Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-03-08
FEATS OF ARTISTS
Some Notable Achievements In
Eleventh Hour Work.
ONE OF LANDsEER's sPURTs.


The Masterpiece the Grant Painter
Produced in . Few Inconsistencies
shis Records Made BY Bone Of the
Famous Masters Of Music.
Some astounding feats In eleventh
hour work. especially In the musical
and artistic branches. have been
achieved by tbs great artists Of the
world.
Sir Edwin Landseer had promised a
picture for the spring exhibition OF
me British institution In 1845. but on
Tho day before the exhibition was to
be opened all the banging committee
had received was an empty frame.
which was duly hung In the position
OF honor.
As the prospect OF receiving a pic
ture for the frame seemed to the COM
mittee to be slight. 4 member thereof
went 10 see the artist he found
Landseer standing In front of a bare
canvas
That's the picture | promised" said
the great man. pointing to the canvas.
Il have not touched 1t yet. but l will
send It to the institution tonight"
And be was as good as bis 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 q dozen hours was
none other than the universally ad-
mired Cavaliers Pets"
Leander. the famous painter, Is ca
pable OF remarkably rapid work Upon
seeing him leave his rooms early in
the morning with a canvas on his
back the neighbors Of the great artist
Used TO exclaim. There goes Leander
on to paint his daily picture" Al
though this may have been an exag-
geration. It is a veil known fact that
on several occasions the academician
produced a large picture within a few
hours.
Leander has a formidable rival In
the matter OF hasty work In Solomon
Solomon. This artist painted an ad-
mirable life size portrait Of Israel
Zangwtll within the period of five
hours.
In the realm of music there may be
cited many instances of extraordinarily
quick work. Oscar Hammerstein's
record OF a comic opera In n act.
words and music, composed In n
night. Is an example.
One Of the most remarkable bits OF
orchestration ever written. the over
ture to "Ofeilo." was scored by Rossini
in only twenty-four hours.
Sir Arthur Sullivan composed the
brilliant epiiogue Of the Golden Leg
end" In the same space of time. He
sat down ut 8 O'Clock q evening to
compose the overture to "Iolanthe'
and did not rise from his desk until
the last nofe was written at Z on the
following morning. while the overture
to 1.-THE Woman of the Guard" occu-
pied him no more than twelve hours
both to compose and score.
1t II told of Donixetti that ne wrote
the instrumentation OF an entire opera
In which Rossini's "Gazza Ladra" was
TO be produced not a 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
declared he should have neither food
nor freedom until the overture was
completed HOssin: set TO 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 al l In the morn
ing not a note OF the overture to Don
Giovanni" had been set down. yet Mo-
cart 6nfshed 1t before be went to the
breakfast table at his usual hour. Dur
ing the Tong tours consumed by this
task It x said thai the musicians wife
kept hiE awake by reading fairy
stories te him.
One az the fastest composers that
ever lived was Trotere. the writer of
songs. Some of the composers feats
verge ON the marvellous. 1t is said. for
example. that he actually wrote the
score Of .In Old Madrid" and had
dropped It into the letter box within
eight minutes OF. the time he had taken
mp his pen. This would be remarkable
merely AZ showing his dextertty and
agility. to say nothing Of the labor Of
the composition Itself.
One Of Schuberf's friends tells a
story indicating that composers ra-
pidity OF workmanship. He had left
Schubert absorbed in Goetba's ballad
1.-THE Err King" On his return In a few
minutes be found the musician swift
~ putting OF 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