The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-01

Mere and count Sam, but without APP
pointments. In 1884 Ludwig was
awarded $50 per year. In 1877 he went
to Vienna the Elector paying his ex-
penses and giving him a letter to Mo
Fart. The great composer was apt to
look askance at infant prodigies, and
/ at first listened with Impotence, but
when the boy invented a fantasia on
given theme Mozart turned to the other
auditors, saying: Pay attention to this
youngster; he will make a noise in the
world one of these days. He gave the
boy few lessons. Lack of money and
his mothers last illness cut his stay
short and he returned home. Soon
thereafter she died and Franz Ries paid
the burial expenses. In 1892 his father
died, and young Ludwig looked faith
fully after the education of his broth
ers. A young man of an exceedingly
affectionate disposition, it is said he
was never without an affair of the
heart, each new flame Serving TO extn-
guish the last In 1892 Haydn passed
through Bonn and praised cantata
by Beethoven and in November of the
same year Ludwig left Bonn forever.
The Elector, recognizing the extent of
his genius, gave him a small pension.
Nearly -, he was known chiefly by the
remarkable facility of his extempore
! playing, and the record of his compost
/ lions at this time is insignificant At
%, Mozart was famous as a writer of
7 operas, symphonies, canratas and
masses, and his pieces numbered about
300 Going to Vienna, Beethoven was
obliged to get along on small means,
as fearing hard times, the Elector did
not fulfill his promise of the pension.
! Here Beethoven took first a garnet,
afterward a ground floor in a printers
J house in the Alser vor stadt where
he began a student life of three years.
But he did not get on well with his
masters, as they considered him OBJ
stinate and arrogant. Haydn spoke of
him as he"Great Mogul." Beethoven's
continual Il say 1t is right was not
! calculated to win the affection of his
masters. Here he studied the art of
writing for the voice and the stage
with Salieri. He also took lessons on
the violin viola, cello, clarinet and horn.
Meanwhile he made influential friends.
/ The son of Count Kinsky became the
devoted friend of Beethoven, and two
! of his warmest friends were Prince
! LichnoWski and his wife, formerly
Countess of Thun. They mourned Mo-
zart's death and saw in Haydn's pupil
a possible successor. In 1894 they took
! Beethoven to their own home and hui
mored and petted him necessarily. Be
ing childless, their affection was spent
upon the rude, hot-headed young man,
I who was often very trying to these
best of friends. The Princess however,
saw through the rugged exterior, and
the stories of her tact and forbearance
are many.
"She would have put me in glass
case that no evil might come nigh
me-" said the composer in after years.
Throughout all the years that followed,
/ in spite of his peculiarities of DISPOSE
/ ton, Beethoven was feted, petted and
humored His pen was most prolific
and ever kept busy by the active and
| colossal brain that conceived such stu
pendous musical ideas-ideas that reach
the heart because born of that great
| heart so rarely understood, and SO
often, alas sorely wounded and bitter
Iy misjudged. Il live only in music"
he wrote Wegeler, land no sooner is
one thing finished than another is be-
gun. | often work on three and four
things at once" The noble women of
Vienna adored Beethoven. Even his
rudeness fascinated them. They for
gave him if he roared angrily at les
son. or tore the music in pieces, and
were not offended if he used the snuff
fers as a toothpick He, too, was con-
stantly in love, but his attachments
were honorable. ooh, God! let me at
last find her who is destined to be mine,
and who shall strengthen me in
virtue" was his prayer.
In 1901 came the dawning of his great
misfortune which so sadly blighted his
after years. His deafness which began
with fearful sounds in his ears grew
upon him. Everything possible was
done to avoid a fatal elimination of the
malady. Discouraged at the result he
still had the bravery to write: Il will
as far as possible defy my fate, though
| there must be moments when l shall
be the most miserable of Gods crea-
lures. | will grapple with fate. 1t
shall never drag me down." His BROTH
er, Caspar Carl, dying, left to Ludwig's
care his eight-year-old son, to whom
Beethoven was ever tender as an own
father, denying himself that he might
save for his nephew. In 1926, the
nephew then q young man, fell into
disgrace and was ordered out of Wen
ma. He and his uncle Ludwig then went