David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ But Christian Ignatius La Trobe is best known from his contributions to music. He was a student in the University of Barby, and one of several students who, in rotation, were volunteer organists in the chapel. In that capacity Bishop Spangenberg convinced him of the evils of the common style of performance of sacred music, characterised by “flourishes and ill-placed decorations,” “long straggling interludes,” and indifference as to agreement between music and words. When he returned to England in 1784 Latrobe composed sacred music in the truly grand and devotional style. ”

“ The whole six volumes cover a space of twenty years, embracing examples, more or less extended, from the works of upwards of fifty composers. It forms a treasury of the richest music, and is peculiarly adapted to meet a want often experienced — how to fill up the hours of social recreation. ”

“ Johnson was silent for a short time, and then exclaimed, “You are right, sir, you are right; and if an angel in heaven were to indulge in self-complacency, he would be a devil.”
The Rev. Christian Ignatius La Trobe, son of Benjamin, edited in 1812 some “Letters on the Nicobar Islands,” from Rev. John Gottfried Haensel, the only surviving minister of the Moravian Missionary Station there (which was abandoned in 1787, owing to the impossibility of obtaining supplies of provisions) . ”