Show IS 1 MAN IL OF att BUSINESS COMPOSER SALOME DE MANDS HIGH ROYALTIES cometh ng of the personal side of R chard strauss Is a hard worker and fond of life how he won over ka ser new orleans richard strauss composer of the opera salome the most talked of musician of the day is noted for his business sense he is now trying to introduce here as he has in europe the requirement of paying a royalty tor every one of his songs that is sung in public he receives a i royalty of course for all his symphonic works and he wants to arrange matters in such a way that he will be able to collect from every manager or singer the sum of five dollars or more for the privilege of performing one of his songs he has done this in germany and he demanded a royalty from the boston symphony orchestra when he was engaged for to conduct the annual concert for the benefit of the ar chestra s pension fund he got his awn honorarium and a royalty for ome of the songs sung by his wife and for his other compositions naturally he will be able to intro fluce the royalty rule with his new angs only since those already pub lashed are free to anybody who can buy a copy one of the stories told about the composer om poser emphasizes this character he had been to dresden to attend a rehearsal of salome and n his return to berlin was met by son the little boy ran up to greet his father at the station papa he cried did you get youl honorarium for conducting the rehearsals 7 now m boy he said stooping to kiss his brow now I 1 know you are a true son of mine strauss earnings from bis compo have already been enormous he receives more than any other composer ever did tor his works puccini is one of the most popular of contemporary composers but he receives tor la boheme tosca and madame butterfly at the met ro politan only for every perform ance they are operas that last an entire evening when the production of salome was first suggested to the of the royal opera in berlin he would have none of it bad aroused the indignation of the empress and had not won success with the public sufficient to campen sate tor her displeasure the composer determined that the royal opera house should take his opera so he composed two military marches through bis influence as conductor of the royal opera house he managed to have himself invited to court the emperor wanted to hear the new military compositions strauss stepped to the piano to play them would your majesty permit that I 1 remove my coata the pianist asked his majesty gave permission and the composer set to work to play the music as well as he could he put so much effort into it that the emperor was delighted it was not long after that musical session that salome was pro bounced fit for production at the royal prussian theater the composer lives in charlotten burg and his life Is as quiet as the domestico Dome stica indicated he RICHARD STRAUSS german musician composer of the famous salome Is a man of very abstemious habits and drinks only a glass or two of beer every day wine he takes only at formal dinners three or tour cigarettes give him all the tobacco he needs his summers are spent in mar gar etstein in the bavarian tyrol he does much of his work there al though he devotes nearly every even ing when he does not conduct at the opera to composition at home be ginning usually at seven and contin aing until midnight he carries a miniature score always with him and composes with a pencil it Is never necessary tor him to revise the work which Is finished when he purt his ideas on paper he frequently sits surrounded by his family and friends especially in the summer and composes while they i are about him his passion s which he plays in his hours of diver slon he has often confessed that he Is writing for money and hopes as soon as possible to write an opera which will enable him to travel and compose without being disturbed by his routine duties as conductor |