MUSICIANS BY INSTINCT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 171, 21 July 1928, Page 9 (Supplement)

MUSICIANS BY INSTINCT.

Mo.-t 01 Ihe great musical composers were from tho jirst brought up as musicians, though there have been notable exceptions like that of llandel. who was intended for a lawyer, and Schumann, who was also intended for that learned profe.-sion. Among the Russian?, prote*Mon;il musicians have been the exception rather than the rule, and one of their greatest composers, Alexander Borodin, was a professor of chemistry at the time lie was writing his most famous works. Seriabin started as a soldier, but ultimately became a professional musician. A number of musicians living to-day started as chemists, while others have been trained as medical men, clergymen, lawyers, etc., and the number of workers in other fields who have become singers, instrumentalists and conductors is quite considerable.