Show Dale 5 Minute 5 IVI nute Biographies B ogra ph es I Author of How to Win Friends and Influence people I LEOPOLD AUER MOZART'S Fr FUNERAL COST AND Salo-AND AND XO NO ONE OXE I FOLLOWED His COFFIN TO TILE THE A E I I The late Leopold Auer the great Russian teacher of the violin who discovered and trained more marc musical geniuses than titan any other teacher of or 1 our our generation once told me that If fC you wanted to be a great musi- musi j I clan you have to be horn been orn poor He fie told me inc there was something something something-he he admitted he didn't know t what It was was but but he said there was something something- buried burled In the soul gout by mystic something something something some some- poverty something poverty something something- thing beautiful something that developed developed de de- eloped feeling and force and sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy paUlY and tenderness Mozart 1 was so poor lie he was unable unable unable un un- able to buy wood to heat the shabby room in which he lived so b bp by sat gat with his hands lands wrapped tin lin woolen socks to keep them warm while he lie composed the divine music that vaslo was vas to lo make his name Immortal He died of or consumption at the age of thirty live thirty his his vitality lowered lowered low low- lowered ered by constant cold and hunger anU anil lack of nourishment His pitiful funeral cost exactly three dollars and ten cents Only six people followed the cheap pine vine coffin coffin and and even they turned back because it started to rain Harold Sanford Sauford who was Victor Herberts Herbert's most Intimate friend told me that when Victor Herbert first came to America there were times between seasons when he lie was so poor he lie had only one shirt and he I tad had to lie in bed while his wife wiCe washed and ironed that shirt I Remember the song that all ofus of ofus I us were singing back in the early days of the World War Var Its HIts a aLong aLong aLong I Long Long LongVay Way Vay to Tipperary That was probably t tie tae e most popular popular popular lar war song ever written and yet tH the author of oC It ft Jack Judge in order t I tI to make a living had to run a fish I I market marlet by day and work as an actor I Iby I I b by night I On One of the most popular musical selections s In the world was written b by a ers er's son and strangely enough It was composed out among the cribs corn and pens hog of Iowa It Is called It wa was composed by a Bohemian called Anton Dvorak He came to this country when he was fifty years old but he he couldn't stand the noise and uproar of ot New York City so he went out and lived for a while in Iowa Iowa Iowa-a a village so tiny that It doesn't have haye a railroad nor nora a paved street even een toda today And yet hUe living in Spillville Dvorak wrote a part of his New World Symphony which is one of the most beautiful aral add exquisite things ever composed by man Since t. i I it was writ written ten ou out t In hi n the cornfield of ot Iowa Dvorak thought for a of calling It the tho Spillville gyu phony phon Dvorak Dolak was born horn nirl two ninety two ty-two 1 yein rt ago in hi a tiny village In off far-off lo Bol hernia hemia He had very little e t tand and had to work ork long hours In hit fathers father's butch butcher j I r shop But as ag b bit mado made sausages melodies I ning through his mind 1 So ho lie left the butcher shop and went to Prague to study mUSic Money Ho lie didn't have hay c an any money except a few pennies which he ha haJ picked up now a and and d them b by playing his violin in the street He was sot so hard haid pressed that he had to lIv live isa la is laa 1111 a garret room in one of th the poorest sections of town Cheap as th that room was he lie couldn't afford It for fat himself He had to share It with ith fI fuel other students In the winter the room was bit terly cold and his bOdy dy was some some- some some-I limes dines weak from hunger for 1 he f missed meals In order to rent tie the thel wreck of an old piano that was waa 8 so as battered that some of the keys ken wouldn't even play Anti AnU sitting a af a that piano in a n cold garret room Dvorak composed many beautiful melodies which were never even written down Why Because he be didn't have the the monCy money to buy even eren evena evena a few sheets of paper Sometimes h he hz actually picked up waste paper on the streets and anel wrote his music on that However let us not feel too Barry sarry for Dvorah DYora for or his poverty J s- s helped to bring out his hj genius enius Pie next r time time you listen to toi i Dvorak's Humoresque s' s see If iI you cant can't detect in it a mystic beauty and tenderness and feeling g I put there by a man who had suffered suf sut- by a man who hard had struggled aril l gone cold and hungry by a man who w ho had known the depths of or despair 1 |