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He persuaded four musicians of the orchestra to vacate their places for a handsome consideration, and he and his pupils engaged to fill the duties. But one of the substitutes must needs be a horn-player, and the four new players could only perform on violin and 'cello. So there was nothing to be done but for Spohr to master the French horn at a day's notice.
"Tristan und Isolde," 1857-59; Munich, 1865. "Siegfried," 1857-69; Bayreuth, 1876. "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," 1861-67; Munich, 1868. "Die Götterdämmerung," 1870-74; Bayreuth, 1876. "Parsifal," 1876-82; Bayreuth, 1882. Richard Strauss was born in Munich June 11th, 1864. His father, Franz Strauss, was first horn-player in the Munich Court Orchestra.
Hecalls them the songs of a Wandering Horn-player. There is one among them much to our present purpose. He expresses in it, the feeling of unrest and desire of motion, which the sight and sound of running waters often produce in us. It is entitled, `Whither? and is worth repeating to you. `I heard a brooklet gushing From its rocky fountain near, Down into the valley rushing,
"Then that Dutch horn-player threw the bomb," propounded the head of the "Detective Bureau" ponderously. "Of course; tossed it right up, three stories, and kept playing his infernal trombone with the other hand all the time. You ought to be carrying a hod!" Nevertheless, the police hung tenaciously to the theory that the musician was involved, chiefly because they had nothing else to hang to.
But when this gentleman, sitting at ease in his chair, is noticed by a trombonist, placed for that purpose In the street, below " "The Dutch horn-player!" cried the politician. "Then it was him; and I'll " "Only an innocent tool," interrupted Average Jones, in his turn. "He had no comprehension of what he was doing.
Once, while the husband was in jail on account of his political sympathies, the mother became a burlesque singer, and when the father was released, he joined the troupe as a horn-player. Rossini was left in the care of a pork-butcher, on whom he used to play practical jokes. He always took life easily, this Rossini.
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