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DEATH OF BLAHA
A GREAT HUNGARIAN
SINGER.
Budapest. A singer died re- contly in Budapost who con- tributed a great deal to the Mag- yarization of Hungary. When Luise Blaha was in her prime in the early seventies, Budapest was still largely German, the original inhabitants were of German origin, and the influence of the Hapsburgs kept the bity largely Teutonio in atmosphere.
Luise Blaha began her career as an opera singer when she was only eight years old. She ap peared at the Budapest Opera House in children's roles and hor clear, bell-like, soprano, ovun then amazed her listoners by its oxquisite beauty. Later she be came the most popular prima donna in the Offer Jach operettas, such as the "Grand Duchess of Gerolstein," "The Princess of Trapezunt," "Orpheus in the Underworld," and "The Beautiful Helena."
The year 1872, when the new People's Theatre was opened in Budapest, meant a turning point in her life. The creation of this, thoatro was closely connected with the Magyar, revival in Budapest, for until then all dramatic performances in the city had been in German, except for serious-dramas given at the National Theatre.
The People's Theatre gave Magyar folkplays, the subjects being chosen from the peasants, lives in Hungary. The hero of the plays was usually the traditional Magyar "betyar," or outlaw, hunted by the imperial gendarmes, who was loved by the women of the village as much as he was feared by the men. The batyar of these folk-plays was.al- most always a sympathotic figure. He robbed the rich to provide the poor with broad. Ho was cold-blooded and eruel to his anemies and noble and unselfish to his friends the poor and op pressed.
The folk-plays at the People's Theatre were richly interpersed with songs of the
people
which eager students of Hun- garian folklore had collected in the wayside inns of the lowlands. No.singer at the theatre sang these songs more beautifully than! Luisa Blaha, who played the role) of the most beautiful girl in the village, the girl whom the betyar wooed and won. Her interpreta- tion of these strange, fascinating songs, with their irregular Eastern rhythms, soon won her fame, and all Budapest called hor the "Magyar Nightingale. "
The German inhabitants of Budapest were so eager to hoar her sing that many of them de-; serted the German theatres and became imbued, through her,; with the spirit of the Magyar zo-: vival." Visitors in Budapast from all over Europe always went to hear her, and it is said that the lato King Edward, when he was Prince of Wales, never missed an opportunity of going to the People's Theatre when Blaha was singing.
One of the strango ironies of Luise Bala's life was that she, who exerted such a strong pro- Magyar influence, was herself of Austrian origin. Hor father had been an Austrian officer, who served for many years in si Hungarian regiment. Luise was born and brought up in Hungary; she always felt the fascination. of this stange country and was herself a Hungarian in every. sense of the word.
Luise Blaha, such an ardent believer in the Magyar restora- tion, lived, to see this movement degenerate into a kind of jingo patriotism, which went so far as to support the counterfeiting of money as a means of rostoring Hungary's old glory. The last event in Budapest before her death was the arrest of Prince Ladwig Windischgraetz and the alleged other frauc forgers.
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