Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — Melancholy Dot of Musicians. [ARTICLE]

Melancholy Dot of Musicians.

The Boaton Transcript recalls the tragic fate of those great compo era who prezeded Strauss, and whcm Vienna once similarly lauded. Schubert was allowed to st irve in the midst of the great capital; Mozart, living, w.e sotreitel that he w: ote his greatest work, “Don Giovanni,” for Prague, and when he died he wzs laid in a pau per’s grave; Beethoven, to spite the Viennese, dedicated his ninth symphony to the King of Prussi?. “But the elde.’ Strauss,” says the T anseript, “st.u.:k the keynote of Viennese musical ias’e, and his gifted son, the present Johann, kept up the fam fly tradition.”