SCHUBERT'S DEBUT.
I have o:ten Jieaid Baron Waither speak ot ianny and looked with reverence on the chair in wh ich he said she generally sat when there. He also to.d me that she composed many of the Lieder Ohne AVorte,' r.otablv the first a favorate and vary L-e.-iotiful one. Another name otten.on his lips was that of J]me Schumann, oat dwevvs as " Clara Wieck." One day he told me the following storv: He was at a nviwi-.l reception at v/hich a p certain great sin-cr had b-en asked to sing a song by a young, unknown composer. But whin the' .evening came the singer refused, saymg that- the song was not worth hearing. However, wh.'ii it was discovered that the music, tied round with a peculiar knot, had never been opened, the host inskte-i on its being sung. It, was the ' Erlkoenig.' An immense sensation followed, the audience were enthusiastic, the applause vociferous, and from that night onward the name' of Schubert was no longer unknown.—From ' Old Days in Weimar.' by Mariquita J. Mob'.'riy, in ;he ' Cornhill Magazine.'
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Evening Star, Issue 15140, 24 March 1913, Page 8
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179SCHUBERT'S DEBUT. Evening Star, Issue 15140, 24 March 1913, Page 8
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