RICHES IN MUSIC
MAN WHO KNEW MENDELSSOHN
The world has lost a link with one of the giants of music. Edward Speyer is dead. One day, when he was a small boy, he hid under the dining room table, ami crawled out to find a stranger in the room. The stranger was extremely nice to him and full of fun. His father afterward, "Never forget that you have seen Mendelssohn." Although Speyer lived to be 04, he never did forget. All his life, first in Germany and then in England, Speyer was a generous friend to music. Nations owe him him much, and he had his reward in the friendship of scores of musicians. He lost money, and had to leave his big house for a small one and to sell some of his beloved Dutch masterpieces; yet beauty was with him all his days. He never grew weary of music.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22212, 15 March 1934, Page 10
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151RICHES IN MUSIC Otago Daily Times, Issue 22212, 15 March 1934, Page 10
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