Evening star., 1928-11-27
Schubert, Who Died i'm Poverty,
Is Lauded as Master of Melody

Americas outpouring Of enthusiastic
praise for Franz Peter Schubert master
of melody, 100 years after his death, is
an outstanding incident Of the observ-
ance of the centenary. Though Schubert
died obscurely in poverty, appreciation
of his genius has grown to point where
universal tribute rebukes the neglect OF
the musician by his cotemporarieS.
Schubert survives" in the words OF
the New York Sun, lust as religion and
the longings of the human heart remain.
For what he gave to mankind was some
thing not born in agony, like Wagner'S
operas, but something which flowed from
him as naturally as the changes OF
Spring. Innumerable as are the shades
of human thought and aspiration, said
Schumann, so various is his music AS
long as mankind finds relief in song
that echoes its own joys and griefs ana
ambitions, so long will Schubert be I'M
mortal"
"He lacked pitifully the righteous ap-
probation that should have been his in
his lifetime" declares the Kansas City
Star, but he projected himself through
the century following his death, and IN
this period new and increasing glory en-
riched his fame" The Star adds: The
theory that richness in art necessarily
grows out of poverty of the artist has
been pretty we'll discarded, even though
there may be much to give 1t seeming
substance. But we doubt much whether
a great genius of our time, who would De
quickly recognized and largely rewarded
would or even could be so prolif1c as
were those composers who lived when
genius, no matter how productive, was
| not adequately compensated.
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"His life is exquisitely apotheoSized,
! in the opinion of the Portland Oregonian
'by the epitaph written for his tomb
| by Franz GrillparZer, the poet: Here
| lies one rich in fulfllment, but still
richer in promise. Franz Schubert lies
here" That paper expresses the judg-
ment of his work: THE music OF
Beethoven has excited mans senses
more profoundly, Wagner's has perhaps
elevated them to greater heights OF
ecstasy, but no composer possessed, as
did Schubert, the faculty of inspiring
man with a simple musical phrase, a
simple melody, the single expression OF
musical thought"
| Thanks to radio" says the Bing-
hamton Press, Franz Peter Schubert
greatest of all the worlds song writer's
sang himself into the hearts of mil
lions on this planet, although he has
| been dead 100 years. What
thoughts come to us all when we lister
| to the stream of masterpieces the genius
of Schubert poured forth? His life was
a tragedy. He died at 80, a victim o1
the neglect and obScurity and poverty
that had trailed all his days. In spite
Of his 18 operas, symphonies, IA quar-
tets, 6 masses, hundreds of pianoforte
works and 600 songs, the world let him
go hungry and penniless. But the great.
est tragedy was not that he did not
! receive pecuniary reward for his genius
devotion to art were treated with scorr
and contempt by his fellow men,"
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The Altoona Mirror feels also that
1T is pity that there was so little
Joy in his earthly life, but that seems
to be the fate Of many of earth's noblest
sons and daughters" The Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle finds com.
pensation in the midst of his misfor.
tunes: There is something of surprise
to note great achievements of the pas
accomplished inconspicuously by mer
who were not self-conscious of superb
ority, who worked for the love of it, who
never realized how good was the work
they did, and who died i'll rewarded ir
any way other than by satisfaction o1
having done the thing they loved to do
1T is because of the strongly en-
phasized melody in his work that Schu.
bert's acceptance as master was de.
layed-the same sort of defect found
by some in Verdi's music" says the
New Orleans Item-Tribune. The Pas.
sale Daily Herald emphasizes the poin
that 1.-The clef mark and the dollar sigr
are not synonymous" and adds tina
"Schubert's music has deathless quail
ity because it Is rooted in the hear
although it scars to the heights"
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"He remains so close to mortalS tina
he enjoys eternally the comradeship al
well as the homage of their hearts,
AYERS the New York Evening World
with the comment that "it was granted
to Schubert to do what Beethoven ha
never quite done-to win the love o
countless millions Of mere lovers o