Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-12-01

"and il otherwise think you would become
the wife Of poor musician r She turned
scornfully away and leitahim alone 10 his griet
and despair. The repentance which soon
awoke IN the heart Of Sophie unbappily came
too late in eight days she would become
the wife Of Count Robert
The ceremony was to be performed in a
grand saloon 10 the city, and the Count called
on Strauss to request him TO lead the orches
ira on the occasion. aud 10 honor his bride
with the composition Of a new waltz -
Strauss the most miserable man Of God 5
universe, promised bin both. "He wishes
to wound me yet more deeply said the I'M
happy man to himself .but pardon him
and my payer to heaven is that she may be
happy, aid that she never repent her choice
But bis waltz. a thought strikes him it shall
be the interpreter Of bis passion and his
grief to Sophie. it should challenge Der pity
If not her love. OH what glorious power,
to be able to speak. to reproach. to plead;
and tfrc1ehsIhe divine art 10 work to
work When the great city slept, Strauss
took his violin, opened his window gazed out
in the cold night and improyised and moaned
forth his sad tale of woe to the bright stars
above. who looked kindly down on the desc.
late and heart stricken.
The day of the wedding came at last
The fearful agony of love had given him
waltz, every measure Of which spoke long
ing sorrow and despairing woe The hall
glistened and shone with bright jewel and
brighter eye, and Sophie was more gloriously
beautiful than them all. Strauss haggard,
emaciated man, with brilliant and piercing
black eyes, sharp and strongly marked fea-
lures, dressed from head to foot in black as
though he had assumed his mourning livery
ear the bride now dead to him, stood sad aud
silent in the gallery above directing the
movements Of the orchestra Sophie danced
new with one, now with another of the we'd
ding guests, and as often as she paused after
the giddy whlrl Of the dance, turned her eye
towards the pale and grief stricken Strauss.
It was more than pity she felt it was re-
morse. it was a kinded love. A terrible pain
awokc il her heart, like the swelling of a
a stream, growing even deeper and wider in
its onward course, which threatened to over
whelm aud destroy her How gladly would
she have wept. but she dared not. II SCUM
ded twelve; Strauss gave the signal for the
performance of his new waltz The gay dan
GERS stood up Sophie on the arm of the
happy bridegroom All stood spellbound
with the magic witchery of those magic
sounds. They forget to dance. the gaze in
wonder up at the pale man in black, whose
grief torn soul breathes out its woe through
his behaved instrument. The bridegroom
leads of the dance, and Strauss. with fasci
mated fearful eye, and torn heart follows
the flying pain in their giddy whrl
They dance, and dance, and dance, and
still they do not cease. Strauss plays and
plays and no stop to his wonderful waltz,
which 81. fcaffu,ly effects him and them. As
suddenly as the lchtning's fash the i Of bis
violin snaps. and at the same moment the
beautiful Sophie falls dead upon the floor
| Violin and bow falls from his trembling hands,
and with a cry Of horror be slrieks Sophie Y
and falls faintng on the floor. Since Sophie
death the waltz is called by her name -
Strauss loved her to the last moment of bis
! existence. He, 700. is now dead. but his
charming waltz still lives Musical Uorld