Show U 1111 U 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 1111 11 11 11 11 11 ir irI Uig I SPENCER Jl 5 j AT BIRTHPLACE J n S nce Oct tJ 1904 SAI At one olle point In Its III course to th the sea the river find Its way 11 two natural fortresses which rise rile in f tho UIO valleys alley cell cen central lowlands One Is II the Monch Herg the other the Between the two and on each side lido stream the city of Salsburg has hili for ro centuries had It existence through times of ot war and of r i au In all 1111 a more mor Ideally lau hu situation for a city It may be sought lOulin for Cor In vain In III tad fact the nt has ha been mad mati that thit thi thre most mOlt beau mull totaled In the Ih world lUG aro Constantinople Naples 1111 H 11 Ims lits not been leeI the good fortune of the writer to see the first two but there thre la Is lano no doubt of ot the truth of ot the statement with regard to 10 the last It must havu luu delighted tho heart of ot the sturdy ar Knights when hen they the b held hel 1 this spot It an Ideal stage on which to enact their parts In tho drama of or the middle GIl GIlAN AN ANCIENT The castle Hohen crowns the topmost IO r fArl rt of or tha Munch Borg Berg was begun n I the cen century c tury and extended and enlarged at dif different ferent Intervals TIle The most of the pres present ent dates from tr m the y ear ars be between tween twell HOB and anil ISIS was w at that time perhaps at the zenith of or Its as seat Dud and residence of ot tile tho ar ot that name put ut lile of the main centers It Is II doubtful if t tany any German city hall had acquired the th Importance of ot Sal burg during thone years rs and Leonhard the mcL of th hI early hup who iho mud this Ih I It their capital UPI was WaH a Q AU 11 never ashamed of or hl IH though h hll li III j r lt In th tilt nth nd H orl or nf or his hll time fi 11 Ii nH l Mi Mii II i t 1 cf r armr nn fin or T RI o ho M Id Idis is th ur hh hor hat hal i Ih h hother other Is nn beet It Leonhard win wai the son of ot a I peas lUll ant so he took as nil emblem of bli hi hum humble ble bl origin the beet heet and as na emblem of or tho Ih he ht attained the An All odd ad I combination for u 1 coat of arms ANCIENT TIn THU The Is a long narrow and crooked which MitiS from fromon one on und end ot the city almost t to the other U It I II doubtful If It there U II a R In the whole of a laler date than 10 but IRn of or them date from Crom much earlier time Were It not for tho peo 1100 people Ille In th street who to be In koep Ing therewith should really be In knee knel trousers buckled slippers and silk illk stockings topped lopped oft off with and thrU 1 hat ono could easi easily ly Iy be to the year oro 1760 of or leG 1901 Occasionally there are holY windows exhibiting motor motorcycles cycles or telephones telephone which of ot course Or are out ot ut harmony harmon with the street but butto butto to th w the ISo e must mut lie IKI closed MO In this very II sama mil In u 7 T th great real tone tollO poet Mozart first saw the light of ot day about th the year fUr this houie has been held as AI a museum where of the ar arl kept A placard cant at tho street entrance dl lecUl up the narrow of ot old stone slon Hepa two to the th room Here Hen la Ie entered n 1 rather large though with n very tr low which give on a oppressive reel feel feeling ing The tint thing apt allt to 10 rivet ones onos Kio lUt Is tha th old ohl grand piano which stands In solitary state I lie wall all directly oi the entrance This Thill Is II the piano nn which played In concert and Is 18 no doubt H K fin specimen of the he I concert grand of or years MIM ago 10 though It tl IK III nil hut but Im bl to think of or such an Instrument as u tho forerunner of our modem grand To fo play IIII upon It now sacrilege and the tones that rebound from rum itc 11 like olce from tho deal dead Yet lieu III m my hundreds this same Mille n int 1 liy h In to by gone the handu of the gr grut t composer Nut N Jt fir from the Ih big a I whose wh se k s and rum strings to toan urn an UK vIsitor to tf irh it but light lightly ly If It thin little Instrument could ni RI like of ur unum clay cia pop r