Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-14

at last do it over heree We do not
need him iu 10 at the Metropolitan for
knotc IS am almost ideal ManricO: yet
II would be interesting 20 hear Caruso
in that role. too.
When Wagner is sung at our Metro
poht0n Opera House, the numerous
ltallans living here avoid 81 as il IL
were a pest house, says a New York
paper Quite otherwise the Italians I'm
italy, who are much more catholic i'm
taste. In the italian cities not only
are the early operas Of Wagner often
sung. but also the later music dramas:
and they would be sung oftener still
were there more singers and conduc-
tors who can do them Justice. In Rome
the opera season is 10 begin on Dec. %
with Wagner's "Maestri Cantori =
err"
Napoleon l. cared very little for
music, but as matter OF course dixie
most persons in his predicamenD he
thought he knew all about N FrsD1
Fndberg has eNhumed story relating
70 MIN and kreutzer-the eminent vio-
llnist 10 whom Beethoven dedicated
one OF his best sonatas and which gave
rise 10 Tolstoy's ludicrous story. "Phe
kreutzer sonata Kreutzer was very
much elated one day when he was told
Napoleon But when ne began To plsN,
the emperor listened with visibly in
creasiny Impotence. and finally. after
zen minutes. he jumped up. exclaimed
iurlously, viii he never stop scrau-
ing?' and left the room.
Vienna has long been In agony over
me question OF an operate conductor.
although 70 seems that the uegofiations
win Weingartner began as early as last
June Weinsartucr could not definite
lN accept the position left vacant nv TIA
departure OF Mailer for New York
without special permission from Rer-
lln. where DE is under contract for sew
eral years longer: but Il Is expected
that this permission viii be officially
granted by the middle OF this month
II Welngariner goes to- Vienna. he viii
also conduct the Philharmonic concerts
there, Motif was, 60 be sure. chosen FOR
that place by am almost unanimous
vote, but iuasmuch as Motif has been
persuaded 90 remain Munich. he has
declared his unWillngness TO copducf
the concerts Ion Vienna. Mailer viii
remain at the head ~ the Vienna opcra
until late In the autumn. He Will come
10 America alone, leaving his family
abroad. His q minor symphony viii
Doe played by the Vienna Philharmonic
under the direction OF Schalk. The
berlin Philharmonic concerts IN case
Wciugartner goes Co Vienna. will prob-
ably be conducted by Leo Blech.
There died 90 Vienne the other dav
il his cighty-oighth year am OH man
VINO remembered Beethoven quite we'll
TIE was "a vinegroWer named KerpDel
ana as his memory WAS extrllriilarv
Doe was often questioned as 10 his rcl-
ol cotton OF the composer. Was Raetbo-
HFf|IN
a'ted. That h "A story &C. would
torly Beethoven was nlt elegantly
uui "a 80, ys neatly, dressed be wore
lray silk hat kcrppol had often
seen him at Nusslorn when De had to
hbe his fathers dinner 90 him I'M the
vineyard, Beethoven always thanked
us kindly when we greeted him. He
was N medium height but OF athletic
build. Tie generally had little hook
with him Don which ne wrote with n pen-
lIl. Beethoven died lu 1897. when ola
krrppcl was not more than seven an
sIsht. ro that DC must have bean "a tIpv
url bin who. having consClentiodflv fc-
iiFerDd dinner into the hungry father
hands. pulled his fOrolOsk with chlld
mErcd-hraWed ola GENT man mn M
gray silN hat who STROBE along he
vineyard path. uoteb1lK ana pencil in
hand. Beethoven was no; terv oll
hc wta but huy-Hix year Ola al hIs
death. bun care ill-hsaiih ami bls own
etormy spirit had nl helped ID futror
his cOuuteuaucc. and thC little bay
doubtless thought him 70 hundrsl IA
least Moreover az the very tir. 4.
when The small dinner-hearer saw him
Beethoven was cruelty torn by suffer
iugs both Of mind ana body. Hla
worthless nepheW'H AFFAIRS gave him
constant anxlety.aud the maladv which
shortened his days very PAINFUL
malady had already begun a. course.
Had Old Korppel rocollected a snap-
pish. sensitive Beethoven. "a Beethoven
quito untouched hy pastoral incident
or the innocent beauty u ohidhooi
we could not have been surprised.