Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-07-10

Yesterday afternoon the Musical
club and it's friends were guests Of
Mrs. Tarpey and her daughters. The
day was warm, but tnose who climb
ed the hill-some thirty in all
were well repaid by the superb view
of Tonopah, it's surrounding noun
tains and the valley in the distance;
while Mrs. Tarpey's pretty home
made a delightful setting for the
beautifully gowned women.
Franz Schubert, his life and his
compositions made the study for the
afternoon an exceedingly interesting
one. Mrs. w. L. Berry gave u
lengthy description of the personal
side of the mar and later marked
out the peculiarities of the selections
used as illustrations. Mrs. Berry
said in part:
5 Franz Schubert was the only
! great musician born in Vienna.
Many of them attracted by It's ad
? vantages were drawn to it, making
= it their home, but Schubert was the
only one of the great epoch-making
? musicians whom the great musical
= CITY courd claim as a sentative
\ born. Schubert was the second
" great musician Vienna allowed to
= starve to death. AS long as people
2 are interested in the lives OF these
: two-two of the greatest masters OF
composition the world has known
e the CITY of Vienna will have to bear
= the reproach which arises in every
= heart at the untimely death OF
y schubert and Mozart before him.
Schubert was one of twelve child
y rem. His father, a scholarly man OF
Z excellent attachments, taught from
early manhood until his death IN
the schools about and finally in VI
7 emma. The little Franz was taught
to sing. to play the violin and piano
and thorough bass along with hi
other studies, 1t soon became evi
dent that no ordinary music teacne
II could instruct him. for by instinc
he knew already what they woul
tell him. At the age of IL he en-
tered the competitive examinatio
at the Imperial Convict
school maintained by the emperc
TO driH and teach the world-r'
nowned choir of st. Stephens Cath
dral.
The awkward, uncouth, sensiti'
little fellow in his gray clothes
no pattern, with his bushy bia'
curls. and specialized eyes was t
object of ridicule from all those la
until his time came to stand up |
fore them and show what he cou
do. He excelled so far that he W
given the highest place possible
the examining board, and the ne
day he appeared in the splent
gold-braided uniform of the i
nerial Convict He was exceptiC
ally well taught in many subJec
hut here began the slow process
death by starvation and freezil
The first letter we have of Sci
bert's is one written home from
school in which he begs them
- send him a roll or an apple to
between meals, as the time betwt
miserably poor ones was eight 9
one-half hours.
a u14knu Af tho 9EIrs
Spaun. was attracted at the
-" orchestral rehearsal in which FIR
- took part by the violin wonderfl
49, played-for n of his amateur
Immediately behind him. Unable
curb his curiosity he turned TO
- little Schubert-the new boy, p
49, ing as if his whole being were
- the utterance of the instrum
This man afterward forced thro
the i~nvulnerable reserve this Il
City, emo snianN - ufo-,
- friends. and 1t was Spaun that
little fellow finally took into
confidence enough to tell that
n,,sh could not buy music paper
m,o,l which to write. The sympatl
There teacher supplied Schubert with
: ;r ing materials for four years.
nv schubert's manner of comp'
,,oet was different from all other n
nanea makers. He has been called
an NV "embody millionaire" h mu
tho ideas came to him so rapidly
wou he was often impatient over hni'
,otber one. so anxious was he to begin
raws- next clamoring for existence.
4 the wrote so rapidly that he
~ya,ing time to redress and polish a
when position. Since he was almost
, the taught in the mode of compo'
,at he he used, it is marvellous that !
Il des- stood the tests which 100 years
subjected it to, and that its
80. q oroat that by the he