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First, the brilliant, ringing strains, often softening into a subdued sympathetic melody, and then, just as the music seems almost divine, the long cat-like squeal which ends it all much like an old organist and choirmaster of boyhood days who used to break in with a horrible discord at the lower end of the keyboard when the anthem rehearsal wasn't going to his liking.
And now yes, he has taken I think it must be a flower, from his pocket. I shall have him to dine with me." And vespers ended with rosy clouds of eagerness drifting across the padre's brain. But the stranger made his own beginning. As the priest came from the church, the rebellious young figure was waiting. "Your organist tells me," he said, impetuously, "that it is you who "
"Very well," he said, putting his drawing-board aside. "I've worked at this quite long enough; let us shift your piano." They went down to the ground-floor. "I want to turn the piano right-about-face," the organist said, "with its back to the room and the keyboard to the wall the keyboard quite close to the wall, with just room for me to sit."
Do you always look so preternaturally grave?" The doctor had not meant to be unkind, but the boy turned crimson, and escaped. There was one place only where he was happy, and that was in the old church of St Michael, when his friend the organist was practising.
"It would be difficult to replace her here in your church-work, would it not?" The clergyman returned to his candid manner. "It would, indeed. She is the only organist in the village, and is invaluable to me, especially in the Sunday-school." "I am disposed to consider her interests, and not those of the mother and father, or even the church," pursued Serviss.
The grave bishop tapped at the door which was immediately opened by Carl. "Is Mr. Sparrow here?" asked the professor. "No, sir," was the reply. "He has gone to Centerville, but will return by noon." "Well," said the bishop, "we really came to see you. You play the organ, and we are minus an organist at our chapel services. Mr.
The music ceased. He heard the organist speaking, up in the loft; criticising, no doubt: and it reminded him somehow of the small sounds of home and his mother moving about her housework in the hush between breakfast and noon.
It was to be a sort of Thanksgiving festival; the best speakers and singers had been engaged and they had spent much time in rehearsal. The bishop was to preside. The hour had arrived, but alas, where was the organist? No word as to the cause of his absence had been received, and a substitute must be found. Who, then, could be organist?
Beethoven studied the organ under the court organist, Van den Eeden, an old friend of his grandfather's. Van den Eeden was succeeded shortly after by Christian Neefe, and Beethoven, then eleven years of age, was transferred to him. Neefe had an important bearing on Beethoven's life.
Though he wished to do greater things, he returned to Busseto to fulfill his promise to take Provesi's place as organist of the Cathedral and conductor of the Philharmonic, rather big positions to fill for a young man of twenty.
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