TWO GREAT COMPOSERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 5 February 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)

TWO GREAT COMPOSERS

SCHUBERT Schubert wrote all kinds of music, but he is best known for his wonderful songs which are used over

DO YOU KNOW

That Beethoven, the great composer, was once forced to give music lessons at 6d a head to save himself and his brothers and sisters from starvation? and over again by all the great singers of the world. Schubert was the son of a poor school teacher. All his life this

composer knew little but poverty. Sometimes he was not able to have even a piano of his own on which to play his beautiful music; but lie gave wealth to the world in his lovely songs and piano music. MENDELSSOHN Mendelssohn, unlike most of the composers, had very rich parents; but he was not spoiled by being rich. His father and mother taught him to love and to practise music. Little Mendelssohn was a “wonder child,” because he learned music so quickly that he astonished his teachers. When he was 11 years old, he wrote a long piece for orchestra and chorus that was sung and played by a great musical club in Berlin, Germany. Mendelssohn was a very fine man, who was loved by many friends, among whom were Queen Victoria of England and her husband. —’MATE. GLIETON, • A.8.H., P.8.H., L.8.H., A. 8., Papanui.