Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-26

as they say IN Italy: that Il TO say An
ensy-going good fellow lie has re-
manned the friend Of his boylsh friends
aud Is exactly the same with them M
he was before the aureOie of celebrity
shOno round his head. Nor does he
pose With new acQuaintuncas he Is
simple aud frank and gives himself 10 airs
Of genius. IN appearance he 10 tall aud
slender and his entirely hcariless face
makes him look even younger than he Is.
The ouly artistic sign about HIM Is that
he wears his hair rather long, but other.
wise In looking superfially nt this young
man no one would suppose him 20 be
anything out Of common. a more scru-
Thinking glance, however, shows VIZ TINT
out Of his face shine two very ppnctrat-
ing and clover eyes; eyes that reveal his
genius and his musical capacity They
nre grey and full ~ life und stnrkle.
When Ia Florence. where he cnues very
often, for IL Ia only twO hours Cisinnte
from his home, which u az l.eahOrn,
Mascagni takes up his nbode ~ quiet
secOnd-class hotel, the llOtel CavUur,
where no puts up I'm a room on the iirst
floor and whore, II bis stay ~ prolonged,
he Is surrounded by his wife AMI little
children, whom he gdOres and to whom
he dedicatCs all his spare time. lie Is
fond Of sleeping late into the morning
hours, but then he goes 10 bed rrw
lilft lNhtfNf ANi AAAaA iNANlNhAA INIt
from the cafe he generally sits down to
few hours work.
He Is indofatigably Industrious When
! composing, he first sketches ont IN his
mind the whole plan Of his work and lie
| then rchearses IL 20 himself aud cOIrccts
| il on the piano, but ne never puts dawn
| a line on paper until the whole mHisical
phrage Is clearly defined IN his head
/ aud before he hears K mentally. Thus
/ long before n line Of the linntZnu had
been thrown upon The paper, Mnscaabi
carried the whole Of the Opnl In his
| head. and was able to play the ellie
! portions Of the work upon the piano. IN
| consequence OF the extraordinary vvloc-
] ity with which he writes he was threat
ened a year ago with u nervous malad.
| of his right arm. To correct this he
was ordered 60 play billiirls In order
| that his arm might have other exercise
and he may therefore be seen for hours
| ut the billiard table, evidently Thinking
more Of his music than Of The bnljs
! his own invention, which Is thick piece
! Of rush into which ne has stnck RIB.
! thus he Is hindercd from ciCsing hiS hard
! and avoids the nervous tension which Is
| so apt to produce writer's cramp. The au-
| thors Of his librott are The lawyer Gu lido
| Mcnasol and Professor tnotGuni Tnryor!
| Tozzett, both of them fellow-towuslv On
from Leghorn, and both 'ricndg of bis
early infancy. They are no. ~oqts Of The
| first order, but they have for Mascarri
that great advantage that they ure his
| personal friends and that such commu-
nifty Of IDEAS exist between them that ne
| can feel sure they would 0ut Town II .
character of work which he would tnre
to compose. Since the success Of Ca
| y0lleria ltusticana" MascdIni X in1n.
| dated with libretu and offers from those
! who would write them HIN. No
doubt some of them might b. bettor
than those written for him by his
| friends, but he sticks to them. npJ N
IS not likely he win ever abandon Them.
for IL Is one Of his marxod qualities 10
be n staunch and firm friend. IL Is those
same men who have translated INTO ItoI.
ian and adapted for music Coppce's
charming idyll lie Passant, which will
be the next opera which Mascacni Will
give to the world He has also another
nearly ready called "Vestilia," OF vlicb
the argument is drawn from Greek
mythology.
The life Of Pietro Mascagni. before
the evening when he suddenly became