From the Court she experienced the highest favor. The present King of Prussia is a great lover of music. It is true that, like almost every German _melomane_ of the present day, he mistakes entirely the natural boundaries which essentially separate and distinguish from each other the different species of music; he places on the stage music only fitted for cathedrals, where religious fervor upholds and vivifies the ponderous form of massive harmony; and he does not discern that dramatic lyrical music should speak directly to the feelings through the words, the inspiration always melodical, the ruling themes and dramatic objects ever distinct, and not overlaid by science nor drowned by noise, and thus adapted to the enjoyment of the mass of educated men, and not made alone for the few adepts and pedantic lovers of abstruse lore. Still is the Prussian monarch a devoted lover of music; and in his _repertoire_ he occasionally admits the older composers, those whose strains, like Mozart's and Glueck's, required no reasoning, no scientific study, to be felt, but were at once comprehended, and charmed the ear and touched the heart. In the execution of these works, in the private circle of the King and Queen, Madame de Rossi was an immense acquisition. Happy were those who could obtain an entrance into the royal precincts when the _Iphigenie en Aulide_ of Glueck was sung. Nothing can exceed the effect of the noble strains of Piccini's conqueror when interpreted by our great vocalist. In Berlin, the home of the Countess Rossi was habitually the resort of every personage exalted in rank, as well as of the _famosi_ of science, art, and literature, such as Humboldt, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, &c. The Princess of Prussia, who holds so distinguished a position, by her tastes and her virtues, amongst the princesses of the Continent, honored Madame de Rossi with the most affectionate regard, whilst that illustrious _melomane_ and excellent prince, the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, finding so much goodness united with so much talent, treated her almost as a daughter--the Count and Countess passing three months every season at Strelitz. No traveller distinguished by rank, or illustrious in art or literature, passed through the Prussian capital, without visiting the _salons_ of the Countess Rossi.