I have composed if I someday wrote anything resembling such chaos." However Onslow's interest in classical forms and counterpoint, and the styles of emotional expressiveness in his music, place his music close to the works of his teacher Reicha, and to Onslow's German and Austrian contemporaries of early Romantic music, such as Moscheles, Hummel, and Schubert. In the opinion of Robert Schumann, only Onslow and Mendelssohn approached Beethoven's mastery of the quartet form. In the years after his death, Onslow's reputation progressively declined. When Richard Wagner was conducting the overture to the opera L'Alcalde de la Vega in London for the Philharmonic Society in 1855, he found it "trivial" and threatened to quit his contract for the rest of the Society's concert series. However, from the late twentieth century onwards, commercial recordings of his music began to appear. References Citations Sources Bickley, Diana (n.d.). "Onslow, (André) George Louis", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, accessed 9 September 2014. Cairns, David (1999). Berlioz: The Making of an Artist 1803-1832. London: Allen Lane/The Penguin Press. . Davison, J. W. (1912). From Mendelssohn to Wagner: Memoirs. London: Wm. Reeves. Fétis, François-Joseph (1841). "Onslow, (George)", in Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique, vol. 7, pp. 88–91. Brussels: Melines, Cans et compagmie. Accessed via Google Books 15 September 2014. Hagels, Bert (2009). "Zur Rezeption Onslows in Deutschland bis 1830", Association George Onslow , Accessed 11 September 2014. Jam, Baudime (2003). George Onslow, Clermont-Ferrand: Les Éditions du Mélophile, Jam, Baudime (2005). "George Onslow et les musiciens polonais à Clermont-Ferrand au 19e siècle.", accessed 11 September 2014. Jam, Baudime (2011). George Onslow & l'Auvergne, Nimes: Les Éditions du Mélophile, Niaux, Viviane (2003). George Onslow: gentleman compositeur, Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaire Blaise Pascal, Niaux, Viviane (2004). " L’apprentissage musical de George Onslow et les voyages de 1784 à 1807 à travers les sources et documents du XIXe siècle", Bulletin de l’Association George Onslow, n°4, pp. 5–11. Accessed 9 September 2014. Niaux, Viviane (2009). "George Onslow : le Beethoven français ?". Paper given at the colloquium Les Sources du romantisme français : à la croisée des influences italiennes et germaniques (1780–1830), Palazzetto Bru-Zane, Venice. Accessed 11 September 2014. Niaux, Viviane (2013). "Onslow, George", Grove Music Online, accessed 9 September 2014. d'Ortigue, Joseph (1833). "George Onslow" in Révue de Paris, 1ère série, LVI, Novembre 1833, pp. 148–163. Accessed 11 September 2014. Onslow, George (1835). Quintetto no. 15