The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-27
THE MOZART CENTENNIAL.
Honors 10 the Master. and New Inforna.
tion IN to HIS Snd Life.

During the week ending on Dec. II, Mt the
great Royal Opera House. opposite the palace
Under tho Linton in Berlin. only Mozart g
music was played. In Leipsic. Dresden Mu-
mich. Frankfort Stuttgart. ana Hamburg, dur
ing the same period. tens ofthousands probably
gathered nightly before the operate stages to
listen to the wolAs of tho Schiller OF German
music: for however high tho tide of favor in
Germany may run now and then toward Wag-
ner. no other composer holds such wide and
deep place in the popular heart as the maker OF
Don Juan" and The Magic Flute. and most
FASTENED to do honor to his memory on this
Tooth anniversary Of his death.
In Austria sh similar d9E.monstratl1n was
q the master: tho Society Of Friend; Of MUSIC.
the Phiharmonic &S3;cie,y and the Rose Hell;
| at concerts the finest OF his chamber music:
and org2nists. pianists and solo singers de-
positions untouched by the opera companies
:. Ami Amid all this homage. the climax Of the
out Europe in 1897. and preparations in
Salzburg to erect there a temple q music to
Bayreuth. two books have appeared ms Mozart
centennial works which call to- mind half
BY Enss aSsT
contains three letters from Mozart hitherto
unpublished. that reveal as, no others have the
composer was allowed by his contemporaries
to si4 nst e his G fE h .ot ,,o r..n,
whore he had Just given IN unsuccessful con-
cert, to mis- wife in Vienna, that he would be
ha5dly able to pay his creditors the $500 or
ind Istriously when he returned. Only try r; TO
s viii R9ss Fl postl ne say hs
adds: AS wrote these pages many tears fell
tHt n9M ,hSre NAY be
Or four day. yet he often failed to get even
What Mozart longod for most was "a good
ii. isnored his application Tor tho place OF
place to saiier Neither Was Mozart f invited
to court musicales as were Haydn and the two
IN Frankfort, as wero they; He went to Frank
tort on, on his own account. however. and failed
" the 10 lis @ WROTE s Fl;
e9nveescips father; ,As death. closely ans as
alyzed; Is the g2all Of He, have made myself
this true. best friend Of man. that it not only
fails to righht a bnt comforts and aaes me-
Mozart cried out against the cutting s OF i OF hs
ho In one q the letters quoted
the form OF that unknown lwho had ordered
the Rea1iemb fss him entreHtRs me
stskns vi i Almost .E9
! can use my life am at the end-and yet. it
would be SO beautiful to liys'on."
In 71l Mozart obtained the Ut salaried place
Of assistant to the aged concert master In tho
stephan Church. Vienna, merely that he
might have some prospect OF succeeding to
the salaried place lust above him. But he
never reached it. The old concert master out
lived his young assistant
The general impression that Mozart was
appreciated ut once after his DEATH" says an
AVS Austrian ia writer in 2 Jubilee artisle. and
tice and, neglect. is quite wrong. Otherwise
we should not mourn over the records of his
funeral. his soon forgotten grave. tho pow
erty for years Of his widow and children. He
left but S25; all his property was worth hardly
S20O: his debts amounted 70 sl.50o."
is Prof Karl Reinecke, director OF tho famous
Gewandhaus concerts IN Leipsic Its title In
dicafes It's contents: The Revival OF Mozart's
man musicians. is regarded as the FIRST In
terBreter q Mozart. and the bitterest enemy