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of preternatural memory. Most of the great vio-
linists—Kreutzer, Viotti, Rode, Corelli, Tartini,
Some of the Wonderful Feats Accomplished by
Baillot, Spohr, Paganini, De Beriot, Vieuxtemps,
Composers, Conductors and Soloists.
Sivon, Ernst, Kreisler and many. others—have
given evidence on countless occasions of the pos-
session of unusual powers of memory.
"It may be said without risk of contradiction
that the majority of the great musical virtuosi
"Here in New York may be heard one of the
disclose more or less remarkable powers of mem- great flute virtuosi of the world, George Barrere,
ory,"' writes Dr. J. Leonard Corning, of New whose repertoire, already large, increases continu-
York, in an article on "The Musical Memory," ally without manifest effort.
published in the Medical Record. "But even among
"Most wonderful are the illustrations of musical
this class there are some who loom so large as to memory afforded by certain conductors of the or-
dwarf even the exceptionally endowed among their
chestra. One of these, Chevjllard, conducted from
confreres. A typical example is that of the late memory nearly all the symphoires of Beethoven.
Hans von Bulow, who as the tradition goes, The same thing had previously been done by Wag-
played 'everything by heart.' He could play for ner. Here in New York we have been witnesses
hours at a time without consulting his notes; knew
during the past few winters of ,a still more as-
all the works of Wagner by heart, and thought ••t
tounding performance. Sitting in the conductor's
a hardship that the musicians of the orchestra were chair at the Metropolitan Opera may be seen Tos-
unable to play their indvidual parts in the same
canini directing, night after night almost every
way. When a composer brought him a new score
style of opera—Italian, French, German and what
he would excuse himself and, passing into an ad- not—without the aid of a single note.
joining apartment, take a hasty look at the manu-
"What is implied by an achievement of this sort
script. Returning thence in a few moments, he
can only be adequately appreciated by one who
would seat himself at the piano, and without a
has studied the huge score of one of the modern
glance at the notes, play the entire composition
lyric dramas.
to the great bewilderment, it may well be imag-
"It is worth noting that the productive artists—
ined, of the listening author.
the composers—do not always disclose the remark-
"Liszt, too, who is said to have played, among able powers of memory possessed by th? more
much else, most of the works of Beethoven from
memory, is another instance of prodigious memory.
"More extraordinary than the feats of musical
memory of either Liszt or von Bulow are those
told of Rubinstein, of whom it is said that, in a
protracted series of concerts, he played upon the
piano more than a thousand compositions, embrac-
ing about everything of value in the repertoire of
that instrument.
"The violinists, too, afford numerous examples
GREAT MEMORIES OF MUSICIANS.
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gifted among their reproductive colleagues. Of
some it is said that having composed them, they
were obliged to commit their own works to mem-
ory, precisely as though they had come from a
foreign pen. On the other hand, Mozart was able
to write out the whole of the 'Miserere' after
hearing it at the Sistine Chapel twice."'
WHERE MUSIC DOESN'T PAY.
Only 150 Out of 1,800 Concerts in Berlin
Yielded a Profit, According to Recent Figures.
That there are many brave men engaged in con-
cert work—for the man who w ; ll continue a ven-
ture when he knows beforehand that it is a losing
proposition is most certainly showing courage—is
evidenced from the recent report of a number of
public concerts given in Berlin between the first
of October and the last of April. The total num-
ber was about eighteen hundred—about five times
the number given •in New York.
After a careful examination of the situation, the
Berlin Tageblatt has come to the conclusion that,
of those 1,800 concerts, only 150 yielded a profit.
About 600 just about pay their expenses, while
the remaining thousand or more cost the musi-
cians who give them from $125 to $-350 each.
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