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FRANZ SCHUBERT.
THE POET OF MELODY.
[By Felix Goodwin.]
THE CHINA MAIL,
A
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FILMS.
put at this period was not only WOMEN COMPOSERS.
enormous, but shot with master- pieces which rank with those of his maturity, such as, to mention,
QUESTION AS TO THEIR ROYALTIES.
only two of his songs, the famous "Erl-King" and "Gretchen at the WHAT MRS. M. MORGAN GETS. Spinning-Wheel." In one year,
Mrs. May Morgan, of High-
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She asked the committee double the royalty. She did not think the increase would adverse- ly affect the sales of even cheap records,
In the world of music this is to 1815, he wrote two symphonies,
Musicians two masses, eight operatic works, atreet, St. John's Wood, the com- be Schubert's year. everywhere are preparing to hon a large number of smaller pieces, poser of about 180 songs, includ-
"Passed By: our the hundredth anniversary of and no fewer than 146 songs-all ing the music. of the death of a genius who scarcely this in the intervals between his Your Window," told a committee of mere copyist Inquiry recently that the average gave himself time to attain to school duties: A manhood before he left the earth, could scarcely have more diligent- royalties from the large number of
ly covered music-paper.
her songs produced by the gramo. but who left it the richer by
From now on to the end of his phone companies had been about legacy of some of the lovelient music ever written. A grent fes-short and uneventful life he de- £100 a year. tival is to be held in his own city of Vienna, and no town or clty of any note will omit to hold its pro- grarime of celebration; whilst "in- of dustry, the modern auxiliary art, la offering a prize of £2,000 for the composition of one new masterwork of homage, sum many times greater than Schubert the received from publishers in whole of his lifetime, and infinite- ly greater than the sum of ten florins (8s. 6d.) stated' in the off- cial inventory of his possessions at the time of his death to be the value of his unpublished scripts, described therein quantity of old music."
A Schoolboy Genius.
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Franz Peter Schubert, the one great musician native to Vienna, was born on January 31, 1797, and except for occasional trips to the neighbouring country, lived there throughout his short life, dying in his brother's house on November 19, 1828, at the age of thirty-one.
His fatlier, son of a pensant,
was
a parish schoolmaster, and his mother, like Beethoven's, had
FRANCIS MCDONALD,
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voted practically his whole time to composition. He made friends: Spaun, his school chum; Vogl, the fashionable singer who performed his songs; Schober, the accom- modating dilettante: Huttenbron- ner, friend of Beethoven; Mayr- hofer, a hypochondriac poet with whom for some years he shared lodgings; Salieri, who claimed to have had Mozart as a pupil: nd, been a cook. He was the thir-
on another plane, the Easterhazy teenth of fourteen children. Since amily. He was 21 when he ac- his father and his surviving eldercepted an engagement from Count brothers were fond of music, terhazy to give musical instruc- Franz had the advantage of good tien to his three children at his grounding and encouragement,untry seat. Caroline Esterhazy but his music precocity abon be-was then eleven. Six years later, came too much, not only for these when she was a beautiful girl of simple teachers, but for the local 17. Schubert's friendship hal professors who took him in hand. ripened into a feeling of such ten- He seemed always to know, indernees that, if he ever experi- stinctively more than anyone could enced love, it was for Caroline. teach him, and his early youth was "Everything I ever did is dedicated passed in astonishing his elders. to you," he told her, and that, to A choir-boy at the age of eleven, the end, was doubtless true. But, he had even then started to com- from the difference in their sta- pose, and during his school days at tions, more than tenderness Was the. curiously-named Imperial impossible, and it is 'doubtful "Convict" he had every opportun- Franz ever permitted himself to ity of giving rein to his amazing be more than ideally devoted. talent and of developing an indus- try unprecedented in musical crea- tion. His only need was for music- paper, and of that, until a friend supplied it, he could not get enough. Before he left the Con- viet," at 17, he had, besides a mass of other works, already composed his first symphony for orchestra.
Early Masterpieces.
if
Songs Tenpence Each. How Schubert managed to exist through these years of incessant work is not known. He was utter
lacking in business ability, and did not seem to care whether his works were published or not. When he did traffic, he was the mercy
publishers who had neither the courage nor the fore-
The committee are inquiring into the application of authors, com- posers and publishers of music for an equitable increase in the rate of royalties paid by gramophone companies.
The application is made under Section 19 of the Copyright Act, 1911.
Mrs. Helen Rothschild, York- buildings, Adelphi, said under her" maiden name, Helen Taylor, she was the author of "I passed by Your Window," "Come to the Fair," and other lyrics.
Her receipts from the sale of sheet music had declined from £600 to £200 a year during the last
five years.
Her maximum return bo-
WRA
from mechanical rights tween £100 and £120 last year.
