Show willing to rest fame on an one great success that tile the composition of music can be profitable when the work of the composer Is popular Is undeniable but the few fortunes that have been made by composers generally h have or e bee beau a started rather than built up by the profits of their music Is generally get supposed to have made it a large fortune out of tits ills operas but he himself admitted that while he had noth inato complain about in this respect tits his wealth came rather from a number a of successful speculations to which lie fie was introduced by one of the rothschild family it Is probable ta that in id his sp speculations as aa in tits hla maisl lie fie knew khew when to stop when mien he had finished hilll william in tell tel I 1 and it was a great success lie he never attempted enoth another e r 0 opera pe ra though tie fie livid lived nearly neaily forty years year 8 longer when ached by an admirer why he did not try to repeat tills this success sue cess knowing ills his own limitations ia the to chief of which was laziness he be replied why I 1 hunt ithe hare when you have killed the er eff hant |