Show Donl donizetti zettl and the czar there are somo some persons who talk on all occasions when others are speaking singing or whatever they may be doing the evangelical companion tells of the ahful iven by donizetti the great composer to czar Ni choins of russia during Doni zettis long stay at st petersburg ho he played by command before czar ciar nicholas who in the course of the piece entered into conversation with a bystander donizetti at once stopped the performance why have you stopped stomped asked the autocrat sire was tho the reply when the czar Is speaking everyone else should be silent |