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Famous Composers Volume II
Author: Nathan Haskell Dole

COMPOSERS BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE VOLUME II WITH PORTRAITS THOMAS Y-CROWELL CO. PUBLISHERS IT. Oo. CONTENTS. VOL. II. PAOB SOHUBBBT . . , 288 Louis SPOHB 805 Af icyjHftER f j .-i 827 MENDEIJSSOHN 847 875 FBAN9OIS CHOEDT 400 MTTHTAtT. IVANOVITOH GlHTCA 482 HBOTOB BBBUOZ 451 FBANZ LISZT . . k 489 EIOHABD WAGHBB 517 SCHUBERT. 1797-1S28. TTTEKNA, in ... more »the early years of this century, was a V cruel and capricious foster-mother to the sons of Art. Mozart came to her from Salzburg, and she allowed hi to starve. Beethoven came to her from Bonn, and she allowed him to die in melancholy soli tude, deserting hi for Rossini. She was a still more cruel and neglectful mother. Schubert was her one native-born singer. He died before his time, in the very plenitude of his powers, unknown, unappreciated, the victim of privation and sorrow. Such is the natural and sentimental way of looking at it. There is a truer and more philosophical point of view. The pity that has been evoked by Mozarts disappointed career is found to be, if not misplaced, at least tempered by a knowledge of how far he himself was responsible for his disappointment. Beethovens seclusion from the world was self-chosen. The soothsayer of the inner most world of tones found consolation in that far countree. And Schuberts poverty was not only his own fault, but was probably less the cause of suffering than it would have been to a person of finer physical 284 SCHUBERT. fibre. What he wasted on strong drink would have pro cured for him the common necessities of life, the lack of which, though pitiable, need not make ones blood boil as Sir George Grove indignantly exclaims. Schubert is the Burns of music. Of peasant origin he had a marvellous gift for singing. As W. Mttller says, The German folk-song found in him its highest and finest ennoblement through him, the genuine Ger man native singer, came the ancient folk-song into life again, purified and transfigured by art. Like Burns, he was most at ease among those of his own station in life like Burns, he was too fond of gay carousals. Unlike Burns, however, being of mean personal appear ance, he cared little for the fair sex, nor did the fair sex care for him. And yet, strangely enough, he had a nameless personal charm which always won for him earnest friends. Franz Peter Schubert was bom on the last day of January, 1797, at the house of the Bed Crab Zum Bothen Krebseri, in one of the immediate suburbs of Vienna. His father was a schoolmaster, poor, but of sterling character, who, like Beethovens father, had married a cook. A patriarchal family of nineteen chil dren blessed this and a subsequent union, but only eight grew up. Little is known of the home-life in the Schubert house hold, or of the influence and character of his mother. There are no anecdotes of the musical precocity which must have been shown by the gifted child, so strangely placed. From his fathers own words regarding his youth ful days, we know merely that at five he was prepared for school, at six he was the leader of his comrades, and always fond of society. FRANZ SCHUBERT. After the aqunreH of W. A. Rieder 1796-1888 Property of Dr. G. Granitech in Vienna. SCHUBERT. 285 In his eighth, year, the father continues, I taught the rudiments of violin playing, and brought hitr along far enough to play easy duets tolerably well Then I sent him to take singing lessons of Mr. Michael Holzer, the parish choir-master, who declared many times, with tears in his eyes, that he never before had such a pupil. If I wanted to put anything new be fore him said he, I found that he knew it already. So I really gave him no instruction, but simply talked with him and looked at Mm in silent amazement. His oldest brother Ignaz, who followed his fathers calling, gave him lessons in piano playing but as Sir George Grove says, he soon outstripped these simple teachers...

ISBN-13: 9781406704877
ISBN-10: 1406704873
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Owen Press
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