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Show MIoet and Peaiant." New York World. 'The Pilot of Boston remarks that very few know anything about Suppe, the composer of "Fatinit.a" and several other popular operas, and the father of the "Poet and Peasant" overture. The latter was composed to an entirely different dif-ferent piece aud fell flat; the author then tried it at iutervals of six months and a year with two other plays, and no one found itpretty. Lastly, because there was not time enough to write a new overture, it was used with a long-forgotten long-forgotten farce called "Poet and Peasant." Peas-ant." The farce was successful and people endured tho overture. Then somebody asked permission to publish it in a journal, arranged for the piano, soon everybody was playing it. Then a music firm bought of Suppe for $25 the right and published the score. They made a clear $40,000 with it. |