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Friday
December 1, 1939.
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MOZART
Greatest Child Prodigy
PT HE story of the immortal Mozart’s childhood, the genius
1 displayed by him when hardly more than a baby is fan-
tastic, almost unbelievable.
From the age of 3 he showed an understanding of music,
an ability to play, and write music one could hardly credit to-
day if it were not so well documented—if every music master
in Europe had not rigidly tested his miraculous powers—and
become convinced, even while saying "No, it cannot be!"
Even his own father could not believe his senses; started
giving the baby Moaart music lessons half in jest. What a
colossal jest that turned out to be! Before Mozart was 4
he was writing his own compositions. By the time he was 6,
Mozart was already an artist on three instruments—was tri-
umphantly touring Europe, sought by Kings and Emperors,
amazing tremendous audiences—the sensation of the civilized
world for his pleying, writing, improvisation.
• By then, too, Mozaft had already known pain, illness-
even an attack of smallpox that blinded him for nine days.
And the delicate boy, so serious, so concentrated upon music
that his father never expected him to live to manhood, had
already known the overwork and physical exhaustion that were
so soon to erase his brief, brilliant life.
At that age, young Mozart performed one of the most
astonishing feats in the history of music. During Holy W eek, he
went to hear the Sistine Chapel Choir sing Allegri’s celebrated
“Miserere —music which it was forbidden to copy or dis-
tribute under penalty of excommunication. But the impulsive
boy could not resist his opportunity. He heard the music, went
home and wrote out the entire complex work, every note of it
FROM MEMORY! And had to correct only one or two
passages at his second hearing of it on Good Friday.
At twenty-one Mozart ended the first triumphant period
of his life—heaped with honors, known everywhere, for the
unsurpassed genius that caused Johann Hasse (then the most
popular dramatic composer in Europe) to exclaim; "This boy
will cause us all to be forgotten!”
From then on Mozart was on his own, free of the guidance
and protection of his father, So whom he owed no much.
Rebuffed where before be was received with open arms
as a child prodigy, burdened with a wife ill almost constantly,
in desperate financial circumstances nearly always— Mozart
was refused every position of musical importance that would
have made life bearable for him. Concerts that few attended,
illness that dogged his every step overwork that drove him
to the verge of collapse—ell combined to make the remainder
of his short span hardly tolerable.
Even at the age of thirty-one, four years before he died,
he still had no suitable position. Then finally the Emperor,
relenting, appointed him “Kammercompositor” with the salary
of about $8 a week!
Yet with all his heavy weight of distress, the golden flood
of his talent still poured serenely from his pen. Music was to
him the breath of life, and he wrote as naturally, as easily as a
he walked, or talked, or breathed.
Imagine this—perhaps the greatest toor-de force in all
music in just six weeks between June 14 and August 10, 1788,
with his wife ill, his creditors hounding him, between times
writing piteous letters to friends to come to his aid financial,
Mozart composed three tremendous symphonies, his Nor 4 1
and 41-his finest works! And the No. 40 was his G Minor M
the perfect symphony, the greatest he ever wrote!
In July of 1781 a mysterious stranger approached Mozart,
and commissioned him to write a Requiem for some one hr |
would not name, fixing a price of fifty ducats. Mozart,
fired with inspiration, commenced the work at once
An interruption came, however, end he was compelled s
to put the work aside. At that moment, the in-
scrutable messenger suddenly appeared again a
demanding that he carry out the task.
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READY
TOMORROW
Your Third Symphonic Group of 10 Complete
Masterpieces Distributed in This Music Appreciation Offer
Yes, you may come in tomorrow and take home your
third symphonic group. Mozart's celebrated Symphony
No. 40 in G Minor is now ready to be added to your library
of symphonic masterpieces!
Glorious Mozart! What airy grace, what emotion,
what superb “musicianship” are expressed in all of his
compositions and especially in the G Minor Symphony.
Here is a work that represents the immortal master at
his magnificent best—a work you will hear again and
again with ever-growing enjoyment—with ever-increas-
ing wonder at the genius of its composer. This sym-
phonic gem deserves a place in every library of great sym-
phonic recordings.
Come in tomorrow and hear this great composition
of a great composer played for you. Played as Mozart
himself would like to have heard it. Played by a mighty
American Symphony Orchestra under the baton of a
world-famous conductor.
Take it home and hear it right in your own family
circle whenever you wish. Realize for yourself—as have
thousands of others—that great music can be popular
music when it becomes familiar music!
Offer Brings You 10 Complete Symphonic Masterpieces and . . . a Record Player
no further proof of the excellence of the recordings
or of the utility of the Record Player! We urge you
to act at once to take advantage of this extraordinary
opportunity of owning a fine library of recordings.
