El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-10-24
LOVES BUT FEARS TO WOO
Passion For Young Count
ess Was Only Love Affair Of
the Great Musician.
BY Madison {. Peters

= IKE so many Of the worlds gen
fuses Franz Schuberts great
ness was unrecoEnized until af-
ter his death now all the world knows
his music and loves IL, Vienna is proud
TO claim him as her very own He
was born in the Nussdorfer Strasse,
January 81, 1871 HIS father was
Door school teacher and could give very
little education to his children, but
Franz was gifted with q beautiful
voice which procured him a place IN the
Chorister school or KonviRr. as IL was
called Here he learned TO sing and
TO play the violin; but the other
branches of education he was left 10
procure as best he might Schubert
remained at the kOnvikt until 1913.
when his voice changed He had al
ready written several laudable COM
positions
To esape conscription the young com
poser became a school teacher, but his
work did not interest him, he was ner-
vous and irritable and after three
years of teaching. resigned IN conse-
Quence Of an alteration with the father
Of one OF the pupils
Five Years Of Hard Work
The next five years were hard ones
for the composer. for he made little
money, although he was writing some
Of his immortal works In the year
OF ISIS he became resident teacher Of
music in the family OF Count Johann
Esterhazy: here he had good food and
regular hours. q thing unknown since
he had left Kenvikt
The count and his family passed
their summers at their beautiful coun-
try seat in Zelesz, in Hungary, and in
these cOngenial surroundings Schubert
seems to have been cOntented but-his
his happiness was TO be short-lived,
for he fell hOpelessly in love with the
counts second daughter, the countness
Caroline, who is said to have chided /
Schubert for not defeating any Of his /
works 10 her, whereUpon he made his /
famous reply- Why should J. when !
everything I do Is cOnsecrated to yOu"2 |
II is doubtful wether he ever declared /
his love for Caroline, but their names /
will forever be linked together
Was Not Handsome.
Schubert was Of unprepOssessing ap-
pearnce, short, fat, near-sighted, with /
pasIy complexion He was shy with /
his social superiOrs and reminds one \
OF young Marlowe in Goldsmith's She |
Stoops TO Conquer, whose self-con- /
seriousness with Kate HardcaStle was
painful 10 behold; whereas. when in i
company with the maid, he waUed elo-
quent Like Marlowe, Schubert got
along famously with the servants He
writes. The cook is rather jolly: the !
maid is so. the housemaid very pretty. |
often quite social, the nurse. a good !
old soul, the butler. my rival"
Schubert is said TO have cared for /
the countness Caroline till the end. but I
est families in Europe, so, in all !
probability, he never had hopes of win
ming her. Perhaps had he been holder
the countess might have been his. Au-
IhOrities disagree as 20 her age, some !
saying that she was only Il and those |
who wish to believe the story authentic
declare her to have been Ia mar
riageble age in the early part Of the
18th century.
Dies At 81.
Schubert died November 70. 1928 at /
81 II seems strange that sometimes
death touches on the dramatic. This
was true in the case of Schubert |
Shortly before his death he tried to
raise himself from his pillow and with /
4 feeble voice. the voice that had been /
The pride Of the Konvikt- sang that ]
pathetic part OF the "ErIkoniE' (his !
lesr beloved work. where death Is
mentioned shortly afterwards he fI
.reathed his last BY his own wish he I /
vas buried near Beethoven and over his |
rave IS a monument bearing an in !
CIiption TO the effect that u
Music had buried a rich treasure, but /
eiu fairer- hopes" II