The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-07-05

| 10 nstnuiHhed MANKIND tne
troubles, the aspirations. tie hopes, as
also the triumphs and clories OF love
and svmpatny," This Is not tho nme
nor pIaoe. NOT am the person TO enter
INTO nuy details a. TO what he accom-
njiobcd for music, some one has saiI
tbRt while Mozart was the Raphael OF
mnsie in Germany, Beethoven was us
Michael Angelo. have already quoted
the comparison TO Shakespeare. 10 pe
compared 20 two such men, transeen.ii
AMI in their distinctive spheres, Is AZ
that need be inscribed in Beethoven
epitaph. The measure OF his glory u
thereby mado full aud complete.
Whom ono goes back to the history OF
music aud song In Germany ana 9thet
countries anu reads OF the humble ei;
forts that wero made by humble men oil
pa,ience and genius TO accom- pilsn an
advance in tho art amid so much that
Was erudo and diseouragiug. we teaiize
how fortunate was the lot OF tho modern
matters. such Us Beethoven. Mozart,
IIadyn. Handel, McudelsSohn, and all
the long category Of moderns, as COM
nnrod with that Of their far back pre-
deces,ors. The latter could not cross
tho Jordan aud enter into tue
promised land. They knew how to PRO
duco melody but they could not produce
harmouies, Those wore not tho days
Of notes and scales, or Of grand pianos
and organs. The scieuce OF combining
and ngrreyating the human voice into
choirs and chOruses, by means Of part
singing, was not understood. Even
those who arranged tho famous Hre.
ror:an chants did not understand part
singing. Such thinG therefore as n
chorus or IN opera or an oratorio was
unknown, and OF course there mover
was sangcrfcst in Germany IN those
primitive DAYS. The modern masters
have had the piano, the organ and the
orchestra to inspire and guide their
talents. but tho MinnosinGUrs had only
the rudest string Instruments.
To us at this late day 1t seems as
s.rang. as the story OF tho scaled book
In Egypt, that with such an abundance
nj thn raw material OF music ID the
hoarts and on tho lips OF the people,
and with so many natural leaders VINO
seemed TO be hearing voice calling on
them TO break tho Chains that enthralI-
ed tho ombryo science OF music that
thew could not transmutc their melody
into harmony, and all because they did
NOT possess the musical characters that
would represent the capacities Of inc
human voice. Tho sealed book III
Egypt was speedily read ~ soon as tho
famous Rosetta stone (which was the
kgy 10 tho hircovliphics) was found aud
a mar M soou as tho capacities OF the
voice could bo given Interpretation and
expression by notes and scales then II
VIVA that choruses and all the Ovolutions
OF part singing, as they arc known to-
day. were started on their career oil do
velopmeut
There ia 70 certain extent kind OF
parallel bctwcon the political and So
cIal history OF Germany and the his
tory OF her musical development
There was for period far back in her
history au aspiration for unity and Tor
constitutional government, aud while
uniGcation was always coming II never
came. In the eternal order OF things.
Bismarck and the old emperor and Won
Moltke had first to be born. Tho dlscI-
pline of long deferred hopes had first
TO DO undergone. And so, in the history
OF music, when, back in tho seven
teonth century, John Sebastian Bach
appcared in tho world tho scicnce OF
music was put on its present splendid
foundations, and from that time on hos
grown In perfection like the science OF
mathematics. lie was tho genius oil
whom Schuman said that music owes
almost as great do6t to him as my
one OF the great religions that has
arisen in the history Of mankind owes
to Its founder.
This very imperfect sketch as to what
the world owes to Germany in tho
matter OF music would be still moro i'm.
perfect i'll were 10 omit 10 refer to the
name OF tho great composer who made
tho poems OF Goethe familiar Us house.
hold song to every castle and cottage in
tho fathorland-tho great Schubert,
who. in his short carcor, achieved the
reputation OF being the greatest song
writer that Germany ever produced.
10 gavo those diamonds OF Goethe
their rare setting that makes Thorn 80
attractive in his native land. Ito did
for the poems Of that great mastor what
Martin Luther and his associates did
for the church music Of Germany, when
they populariZed tho singing Of high
order OF composition among tho com.
mon people. Tho verses OF Goethe and
tho hymns OF Luther are sung wherever
the German tongue is spoken.
Tho great musical festivals Of Ger.
many to-day remind one not littlo OF
tho history Of tho great iairs OF the fam
GUS lIanseatiC League, in the middle
ages, TO which representatives OF all ma
tons journeyed in order to SEQ what
German art had discovered ut home
and what German commerce had
brought from abroad. Representatives
OF all nationalities in these latter days
make it point to witness tho musical
festivals OF Germany. When was in
tho city OF Cologne, in tho mouth oil
August, 1892, fell in with Englishmon
who were on their way to Bayreuth, in
tho kingdom Of Bavaria, South Ger
many, to DO present at two weeks
season OF Wagnorian opera at that
place, for which, II | recollect correctly,
they expected 10 pay as much US five
dollars per sent at each entertainment
Of tho musical season. This seemed
like 40 cXtravayant compliment to tho
genius OF Wagner, that people who
had heard great artists interpret his
music in great musical center like
London, should journey all tho way 10
Bayreuth to hear 1t interpreted 'hCIc
after Wagnor's own ideas, by artists on
whom hc had laid the hauds OF musical
conservation during his life, or who had
direct apostolic succession, 80 to speak.
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rs interpreters OF his compositions.
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