The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-18
TODAY IN HISTORY
Death Of Charles Francois Gounod.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1910.

Gounod and Faust" The two words
arc associated. One does no, think OF
the composer in any other connection
unless one is himself a musician or q
musical critic. And thus "fanst stanns
as something OF the anomaly IN tne an
nails oil music LIS writer touched IN
4, the supreme height of his glory. ano
that at the age oi II. though he wrote
eleven other operas. no one OF 'nese
was, like Faust" an unequivocal sue
cess with critics and audiences
Indeed. perhaps no other opera ever
presented has had so universal and
most the first week of its presentation
up TO the hour OF It's composers death,
it maintained. for thirty-hve years an
undiminished popularity, and even at ne ne
favor. For all classes OF music lovers
II has retained an almost une%ampled
charm. Before It's composer died ~ hha iha
had upward OF 1000 presentations In the
city OF Paris alone, and IT Is an opera
that today is heard with ever new
and naive delight,
one secret OF the beauty OF Faust
is said 10 be contained in the fact that
it's music illustrates every charm ihat
lis creator possessed-his amiabilltf'
grace. tenderness, warmth of sentiment,
dreamincss, ecstasy and nucncy OF pas
sion. Gounod was a mystic. dreamer;
governed by emotional influences ana
more deeply affected In his essentially
feminine nature by faith and affection
than by reason or logic, lie thus eN-
presses devotion TO the sensuous charm
that was part of his own lovable
turc. 1t is said that his life. In It's
emotional ccstasies. in its winning amia-
bility. was the counterpart Of his music; music;
Born in Paris July IL 1918. Gounod
Inherited the artistic temperament on
the one side OF his father. who was a
painter. and of the other from his
dying when Charles was but Ave years
old, his mother educated him, with the
intention. however. that he should he a
lawyer. All Is years OF age lie was still
pursuing the studies necessary for the
profession OF law. when his mother
Welded to his wish to take up music.
Early in life she had taught him to
play the piano, and he was well equipped
in other directions for the special course
| Of study al the National Conservatory,
He distinguished himself in that school
| from military service and carrying off
some prizes in his first years.
| BY the end OF three years he won the
grand prize OF the Institute OF France,
! which carrier with it two years resi-
! dencc in Rome as pensoncr of the in
stitute and one year of travel IN Ger.
! many. In Rome he occupied himself
principally with ecclesiastical music. for
IL was now discovered that his mystical
nature strongly inclined him toward the
church He spent some time in a semi
nary for priests In Rome, and when he
returned to Paris he entered the semi
| nary of the foreign missions II seemed
! certain now mat he would renounCc the
world for he put on monastic robes and
! devoted himself wholly TO theology He
surely contemplated taking holy orders.
| and was known as the Able Gounod
| Receiving, however commission for
an opera from the academy and produc-
! ing. in 1851. the well known "Sappho >.
! FOR thirty years thereafter the man who
had seemed 10 have planted at least one
| foot firmly In the church. save himself
almost wholly. to the lbeater, Eight
years later he produced his Faust" and
| sprang into immediate and universal
fame Next to Faust" his Romeo and
! Juliet ranks the hest OF his works
! He died at st Cloud October IS 1892
On October is. 1886. Roger Williams
| was Tried for heresy: IN 1915 the treaty
with tho Narraeansctt Indians was
| signed; in lIs3 the Continental army dis
banded In 1882 the first submarine tele-
graph was laid in America between Gov
ernors island and New York City. and
| in 1867 the United States took posses
sion OF Alaska. Today is the birthday
OF Beau Nash G64O, Francois Eueon,
| the French general G563): Robert IT,
Stevens. boat builder and inventor Il FS7)
Giuseppe Mario, the Italian tenor (iS1i5
Helen Hunt Jackson. author (lS3l)
Thomas r, Reed, Maine politician (lS3o)
and Henry o. Havemeyer. mercha nj
! (lSlI) Today lis the date OF the death