Replying to Mr. Henn Collins (for the opponents), Mrs. Rothes- child said she would like to receive than she was getting at present, more from the gramophone records
SOVIET PLANS.
40 TO PASS FOREIGN CENSORSHIPS.
AGITATION BEFORE ART.
Riga-Of 250 Bolshevik film pro- ductions projected during the must be suitable coming year 210 'for home revolutionary agitation.
The remaining 40 must also contain propaganda but be able to pass for eign censorships for exhibition.
abrond.
The Cinema Artists' Union has
protested and requested that u larger number of artistic films and less agitation should be allowed. but the national Commissariat of Education has ruled that the cinema is one of the most valuable menus of propagandising the masses and necessary that agitation is more than art.
A Marxinn historian is to aid in at writing the scenarios
He then took a post as school-sight to speculate upon his worth.!
avoid master, in order to
the He sold dozens of Bongs for ten- did sell, it was impossible, at this dreaded conscription, and for pence each, and the magnificent rate to have kept body three years he suffered what, to E Flat Trio for seventeen-and- together. His friends certainly such a man, was sheer drudgery. sixpence. He he sold everything helped him, but to no In spite of this, however, his out- he wrote instead of the little he tent. Nevertheless, he occasional
Madrid, Spain-A dramatic moment in the last bull fight of the great toreador, Ignacio Sanches Megian, who has given up the bull ring and become an actor. The throngs who cheered him as he dis patched wild bulla now wildly applaud him in the theater here where he le appearing in the drama "Without Reason."
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A "COME-BACK."
BRILLIANT SUCCESS OF NEW REVUE.
MR. NOEL COWARD.
London-Mr. Noel Coward has His come into his own again. revue, which he wrote for Mr. C. B. Cochran, promises to be the suc- cess of the year.
Is two failures, "Home Chat" and sou?
and "Sirrocco," brought his name great ex- as a playwright'very low Indeed. After the scathing attacks which followed the production of "Sir- rocco," Mr. Coward offered to re- lease Mr. Cochran from his bis tract to write a new revue. He Cochran, however, refused, and the reception accorded to "This Year of Grace," when it was produced at the Pavilion, has proved his judgment to be correct.
ly had money, and lived at times in some sort of comfort, lavish in hos- pitality to his cronies, but always prodigal and careless, Eveň manuscripts fared no better. would complete a composition, give it away or lock it up, and dismiss it from his mind, sometimes tually failing to recognise as his own that he had written only shortly before. He wrote so much and so rapidly that he had no time to do more than create.
AC-
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Mr.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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Qing orjinaTIONAL SYNDICATE
FOR SIR E. ELGAR.
"WHO HAS SAVED MY COUNTRY
FROM NEPROACH.
£7,000 GIFT.
Mr. Coward, wrote all the lyrics and the entire libretto while acting
**The Second Man." The Mr. Leo Francis Howard in sketches in the new revue show Schuster, of the Long White Cloud, Yet, in an odd way, Schubert much of the invention and wit Bray, Berkshire, who left £47,070, was systematic. He composed which made his name as a writer gave £7,000 to Sir Edward Elgar, usually during the morning, begin of comedy, although on occasions D.M., "who saved my country from ning to write, immediately he the wit ia a trifle bitter and some- the reproach of having produced awoke, and even sleeping in hía times actually a burlesque of the no composer worthy to rank with
own the Great Masters." spectacles to save time and trou- type of life depicted in his
He also left a bronze bust of Sir ble. As soon as one plece was serious plays. The lyrics are des finished he started on another, and cribed as "mere jingles," but they Edward Elgar to the National Por trait Gallery, and the original MSS would sit for six or seven hours, at fingle agreeably. his desk. He usually spent the afternoon in walking and the even ing with his friends at a cafe some times drinking more than perhaps wae good for him, but so did every young Viennese bachelor of those days. This was his routine, made easy by disregarding any engage ment that threatened to disturb it,
John O'Lordon's Weekly,"
BRINGING UP FATHER.
AT'S HIM
ALL RIGHT.
T
WHY DON'T YOU BEATIT?
WHY?
Mr. Coward is an extremely copy of the Overture "In the South" and all the full orchestral hardworking young man. He is a scores of his works (Sir Edward teetotaller and saves about three- Elgar) to the Royal Academy of quarters of his income. He usually Music.
doca two hours' writing before The remainder of his music and breakfast.
books on music to his friend, Adrian Boult, "musician,"
His success has called back to his banner many of his Chelsen
faltered supporters who
when "Strraco" crashed.
'I'M GOIN'
BACK.
His great-nephew, Robert Bruce McLeod, receives £5,000, and his nephew, Harold F. Darell, 210,000.
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