The Dolores star., 1902-02-21

Are music-making and loving insep-
lrable? Must musician have loved
and lost" in order to reach true great
ness7 The intense wish expressed bv
Jan Kubelik's managers that some
charming coquette might smash the
heart OF the young Bohemian violinist
and thus give to his playing increase
Of emotionality seems to argue that
they at least believe that as a man
loveth SO flddleth he.
And musical history bears them ou.
In this belief. In fact, not only his
tory but nature itself proves the cor
rectness Of the theory that music-mak-
Ing and loving go hand In hand. Ey-
cry animal from the feline on the
fence to the fairest lark In the azure
OF heaven makes the most musical
sound 1t can when II knows that the
object OF Its alteration Is close by and
liable to be Impressed by the devotion
voiced In that expression of ecstasy.
And that greater animal. man, is in
this. as In most other things, close
akin to his fellows lower in the scale.
The difference between Tommy's rap
turous tribute to Tabby's eyes of green
and pelt OF silky white and the lovers
ardent warbling anent the rosy glow
upon his lady's cheek, or the perfumed
sweetness of his lady's breath, is but
difference In degree.
The list of noted composers or per-
formers may be gone through from
beginning to end and it will be found
that almost without exception from
the earliest times to the present day
woman has been the Inspiration, the
shaping influence that has led to great
achievement. She herself has as yet
created nothing Of enduring worth,
but were those works of which she by
her influence has been the coproducer
to be blotted out Of musics literature
the world would be robbed of nearly
all its masterpieces.
Take. for example, Paganini, the
master violinist, whom Kubelik Is said
to resemble In powers, and whom his
managers evidently would wish him
to equal in temperament There is still
told in Vienna to-day by those whose
fathers heard and knew Paganini when
: he first played there in 1928 the story
of how he came to be the wonderful
artist he was.
According to the facts, as given by
them-and they are ready to stake
their lives on the correctness of them
-Paganni, when not yet out of his
teens. loved and married. The beau
tiful girl whom he made his bride at
tracted the attention Of a young no.
BILE. who, one day passing her on the
street. addressed her, and was seeking
to win her favor, when Paganini sud
denly appeared. and without a mo-
ment's hesitation knocked the young
rascal down. The noble swore ven
geance. Paganini was arrested. and
sentenced to four years Imprisonment.
At this time he was violinist of fair
but by no means exceptional powers.
Alone in prison. with no employ
ment OF any kind wherewith to busy
mind and hands, and in ignorance Of
the fate Of his young wife. he was in
despair, and for several months threat
ened to do away with himself. His
jailer, finally fearing the man would
peCOlno luSdle, ilSteueu W uls pledu-
Ing and secured for him violin,
But realizing the prisoners mental
state and fearful lest he might use the
strings of the violin as cord with
which to hang himself, only one string
was put on the instrument given to
him. On this one-stringed violin
Paganini now practiced all day long
until two years Of his imprisonment
had passed. Then his keeper, seeing
he entertained no thoughts of suicide.
gave him second string. and few
months later the other two, and thus
from dawn till dark the imprisoned
master practiced and played. pouring
out in his music all his longing for his
wife, and all the despair he feit at not
knowing where she was.
The four years had nearly passed,
when one day a nobleman OF high rank
visited the prison. and hearing this
wondrous music asked whence 1t came.
He was told Of the strange prisoner
and commanded him brought before
him. Hagard and emaciated. It seem
ed more ghost than man that was
led into the room. And his playing
seemed even more supernatural. II SO