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called professionally fbro-caseous. which
may not kill the sufferer for years.

called professionally ~fbro-oaseous. which
may not kill the sufferer for years.
DIR. Huber believes that Chopin's music
was just as much a ected by the long course
Of the disease which finally killed the COM
poser, as it very we'll could be. He finds
that it represented constantly the moods OF
the oonsumptive. He describes them In
these words .
THE pathetic IA ct seems to be with regard
10 tuberculosis. as in all things else, b q
all phases Of individual life, the physical,
the moral, the mental, the spiritual. seem
intimately blended and i~nterdependent, 30
that the whole is affected by an abnormality
In any one aspect.
we may here note that as regards the
moral nature the oonsumptive differs in no
way from other chronic sufferers.
THE consumptive, however, as regards
his psyohism has to contend with some
factors which do not generally obtain in
other chronic affections. 1t is no wonder
he Is sensitive and that his CONSTITUENCIES
ma es him morbid, when others manifest
fear because Of his mere presence among
them; look upon him as If he had committed
some crime; are annoyed because OF the
cough and the expectoration compelled by
his disease.
we might hero adopt the old olassif-
cation Of mind into will, intellect and emo
tons. Tho will, as all other menta aspects,
is unsta bic and varia BILE; however, there Is
sometimes IN extraordinary optimism. The
intellect is often acute; and sometimes it Is
uncanny.
"The emotions Of oonsumptivee are var
led. Ecstasy, impulsiveness, obstinacy.
irritability, abnormal energy, alternate
with depression, grief, disappointment
This state, DR.. Huber finds, Is reflected In
Chopin's music, He adds:
Here we have q psychic state which
reflects itself uncannily in Chopin's com
positions. Indeed, it has wen been said
thai 1t was wrong in Chopin to produce music
so unearthly as his. After a piano concert
devoted wholly to the compositions OF
Chopin the absence Of the virile element Is
so impressive that the healthy would wish
to run, to shout. to jump, to do some
feat Of strength by way Of establishing an
equilibrium.
Much, indeed, Of almost spectral beauty
there is in this mans work, suggesting
too mistakenly the white moonlight and
exotic a~tmospheres. What mortal, indeed,
will ever again, unless In q dream. bear sucb
exquisite musio-musio supernatural and
not at all Of the earth-as that in the trio
Of the first polonaise, or such plaintive
melody which sounds as II the composer
was communing with the spirit creatures
as Is to be found in the nocturn. opus 81,
and the cello waltz passage opus ~, which
sounds as II It were the wailins and the
signing Of the spirit lovers whom Dante
immortalizedl
Nowhere else In music-not even In the
music of Beethoven, nor In Tschaikowsky,
saturated with the dreadful melancholy
of the Slavic race-appear such eerie
harmonies, such strange phrases in siSths,
such tender, heart searching music as Is
characteristic Of this composer. Nowhere
else in music, perhaps. Is there quite such
as this. 1t Is in some measure because
during the last ten years OF his life-the most
productive years, I suppose-poor Chopin
was a consumptive.'