Famous Composers, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

A rt. Mozart came to her from Salzburg, and she allowed him to starve. Beethoven came to her from Bonn, and she allowed him to die in melancholy solitude, deserting him for Rossini. She was a still more cruel and neglectful mother. Schubert was her one native-born singer. He died before his time, in the very plenitude of his powers, unknown, unappreciated, the victim of privation and sorrow. Such is the natural and sentimental way of looking at it. There is a truer and more philosophical point of view. The pity that has been evoked by Mozart sdisappointed career is found to be, if not misplaced, at least tempered by a knowledge of how far he himself was responsible for his disappointment. Beethoven sseclusion from the world was self-chosen. The soothsayer of the innermost world of tones found consolation in that far countree.
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