Show world slow to reward men of musical genius musical composition Is one of the very worst paid jobs in the world an less the composer happens to hit the popular fancy of his own time which only a few composers have managed to do consequently most of the corn posers have done something else for living though generally something connected with music J S bach was a church organist bandel was an ori ganest and conductor mozart was in his day a famous pianist as were also mendelssohn and dahms was a great violinist gounod and te organists robert schumann was only prevented from making his living as a pianist by an accident to his hand caused by to obtain perfect technique while beethoven and schubert lived all their lives in comparative poverty because of their innate perversity and their lack of practicability in those matters which would have brought them a compe tency opera composers more frequently made a tirade of composition but even these have often been orchestral ch players or conductors or hive made a living by teaching and writing about music |