Now is the time to make sure that your music
will be set aside for you! Mail the Reservation Form
below at once. Fill it out and clip it now while you
[__60 in your hands. Note that you need
money and that mailing your reservation
uuco .... obligate you in any way. To avoid disap-
pointment—to be certain of sharing in this extraordi-
nary plan—mail the Reservation Form today.
You owe it to yourself and your family to take
immediate advantage of thia outstanding presenta-
tion. Act at once to secure—for your home—the 10
complete symphonic masterpieces—38 big 12-inch
double-faced records-and the electric Record
Player that is part of the offer.
The Record Player plays any record right
through the loudspeaker of your radio with all have this page
i the volume and tone of the radio. It comes to you send no
A in a bakelite body, is fully electric—needs no winding does not
A and is ready to be attached to your radio.
Readers who have heard this superb music need
HERE ARE THE 10 .COMPLETE SYMPHONIES YOU WILL RECEIVE
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* Considered by many the greatest and h
most beautiful symphony ever written, “
Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 represents a grr..
master of musical composition at his glorious
best. Here is a fine, unlimited power, wedded
to sane serenity snd limpid beauty in a sym-
’phonic work that is beyond all praise. And
above all else, this mighty work is intensely
human in its appeal—a blending of poetry and ,
art that reaches perfection in symphonic con-
struction—that brings to all of us a message of
courage and hope and joy!
Nowhere in symphonic music will the listener
find more profound sympathy or more generous,
satisfying beauty of melody and harmony.
This splendid masterpiece will bring you
countless hours of inspiration and entertainment.
Come in and hear it today.
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FRANZ SCHUBERT’S
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor (The Unfinished)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN’S
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART'S
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor
RICHARD WAGNER S
Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" and Prelude to "Parsifal
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH’S
Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2 and 3
RULES and CONDITIONS GOVERNING THIS OFFER
To obtain the 10 symphonies and nymphonte a divided into two unite each unit gonnitinE 5
masterpieces and the electric Record Player to be three double-faced. 12-inch, rodrand L “IRS
21-220... in thin Main Anoreciation Plan proceed each unit is $1/9 the same MA for any other re
distributed in this Music Appreciation
proceed
■ as follows
B First, fill tn and mail the Reservation Form
I printed in the lower right hand corner of this an-
■ nouncement. The purpose of this term in not so
■ obligate you in any way, but to enable ua so esti-
■ mate the quantity of records and Record Players to
have on hand to meet the demand
Each day during thia musle appreciation offer, we
will publish a reminder coupon setting forth the
date on which each symphony win be ready. You
can get your first symphony (Franz Schubert’s No. 8
in B minor at any time come in for it today Subse-
quant symphonies will he released one every two
weeks. Watch the reminder coupon which will be
published daily It is not necessary for you to clip
the coupons in order to get your records oe Record
Player, L
1 You obtain each symphony, which consists of
three or four double-faced, 12-inch records, for a
payment of 81 49 This payment is not for each
record, but for all THREE or FOUR records. Sym-
phonies which consist of FIVE double-faced, 12-inch
records require a payment of $198 for the entire
symphony of. All FIVE records The Cesar Franck
symphony in 0 minor, on account of its grest length.
— eonerient. 182. Pubuppers Sercles. Inc.
record group. . .
A quantity of deluxe records, known sa Phithar
monic Transcriptions, enclosed in beautiful record
albums which have been designed individually for
each particular symphony, are available st a wiehtir
Ar.Pyu have obtained at ten of the symphonies,
you can obtain an electric Record Player for A PAY;
ment of 83. If you want to get your Record Player
earlier, you can do so-you can get it with your first
group of records, your second, third, or angother
group, merely by making a deposit of SS After you
have obta 27 " of the 10 symphonies, as will be
returned 1 Thus, whether you get your Record
Player bet ifter you have obtained all of the
w-r ,an.", more Linnornte Record
Pinyer. s me De Lure Model, enclosed in •
walnut ae allable st’s higher price.
First 1 Reservation Form to assist us in
problems. Please check whether
mow Reervation by man. Filling m and
mailing the reservation entail no obligation wbat-
over on your part.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY'S
Afternoon of a Faun, "Clouds and Festivals
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN'S ,
Symphony No. 99 in E Flat Major
PETER TSCHAIKOWSKY’S
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor
JOHANNES BRAHMS’
Symphony No. 2 in D Major
CESAR FRANCK’S
Symphony in D Minor
RESERVATION FORM
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Music Appreciation Dept.
Abilene, Texas
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t 10 symphonies and symphonic masterpieces as described,
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