New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-26

various lesser productions or great mo'i" LIS
Efforts were at this time enthusiastically received his
IIearr we're being sold by thousands OF copies, and
scattered broadcast Now for the first time in mis- me-
Schubert might have his way clear to fortune
had he but possessed, In ever 30 sngnt oeso, 'no
commercial instinct. Unfortunately nc was u''cry
without business tact and the publishers cndren Vi
this world ready " take advantage Of ts BON Oh
Light and of music.
In s2s the Austrian capital the scene OF an In
tense musical excitement The German school OF art
commended With the italian, under such famous leaders
IA Barbaja and the great Rossni The italian triumph
seemed for the time, absolute. Schubert meanwhile,
was quietly busy in composing another operadrama,
"Rosamunde" and the opera Fierrabras" This last
characterized throughout by intense bnlancy, beauty,
and expression Only fragments OF 1t have as yet been
performed IN public. An operetta Die Verschwornen"
which was performed at Vienna, for the first time, in
March, 1861 has also been attributed to this period OF
Schubert's life.
Notwithstanding the success Of his published Leder,
and the encouragement given him by publishers and
crtea 1924 found Schubert in very melancholy and de-
pressed condition Experience had not fulfilled the nat
terine promises Of hope His ambition was not satisfied
1t did not content him to be recognised ss the first
and greatest Of German soDg-writers Long ago tue
musical drama and the opera had fred his mind with as
praons for whose disappointment success In other de-
partment could not console him. He vas torpented Win
onRngs to witness the representation OF some OF MS
dramatic compositions upon the stage AT this ume'
moreover his pecuniary circumstances cramped Elm.
He had not known how to take advantage OF eoooor-
tune and men shrewder than himself had taken advan-
tace OF him. Certain people who must be romantic or
nothing are wont 70 fancy that TO the sting OF these
other disappointments must have been added oisap
pointment love. But those who know him best are
sure that he never the hero OF any love an orc
intense than his unreturned affection Tor inc young
daughter Of the house OF Esterhazy; and this whie
IL stata tthf
80 ideal that few minor chords doubtless sufhced ior
its expression and 1t did not at all interfere with Inc
bread and beer OF actual life. without the mseres OF
love- surely Schubert had enough to bear In his lack Oh
full appreciation as we'll OF substantial reward But
as he wrote in his diary
"No one can read his neighbours gref; no one can
appreciate his JOY We always think We arc Rv"S an
one another we only go near one anotner. LOW , nay
less ne who knows the experience OF this Dter truth
n Cod whatever proceeds from my mind Is born In
the midst of pain. The great world welcomes WIN JOY
whatever is nourshed by my sorrow"
The Summer OF 1925 brought him pleasant change,
for his old friend vogl carried him of to pass few
weeks among green hills and crystal lakes of Upper
Austria This was q happy time, and Schubert wrote
home TO his parents that he found his own compositions
everywhere The two wanderers made flying visits 10
salzburg and Gasten, and remained In Upper Austria
until October; Schubert Of course, composing with his
accustomed fertility u resource. In 1926 Schubert COM
menced the famed cycle Of the "Wlnterreise-a set OF
all his songs-and added to his instrumental music
collection OF watzes and various concerted pieces which
have since become well known and popular. In the
March of 1927 died Ludwig Beethoven the giant OF
the tone art at Vienna. He Schuberts senior by
some twenty years. and the younger musician re-
garded him with passionate reverence half religious
ave- When he was a student at the Konvict comrade
one day told him his belief that he, Schubert would
vet achieve great musical successes. Schubert re-
piled Sometimes, mildly, I am Of that opinion.
But who can ever do anything after Beethoven
Reyerencng thus profoundly the Great Master 1t was
one Of the pains and crosses OF the younger musicians
life that no really friendly relations could ever be
brought about between them But Beethoven seems 10
have been very inaccessible to those OF his own gud
Some have called him morose; but 1t were truer TO say
that he was deeply sad Friend after friend had
BETRAYED him, until toward the last, he felt himself
unable to trust any one twas not strange perhaps,
that he had concerned himself but little about Schubert
until the publication Of the latters variations for Tour
hands with the dedication to Beethoven on the title
page Schubert himself took copy Of the Variations
TO Eeetboven's lodgings hoping, doubtless, thus
70 commence friendship But unfortunately the
Master was out He did, indeed, examine the
work with care upon his RETURN ana expressed
himself very favorably concerning 1t to one OF hs
nepews the author he neglected to send any token
of that approval which would have been dear as the
Cross Of the Legion Of Honor to soldier But during
BeethOvens last illness. and shortly before his death,
friend placed before him O collection OF Schuberts
Leder and he astonished at their number, as well
as ut their excellence. Surely there glows divine
spark in him." he said Of Schubert; and then he re-
retted that had not made the young composers &C
ouaintance. Schubert was among the friends-might
not one rather call them worshpers-who stood around
the dying bed of Beethoven But the master could not
sneak: and only made mournul signs with his hand,
whose mute pathos no one understood After Beeth-
ovens obsequies Schubert wandered mourn
fully away with friends, and went into tavern,
where he called for two glasses and some wine. He
filed the first glass. and drank to the memory OF him
whom they had Just consigned TO earth the second he
ened and drank to that man Of the three there
bled who should be the first TO follow him. 1t was not
long before the others that he had drunk this last
toast to-himsef.
He lived year and half longer, during which time
he composed his greatest work-the wonderful
symphony in c." known also the Ninth
Symphony" and discovered by Robert Schumann In
1885 ten years after his death. 1t was one OF the
stranges saddest proofs Of poor schubcrs absolute
disappointment with life, and loss OF faith In his own
good fortune he finished and laid away one great
work after another careless to whether or not any
later dscOverer should chance upon their beauty
His last illness brief and he seems TO have longed
TO recover chiefly that he might finish his opera. Der
Graf Won GleichenD He died on the 10th of November
1928 aged years. months and IS days On the day OF
his burial II raned In torrents IS IL the very heavens
would weep for him whom they bad never smiled But
crowds of mourners Hocked to do him honor. He was
dressed in a hermts garb-had not his soul dwet al
ways in hermtage-but wreath Of laurel was placed
upon his forehead. His bier heaped with rare and
costly flowers and the imposing ceremonies were
opened by band of singers who chanted drge written
by schober, and set by him 10 the solemn music Of
Sehubert's own Par pobiseun.
The appreciation which would have cheered and might
possibly prolonged his sad life showered upon
his grave Music was dedicated to him concerts were
given for the performance Of his works. friends wrote
his praises. Funds raised for suitable memorial.
xapd schober it's erection. 1t designed