaro_ was a masterpiece.