Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1915 — HOW THE MASTERS WORKED [ARTICLE]

HOW THE MASTERS WORKED

Great .Musical Composers Used Different Methods in Getting Their Melodies Before the World. Mozart loved company, wine, and good fellowship. Operative managers were driven to despair by the fact that he would linger in the wine room or at the billiard table when they were in sad need of perhaps an overture that he had promised, but bad put off writing until “tomorrow.” But the overture was sure to be forthcoming just at the last moment, for was it not all completed in him head, and had it notbeen for many days or weeks? It was the manual labor of writing out that he shirked. Who that has copied music can blame him? Schubert lingered much at the tavern. Well, perhaps it was more cheerful than bis home. No clatter of plates and glasses or chatter of busy tongues could stay the flow of his beautiful melodies. The fountain must flow even though . the world thought naught of the stream. Many of his songs went for twenty cents apiece, while, their author lacked the necessities of life. Haydn would shut himself up In his sixth story garret and pen the symphonies which paved the way for Mozart and Beethoven. So absorbed in his work would Haydn become that the absence of food or fuel was unknown; the Joy of composition was enough to produce oblivion to all minor matters such as food. But a scolding wife may have had somewhat to do with his voluntary isolation.