The century illustrated monthly magazine . hood, but the spirit of the com-ing age had found its voice too soon. Burns hada more combative temper, a stronger and moreintelligible weapon to turn against the worldthat frowned upon him, though the shafts ofhis satire glanced from an impenetrable surface,and only crushed him in the rebound. Thetragedy of Mozarts life has not been so clearlyoutlined in his work. It has found expressiononly in music that speaks from soul to soul, buttells no definite tale of wrong or suffering. Thegenius of these men was unlike, and they dif-fered widely in characte
The century illustrated monthly magazine . hood, but the spirit of the com-ing age had found its voice too soon. Burns hada more combative temper, a stronger and moreintelligible weapon to turn against the worldthat frowned upon him, though the shafts ofhis satire glanced from an impenetrable surface,and only crushed him in the rebound. Thetragedy of Mozarts life has not been so clearlyoutlined in his work. It has found expressiononly in music that speaks from soul to soul, buttells no definite tale of wrong or suffering. Thegenius of these men was unlike, and they dif-fered widely in character as well as education,but there is a certain kinship in the spirit thatunderlies the pathetic ballads of the one andthe great tone-poems of the other. It is thespirit of love and humor, the intense humanity,the irrepressible sympathy with all living thingsthat has brought them so near to the heart ofthe world. Both were poet-singers, both wereclear, simple, tender, natural, and true. Both,toil-worn and unfortunate, died early, and it p I. MOZART S GRAND PIANO, IN THE MOZART MUSEUM. was left for another generation to shed its tearsand cast its laurels over their graves. Nowhereis the bitter irony of fate more striking than inthe stately mausoleums and magnificent statuesreared over the dust or built in memory of theseimmortal singers. I asked for bread and yegave me a stone. Alone in a strange city, with necessity star-ing him in the face, a nature unfitted for the 212 MOZART—AFTER A HUNDRED YEARS.
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