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Show World Slow to Reward Men of Musical Genius perfect technique, while Beethoven and Schubert lived all their lives in comparative poverty becnuse of their innate perversity and their lack of practicability in those matters which would have brought them a competency. compe-tency. Opera composers more frequently fre-quently made a trade of composition, but even these have often been orchestral or-chestral players, or conductors, or have made a living by teaching and writing about music. Musical composition Is one of the very worst paid jobs Id the world unless un-less the composer happens to bit the popular fancy of his own time, which only a few composers have managed to do. Consequently most of the composers com-posers have done something else for a living, though generally something connected with music. J. S. Racn was a church organist. Handel was an organist or-ganist and conductor, Mozart was In his day a famous pianist, as were also Mendelssohn and Brahms. Spohr was a great violinist Gounod and Franck, organists. Robert Schumann was only prevented from making. his living as a pianist by an accident to his hand caused by his enthusiasm to obtain a |