| Show A GREAT COMPOSER TIIC LATH JOHANNES nRAIIMD HAD FIRST HANK l heel nkcleh nt III IIMIIern tlnnn mind an louietan l > f lholr III 111 hurlIlnoenl 10 1WO 0011 O II A N N I 8 llrahmn I who U 1 generally eonshler nl 1 to lit the great ij Rro lJ1l rut contemporary t compotcr sons born nt Hamburg on Mirth 7 1SJ3 lit o was Ibo ton of a ly ter doublebtiM plaef v tu In the city rand r-and his rautleal cduentlon na begun I at an earl age He displayed area talent I for the piano und was also carefully care-fully trained in muilenl theory at limit I by one 11 I tenet of llnmburit and afterward aft-erward under lidnani l Mnrictn l of AI 1 tone lie made rapid pronre ni a pianist and appeared In public for tho first time at the nee of fourteen splaying splay-Ing among other thliign n fet ot variation va-riation of his own competition In 1S5J llrnlimi ilnrtcd on n concert tour through iormnny with the vlo llnl t Ilemrn They flaunt Ianocr loltlngen and Wrlmer tonal llrahmi by han playing attracted the IntereM 101 Joachim and Liszt What eipeclally nrouted the formers admiration Will I the feat performed by the young 1lan lit In fJottlntrn when having to pliy lleelhoienn KreutierFonnln wllh Hem enyl l he found the piano halt a tone Hat and traniporcd hate part without the notes before him from A to II flat A result ot Ilan acquaintance with Joa chim was nn Introduction to Hobert Rchumann then living In DiiKchlorf There he plaed to the elder mauler hull fonatas and nclicrio for piano and exhibited ex-hibited several lioolt ot Ids Bong Schumann cnthuilatm at the evidence = = ref r a a JOIIANNIS URA1111S of Ilrnlmih genlui Increaied with every hearing and took tangible diapo In the famous article In the Xruo loll wlirlfl fur Muilk enlltle l Now 1athi In which Jln announced tho coming of n now genius to tho musical world and predicted for him a great future In USI Ilralim accepted tap post of muilc mailer and choir director at tho court of blue Irlnco of IippuDelinolJ where ho devoted much limn to study and competition lie kept the post only n few yeam and for a time lived In hale native city and afterward In tiwltitrland publlihlng little Ito played hale first concerto for pliunforte In Ielpile In ISSDbiit nlthout gioat sac cu In 1SC2 he went to Vienna where be Iina ever since nndo hla home and where ho hams nttalncil tin great fame In the next > wir he became the con doctor of the Vienna Klngakadcmlc bill he resigned the pout In 18G4 Ho made frequent short journey spending much of hla limo In qulot tonni lultalilo for hard work occojiloimlly conducting hula coni > oHltloii The pcrforrnanco of hula German Hiqiilem In IbCS at Bremen greatly enhanced hli fame Ix iier rompo8ltloniiwero frequently romlng from hlA pen nt the same time all tend lug to ralio blue admiration of hll orig inality and power 11I8 Ufa In Vienna for twcnOlHo year and more has been quiet and uneventful marked only by performance ot Ids coraponltloni frequently under idu own direction and by hula oicunlonal appearance no a pianist which lmo been ot conilantly Increasing rarity In 1872 ho nat elected elect-ed I coniluclnr of tho < eclleciaft dor Munltifreunde In Vienna the ionccrti of which wens made notable by lilt production of Iho great choral work of Dacha nnd Handel Ho rculgned thin pout In 1875 ilnco which limo he had devoted himself almost entirely to com poiltlon ipcmllng hla winter In Vienna Vien-na and hll summers In Itcbl the center ot a brilliant coterie of inutlelans from all parts of the world DraliiniT tint symphony tiat In C minor date from 187C n late product of his genlu bearing tho opuinumber CS the second followed the next year thin third In 1683 the fourth and haul In 1680 For orcjjwtra lie bas BleD written two overturti two serenades and a ret of variation and two con certo 1M PIAnUlO le and orchMlr one for Tli la end or hestrn anal a double concerto for 0m and loioncc0 with nretwir imdM the Oerman Ucqulenr there an a number of choral corks of nnnllrr dlmenilon from elaborat rtnum down to imaceom panled pert enne In the Held of chain her miirie IU n left n large number of lute mew ihnraeterUtlc eom > rtlllon many elnmn of songs which are among his meat ritwnml prtxhictlon then niNr1 Run of short piano plecfl complete the list of hill compo ltloti 1Is 1 work reDnee r aka all btnnalir ftf n18k l steep he opera Hn I also did conslJfri tiiiiioation and llllug of the rrttt eillllnn of the clanks pub lUirll by liiikrf A llnrtcl hubs pub IIAhl1 I comp lonicxlrnd o Ibo olds numlirr 121 nr Pour Kertmn Songi that mien pulpiinl a few months ago III loin the d I irer of Doctor of Ihllo ophi as rimfi rr1 upon him by the UIIMT el r nrol ii and for hli Arailemle llverluretit audacious nnd amusing piece of musical comedy HP aim riMitnl 1 various order n mid diioriions hunt iermaii ruling prlnm I mind wan 0 member of Oho Academy of true of llerlln A MuniiiMpnl fur hey Th mile of MurMand has mode an approprlaiiun to awlst In 10 log for n monument the nuthor ot Tho Star RIADIII1 l Manner Prnncls Scott Key The monument Is u to cost JI5000 mil the slate will supply one third of lid The remainder will be raised by Went iiiliscrlptlon from the school thlhlren of the con try The Ke > family It la I mid la I not particularly pljiued at till method of raising fiiinli nod small hhimo to Hit Key h for their dislike ot It These popular ubscrlptlon nro unmilngly like begging and under nil circumstance circum-stance sore when there In I nn tin stimulated expression ot MMillmcnt dignified AA them Is I to bo n monument monu-ment It ought by nil mean to be n orlhy work of art Ilcforn they gi too far the committee In charge ot the Key memorial should consider thus ex pcrlento of the peqple who erected a monument to Calhoun In Charleston Thl monument haa been taken down after twenty years because It was Inartistic In-artistic and Inappropriate If Ibo Mary land committee carries out Its present Intention aa to Ibo design which It ha acccpttdmie reproduce a photograph of the detlgn the people of Maryland will loran day regret that the committee commit-tee should have been no Illadvliod Tho pedestal to be thirteen feet high and the utatuto of Key nine feet Won Wo-n 1 not point out the theatric po oat o-at the statue All who Imo any feelIng feel-Ing for nrt will understand at a glance what wo mean when wn express than opinion that the froponed work ouch I PUOIOdl MONUMENT not to be completed It la I the purpose of Oho committee to place It on an vie vntlon near the main entrance to Mount Olhct cemetery Frederick JlIIIIos llea Weekly |