nn how hr many Interesting glimpses wo might ot or the man with whom II It was sr III closely This primitive piano was VAN used by hy when composing The Magic Flute and many of his notable works wore helped Into existence with this On the wall willi n portraits of tha UIO Mozart family und many other Inter citing pictures hang han the UI I Play bill hili of ot the t performance of or The rhe Magic Flute ghen rIven In Inna nt lit i 1 V WIn v in ii 1 SO no 1791 What It mys Is II mOlt moil I II g 1 1 id Ii US 1411 Initial Performance Th fh Fluta PI ute A grand ope In two to acU Uy lJ All II of ot which Is III In large Jarre ty iJ theu a cast calt of ot character A little In very lOry type tYlle says that th lc was U by ly Hurn Wolf wole v 1 ng A prophet Is surely not without hon hen honor or nap 1 In his hi own country That the OrrI The Flute hM hilt lived tut tuti i I fn I und a 1 decade and will no doubt ile Un us III lung long as all opera Is JI sun lung Is II duo rho to the Intrinsic value of the k for the libretto U 18 very Inferior Yet at lit the th time the was wu brought Into existence the lice was al considered of or only enough Importance to call aJl forth u I Hue or no II In n u II footnote while hlll the au author u thor thoI of the book boole was WOM the great man who took look tho honors l And but a II short hort time after this performance of ot the Its the man lOR 11 whose very wr Is III held almost sa sacred Ii cred fell the world over oyer by musicians and lovers loverl today lolla was wall allowed to die In III obscure and be he burled In III an 1111 unknown unmarked ed paupers grave This Thill was the treatment given one of ot the thu greatest greatt pen I uses that ever e lived by an ungrateful unheeding world I said the grave wag This Thill Is II not wholly holl true I rile An n old who had ha l more appreciation of oC greatness than one might expect to find In III a 1 mini of ot hl hili profession secretly marked the giave 11 and ten years earl liter later tool took up UI the remain H relic rello of ot which It Is on exhibition In III tha tho room adjoining that containing the pi III anol and play bill This Thill Is II no less I than the skull of ot the great com oer which reposes In n case CM with ninny of ot his hili originAl And that Is II all of oC tho mortal remain of the great Mozart but he will live In hili work as AI long as all Is III an Mil art artIn In III the Vienna Central cemetery there till Ii hr a II beautiful monument to this most mOlt Illustrious musician and around T rrY monument arranged something like tho of ot a R wheel repose 1011 the bodies of ot men whose WhOM names will live Iv on for forever foreVer ever Beethoven Schubert Gluek and Hut to return to the house In There ore are tunny very vel Inter limon among which Is t one dated 1783 which h Is III earliest known effort u II piano sonata written at atthe the age of There are r trinkets too bout about which to many man people litre Is II u guat reat fascination such a at his hll watch and Ind tho like first editions of hll works work Intensely Interesting to 10 the antiquarian A thing never escapes elCa 1 the no Is II the big lr register In which may maylie ilia lie III seen the signatures of Ih man Inan Sarah BernhArdt and many nan other people If one cares carel to look them up Among Amon the many portraits portrait lining the will wll ale aie two very striking ones would arrest arrell the attention rl They Tiley of ot the Ule two son of or Karl and Wolfgang The latter was j jel t very el talented musician and toi but suffered oblivion tho over owr overshadowing shadowing greatness rea I nella of oC hi hilt K Kal n I Iwas was a II official Hoth vr Ir at the unveiling of ot the M z H t monument in In 1141 RH All was also 1110 their mother She married a 1 K p pond ond time and lived to an 1111 extreme oll age Wolfgang and Karl arl dl I hll und with them th the family m II had Us III end elI U It U II doubtful If In all Austria there Is II another spot where wh memories of or me are held In such lIuch reverence a I th Ih old oJ 1 house In tn the th tin Ih birthplace of or th till greatest son IOn or o bun KlE eEn CLAWSON JIt |