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CANTATA NOT BY BEETHOVEN.
COMPOSER SPENDS REAL MONEY.
The discovery of a hitherto unknown Good Fri- Raoul Gunsbourg, the Composer, Tempted by
day cantata by Beethoven was announced some
a Set of Furniture.
time ago by Prof. Abert of Halle in No. 126 of the
Zeitschrift der International Musikgesellschaft.
To receive $20,000 and to spend the money the
In the meantime the professor has found out that same day is not an experience which falls to many
the cantata is not by Beethoven, though it is based a musical composer. Raoul Gunsbourg, director
on one of his compositions—one of two quartets of the Monte Carlo Opera, who has explained
for trombones (known as "Equale"), which he that he composes under direct divine inspiration,
composed in 1812 for the director of the town received from his publisher $10,000 for his new
music in Linz. When Beethoven died his friend, opera, "Venise," and for "Ivan le Terrible," and
Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried, set these quartets for another $10,000 for the foreign rights on the very
voices (supplying them with Latin and German day that a set of drawing room furniture, consist-
texts) as a part of the musical service at the ing of twenty-two pieces, in old Beauvais tapestry,
funeral on March 29, 1827. In this form they had was offered at auction at the Hotel Drouot in
quite a vogue for a time. Subsequently, another Paris. This furniture had been presented by the
musician whose name is not known took the un- ex-Empress Eugenie to a national hospital at St.
poetic liberty of elaborating these quartets into a Maurice in 1866 and was sold under ministerial
Passion Cantata for mixed chorus and an instru- authorization.
mental score, including three clarionets, three horns
Mr. Gunsbourg decided that he wanted the fur-
and three trombones.
niture. He had to pay $18,220 for the set, which,
with the 10 per cent, that buyers have to pay on
their bids, made the total cost $20,042. or rather
D'Albert is another composer who has ready for more than his publisher had paid him the same
performance a new opera. It is called "Die Toten morning.
Augen" (The Dead Eyes), and will have its first
Gunsbourg has nothing on Chas. K. Harris,
hearing at Dresden in the autumn.
however, when it comes to making money.
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