Part 39 (1/2)
”Hark! hear ye the shouts and the thunders before ye?
On, brothers, on, to death and to glory!
We'll meet in another, a happier sphere!”
On May 28, 1813, Major Von Lutzow deteria, with his young cavalry and with Cossacks Korner begged to accompany him Lutzow commissioned him as an officer He ounded, and left for a time helpless in a wood, on the 17th of June In this condition he wrote his famous ”Farewell to Life”
”My deep wound burns,” &c
Korner recovered, but was suddenly killed in an engage” of Korner which Von Weber's music has made famous, ritten a few hours before his death It was an inspiration to the German cause
”Lutzow's Wild Chase” thrilled Prussia Like the ”Watch on the Rhine” in the recent war, it was the word that fired the national pride, and nerved lory
”The Rhine! the Rhine!” shouted the young Ger down on the river
”Is there a battle?” asked the officers, dashi+ng on in the direction of the shout
”No, the eneone over the Rhine,” was the answer ”The Rhine!
the Rhine!”
Mr Beal introduced a number of selections fro stories and anecdotes We reproduce a part of theseto the history of the river of song
Taking up a selection froly of the author, and then gave some pictures of the lives of Beethoven and Bach
THE AUTHOR OF THE ERL KING
Poor Schubert! The composer of what operas, symphonies, overtures, choruses, masses, cantatas, sonatas, fantasias, arias! What tenderness was in his soul!--Listen to the ”Last Greeting;” what fancy and emotion! listen to the ”Fisher Maiden” and ”Post Horn;”
what refinement! listen to the ”Serenade;” what devotion! hear the ”Ave Maria”!
Dead at the age of thirty-one; dead after a life of neglect, leaving all these musical riches behind hirand, in 1797 His father was a e of eleven a the choir-boys of the Court Chapel, where he re hi instruments of the orchestra
To coenius was ever at work; always seeking to produce so better The old masters, and especially Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, were his sources of study and inspiration Music becae and unexplored All of his moods found expression in music: his love, his hopes, his wit, his sadness, and his dreams
He seems to have composed his best works for the pure love of his art, with little thought of money or fame Many of his best works he never heard performed He left his manuscript scores scattered about his rooms, and so they were found in confusion after his decease
Asi inscription:--
”The art of music buried here a rich possession, but yet far fairer hopes Franz Schubert lies here Born on the 30th of January, 1797, died on the 19th of November, 1828, thirty-one years old”
Fame almost failed to overtake him in life; his course was so rapid, and his works were so swiftly produced It crowned his nificent symphony in C is one of the most beautiful works of the kind ever written, and lovers of orchestralconcert It is a chars that are only active in the soul under exceptional influences Yet the listener does not knohat he is listening: it is all a mystery; no one can tell what the composer intended to express by this symphony We know that the theme is a noble one,--but what? that the soul of the writerits couess at the theme, and each will associate it with the subject most in harmony with his own taste
In 1844 Robert Schu over a heap of dusty manuscripts at Vienna, found this wonderful symphony, until then unknown He was soIt was there produced at the Gewandhaus concerts, won the admiration it deserved, and thence found its way to all the orchestras of the world The youthful composer had been dead nearly twenty years when the discovery was made