The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1873-1875, 1875-03-31

and motlons Is natural, If We may take
Ethe: exhibisor,s word, thst, although the
figures weM nope Of them more thsn
tFo inches bigb, they appeared ike life
!. "Don Juan" and Lithography.. u
The 6rst performance. of Don juan
took, place in Munich in. September.
1890. Mozart himself had come to di.
rect the last rehersal and to attend che
.frst Performance Aldis JSennsfelder,
afterwards renowned !as the inyeu tor of
lithography was ,..naster of theatrical
requisites" had ., severe time Of getting
together the articles required for the
performances. For him,itiwas an t1n-
pleasant, dangerous evening" but it was
destined to give him immortality. Frau
Franziska Lebrun sang the part Of
Donna Elvira; she was affected to tears
when she had sung an airsin which she
had recognized the murder Of her father
Mozart pressed the hand OF, the still
trembling woman warmly. "I thank
you, he said, "that am at last able to
understand my own creation. II can
die with lighter, heart, now that you
have given me. q pledge that my name
will not BE forgotten."' Mozart left the
theatre before the opera was finished,
and locked' himself up in his own room;
nothing could induce him to. appear
again that evening. The performances
over, the theatre was deserted BY all
except one man. Alois Sennefelder had
still much to do. After seeing carefully
around the stage, that no spark h@d
lighted about the theatre, he retired to
his little room to stamp the theatre
tickets for the following day. As he
entered his room he had three things in
his hand-a polished whetstone for
.razors, which he had purchased, tick
set stamp noistened with. printers ink,
and = check Oh the theatre treasury for
his weakly pay.I He placed the check
tqn on q, tteble, when = gust Of wind took it,
swept it high Up in his, room for q mo-
ment and then deposited it ia basin
&Aed With MSter.' aSennefelder took TIE
wet paper; dried it as well as he could,
and then, TO make sure of it weighted it
down :! With q the whne.tsstone, ON which, be
had before carelesslY placed the print
ing stamp. Returning to lis room 20nn
the following morning, ,hawas surprised
to see the letters Of the stamp printed
with remarkable accuracy upon the
damp paper. he gazsd long at fhe
check; q sudden; thode flashed through
his brain; heiwondered IL by some such
means he could not save himself the
weary trouble he continually had copy
ing the songs Of the chorus. That Very
morning he went out and purchasedoa
larger stone and leommen enced to- make
experiments, and, as we all ,kpow,she
finally succeeded in discovering the art
of printing from stone-lithoghraphy.
Such was the result Of the first perfor-
nance of 'Don Juan" id Munich. The
opers was to'be repeated tie following
evening. lButa sad event intertered.
b lFlranziska Isebrun was dead. The ex-
hausti0n and excitement on the pre-
vious evening, together with the deeapp
sorrow which HAD consumed her since
the death Of her husband, had acaused
the breaking Of . blood vessel Shewas
found in the attitude of prayer, before
her bed d-.so had death surprised her.
The news other death was taken to
Mozart while he was breakfasting with
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their Crestpr. They have called their
sister to them. Not long and, they will
have called brother to them, too.'''-
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