Show in Germ liny magac ne the follow i ng passage from a letter dated frankfort july 20 1830 Is not withof t a certain pathos it hardly needs comment so well does it express the state of mind to which many another earnest and high gou e musician has been brought in other places and other times that feeling of powerlessness to do good for lack of the operation cooperation co of others although this is it queer country much as I 1 love it I 1 hate it in bertal I 1 respects look at the c ai men of this place or instance their doings are quite shameful taking the size and im of the ailace into accounts acco unto there Is really a fair muster of elc el lent musicians hero men of deputa tion and talent who might do good work all d who ono think wa do it wilhel bould far that is the good side of germany but the fact is they do noth hg and it were better they did not live together and grumble and complain or over their grievances enough to give one the blues now aties has left here too and is by this time in england j a appose be considers he does n 0 t meet with due appreciation and finds witult with the musicians and yet does 0 to improve them aloys a hl ease in to I 1 country sighs over mankind in noral a tor race at the best of and malice forgetting forgett inq all the he too belongs to il hitler h here just now people discuss wildly whether he Is a great pianoforte ayer or they dont go to bear im and fancy that makes their judgment a he more impartial so 0 too ld leaving for italy the only m n abo succeeds Is guhr who k n 0 ars least and good for ciuch but he has a will of his own and enforces it bon gre mat gre the whole lown lives in fear of him but all this b fg and the should inis r for where so many musicians congregate in one place they ought to be forced b the authorities to ivo us a little mus T 0 and not only their abil views on the subject |