Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-04-14

Went TO see the artist He found
Landseer standing: in front of a bare
canvas. :,>.j ". :. -;
THAT'S the picture promised said
the great man, pointing to the canvas.
Il have not touched it yet; but will
send it to the institution tonight
And he was as good as hts word. "A
few hours later the completed picture
was delivered and may be seen today
in the. National gallery. This wonder
full work Of half a dozen hours was
none other than: the universally ad-
,mired Cavaliers Pets. T., :. +:
Leander, the famous painter, is ca:
pable Of remarkably rapid work. Upon
seeing him leave his rooms early in
the morning with canvas on his
back the neighbors Of the great artist
used to exclain. There goes Leander
or to paint his daily picture" Al
though this may have been an exag-
geration. 1t is a we'll known fact that
on several occasions the academician
produced large picture within few
hours, -: -.
= Leander has formidable rival In
the matter Of hasty work In Solomon
Solomon. This artist painted an ad-
mirableS life size portrait of Israel
Zangwill within the period Of five
hours. =
In the realm Of music there may be
cited many instances Of extraordinarily
quick, work. Oscar Hummelshine,
record Of a; comic opera in one act,
words and music, composed in one
night, is an example.
One of the most remarkable bits of
orchestration ever written, the over
ture to "Otello," was scored by Rossini
in only twenty-four hours.
Sir Arthur. Sullivan composed the
brilliant epilogue of the Golden Leg
end" in the same space Of time he
sat down at 9 o'clock one evening to
compose the overture to '1olanthe"
and did not rise from his desk until
the last note was written at on the
following morning, while the overture
to ''The Yeoman Of the Guard" occu-
pied him no more than twelve hours
both to compose and score.
It is told Of Donizetti that he wrote
the Instrumentation of an entire opera
within thirty hours. On the morning
in which Rossini's "Gazza Ladra" was
to be produced not single note Of the
overture had been written, and the
manager was in despair. He sought
out the indolent composer, locked him
In one Of the rooms of La Scala and
k1
nor freedom until the overture was
completed. Rossini set to work with a
will and to such purpose that the
music was written and rehearsed be-
fore the evening performance.
Mozart was another genius who fire.
quently needed the spur Of eleventh
hour work. Though at in the morn
ing not note of the overture to "Don
Giovanni" had been set down, yet Mo-
Fart finished it before he went to the
breakfast table at his usual hour. Dur
ing the long hours consumed by this
task it is said that the musicians wife
kept him awake by reading fairy
stories to him.
One Of the fastest composers that
ever lived was Trotere, the writer Of
songs. Some Of the composers feats
verge on the marvellous. It is said, for
example, that he actually wrote the
score Of I'm Old Madrid" and had
dropped it into the letter box within
eight minutes Of the time he had taken
up his pen. This would be remarkable
merely as showing his dexterity and
agility, to say nothing Of the labor Of
the composition itself.
One of Schubert's friends. tells a
story indicating that composers ra-
pidity Of Workmanship. He had left
Schubert absorbed in Goethe's ballad
1.-THE Erl King" On his return in few
minutes he found the musician swift
Fly putting on paper the notes inspired
by the poem. and within an hour there
had been composed that great song the
world has admired ever since.-Edwin
Tarrisse in Chicago Tribune. =