The record-union., 1899-12-24

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airy Of Music and Musicians: The
to friends (Mayrhofer and SchuberD
were n-the most intimate terms. and
addressed each other by nicknames.
What Mayrhofer's appellation may
have been we do not know, but Schu-
bert now Q819) and later was called
''the tyrant" for his treatment of Hut
tenbrenner;. also ..Bertl." "Schwam-
merl," and, best of all, "Kanevas"-be-
cause when stranger came into their
circle the first question always was,
"Kann er VASE" Can he do any
thing?"
Patti intends to celebrate, in 1900, the
f1ftieth anniversary of her first appear
ance as a child of seven at charity
concert in New York, surprising her
hearers by her fluent delivery of Jenny
Lind's favorite, Eckert's Echo" song,
and of the final. rondo from La Son
nambula'' For three or four years she
travelled with the late Maurice Stra-
kosch, who had married her sister
Amalia, and then for some years came
q rest, Maurice wisely determining that
PATHS voice should not be forced dur
ing the period that it was changing
from the childs to the woman's. On
November "a, 1859, Madame Patti made
her stage debut at New York as Lucia,
singing dozen other roles during the
season Maurice Strakosch agreed to
pay her the modest fee of $500 month
during the first year, 5000 for the sec
CQOA fov~ 1a 1ty6 nd
month for the fourth year; but after
her great success he tore up her con-
tract and for many years shared profits
with her. He spared her all fatigue,
wrote all her letters for her, sang for
her her part at some of the earlier re-
hearsals, and it was whimsically said
even once offered to sit for her photo
graph. Patti went to England in 1861
under a contract with e. T. Smith, for
Drury Lane, where she was to receive
So, 600 a month. But Smith, bought out
by Frederick Gye, did not open, and
Gye refused to engage her, as he want
ed no more prima donnas. Eventually
Gye agreed to let Patti give three trial
performances at Covent Garden for
nothing, and afterward to pay her 500
a month for the first year; rising to
So, 600 for the fifth year, two represen-
tations a week being given. PATHS
sensational London debut in 1861, when
she at once became the star of the sea-
son, is matter of history, and for the
extra nights, over two a week, Gye was
soon glad to pay her $500 representa-
ton. In Brussels she got 5000, and in
Paris year later $3.50 a night, in
Vienna in 1853 $500 a month, and after
1870 in London 200 guineas a night. She
last received for opera in London $500
and in America $4,000 a night, while
for concerts in England, Messrs. Har-
rison paid her $500 a night in the
provinces and $4,000 in London.
When Paderewski heard that there
was a project Of transferring the re-
mains of Chopin from the Pere-la-
Chaise in Paris to the Cathedral at
Warsaw he at once subscribed $4,000
for the funds. In London it is rumored
that another eminent Polish artist,
Jean de Reszke, will specially cross the
channel and sing at a concert in behalf
of the same fund, which would be an
event Of musical interest, as the great
tenor has not consented to sing at a
concert for some years. The London
Daily News hears that Miss Janotha
is organizing the concert probably on
the anniversary of Chopin's birth.
which, by the way, is wrongly given in
Groves, and in practically every other
musical dictionary, and also on the
monument at Warsaw erected by
George Sands son-in-law. The date
usually accepted is March or 2, 1909,
but the following official certificate
from the Rev Father Bielawski, priest
Of the Brochow Parish Church of Ze-
lazowa VIOLA, published in the DAILY
News" Of May Is 1896. settled the mat
ter:
From most authentic documents, as
we'll as from baptismal testimony and
| from the record of his birth made i'll the
civic books of the parish of Brochow,
we know that Frederic Francois
Chopin, son of Nicholas Chopin and
Justine KrzyZanowska, was born in
Zelazowa VIOLA, district of Sochacsew,
on February %, 1910, and was bap-
tized in the church at Brochow on April
I'D of the same year.