New-York tribune., 1898-01-23

November 2-Wine ................ 2 20
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n. B-A form T') or rulden w W NyIen,
Wahrung) near enough 70 he called
franc--about 20 or 81 cents American money M.
English gallon equals 396SO Prussian ouar,
one Austrian mass equals 23J9 Prussia,
quarts; one Austrian mass equals ! 26 Ensnn
quarts.
May "a, 1860, I called on Sails in the Naa-
Case, Wien. His wife was daughter ~ ~
violoncelist Willmann and therefore niece ~ ~
Willmann-afterward Galvani-sineer at Bon,
1903 (See Gerber's Lexicon) She told v.
that her father had often told her tha, Beetha
ven was visby in love with tho beau.rr,
songstress and offered his hard: but she refused
him. he being ugly and half crazy"
May -. 1SGO-Herr Sails took no 70 Ho..
sekretar Mailer an old man. e.ehty-two year
Of age. born at Coblentz H. came 10 Vienna
IN 1909. Breuning introduced him 10 Bec,ho
ven. The place Of Introduction was in he
Theater an der Wien. where recthoy,n then
had rooms. 1t was probably during the Rin;e,
1s03-04. They found Beethoven AZ work finish.
sat down and played the Tmale-theme. yan.
tions and fugue-and when i was conel.del II.
stead OF leaving of. he continued in a IRE.
fantasia FOR two hours. during all which tim.
said MAILER. hims III 4 composer ,here vas not
a phrase C'Takt," the word he gs.dl which wa.
faulty or which did not sound original
May 2S-I called again on Mahi,r and ques
toned him as 10 the above. and find have re-
ported correctly. one thing be- says. t.culagly
attracted his attention. and that Was mat b,
played with his hands so very stiN Wonderful
as was his execution. there was no tossing ur
and about Of his hands but thy seemed TO glide
right and left over the keys. the fingers dolas
the work
He told me that at the grand rehearsal Of
"Fidelio" the Third Fagott was absent thai
Beethoven fused and ffgeted about 10 but ,hx
Lobkowitz treated the matter lehtly-tw
fagotts were there and a third conld max,
little difference. etc. Wheroa, was enraged
and after the rehearsal. on his way % his loig
ings in the city, he passed over the Lob
kowitz-Platz he could not resist going to The
great door and calling out "Lohkowitzche
Esei" CLobkowitzian ass'D
Upon inquirng what portrait Beethoven refers
to in the letter 70 M.ihcr which ! copiei he
other day. Mahler told me it was picture which
he painted soon after coming To Vienna /,
which Beethoven is given noa-ly az fun length
left hand resting on a Tyre. right hand extended
as If in moment II musical enthusiasm he Was
beating time. In the background a iemple o.
Apollo. Oh II he could only know wha; had
become Of that picture Why" said l. II Is
now hanging up in Widow Carl van Beethoyens
room in the Josephs,adt. and have a copy Of
IT. SO it appears that the picture which Luio
gave me is a copy of one 10y Mailer
Prince Josef Franz Macmillan Lobkowiu
was one of the first and forcmos; of Becihoyens
viennese friends H. was TWO years younger
than the COMPOSER and an intimacy spfang Up
between the two men G>obko~itz being an ad'
mrable amateur. playing the violin and 'iolon'
cello and singing like an artSU very soon a''9
Beethoven came To Vienna In lG2 lis name
appears in the dedicatons of the ihifd hitn
md sixth symphonies. besides number oi o'he'
smaller but yet important works. le VAS one
II the contributors TO Beethoy'n's annuity anu
lied in 1916 Sir George Grove tell. n" s'o'!
n his article on Beethoven in the "lir ionary "
Music and Musicians" on tho auihoriV "
rhayer's biography Vol H. p -N>' me po''
RAFT painted by Mailer was until iite tears ae'
n the possession Of the widow ~ Ee,thoN'n'
nephew. Carl van Beethoven. whose ''"'"'"
conduct embittered the last years - 'he Has
ers life Thayers copy is In oh. ara vas ~
libited at the opening of the Bonn h.'iho''n'
laus Museum in l>JO Then photographs oi
we're made. Of which reproduction appears %
his mage. The Thaycr copy is now th, proV
.rty Of Mrs Jabez Fox. No - Iry.ns-st' CAM
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