“ Sir George Grove was a man of wide culture and of particularly kindly and generous nature to the younger generation of native musicians, whom he was always ready to help with sound advice. His knowledge of the work of the three great musicians already mentioned was very great, and his admiration for them, and more especially for Schubert, amounted almost to hero-worship. His analyses of Beethoven's symphonies in the shape in which they were issued as a book, with the additions and emendations, form a classic by reading which no musician, professional or amateur, can fail to benefit. ”

“ The musical career of Sir George Grove is a striking example of what may be accomplished by an amateur without any very definite or thorough technical training in music. Perhaps for the very reason that he was an amateur and that, as a consequence, his enthusiasms were evidently disinterested, he acquired an influence in the world of music which was at least as great and as widespread as that of any of professional musician. ”

“ His articles on Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert, though open to reproach that they disturbed to some extent the balance of the whole work, yet stand as evidence of the force of his enthusiasm for these masters, towards whom he cherished a special devotion. In regard to the last composer he did a still more useful work, since in the course of a journey with Sir Arthur (then Mr.) Sullivan in 1867 he unearthed at Vienna a number of MSS. of important compositions by Schubert (including the Rosamunde music) which have since become universally known and admired. ”