The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-08-03

he stood with other celebrated musicians
and lltteratI who were grouped about n
piano listening to Schubert play. The face
with It's tense look 81 eager and angulb shed
yeaTnlng to hear was so real aud so pathetic
for at this time the door TO that great
garden Of delights whore one may receive
the blessed balm OF music through the
physical ear was fast md forever closing
against Beethoven. Although for long years
this one of Gods most glorious ministers
of grace walked among men through an
outer world Of death-like silence he con.
ceiyed and caused to be produced such
music as no other mortal man has Gqualed.
There Ia more than one meaning In the
lines Heard melodies are sweet, bur those
unbeard are sweeter"
Twas while his residence was In Vienna
that Mozart composed the works on which
his fame chiefly rests; and Haydn, too,
wrote his masterpieces in his little homo In
the suburbs Of this city-that is The
Creation" and the Seasons" were pro.
duced in the Viennese atmosphere.
Schubert belongs altogether to Vienna, ms
i was his birthplace as well as his home:
One whole room In the Rathaus is devoted
to Schubert6na. | visited this room Sun.
day morning and went afterward TO the
service in the Hofkapeile chapel belonging
70 the imperial palacel and heard schu-
berts mass music most gloriously sung
AS IN London they have the poets corner
In Westminster abbey, so IN Vienna they
friedhof In the middle stands a pedestal
on which the bust Of Mozart Is placed,
although the place Of his burial nobody
knows: around It are the graves Of Bee
thoyan. Won Suppe : Schubert Gluck.
Strauss. Tanner, Brahms and Millocker
! wish space and time allowed me 70 de-
scribe in detail the monuments and In,
scriptons over these graves, for ! found
them most beautiful and interesting.
! would like. too. 20 tell OF the pleasure
found In the art galleries. and to speak
especially of the paintings by the one cmi'
nent Austrian artist, Hans Adkart. many
Of whose works have been exhibited In
America. myself remember ms pig can.
vas at the centennial, Catherine of
Conaro," and that attractive series ~
panels representing the Five senses,
which was shown at the worlds fair In
Chicago.
must mention my visit to the palace Of
schonhrunn, some Of whose historical as
sociatons are fresh ln our minds since
Rosiaud wrote "L'Alglon' and Bernhardt
aud Coqueln have acted H. or course J
saw the room occupied by Napoleon J when
he had HIS headquarters here IN lSl1T9).
the Same In which his son. the duke ~
Reichstadt, died In 1892. And, by the way.
thnt magnificent cradle made for the little
king OF Rome which is so conspicuous on
the stage in the last act OF 'L'AiEioh, ~
to he seen today in the state treasury along
with the crown jewels, royal robes, etc.
The extensive garden about the pnln'e OF
Schonbrunn Il IN somewhat the same style
as the grounds at Versailles ana are 20 nc
more beautiful From the platform on the
ton Of the exquisitely lovely cOlonunne
called the Gloriett many Interesting locaii-
ties were pointed out 10 us. among them
the site Of The battlefield Of Wagraln,
which Rostand makes the scene 81 the
most polguantly tragic climax ~ DIS 'or-
prove himself a worthy son OF his father.
When leave. Vienna shall 90 down the
Danube late Hungary GA make Z sner
stay In Budspssth' Wine Hu'easson.